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 ====Paris====
-*The '''Columbia-[[Penn]] program at [[Reid Hall]]''' is probably one of the univeristy's (or universities'?) better-organized study abroad efforts. Students study in the building that once housed the first Protestant school in France, a society entitled "the American Girls Club" (sorry, no relation to the doll company), and a First World War hospital, not to mention lectures by Barthes, de Beauvoir and Derrida. Past participants mostly concurred that he program's academics were excellent, but lamented the difficulties involved in cross-registration with local universities (a requirement that tended to get impaired in the course of frequent strikes), as well as the seeming isolation of Americans from French students. Still, for only $300 a month, Reid Hall will transplant you to the set of "La Boheme", with an attic "maid's room" all your own.
+*The '''Columbia-[[Penn]] program at [[Reid Hall (Paris)|Reid Hall]]''' is probably one of the univeristy's (or universities'?) better-organized study abroad efforts. Students study in the building that once housed the first Protestant school in France, a society entitled "the American Girls Club" (sorry, no relation to the doll company), and a First World War hospital, not to mention lectures by Barthes, de Beauvoir and Derrida. Past participants mostly concurred that he program's academics were excellent, but lamented the difficulties involved in cross-registration with local universities (a requirement that tended to get impaired in the course of frequent strikes), as well as the seeming isolation of Americans from French students. Still, for only $300 a month, Reid Hall will transplant you to the set of "La Boheme", with an attic "maid's room" all your own.
 *There's also a '''Contemporary French Theater and Performance''' program at Reid, for those so inclined.
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 The Office of Global Programs may control most official Columbia study abroad options, but not all! Behold, some of the weirder (but more impressive) options available:
-====[[Oxford]]/[[Cambridge]]====
+====[[University of Oxford|Oxford]]/[[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]====
 Linguistically underadventurous, though academically motivated Columbians wishing to add Great Britain's two greatest universities to their undergraduate resumes ought to know that the experience will be a hard-won privilege, rather than a right. While other universities enjoy easy access to a semester at either via Butler University's study abroad program, Columbia students are screened academically and are required to spend a full year amid Oxbridge's spires. Students surveyed after the program wished their tutors were a bit more easy to hunt down, the food a bit more...edible, or the exchange rate at least slightly more favorable ("Oh holy God, [bring] everything you have", said one), but their experiences were, overall, mostly positive. Applicants shouldn't expect, however, too much of a culture shock, unless they are like those who claimed, in their surveys, that "can't be bothered" was a "learned British-ism" or that "discussing different tastes in indie music" was a quintessentially British experience.

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 *Cornell Nepal Study Program: http://www.cuabroad.cornell.edu/programchoices/regions.asp?recid=298
 *Institute for Study Abroad, Butler University: http://www.ifsa-butler.org/
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-The following is a distillation of information, mostly culled from student evaluations, on various pre-approved '''study abroad options''' for Columbia students. It was originally drafted for ''[[The Blue and White]]'', but wound up here instead, with some subsequent modifications.
+The following is a distillation of information, mostly culled from student evaluations, on various pre-approved '''[[study abroad]] options''' for Columbia students. It was originally drafted for ''[[The Blue and White]]'', but wound up here instead, with some subsequent modifications.
 ==Columbia programs==
 ===Office of Global Programs-administered===
 ====Amman====
-'''Summer Arabic Program in Amman''': Pretty much what it sounds like, hosted at the Columbia University Middle East Research Center (or [[Columbia Global Center]] | Middle East; better use both names since the university can't figure it out).
+*'''Summer Arabic Program in Amman''': Pretty much what it sounds like, hosted at the Columbia University Middle East Research Center (or [[Columbia Global Center]] | Middle East; better use both names since the university can't figure it out).
 ====Beijing====
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 ====Berlin====
-The '''[[Berlin Consortium]] for German Studies''' is one of Columbia's more established programs, yet also among its most controversial. Students only take one or two consortium classes; the rest are held at the Free University of Berlin. Meanwhile, residential life is in constant flux, with students transitioning from a hostel to a four week homestay to an apartment that must be hunted without assistance. Responses to the Berlin program range from enthusiastic recounts of the city's cultural wealth to "among the most miserable times in my life, I will not remember study abroad fondly or even without hostility...Five months is a terrible amount of time - too short to immerse, and too long - my god, too long. Too cold, too grey."
