Highlights
The deadline to apply for the 2009 PASSHE Summer Honors Program is Tuesday, January 20, 2009.
Study Abroad Opportunities
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"China was THE place to be in the summer of 2008, and the PASSHE trip enabled me to go places I would never have gone, to see things I would never have seen, and to meet people who have really impacted my life. Traveling is the best way to learn about the world, and it was phenomenal experience." |
| Katie Putz (left) is pictured with fellow Ship Honors student Joe Livingston (center) at the Stone Forest in Yunnan Province during their summer abroad in China. |
An Honors education at Shippensburg University provides students with numerous opportunities to expand their Honors academic experience beyond the Shippensburg campus.
Academic Year Programs
The Honors Program encourages its students to consider studying abroad for a semester or an academic year. Students can earn up to 6 Honors credits for the courses they complete while studying abroad. Our students have studied around the world, most recently in Denmark, Spain, Ecuador, England, and Australia. For more information on Shippensburg study abroad programs, visit the Study Abroad web site.
http://www.ship.edu/international/index.html
Scholarships
The Honors Program awards scholarships of up to $400 to help Honors students pay for the costs of traveling to their study abroad destinations. Applications are available in the Honors office and are due in mid-November and mid-April. Check the Honors calendar for specific dates.
PASSHE Summer Honors Program
Since 1985, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education has provided Honors students across the state with the opportunity to study internationally with the PASSHE Summer Honors Program. Two Shippensburg Honors students have the opportunity each summer to travel with the PASSHE Summer Honors Program.
- Application Process: Students are selected through a competitive application process to participate in the Summer Honors Program. Each student receives a full scholarship covering the cost of tuition, room and board, travel, and required field trips. To be eligible to apply, a participant must be an undergraduate student in a State System University who is a member in good standing of the nominating institution's Honors Program, will have completed a minimum of 30 hours of coursework at a State System school, and will be returning to the nominating university the following fall. Applications for the PASSHE Summer Honors Program are available in the Honors Program office in Horton Hall 104.
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"Studying abroad brought together so many things in my life, including a sense of adventure, an eagerness for new experiences, and a love for foreign languages and cultures. Studying abroad can only broaden what you know and who you are as a person." -Nicole Thierwechter, Honors '07 |
| Nicole Thierwechter (far right) is pictured at the Colosseum in Rome during her semester abroad in Italy. |
Other Summer Programs
University of Cambridge International Summer School
Every year the University of Cambridge provides two interdisciplinary International Summer Schools (Term I and Term II) with subjects such as Art History, Shakespeare, History, Science, Literature, and Medieval Studies.
http://www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk/intsummer