Summer Four: International Exploration

The final summer offers Levine Scholars a transformative international experience with an opportunity to engage in new cultures, environments and challenges while making a meaningful impact.

Expand Your World. Broaden Your Impact.

The scholarship support provided allows each Levine Scholar to:

Shape a unique experience that will motivate personal growth, both intellectually and pre-professionally
Immerse themselves into different cultures that enable a different perspective and understanding of global issues through a local lens
Engage in international service leadership
Spend several weeks abroad during the summer or extend their global engagement up to three semesters enrolled in courses, an internship or research opportunity with an agency, business, academic program or government entity
Return with valuable insights, greater self-awareness and reliance and a deeper understanding of their role as global citizens and leaders
Tailor a unique experience that closely aligns with career aspirations
Carry with them a broadened definition of community that reaches far beyond the campus and the Charlotte region

A World of Possibilities

Scholars have been to over 60 countries across 6 continents

Recent Countries Include:

Europe:
Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland

Latin America:
Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Uruguay

Asia:
Japan, Singapore, South Korea

Africa:
South Africa

Oceania:
New Zealand

*Countries in dark green mark where scholars have studied abroad

Types of International Experience

LSP has led over half of the education abroad experiences through programmatic trips since 2022.

56%

Programmatic Trips

27%

Office of Education Abroad

16%

Internship Abroad

Custom Study Abroad Trips

LSP’s custom-built study abroad courses have provided opportunities for scholars to engage in international research and community service across the globe from South Africa to Israel, China, Costa Rica, Japan and Spain.

Group of students standing at the Cape of Good Hope sign in South Africa.

Stellenbosch, South Africa

A highly focused course on the institutions of health and health care in South Africa with applied, hands-on experience and a special emphasis on HIV/AIDS.

Scholars in front of a monument in Japan

Sendai, Japan

The course was designed to utilize the disciplinary approaches of Sociology and Geography to explore Japanese culture, institutions and socio-spatial arrangements. Because it was based in Sendai City at Tohoku University, this exploration will be anchored in the experience, aftermath and recovery of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.

Santander, Spain

This program focused on the global challenge of climate change. Through an interdisciplinary lens, students explored various perspectives, components and impacts of climate change both as they are experienced in the local and national contexts of Santander and Spain.

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