GEO Scholarship for First-Generation College Students

In an effort to expand access to education abroad, GEO has made available a Scholarship for First Generation College Students. This is a planning scholarship for UO students whose parents/legal guardians did not complete a 4-year college bachelor’s degree. As a planning scholarship, recipients of the GEO Scholarship for First-Generation College Students can use the award to study abroad on a GEO-sponsored program at any time during their college career at the UO.

GEO Study Abroad Scholarship for Students with Disabilities

The GEO Study Abroad Scholarship for Students with Disabilities is a planning scholarship available to UO students who have a documented disability. Recipients of the scholarship can use the award to study abroad on a GEO-sponsored program at any time during their college career at the UO. A number of $1,000-$3,000 scholarships will be awarded each year to help support students with documented disabilities who aspire to study abroad.  

Dean Method Scholarship for First-Generation College Students

The Neville Dean Method Scholarship aims to support first-generation college students who are planning to participate in a study abroad program or international internship during the summer. Dean Method was a first-generation college student who received an associate’s degree from Chemeketa Community College and then a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon. He was the first in his family to attend college. This scholarship in his name is meant to help provide access and student success to first-generation college students at the University of Oregon.

Pohang University of Science and Technology Exchange

Experience life at a small yet highly ranked university by directly enrolling in classes at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Founded in 1986, POSTECH has around 3,500 enrolled students and boasts 86 research institutes and centers, indicating the strength of the university’s research mission. Students at POSTECH can select from 11 undergraduate departments and 21 graduate programs—though most departments are in STEM fields, POSTECH also has a Division of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Spanish Immersion in Oviedo

You will take your core language courses in Spanish (beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels) through the Curso de Lengua y Cultura Españolas para Extranjeros (ELE) at the University of Oviedo. At ELE you will attend courses with US and other international students. The Cross-Cultural Communication and Cross-Cultural Perspectives class is taught in English by the GEO Center Director.

Tohoku University Exchange

In this exchange program, directly enroll in classes at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. Tohoku University is a major hub for research and STEM studies with 18,000 students and 2,900 international students. You can choose from four different programs that offer coursework in the sciences, social sciences, and more. Some programs offer classes taught in English, while other programs require Japanese proficiency, as the classes are taught in Japanese. Research opportunities are also available. The university has five campuses in a city of 1 million people.

English-Spanish Translation–Introduction (Intermediate)

Los objetivos de este curso son: (a) introducir al alumno en la práctica de la traducción como instrumento de aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera; (b) reforzar sus conocimientos previos de español mediante su comparación con la lengua inglesa; (c) Practicar sobre las áreas de conflicto de ambas lenguas para un estudiante de habla inglesa; (d) lograr, con ciertas garantías, que los alumnos utilicen un discurso cada vez más complejo con la mayor corrección posible.Syllabus available upon request, email GEOinfo@uoregon.edu.

European Economics

This course focuses on different parts of European economics. It also features a module on lobbying in the European Union. Through these aspects of European economics, you will gain an understanding of the workings of the Common Internal Market, its impact on the Member States and its positioning in our globalized world.

European History and Politics

European History and Politics will provide you with an historical understanding of European integration and insight into the political development of key member-states of the European Union. The course deals with the two existing and interlinked realities of national and non-national government and politics in important European states such as France, Germany and Britain. We will cover the political history of these states, their institutional arrangements and some important social dynamics within the states.

European Studies

This course will introduce the basics of the European Union and describe and explain the processes of widening and deepening of this unique political entity. This will cover an overview of European Union history, its evolution in economic and political terms as well as of its institutional structure up to today. The focus of this course will be internally on the state of EU integration and the need for reform, as well as externally on the international role of the EU in general in the relations between the EU and the US, Russia and the Ukraine in particular.
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