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Loyola University New Orleans

PERSONNEL

INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE

Total international undergraduate students (FTE):98

Total international graduate students (FTE): 11

INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER/SERVICE/IMMERSION PROGRAMS

Country: Mexico

• Christ the Builder is a week-long mission experience is for people from all walks of life and perhaps different faith perspectives. In the program, participants not only build houses, but also build relationships with God, one another, and with the people of Saltillo, Mexico.

Nicaragua

• Due to Hurricane Katrina, the Two Worlds in Solidarity Program (TWINS) in Nicaragua has been suspended.

STUDY ABROAD

Send students to: Summer Programs (3-4 weeks) in London, Paris, Leuven, Belgium, Bahamas, Ireland, Business in Europe (multiple countries), Avila, Spain, and Mexico City.

Spain, U.K., Italy, Germany (because of program at Dortmund University during Fall 2005 following post-Katrina flooding.)

Consortia programs: Pontlevoy, France (University of Southern Mississippi)

Reciprocal Exchange (i.e.- ISEP):

Keele University, Dortmund University in Germany, Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, Sophia University in Japan Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE - Barcelona), Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid (ICADE - Madrid), Instituto de Empresa (IE - Madrid, MBA only), Ecole Superieure Du Commerce Exterieur (ESCE - Paris) and ISEP.

Affiliate:

IFSA Butler University, Boston University, and Syracuse University. We send our students on a number of Non-Loyola programs and approve each individually. We are working on a pre-approved list.

Non-Institutional (i.e.- CIEE)

AIFS, Beijing Center, Rome Center, ISA, Arcadia.

Institution's own programs:

Mexico City, and summer programs in London, Paris, Leuven, Belgium, Bahamas, Ireland, Business in Europe (multiple countries), Avila, Spain, and Mexico City.

Highlighted Programs

Mexico

Loyola offers a program of courses in Mexico City at the Jesuit Universidad Iberoamericana, the flagship Jesuit University in Latin America. The program aims to give students a mastery of conversational and written Spanish as well as a global perspective on Latin America's civilization and culture with a special emphasis on Mexico. In addition, we tailor our program to the special academic abilities of individual students and can put them in contact with and under the direction of some of Mexico's leading academicians. Classroom instruction and homestays are enriched with a series of field trips to museums, cultural events, political gatherings, social happenings, and economic activities tied to the content of the individual courses taken.

Bahamas

In the Loyola University New Orleans program in the Bahamas, students learn about the rich history and culture of the Bahamas and the wider Caribbean while spending four weeks in Nassau, Bahamas, immersed in the local culture. Students take two courses.

Encountering the Caribbean provides an inter-disciplinary introduction to the study of the Caribbean region with a focus on the Bahamas. Each week a different aspect of the social, cultural, political, and economic factors that have shaped Caribbean societies is discussed. Following this introduction, students discuss how regional issues have been experienced within the Bahamas. The course is enriched by several guest speakers, a visit to the Atlantis resort, and a walking tour of Nassau.

In the course, Ethnographic Methods: Field Work in the Bahamas students reflect on the social and cultural rules and patterns that govern their lives. Ethnography is the art of careful observation and analysis of everyday life. Students learn practical tools for carrying out systematic observation, keeping field notes, interviewing, and analyzing the information we gather. As part of the course, each student will interview at least three local residents in order to learn more about Bahamian society and culture. This is a hands-on course where students will go out into various Nassau sites and communities each day after class. The course includes several guest speakers and a weekend stay on Andros island.

Students stay in residence halls at the College of the Bahamas.

Study Abroad Logistics:

Requirements for studying abroad: This depends on the program

Financial aid available: Only on our own programs (exchange and semester programs)

INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE CURRICULUM:

Related Majors/Minors/Concentrations: Latin American Studies Minor, International Business

Languages available/ Language requirements: Spanish, French, German and Japanese

Institutes or Centers promoting global awareness: Center for International Education

FACULTY EXCHANGE/COOPERATIVE RESEARCH