+*The '''[[Berlin Consortium]] for German Studies''' is one of Columbia's more established programs, yet also among its most controversial. Students only take one or two consortium classes; the rest are held at the Free University of Berlin. Meanwhile, residential life is in constant flux, with students transitioning from a hostel to a four week homestay to an apartment that must be hunted without assistance. Responses to the Berlin program range from enthusiastic recounts of the city's cultural wealth to "among the most miserable times in my life, I will not remember study abroad fondly or even without hostility...Five months is a terrible amount of time - too short to immerse, and too long - my god, too long. Too cold, too grey."
 ====Kyoto====
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 ====Shanghai====
-'''Summer Business and Internship Program in Shanghai''': [[Economics (major)|Econ majors]] rejoice; summer internship opportunities and thrilling lectures on the likes of "Monetary Matters and Reformation in the Chinese Banking System Since 1979" complement private Chinese language tutorials.
+*'''Summer Business and Internship Program in Shanghai''': [[Economics (major)|Econ majors]] rejoice; summer internship opportunities and thrilling lectures on the likes of "Monetary Matters and Reformation in the Chinese Banking System Since 1979" complement private Chinese language tutorials.
 ====Venice====
-'''Italian Cultural Studies''': Follow Thomas Mann's footsteps to Italy's showpiece of romantic decline - and romantic cliches - with Columbia's summer program for [[Art History]] and [[Italian]] majors. The perks include one's very own Big Brother, er, "Cultural Partner," from Ca' Foscari University.
+*'''Italian Cultural Studies''': Follow Thomas Mann's footsteps to Italy's showpiece of romantic decline - and romantic cliches - with Columbia's summer program for [[Art History]] and [[Italian]] majors. The perks include one's very own Big Brother, er, "Cultural Partner," from Ca' Foscari University.
 ===Other Columbia Programs===

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-The following is a distillation of information, mostly culled from student evaluations, on various pre-approved '''study abroad options''' for Columbia students. It was originally drafted for ''[[The Blue and White]]'', but wound up here instead.
+The following is a distillation of information, mostly culled from student evaluations, on various pre-approved '''study abroad options''' for Columbia students. It was originally drafted for ''[[The Blue and White]]'', but wound up here instead, with some subsequent modifications.
 ==Columbia programs==
-===Europe===
+===Office of Global Programs-administered===
-====[[Oxford]]/[[Cambridge]]====
+====Amman====
-Linguistically underadventurous, though academically motivated Columbians wishing to add Great Britain's two greatest universities to their undergraduate resumes ought to know that the experience will be a hard-won privilege, rather than a right. While other universities enjoy easy access to a semester at either via Butler University's study abroad program, Columbia students are screened academically and are required to spend a full year amid Oxbridge's spires. Students surveyed after the program wished their tutors were a bit more easy to hunt down, the food a bit more...edible, or the exchange rate at least slightly more favorable ("Oh holy God, [bring] everything you have", said one), but their experiences were, overall, mostly positive. Applicants shouldn't expect, however, too much of a culture shock, unless they are like those who claimed, in their surveys, that "can't be bothered" was a "learned British-ism" or that "discussing different tastes in indie music" was a quintessentially British experience.
+*'''Summer Language Program in Beijing''': Summer Mandarin classes are taught by mostly Columbia academics and hosted at Minzu University.
-====Paris====
+====Berlin====
-The Columbia-[[Penn]] program at [[Reid Hall]] is probably one of the univeristy's (or universities'?) better-organized study abroad efforts. Students study in the building that once housed the first Protestant school in France, a society entitled "the American Girls Club" (sorry, no relation to the doll company), and a First World War hospital, not to mention lectures by Barthes, de Beauvoir and Derrida. Past participants mostly concurred that he program's academics were excellent, but lamented the difficulties involved in cross-registration with local universities (a requirement that tended to get impaired in the course of frequent strikes), as well as the seeming isolation of Americans from French students. Still, for only $300 a month, Reid Hall will transplant you to the set of "La Boheme", with an attic "maid's room" all your own.
+The '''[[Berlin Consortium]] for German Studies''' is one of Columbia's more established programs, yet also among its most controversial. Students only take one or two consortium classes; the rest are held at the Free University of Berlin. Meanwhile, residential life is in constant flux, with students transitioning from a hostel to a four week homestay to an apartment that must be hunted without assistance. Responses to the Berlin program range from enthusiastic recounts of the city's cultural wealth to "among the most miserable times in my life, I will not remember study abroad fondly or even without hostility...Five months is a terrible amount of time - too short to immerse, and too long - my god, too long. Too cold, too grey."
