Faculty-Led Programs

Young Harris College regularly provides opportunities for students to travel and study abroad under the direct supervision of Young Harris College faculty. International study travel seminars offer students the opportunity to enrich courses in art, music, literature and history; extend the scientific laboratory experiences into global ecological systems; and experience total immersion with native speakers of French or Spanish.

Politics in Great Britain
Politics in Great Britain

Led by Dr. Nathan Gray in 2019, a group of 6 business and public policy students engaged in a 14 day trip to Great Britain as part of a British politics course. The group toured historical sites with governmental significance such as Edinburgh Castle in Scotland and the Tower of London. They also took guided tours of current places of power including British Parliament, Scottish Parliament, and Old Bailey, where we witnessed a few minutes of a London murder trial from the gallery. We also took an extensive tour of the London financial district.

Biology in Britain
Biology in Britain

Dr. Jennifer Schroeder guided ten science students in 2019 on a tour to see the sites in England and Scotland associated with some of most important advances in biology during the 20th century.  They visited the National Scottish Museum in Edinburgh (to see Dolly, the first cloned sheep), Cambridge University (where Crick and Watson first described the shape of DNA), Kew Gardens (a botanist’s dream, just outside of London), Darwin’s house (where he thought and wrote about his theory of evolution), and the Eden Project (a bio-dome in Cornwall).  Other highlights included experiencing a plague museum, hiking Arthur’s Seat, and talking with a current biology researcher at the University of Stirling.  For most of these experiences, the students had learned about the topics leading up to the trip, in many cases reading the associated original scientific writings.

Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Oh My!

In the Summer of 2019, Cindy DeFoor and Richard Knepp led YHC music majors and students from across the campus on a musical tour of Europe. Their week-long journey highlighted the historical and musical offerings of Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, and Venice. Some of the memorable moments of their experience included a gondola ride through the canals of Venice, a private tour of the Vienna Opera House, and an exploration of the home and birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Literature, Culture, and History in Ireland
Literature, Culture, and History in Ireland

In May 2016, 20 YHC students, Professor Louisa Franklin, and Professor Ruth Looper capped off a semester-long exploration of Irish literature, culture, and history by spending two weeks in Ireland. We learned about the rich tradition of autobiographies written in the Irish language, and then visited the Great Blasket Island, home to most of these extraordinary memoirists. We read W.B. Yeats’s poetry, and then spent five days in Sligo County, his childhood home and lifelong inspiration. We gathered information about the Easter Rising of 1916, and then experienced for ourselves the struggles and hopes of that time as we toured Kilmainham Jail in Dublin, literally walking in the footsteps of the  martyred rebels. We surfed on Strandhill beach, rode horses in Sligo, hiked up to Carrowkeel, a cairn older than the Pyramids, and saw puffins bobbing on the Atlantic. It was an extraordinary opportunity to explore a fascinating culture with old and new friends.

Upcoming Opportunities

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