The Foreign Experience Honors Seminar

Aquinas Scholar students planning to go abroad are encouraged to participate in IDSC 480-06 The Foreign Experience Honors Seminar.

IDSC 480 The Foreign Experience
Professors:  Ann Hubbard (International Education) and Lon Otto (English)
Thursdays  5:15- 6:45   Four meetings after mid-term; dates set prior to start of each semester.

Course Description: This seminar gives Aquinas Scholars who study
abroad the opportunity to 1) examine ways of approaching, understanding, and
articulating the impact of foreign experience; 2) practice the techniques of observation,
exploration, and self-reflection exemplified in the materials studied; and 3) communicate
the particular discoveries that resulted from their experience abroad.

Procedures: Before you go abroad, you attend four classes held on Thursdays, 5:15 to 6:45 p.m., following midterm. While you are abroad, you write the instructors essays reflecting on your experience and (toward the end of your time abroad) register for The Foreign Experience seminar. During the semester you return to St. Thomas, (now registered for the course), you attend four more classes, again held on Thursdays, 5:15 to 6:45 p.m., following midterm.

Please note: You must begin your work in the seminar before going abroad, and you must reserve the Thursday 5:15–6:45 class times both before and after your study abroad semester or year. However, you don’t register for The Foreign Experience seminar until you register for other courses to be taken the semester you return to St. Thomas.