-====Venice====
+====Kyoto====
-Follow Thomas Mann's footsteps to Italy's showpiece of romantic decline - and romantic cliches - with Columbia's summer program for [[Art History]] and [[Italian]] majors. The perks include one's very own Big Brother, er, "Cultural Partner," from Ca' Foscari University.
+*'''Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies''': Columbia has recently taken command of [[Stanford]]'s old study abroad center in Japan's cultural heart, and with it has come both the stringent requirements (a two-semester minimum stay) and diverse (albeit occasionally questionable) courseload one expects from Alma Mater: the center now offers a class entitled "Demonic Women". Students complained that the center's academics, particularly its language classes, were not as challenging as expected, but otherwise found the program clean, safe, and orderly. One potential perk: no "international student village" nor the isolation of a local apartment here; students are now put up together in a local hotel.
-====Medieval France====
+*'''Kyoto Summer Program in Advanced and Classical Japanese''': also offered at the Kyoto Consortium for those interested.
-One might easily believe this program involved retreating from one's own time ''and'' space, if only it weren't focused specifically on digitally-rendered analyses of Romanesque architecture. While in the field, students are housed in the sumptuous Château de Bostz, estate of one Prince de Lobkowicz, who will feeds them twice daily. Reality - and modernity - intrude upon the class when it relocates to Paris, where students fend for themselves in a nondescript dormitory.
+====Paris====
-====Berlin====
+*The '''Columbia-[[Penn]] program at [[Reid Hall]]''' is probably one of the univeristy's (or universities'?) better-organized study abroad efforts. Students study in the building that once housed the first Protestant school in France, a society entitled "the American Girls Club" (sorry, no relation to the doll company), and a First World War hospital, not to mention lectures by Barthes, de Beauvoir and Derrida. Past participants mostly concurred that he program's academics were excellent, but lamented the difficulties involved in cross-registration with local universities (a requirement that tended to get impaired in the course of frequent strikes), as well as the seeming isolation of Americans from French students. Still, for only $300 a month, Reid Hall will transplant you to the set of "La Boheme", with an attic "maid's room" all your own.
-The [[Berlin Consortium]] is one of Columbia's more established programs, yet also among its most controversial. Students only take one or two consortium classes; the rest are held at the Free University of Berlin. Meanwhile, residential life is in constant flux, withstudents transitioning from a hostel to a four week homestay to an apartment that must be hunted without assistance. Responses to the Berlin program range from enthusiastic recounts of the city's cultural wealth to "among the most miserable times in my life, I will not remember study abroad fondly or even without hostility...Five months is a terrible amount of time - too short to immerse, and too long - my god, too long. Too cold, too grey."
+*There's also a '''Contemporary French Theater and Performance''' program at Reid, for those so inclined.
-===Asia===
+*'''Summer French Studies Program in Paris''': What it sounds like.
 ====Shanghai====
-[[Economics (major)|Econ majors]] rejoice; summer internship opportunities and thrilling lectures on the likes of "Monetary Matters and Reformation in the Chinese Banking System Since 1979" complement private Chinese language tutorials.
+'''Summer Business and Internship Program in Shanghai''': [[Economics (major)|Econ majors]] rejoice; summer internship opportunities and thrilling lectures on the likes of "Monetary Matters and Reformation in the Chinese Banking System Since 1979" complement private Chinese language tutorials.
-====Kyoto====
+'''Italian Cultural Studies''': Follow Thomas Mann's footsteps to Italy's showpiece of romantic decline - and romantic cliches - with Columbia's summer program for [[Art History]] and [[Italian]] majors. The perks include one's very own Big Brother, er, "Cultural Partner," from Ca' Foscari University.
-Columbia has recently taken command of [[Stanford]]'s old study abroad center in Japan's cultural heart, and with it has come both the stringent requirements (a two-semester minimum stay) and diverse (albeit occasionally questionable) courseload one expects from Alma Mater: the center now offers a class entitled "Demonic Women". Students complained that the center's academics, particularly its language classes, were not as challenging as expected, but otherwise found the program clean, safe, and orderly. One potential perk: no "international student village" nor the isolation of a local apartment here; students are now put up together in a local hotel.
