Study Abroad
Studying abroad is the unmatched opportunity of a lifetime. Whether you’re interested in staying in your host country over the summer, a semester, or an entire academic year, we work with the Center for Global Experiences to ensure that you get credit for the classes you take abroad. If you’re looking for faculty-led programs, Foreign Languages often organizes trips over the summer or spring break. Previous destinations included Germany, Austria, France and Morocco. In terms of cost savings, Tennessee Tech can cover your airfare up to $1,000, and it also offers several scholarships. Start planning early and go global!
Upcoming DFL-organized trips:
› Spring Break 2025: Morocco with Dr. Barnard
› Summer 2025: Berlin, Germany with Dr. Gruber
› Summer 2026: France with Dr. Duthoit
Morocco — March 15-22, 2025
- Travel during spring break
- Visit Roman ruins
- Shop at the world’s oldest medina
- Tour the country’s largest mosque
- Stay in imperial cities
- Walk along ancient caravan routes
- Take selfies in front of royal palaces
- Ride camels in the Sahara
Course: FLST 1031
Prerequisite: none
Estimated Price: $550
For questions about the Morocco faculty-led trip, contact Dr. Debbie Barnard at dbarnard@tntech.edu.
Germany — June 9-23, 2025
- Stay with host families in Berlin
- Visit a museum about spies during WWII
- Tour a concentration camp
- Learn about the Third Reich and the Berlin Wall
- Visit other cities (Weimar, Potsdam ...)
- Enjoy the flea market and a Turkish market
- Try out the European life
Course: GERM 4910 (3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: students must have completed one German course or they must ask for a permit to register
Estimated Price: $1600
For questions about the Berlin faculty-led trip, contact Dr. Julia Gruber at jgruber@tntech.edu.
France — May 2026
- Register in a spring course, but leave after finals
- 3.5 weeks in different cities, including Paris
- possibility to complete 30 hours of internship in French
For questions about the France faculty-led trip, contact Dr. Juliette Duthoit at jduthoit@tntech.edu.
Joining a Faculty-Led Study Abroad Program
To join a faculty-led study abroad program, you register in a specific course (of 1 or 3 credit hours) and have some coursework to complete. This course can sometimes count for General Education or Language requirements.
What is a “Faculty-Led” Trip?
Faculty-led trips are organized by professors in the context of a course. Faculty-led trips are perfect for a first out-of-country experience! They are short (a few days to a few weeks) and students are not alone: classmates and two faculty members are accompanying them.
Pilot Program
The pilot foreign languages study abroad program was conducted in Spring 2024 with 2 students, in which each did a 30-hour shadowing internship in a French business in Dunkirk (one in a water analysis lab, and one in a hotel-restaurant-conference center). Those two students completed some course work in the spring semester to prepare for the internship and then left in May with their professor (Duthoit).
They traveled with another course (French Culture with Dr. Barnard). In the morning, Dr. Barnard gave class to her students, while the internship students went to their internship. In the afternoon, all students did organized activities (or had free time).
I traveled to France with the study abroad program. I have pictures of myself in front of places I had only read about in textbooks-from the Eiffel Tower to the Arc de Triumph, to Notre Dame and the River Seine. I now know how buttery and light a French croissant can be. I also discovered that there’s a little green in the horizon of the English Channel from the shore of Omaha beach, when you look through tears, as you stand on the actual ground where men stood nearly a hundred years ago and gave their lives for our freedom. I bring my experience everywhere I go – and it forever points out all things French.
Eleanor (France 2024)
The internship portion of the trip was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that expanded my horizons in a way that I'd never experienced before! It was both interesting and educative to be on the other side of a language barrier, and my understanding of the French language improved drastically as a result. I definitely wouldn't swap that out for an extra two weeks at my summer job!
Kaci
Student Projects
Alex Clarke — France
Schillers — France
Kaci — France
Visit the Center for Global Experiences for more information and study abroad opportunities!
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