Faculty-Led Programs

Led by Cal Lutheran faculty members, faculty-led programs allow students to take a course with other students while traveling on a short-term study tour linked to the course.

Instructions

  1. Review our current faculty-led programs below.
  2. Make an advising appointment.
  3. Apply to OEA using the "OEA Application" button for the program.
  4. Wait until the program deadline. OEA will contact you with further instructions on how to commit and enroll in the program's course.

Costs and Aid

Faculty-led programs assess standard tuition for your course and a Program Fee for the study tour to your Student Account. You may be eligible to use available financial aid toward tuition and the Program Fee.

For more details, please review program fees on our Finances page.

Please note that all program details below are subject to change.

Current Programs at a Glance


The Making of a City: History, Society, and Cultural Literacy in Paris, France

Spring 2024 Course with Summer Study Tour in June
Course: FREN 285 Interim Travel Course/FREN 485 Interim Travel Course (8 credits)
Faculty: Prof. Sophia Khadraoui-Fortune
Tour Dates: June 1 to June 29, 2024
Location: Paris, France
Cost: $5,964.00 (includes lodging, ground transportation, breakfasts, dinners, and excursions; does not include airfare)
Application Closed

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.

Paris, France
Paris, France

Spanish Language Media and Culture in Argentina

Spring 2024 Course with Summer Study Tour
Course: SPAN/COMM 485 (4 credits), Wednesdays, 3:30–5:10 pm
Faculty: Prof. Rafaela Fiore Urizar and Prof. Ryan Medders
Tour Dates: May 14 to 27, 2024
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cost: $3,957.50 (includes lodging, ground transportation, some meals, and excursions; does not include airfare)
Application Closed

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.

Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina

EMBA Seminar in Germany

Spring 2024 Course with Spring Study Tour
Course: EMBA 599 (EMBA students only)
Faculty: Prof. Judith Richards
Tour Dates: April 6 to 13, 2024
Locations: Berlin, Germany
Cost: Airfare only
Applicaiton Closed

This one-week, intensive program will provide participants a comprehensive view of Germany’s economy and business environment.

Berlin
Berlin, Germany

DC Institute

Summer 2024 Course with Summer Study Tour
Course: PA 585 (graduate students only)
Faculty: Prof. Sabith Khan
Tour Dates: May 12 to 16, 2024
Locations: Washington, DC, United States
Cost: $700.00 (includes lodging; does not include airfare)
 
Deadline: March 15, 2024

Students will learn about policy, governance, and globalization in DC, the nation’s capital. We will read and learn about federalism, globalization, and state relations. Through visits to INGOs, the U.S. Capitol, the World Bank and other organizations, we will examine the challenges to governance.

Washington, DC
Washington, DC

Migration and Remittances in Mexico

Summer 2024 Course with Summer Study Tour
Course: PA 585 (graduate students only)
Faculty: Prof. Sabith Khan
Tour Dates: May 21 to 28, 2024
Locations: Oaxaca, Mexico
Cost: $3,910.00 (includes lodging, ground transportation, some meals, and excursions; does not include airfare)
 
Deadline: March 15, 2024

The Migration and Remittances course is an in-depth and experiential learning seminar, based in Oaxaca, Mexico. Through interviews and meetings with return migrants and local leaders, students will learn about the challenges in the lives of people from Oaxaca. While migration between Mexico and the U.S. is a complex issue spanning centuries, this course focuses on more recent policy changes and how they have impacted flow of people and money between the two countries.

Oaxaca
Oaxaca, Mexico

Experienceship: Project-Based Experiential Learning in Spain

Fall 2024 Course with January 2025 Study Tour
Course: BUS 485
Faculty: Prof. Carmina Segarra
Tour Dates: January 2025
Locations: Barcelona, Spain
Cost: TBD (includes lodging, ground transportation, some meals, and excursions; does not include airfare)
 
Deadline: March 15, 2024

This seminar in Barcelona is designed to expose students to a completely different environment of Spain, developing "unique human skills" to thrive in global environments that are becoming more and more the norm than the exception. The way students will achieve those goals is through real-time impactful consultancy projects with creative, intensive, challenge-based learning in contemporary coworker spaces.

Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain

Ancient Philosophy in Egypt

Spring 2025 Course with Spring Break 2025 Study Tour
Course: PHIL 3ST
Faculty: Prof. Brian Collins
Tour Dates: March 8 to 16, 2025
Locations: Cairo, Egypt
Cost: TBD (includes lodging, ground transportation, some meals, and excursions; does not include airfare)
 
Deadline: November 1, 2024

The aim of the course is to introduce you to some of the fundamental questions and debates discussed by the ancient Egyptian philosophers. You will develop skills in reconstructing and evaluating arguments, develop critical communication skills through discussions and writing philosophy papers, and acquire a familiarity with the major themes of ancient Egyptian philosophy. 

Cairo, Egypt
Cairo, Egypt

Celtic Christianity: A Journey in Primary Sources in Ireland and Northern Ireland

Spring 2025 Course with May 2025 Study Tour
Course: RLTH 485
Faculty: Prof. Peter Carlson
Tour Dates: May 2025
Locations: Dublin and Armaugh, Ireland; Belfast, Northern Ireland
Cost: TBD (includes lodging, ground transportation, some meals, and excursions; does not include airfare)
 
Deadline: November 1, 2024

This course investigates Medieval and Early Modern Christianity. In particular, we will be studying medieval Celtic Christianity. Any time a religious tradition is introduced into a culture, both the tradition and the culture are changed; this is what happened when Christianity encountered the Celtic cultures of the lands off the northwest edge of what we now call Western Europe. Some of the changes would have a profound influence on Christianity far beyond the time and space in which they arose, and that influence has experienced a renewed popularity for many Christians today. Our overarching goal in this class is to discover possible answers to the question: “Is there something that we can call ‘Celtic Christianity’?” If the answer to that question is “yes,” we will follow it up with a second: “What does Celtic Christianity look like, and how can we identify it?”

Dublin
Dublin, Ireland

Exploring Japanese Society, Popular Culture, and Media in Japan

Spring 2025 Course with May 2025 Study Tour
Course: COMM/SOC/GLST 485
Faculty: Prof. Akiko Yasuike and Prof. Ryan Medders
Tour Dates: May 2025
Locations: Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan
Cost: TBD (includes lodging, ground transportation, some meals, and excursions; does not include airfare)
 
Deadline: November 1, 2024

This course introduces you to Japanese society and culture. Japan has been one of the most economically advanced countries since the rise of globalization, yet unlike Europe and the U.S., it is a country of no Western origin. While globalization has accelerated the process of Americanization, Japan still retains uniquely Japanese customs, values/beliefs and social institutions. The first half of this course will examine Japanese society/culture and the impact of globalization on it through documentary films, academic articles, popular magazines and internet sources. The second half of the course will familiarize students with the key media sources in Japan, including newspaper, television, anime/manga, and film as well as introduce students to Japanese journalism, advertising, and entertainment industries. Right after this semester, students will visit Japan for approximately two weeks to directly observe interactions of Japanese people, experience Japanese life style, and visit Japanese media sites. Students are expected to stay in Japan as a college student ethnographer and share their observations and thoughts during evening meetings.

Kyoto
Kyoto, Japan

German Culture and Identity

Spring 2025 Course with May 2025 Study Tour
Course: GERM/HIST 485
Faculty: Prof. David Nelson and Prof. Walter Stewart
Tour Dates: May 2025
Locations: Berlin, Leipzig, Weimar, Nuremberg, and Munich, Germany
Cost: TBD (includes lodging, ground transportation, some meals, and excursions; does not include airfare)
 
Deadline: November 1, 2024

This course will offer a narrative of the formation of modern German national identity over the last 2,000 years. The course will take an interdisciplinary approach, covering the history, culture, language, literature, and philosophy of Germany, especially as it developed from 13th to the 20th Century. The course will consider the important German contributions that improved the human condition but also the human failings that culminated in the historically catastrophic 20th century.

Berlin
Berlin, Germany
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