Global College - Heredia
Central America - Costa Rica - Heredia
| Address: |
9 Hanover Place, 4th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201-5882 USA |
| E-mail: | jennifer.tidwell@liu.edu |
| Phone: | 718.780.4320 |
| Fax: | 718.780.4325 |
| Degree: | Bachelors |
| Setting: | Urban |
| Enrollment: | 1000 or Less |
| Financial aid: | Yes |
| Fafsa Number: | 002751 |
| Housing: | Yes |
Description
Global College places a strong emphasis on experiential learning and students undertake an exciting and dynamic individually-tailored education. This emphasis on internships, service learning and field trips ensures that students immerse themselves within the community at-hand. A student might focus on rain forest ecology, non-western healing practices, peace studies, conflict resolution, and any number of other academic possibilities and combinations.
Our academic program includes the Foundation Year Program in Costa Rica which is designed to prepare first-year students with the fundamentals of independent study abroad.
Second and Third Years are an opportunity to build upon first-year learning and apply knowledge and skills at other Global College Centers in China, India, Japan or participate in the traveling Comparative Religion & Culture Program.
Fourth Year students spend one semester doing an Independent Study in a country previously visited, before participating in the Capstone Semester in Brooklyn, New York, in order to synthesize and integrate all their overseas experiences from the previous 3.5 years through courses such as: Senior Skills Seminar, Writing Workshop, Senior Seminar, Capstone Preparation Workshop, Internship, Cross-Cultural Understanding in a Globalizing World.
Curriculum Overview
The Costa Rica Center in Heredia offers homestays, internships throughout South America, and courses in Spanish language, Latin American issues, global health and traditional healing, peace and reconciliation studies, environmental studies, cross-cultural research methods, and introduction to experiential education.
Financial Aid
Global College offers merit awards for international experience, community service and academic achievement. Students who complete FAFSA may receive US federal loans and grants.
Housing
Students live with a homestay family near the Costa Rica Center.
