Students will have the opportunity to experience a new learning environment while exploring London.
The study abroad in London program will be July 8 to Aug. 9, but applications and deposits are due Feb. 27.
The program will offer 26 different courses, and students will be able to earn three to six hours of credit.
MSU professors Phyllis Miller, Dalton Miller Jr., Beth Miller and James DelPrince, along with professors from Eastern Kentucky University, Georgetown College and several other universities across the country will teach courses ranging from floral design to British foreign and security policy in London.
The professors teaching in the program said that students could gain knowledge from this trip that could not be found in a normal classroom setting.
“The London experience is educational and also a tremendously fun place to visit,” said Phyllis Miller, human sciences professor. “There is plenty of time for students to travel on the weekends.”
“You can tell someone about something, or show them pictures of a place, but to actually be able to see, hear, taste, touch and smell another culture puts the educational process at another level,” said geosciences instructor Dalton Miller Jr.
“Most of the learning actually takes place outside of the classroom,” Phyllis Miller said. “The whole city becomes the classroom.”
The cost of the program is $3,795, which includes round-trip transportation from designated cities, a special bus excursion to Stonehenge and Salisbury, a BritRail pass for travel by train, health insurance, daily breakfast, some additional meals and accommodations.
Students and teachers will stay in the Hampstead Campus of King’s College in London.
Honors Program Director Jack White emphasized that arrangements will be made prior to the trip to ensure that students participating will receive credit.
“In advance we work with the students and their academic adviser and get a written agreement that they will get MSU credit,” White said. “The class goes directly on the transcript, just like they had taken the course here.”
Dalton Miller Jr. added that the program would benefit any student regardless of his or her class standing.
“When I was an undergraduate myself, I spent my last semester studying in Rome, Italy, and to say it was an enriching experience is a gross understatement,” Miller said. “As a 21-year-old from rural Louisiana it opened my eyes to an entirely new perspective of the world.”
The four professors teaching in the London abroad program will hold an interest session in the Honor’s House on Monday, Feb. 9 at 5 p.m.
Students interested can attend and hear specifically about the trip, ask questions and register.