Activities
One of the ACM's largest initiatives is coordination of several off-campus study programs, which are available to students at any college or university, though many participants come from the ACM member institutions. Study programs include both domestic programs and international programs (study abroad). ACM off-campus study programs have been offered since 1960. Many programs emphasize off-campus study with a liberal arts perspective.
The following programs are currently offered:
- International
- Botswana: University Immersion in Southern Africa
- Brazil: Semester Exchange Program
- Costa Rica: Language, Society, & the Environment
- Costa Rica: Field Research in the Environment, Social Sciences, & Humanities
- Florence: Arts, Humanities, & Culture
- India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization
- India Summer Program: Service Learning & Cultural Immersion
- Japan Study
- London & Florence: Arts in Context
- Mexico Summer Program: Service Learning & Language Immersion
- Tanzania: Ecology & Human Origins
- Domestic
- Chicago programs: Business, Entrepreneurship, & Society; Chicago Arts; and Urban Studies
- Newberry Seminar: Research in the Humanities
- Oak Ridge Science Semester
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