Argentina
Buenos Aires
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With our support, you’ll experience total immersion in the language and culture of your country. You’ll have an authentic learning experience at a local academic institution. You’ll have the guided independence to engage with your community, take on an internship, and make personal discoveries that you’ll always remember.
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The Cason Scholarship Award is in memory of Jeffrey W. Cason who served as Dean of International Programs at Middlebury College. This scholarship is in recognition of his lifelong passion for international teaching, learning, and study abroad. Students from colleges and universities other than Middlebury can apply for these $4,000 scholarships.
Meet the Middlebury Schools Abroad
Transcript
When I think about the experience abroad I kind of struggle to put it in words.
Every day I could wake up and choose a new adventure.
That rush of being on your own in a new place, that was the most exciting.
There were moments for sure in the first week even the first month, where I thought, what am I doing? I don’t really understand what’s going on. I’m not fluent in this language. But slowly, gradually, as you engage more with the culture, those fears, those worries start to fade away.
Language and culture is like two phases of one, one coin. So having language, it’s one part, but having culture, it’s the huge impact in these students.
By the interaction, day by day with local people, they start seeing things different ways of life from a different reference point.
It’s an incredible opportunity for our students to be taught about local issues by local experts.
I loved the idea that every day I was gonna learn something new. Seeing my growth in the language and seeing how happy the locals are, and then you start being happy and start wanting to speak it more. That helped ease the difficulty.
If you want to immerse yourself in a culture, learn that language from the people and with the people, Middlebury would be a perfect place for you.
In terms of practical advice, I’d say just say yes to things. Introduce yourself to new people. The time goes by fast, so just soak it in.
You have to be able to allow yourself to be open and vulnerable ‘cause it’s scary, but it’s needed.
And I would say don’t hold back because it’s an experience you really only get to do once in your life. It’s a chance to live with no regrets.
In Their Own Words
In addition to taking all of the photos on the site, students take personal videos of their everyday experiences. Through the Middlebury C. V. Starr Schools Abroad, you have the support and confidence to learn the language by living the culture.
Find more Student Perspective videos on our YouTube channel.
Study Abroad: Oxford, England
Transcript
Oxford is, I would consider it an urban town. It’s super interesting to see how this urban landscape also combines with old cobblestone pathways.
Think churches. Think medieval architecture. Think beautiful golden limestone buildings. What was surprising was, Oxford was bigger than I thought would it be. There are so many nooks and crannies to it, and places to go and get lost.
For me, what was really important was that study abroad brought forth this change of pace, and place and face for a while. We lived in St. Michael’s Hall, which is kind of our own separate dormitory, all of the students in the Middlebury program studied and lived together.
The location was fantastic. Being in the center of the city, you had access to essentially everything.
We could take a bus to pretty much anywhere, and day to day I’d get to explore the city a bit. So I spent a lot of my time outside on mini adventures, and walking around, and eating out, and painting.
Kind of a multitude of things. The program, from my experience, attracted a certain set of students that were there to, first and foremost, work really hard and knew that they were getting into this rigorous atmosphere. You’re going to be writing every day, and I mean, honestly, it’s not really an exaggeration.
You are probably going to be writing every day, but it’s topics that theoretically you really love and pick for yourself, and want to explore and delve deep into and have conversations with your tutors about.
If you’re looking for maybe sometimes a challenging but also fulfilling experience that’s still connected to your academic journey, study abroad is a perfect way to help you broaden your own understanding of what you’re studying within the context of a global society.
If you can and if there’s a support system for you to kind of plan going abroad, then there’s no reason not to. It’s all great experience, studying abroad and exploring new places.
Study Abroad: Niterói, Brazil
Transcript
My name is Marykate Melanson, and I studied abroad in Niterói in Rio de Janeiro. Rio is huge, it’s enormous, there’s just so many different neighborhoods. And the way that it’s set up geographically is really interesting. Part of the city there are these areas that are really old facades.
There are ones that have been restored and ones that haven’t, and so there’s this really interesting juxtaposition between old and new. I was studying at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, which is a federal university. And found an apartment with a couple Brazilian grad students, and that added so much to my experience.
I was with these girls all day, it was the first time I had lived in an apartment, and so we had to navigate that relationship in Portuguese. That’s the part that I think I needed to develop more, because I had already done Portuguese in an academic sense.
I had written papers and things like that, whereas I really needed to understand how to speak like the people there, and I think that I did because of where I chose to live. Rio has a particular ethos because they have the beaches, it’s warm, it’s beautiful. Life is just a lot slower, and so I think that there is a very particular culture that I became accustomed to, and it was a very warm and welcoming one.
I really wanted to be challenged and I really wanted to be in a place that I would learn a lot from. And so immersing myself in the Middlebury program helped connect us to things that we were interested in. There was no way I would’ve felt comfortable leaving there if I felt that I had been a tourist the whole time.
It’s just whether or not you take that one extra step to immerse yourself. Wherever you go abroad, I think that you learn so much about yourself, and, it’s so important, I think, for everybody to gain a little bit of perspective.
See Where We Are
Brazil
Florianópolis, Niterói
Cameroon
Yaoundé
Chile
Concepción, Santiago, Temuco, Valdivia, Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, and Villarrica
France
Bordeaux, Paris, Poitiers
Germany
Mainz, Berlin, Potsdam
Greater China
Beijing, Taiwan
Italy
Florence
Japan
Tokyo
Jordan
Amman
Morocco
Rabat
Puerto Rico
San Juan, Mayagüez
Kazakhstan
Astana, Almaty
Spain
Madrid, Córdoba
United Kingdom
Oxford
Uruguay
Montevideo
Museum Studies
Oxford
School of the Environment
Monterey, California
Other Programs
Middlebury offers several field-based and experiential learning summer programs taught entirely in English.
Health and Safety
It is our experience that our host cities are no more dangerous than large cities in the U.S. We provide support and access to health and safety resources prior to departure, while abroad, and upon return.
Our dedicated on-site staff are locally connected, abreast of the latest news, and prepared with contingency plans in the event of an emergency. Middlebury also partners with Global Rescue for medical and security advisories as well as evacuation services for all students.
Identity and Inclusion Abroad
Students who study abroad are as diverse as the destinations and languages they choose. No matter who you are or how you identify, we have the resources and support to make your experience the best it can be.
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