Student Voices
Studying abroad is considered a 'high impact' activity for the undergraduate student who takes advantage of it during their academic career path. Read below what UIC students have to say about their experiences studying abroad.
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"To say that studying abroad was 'amazing' would be an understatement. The experience was something so invaluable and profound that as a tourist, I wouldn't be able to gain. It was an academic and cultural journey I wished I got lost in and never found my way out." Osamah Hasan, Botswana Summer 2012 |
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David Granskog, a photography major in the College of Architecture and the Arts, also pursuing a minor in English, spent the summer term 2010 studying abroad in Copenhagen with the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. David was the recipient of two study abroad scholarship awards.
Monica Fetherston, pursuing a double major in Spanish and political science. For her study-abroad experience, she spent spring 2012 semester of her junior year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Alexander Guevara, working toward a degree in criminology, law and justice. Guevara spent 12 weeks based in Fez, Morocco studying colloquial Moroccan Arabic.
Gilberto Moran, an economics major who spent spring semester of his junior year studying economics and Spanish history at the Madrid campus of St. Louis University.
Grant Buhr, a senior majoring in sociology, went to Ecuador. Buhr immersed himself in the culture and development of the country, focusing on language, culture, politics, history, identity and the challenges of implementing the country’s new constitution.
Adam Kuranishi , a political science major with a minor in African American Studies, won a Critical Languages Scholarship and studied intensive Arabic in the summer of 2009 in Tangiers, Morocco followed by a semester at the University of Jordan in Amman.
LaTrease Davenport , a first generation college student, won two scholarship awards which fully funded her study abroad program in the Fall of 2008 in Namibia and South Africa.
Isna Kugshia , a biological sciences major, studied at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and took a range of courses including a graduate seminar on race, culture and identity.
Anand Sandesara , a pre-med double major in history and biology studied abroad three times as an undergraduate in The Netherlands, Egypt, and Denmark before graduating in 2009.
