U.S. Faculty-Led Programs Summer Programs Invited to DIS
Bring your program and students abroad
You want to bring your classroom abroad for a summer session – but you don’t want to organize all the details concerning academic support and logistics. Where will you house the students? How do you get academic visits? Who can arrange a behind-the-scene field study?
DIS can arrange it all for you!
DIS Academic and Logistic Support
DIS offers to act as your local support organization should you choose to run parts of or a whole summer program (normally one to six weeks) in Copenhagen. We offer:
Academic support
- Academic guest lectures by DIS faculty or other local experts
- Academic field visits to companies, political institutions, NGO’s and cultural sites
- Full-day academic (or adventure) trips in the greater Copenhagen and southern Sweden region
Logistic support
- Housing
- Classrooms and classroom facilities
- Logistics, including pre-departure, arrival and student service support.
Many other support elements can be arranged case-by-case.
Examples of Recent Programs
McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia: European Business Strategy
DIS provides one component (course and study tour, plus housing) of a broader faculty-led summer program for MBA students. Since 2009.
Carleton College: New Media in Copenhagen
New Media Roadtrip is a ten-week off-campus study program exploring and making new media in New York and Paris, Barcelona and Copenhagen. DIS provided housing, group airport pickup and orientation, classroom, guest lecture, field studies, welcome and concluding dinner. Summer 2011.
St. Lawrence University: Neuroscience of Fear
Professors Joe Erlichman and Bill Coteau from St. Lawrence University in cooperation with DIS staff bring this three-week class to Copenhagen, enriching the curriculum with Danish guest lecturers and field visits. DIS also provides housing, classrooms, billing and transcript services, etc. This summer 2011 course is open to students from any US college or university. Please contact Joe Erlichman for specific information regarding this faculty-led program.
Union College: Comparative Health Care
A group of Union College students earn three credits in the DIS summer course Health Care in Northern Europe as one component of a broader faculty-led program, National Health Systems. Students visit an academic hospital, a rehabilitation center, a nursing home, and an outpatient clinic. The students examine models of health care in Canada, Great Britain and Denmark. Since 2009.
Examples of possible DIS Faculty Lectures and Field Visits
- Danish Politics & Society, by Jacob Buksti, former Danish Minister for Transport
- Danish Design & Sustainable Architecture, by various DIS Architecture and Design faculty
- Public Health in Northern Europe, by Sigurd Mørk Rønbøl Lauridsen, Ph.D. in Bioethics and Public Health
- Corporate Social Responsibility, by Anne Mette Christiansen, editor of the magazine Sustainability Quarterly
- Visit to Carlsberg Breweries or Scandinavian Airlines, by Niels Hald, CEO, The Danish Brewers Association
- Positive Psychology, by Helle Harnisch, VIA Institute of Positive Psychology
- Migration & Conflict in a European Setting, by Jacob Lindgaard, Ph.D.
