Fall Semester

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 in a GEO-sponsored program at any time during their college career at the UO.

GEO Scholarship for Students with Disabilities

The GEO 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.  

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 Sustainability Policies

In this course you will cover the history, the political economy and the economics of European sustainability policies from the 1970s to the present. The introduction will define the key concepts of sustainability and the European business environment. The second part will make the link between energy policies, energy saving and eventually environmental protection at the beginning of the development of an environmental conscience. It will consider the major elements of environmental policies and the key documents in the respective sectors.

Financial Management

This is an introductory finance course covering the general principles of a large number of subfields (financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, investment criteria). It includes an introduction to several financial products: bonds, stocks, derivative products, portfolio management, dividend and investment policy, capital structure.

French Art History

This course will enrich your knowledge of the arts in France from their origin to the present. Through this chronological approach to studying art history all the important movements are touched upon and placed in their political, economic, social and cultural contexts. In the fall course, you will study the history of France from the dawn of time to the French Revolution, from cave paintings (Lascaux) to the Rococo movement. In the spring course, you will study paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries with emphasis on the works housed in the Orsay Museum in Paris.
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