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Are you studying away in J-Term 2027 or Spring 2027 and looking for ways to finance your program? The Fund for Education Abroad is now accepting applications for their Spring 2027 scholarship application cycle (J-Term programs included)!

With only one application, applicants are considered for FEA General Scholarships and all named scholarships they meet the criteria for.

Scholarship applications are due Wednesday, September 16th, at 9 am Pacific Time.

Learn more and start your application today at https://fundforeducationabroad.org/apply/

There's still time to apply to study away next January! Select J-Term 2027 programs are still accepting applications on a first-come, first-served basis while space is available. Learn more about program details and start your application at plu.edu/studyaway 🌎

Some programs have limited space, so apply soon!

Hey Lutes! Are you interested in studying away next January? Select J-Term 2027 programs are still accepting applications on a first-come, first-served basis while space is available! You can find details about about academics, pricing, and applying at plu.edu/studyaway 🌎

Some programs have limited space, so start your application today!

📣Study away scholarship alert!! 🌍

LewerGlobal's "Your Journey Begins" scholarship awards six students with $2,500 for original creative submissions (video, visual art, music, short essays, etc.) reflecting someone who has influenced their journey. Applications are due July 31st at 9:59 PM Pacific Time.

This scholarship is open to full-time students who are U.S. citizens and who are planning to study away in Fall 2026, J-Term 2027, Spring 2027, or Summer 2027. You can find additional information and the scholarship application on the LewerGlobal website: https://lewerglobal.com/scholarship/

Good luck!

This is Kendall and Morgan signing off📝
We had so much fun being your Global Ambassadors this year, we can’t wait to see what next years GA team will do 🌎🧳
Globally yours, The 2025-26 GAs 💛🖤

Last but not least, look at this special short-term program offering: MUSI 387 — Music and the Cultural Heritage of Italy.

Celebrate the beauty of Italian culture by traveling to Italy! “Music and the Cultural Heritage of Italy” will study Italian music from its beginnings in the beautiful courts of Italian aristocracy, to the glorious opera houses of Italy. The class will learn about the political unification or “Risorgimento” of Italy and how opera figured into its political landscape. This on-campus spring semester (2 credit) course will culminate in travel to Milan, Verona, and Venice. Basic Italian language skills will be studied as part of the spring course. Once in Italy, the class will tour the cities, visit museums, and attend opera performances. The course will celebrate and investigate Italian culture culminating in cultural immersion living “la bella vita!”

Note: This is a Spring 2027 course on campus with required 14 days of travel in early June 2027.

Application due: April 15th.

Next up, EDUC 385 (GE) — Comparative Education in Switzerland 🇨🇭

In this one-month course, students will be teaching assistants for approximately 2–3 weeks in primary or middle schools located in Zurich. All students will compare and contrast educational practices in Switzerland and the United States. This experience will be augmented by study tours throughout the region, including Freiburg in the Black Forest region of Germany, an Arts Education workshop at the Modern Art Museum in Zurich, and a deep dive into the History and Making of Swiss Chocolate.

Application due: April 15th

Up next is SOCW 325 (VW, GE) — Social, Educational, and Health Services in Tobago

Through community engagement, readings, critical reflections, and group debriefing, we will explore the meaning of service and community cultural wealth in Tobago. We discuss power and intersectionality focusing largely on race, gender, and nationality and how positionality impacts the ways we are able to live, learn, and interact with Tobagonians and others in the course. Students will learn about health, educational, and social service strengths and challenges in Tobago from professionals in each of those fields. We will participate in a variety of excursions designed to introduce students to the physical as well as cultural and social environment of Tobago.

Application due: April 15th

Onto the next 2027 J-Term, ARTD 383 (CX) or IHON 260 (H2) — The Arts in Society: How Museums Make Meaning

Museums are powerful storehouses of objects. In this class, we’ll look closely at how museums make meaning by studying a range of institutions, starting with Oxford’s own Ashmolean Museum—Britain’s first public museum. We’ll investigate the legacy of imperialism at the British Museum in London, we’ll consider landscape as history at ancient sites like Stonehenge, and we’ll witness the preservation of national culture at the National Museums of Wales. At each site we study, we’ll see that, through their collections and exhibitions, museums reflect cultural values and create powerful narratives about history, identity, and ideology

Application due: April 15th

Eiffel tower keychains, Notre Dame magnets, Sacré Cœur snow globes: what is it about tourists always wanting to take a piece of Paris home with them? Take FREN 288 or FREN 388 — Pocket Paris | Paris Poche to find out 🇫🇷

In this course, we will explore the making, unmaking, and remaking of the legendary city that is Paris, from the city’s “basement” (kitchens, catacombs, cemeteries, sewers, the metro, the foundations of the Louvre) to its soaring heights (cathedrals, department stores, maid’s quarters, Montmartre, the Eiffel tower). At the same time, we’ll reflect on the practice and history of tourism. We’ll consider the souvenirs French travelers have brought back to Paris over the centuries (holy relics, cabinets of curiosities, paintings of Roman ruins, imperial plunder) and what tourists leave behind, from lipstick kisses on gravestones to rising rents for locals. Along the way, we’ll try hard to articulate our experiences of French culture in ways irreducible to the 5 stars of a consumer rating. You’ll respond to daily reflection prompts in an analog journal / scrapbook (mementos optional). The final project will be a 1-minute video montage made from 5-second daily video impressions, to be shared, discussed with the class, and reflected on in a 1000-word final essay. An evening cruise on the Seine will be our grand finale.

Applications due: April 15th