+===Other Columbia Programs===
-====Beijing====
+The Office of Global Programs may control most official Columbia study abroad options, but not all! Behold, some of the weirder (but more impressive) options available:
-Summer at Beijing University for a nine-week language program or spend a year at Tsinghua. Propagand...er, promotional materials show students enjoying early-morning tai chi sessions and horseback riding in the "Fragrant Hills". Students tell of an extraordinary opportunity for cultural immersion, but also their uncertainty over the grading system, their dorm's isolation from the city, and its semester-long "dwindling supply of hot water". Those resolved to immerse themselves as fully as possible might be inclined to disregard the latter issue and spend their days at the communal bath-house.
+====[[Oxford]]/[[Cambridge]]====
-===Middle East===
+Linguistically underadventurous, though academically motivated Columbians wishing to add Great Britain's two greatest universities to their undergraduate resumes ought to know that the experience will be a hard-won privilege, rather than a right. While other universities enjoy easy access to a semester at either via Butler University's study abroad program, Columbia students are screened academically and are required to spend a full year amid Oxbridge's spires. Students surveyed after the program wished their tutors were a bit more easy to hunt down, the food a bit more...edible, or the exchange rate at least slightly more favorable ("Oh holy God, [bring] everything you have", said one), but their experiences were, overall, mostly positive. Applicants shouldn't expect, however, too much of a culture shock, unless they are like those who claimed, in their surveys, that "can't be bothered" was a "learned British-ism" or that "discussing different tastes in indie music" was a quintessentially British experience.
 ====Columbia Excavations at Amheida, Egypt====
-Not for the weak, working with Columbia archaeologists' dig in the oases of Upper Egypt requires communication in a difficult local dialect of Arabic, working and studying six days a week (only Friday is off- for mosque services) and the even more daunting task of rising daily at 5am. Living conditions may not be for the pampered, as "Utilities in rural Egypt are not entirely reliable...and students should be prepared for periodic power outages (bring a flashlight) and even water cuts". Extracurriculars are not the program's strong suit, either. "Opportunities for recreation...are by New York standards rather limited," the program's website recounts, dryly. The program at Amheida constitutes its own 16-credit semester with three required courses; the last allows students to move out of the wild and base themselves at Cairo, from which they travel the Nile studying Greco-Roman monuments. Bonus: you're done by March!
+Not formally a study abroad program, and not for the weak, working with Columbia archaeologists' dig in the oases of Upper Egypt requires communication in a difficult local dialect of Arabic, working and studying six days a week (only Friday is off- for mosque services) and the even more daunting task of rising daily at 5am. Living conditions may not be for the pampered, as "Utilities in rural Egypt are not entirely reliable...and students should be prepared for periodic power outages (bring a flashlight) and even water cuts". Extracurriculars are not the program's strong suit, either. "Opportunities for recreation...are by New York standards rather limited," the program's website recounts, dryly. The program at Amheida constitutes its own 16-credit semester with three required courses; the last allows students to move out of the wild and base themselves at Cairo, from which they travel the Nile studying Greco-Roman monuments. Bonus: you're done by March!
 ==Non-Columbia programs==

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 ====Paris====
-Columbia's program at [[Reid Hall]] is probably one of its better-organized study abroad efforts. Students study in the building that once housed the first Protestant school in France, a society entitled "the American Girls Club" (sorry, no relation to the doll company), and a First World War hospital, not to mention lectures by Barthes, de Beauvoir and Derrida. Past participants mostly concurred that he program's academics were excellent, but lamented the difficulties involved in cross-registration with local universities (a requirement that tended to get impaired in the course of frequent strikes), as well as the seeming isolation of Americans from French students. Still, for only $300 a month, Reid Hall will transplant you to the set of "La Boheme", with an attic "maid's room" all your own.
+The Columbia-[[Penn]] program at [[Reid Hall]] is probably one of the univeristy's (or universities'?) better-organized study abroad efforts. Students study in the building that once housed the first Protestant school in France, a society entitled "the American Girls Club" (sorry, no relation to the doll company), and a First World War hospital, not to mention lectures by Barthes, de Beauvoir and Derrida. Past participants mostly concurred that he program's academics were excellent, but lamented the difficulties involved in cross-registration with local universities (a requirement that tended to get impaired in the course of frequent strikes), as well as the seeming isolation of Americans from French students. Still, for only $300 a month, Reid Hall will transplant you to the set of "La Boheme", with an attic "maid's room" all your own.
 ====Venice====

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	==Columbia programs==		==Columbia programs==

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