SUNY Ulster
International Programs
SUNY Ulster is pleased to introduce you to our International Programs. Ulster County Community College offers opportunities for our students and faculty to study at universities and colleges in other countries, and we welcome students from abroad to study here. Options for SUNY Ulster students and facuty include full semester programs as well as spring break, winter recess, and summer programs. International students may enroll in any of SUNY Ulster's programs leading to a degree, diploma, or certificate.
SUMMER 2012 STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS
We are offering three Study Abroad programs for Summer, 2012, to Panama, the Amazon and Greece. These programs are available for credit to all students, not just SUNY Ulster students, and to non-students for audit.
Departure dates are yet to be announced, but will be in June and July.
The courses are listed below with individual links to each tour's poster. Complete information including course description and objectives, daily itinerary, and any travel documents you will need will be posted as soon as they have been confirmed.
This 3 credit course provides an introduction to the ecology and biodiver-sity of the Neotropics. Following a short on-campus introduction, the entire course is held on-site in Panama. We will visit a wide array of habitat types from highland cloud forest (some reached by horseback), to lowland rainfor-est and coastal systems including snorkeling in coral reefs and an island off the Pacific coast. In taking the course you would be directly contributing to conservation efforts in Panama by supporting our enlightened tour agency that plows a proportion of profits back into cloud forest conservation. One of the cloud forest sites that we will visit is remote, and on private land, and has been found to harbor new species of frogs and orchids.
SUNY Ulster biologist Dr. David Lemmon is the instructor and is accompanied in Panama by bilingual naturalist guides. Additionally, we may have guest lectures by scientists from area field research stations. This trip will be the 12th offering of BIO 226.
- TROPICAL ECOLOGY in PANAMA (BIO 226)
View the poster here.
Complete Information t/b/a.
This 3 credit course, held on site in Brazil, provides an introduction to the ecology and biodiversity of the Amazon basin. The entire course is conducted on board an Amazon river boat, with canoe excursions into várzea and igapó forests (flooded for-ests) as well as travel by foot into terra firme (highland forest). Several of these ex-cursions involve nighttime trips, and some include overnight stays in the forest. Small, isolated, caboclo (river-side) communities are also visited. This summer’s trip will be the 12th offering of the course
SUNY Ulster biologist Dr. David Lemmon is the instructor and is accompanied by lo-cal, bilingual, field guides. In addition, joining us again this summer will be the inter-nationally recognized explorer and primatologist Dr. Marc van Roosmalen. Dr. van Roosmalen is the discoverer of several new species of monkey in the Amazon rainfor-est including the second smallest monkey in the world, the black-crowned dwarf marmoset (Callibella humilis), representing a new genus of monkey. Visit Dr. van Roosmalen’s website, http://www.marcvanroosmalen.org/, to learn more about his work and other new animal and plant species that he has discovered in the Amazon.
- AMAZON
View the poster here.
Complete Information t/b/a
GREECE
An extraordinary 14-day trip to the birthplace of Western Mathematics and Philosophy. Join SUNY Ulster Professors Douglas Furman [Mathematics] and Ah Tua Teo [Philosophy] on a tour of the ancient Greek world. You will visit
the cities of Athens, Delphi, Mycenae, Epidaurus, Miletus (Turkey) and Ephesus (Turkey), as well as, the Greek islands of Samos, Mykonos and
Delos. You will hear about the lives and works of the early mathematicians and philosophers Thales, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato,
Aristotle, Epicurus, and Aristarchus, while visiting their various birthplaces. This trip is open to members of the community and to students at all
levels of experience. There are no prerequisites. Open for college credit (3 credits) or for non-students and for audit.
REGISTRATION:
Click on the "Complete Information" link following the program you want to register for above, on the page it takes you to select "Registration" from the list on the right side to complete your registration online. Mail your payment on time to meet deadline, payable to Total Tours International.
Send it to:
Total Tours International
110-21 East Shearwater Court
Jersey City, NJ 07305
STUDENT EXCHANGE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
The Student Exchange Learning Opportunities, offers full semester opportunities in Canada and Mexico:
- Scholarship Money Available
- Study in Mexico or Canada for a semester or for a summer.
- SUNY Ulster offers scholarships to successful candidates who are considering careers in Early Childhood Education, Social Work, Human Services and Nursing.
- For more information view the following brochures:
- The Student Exchange Learning Opportunities brochure
- The University of Arizona Verano en Mexico brochure
- The U of A Summer Intensive program offered in Mexico City and Guanajuato, Summer 2012, dates t/b/a.
- The Student Exchange Learning Opportunities brochure
Complete information about our Study Abroad programs for SUNY Ulster students and our International Studies program for foreign students is available by following one of the links below.
More than likely, your college years will offer the best opportunity to see the world at your own pace and on your own terms. The real world, with its two week vacations and high cost car payments, tends to limit your chances to pursue your passions.
Start here. Go far. Live the dream.
- Defy convention
- Experience a new culture
- Become fluent in a foreign language
- Learn by doing
- Celebrate diversity
- Inspire a career
- Become more open minded
- Widen your horizons
- Cherish the memories
- Live the dream
Now, you can start here, and really go far!
Our advice? Come see us for more information.
International Programs
Richard Cattabiani, Director
Vanderlyn Hall, Room 119 C
(845) 687-5135
E-mail: cattabir@sunyulster.edu
