Students: Learning in the World Awaits You

Application deadlines for 2017 Learning in the World (LITW) programs are approaching, with an upcoming deadline of Friday, January 13, for faculty-led summer programs. A complete list of deadlines is below. With programs in diverse regions of the world, LITW gives students the chance to participate in an in-depth, off-campus learning experience that engages them directly with different practices and perspectives, history, arts, and surprising and enlightening encounters in new cultures. Contact Carmen Muñoz-Fernández, director of Learning in the World, for more information.

“Social entrepreneurship became one of my greatest passions as a result of the trip, and I owe many of my experiences post-PA graduation to Niswarth,” said alumnus Brandon Wong ‘12 of his LITW experience. “I would never have ended up interning at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public in Washington D.C. or joining some of the social innovation initiatives at UNC, if it weren’t for Niswarth. When I look back on my time at PA, Niswarth changed the way that I see the world quite unlike any other experience.”

Programs and Deadlines

Faculty-Led Programs, Deadline January 13:

• American South—American Civil Rights Immersion Program
• Brazil—Brazil PLACES
• China—Lenses on China
• Dominican Republic—Mariposa Foundation
• France—Piette Program
• Germany—Berlin: History, Culture, and Language
• India—Niswarth
• Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts—Confluence
• Peru—HUACA Project
• Russia—Russian Language

Affiliate Programs (please note that applications to our affiliate programs should be made directly to each program); deadlines vary:

Summer 2017

• China—School Year Abroad (SYA), Deadline: January 18, 2017
• France—School Year Abroad (SYA), Deadline: January 18, 2017
• Germany—American Association of Teachers of German
, Deadline: April 12, 2017
• Italy—School Year Abroad (SYA), Deadline: January 18, 2017
• Japan—TIES Program at Toin Institute
, Please apply through Ms. Shimazu
• Spain—INESLE, Madrid, Deadline: March 15, 2017
• Spain—School Year Abroad (SYA), Deadline: January 18, 2017
• USA (several locations)—National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), 
Several Deadlines
• USA—NuVu Summer Program, Cambridge, Mass.
• USA—Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, Deadline: February 15, 2017

Semester-Long Programs 2017–2018

• The Bahamas—The Island School, Fall Term, 
Deadline: February 15, 2017
• Maine—Chewonki School, Spring Term, Deadline: February 15, 2017
• Vermont—The Mountain School, Spring Term, Deadline: February 15, 2017

Yearlong Programs 2017–2018

• China, France, Italy, and Spain—School Year Abroad (SYA), Deadline: February 15, 2017