Faculty-Led Programs
Led by Cal Lutheran faculty members, Faculty-Led Programs allow students to travel
with other Cal Lutheran students and a faculty member on a specific course abroad.
Past programs have traveled to locations such as Peru, Turkey, Japan, Costa Rica,
Cuba, and Jamaica.
Students apply online below for a given program. Once admitted, they enroll in the program's course. Programs can fulfill Core-21, major, or minor requirements.
Please note that all Faculty-Led Programs assess a Program Fee to your Student Account. You may be eligible to use available financial aid toward the Program Fee.
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
This course explores discourses surrounding race and ethnicity in Latin America from the colonial period to modern day. Students will unpack ideologies that center national identity and language as a means to obscure deeply embedded racial hierarchies. The course will analyze how a variety of countries have developed and deployed their own unique set of social tools to shape how race intersects with ethnicity, indigeneity, hybridity, and purity at different historical junctures.
This course has a two-week travel component to Colombia where students embark in a comparative analysis of the topics studied in the semester with an on-site experiential learning.
This course fulfills the Global Perspectives Core 21 requirement.
The Making of a City: History, Society, and Cultural Literacy in Paris
Course: FREN 285 Interim Travel Course/Fren 485 Interim Travel Course (8 credits)
Faculty: Dr. Sophia Khadraoui-Fortune
Tour Dates: June 1 to June 29, 2024
Location: Paris, France
Cost: TBD (includes lodging, ground transportation, some meals, and excursions; does not include airfare)
Embark on a thirty-day historical and cultural journey from past to present, all the while living and studying in the heart of the City of Light. Sharpen your critical thinking and cross-cultural competencies through blogging, vlogging, journaling and group discussions. This program combines morning classes that develop your language skills and afternoon field trips to the city’s world-renowned sites.
Spanish Language Media and Culture in Argentina
Course: SPAN/COMM 485 (4 credits), Wednesdays, 3:30–5:10 pm
Faculty: Dr. Rafaela Fiore Urizar and Dr. Ryan Medders
Tour Dates: Last two weeks of May 2024 (Dates TBD)
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cost: TBD (includes lodging, ground transportation, some meals, and excursions; does not include airfare)
This course explores foreign Spanish language media and culture as a travel seminar integrating the history, philosophies, religions, values, customs, and media of the destination country.
The first half of the course will include topics such as Argentina's history, politics, sports, language and culture placing particular attention to the relationship between different trends in Argentine arts and its political character. Using this foundation in Argentine culture, the second half of the course will familiarize students with the key media sources in Argentina, including newspaper, television, film, Internet, etc, and introduce students to the Argentine journalism, advertising, public relations, and entertainment industries.
After the in-class instruction, students will visit the host country for approximately two weeks to directly observe interactions of Argentine people, experience Argentine daily life, and visit Argentine media sites.
Students taking the SPAN version of the course will complete their homework in Spanish. Students taking the COMM version of the course will complete their homework in English.
