The 2023-2024 study abroad application is now closed. The application for January and Spring 2025 programs will open in August 2024.
NYU Steinhardt offers a variety of short-term, credit-bearing study abroad opportunities in January and over Spring Break. Participants immerse themselves in a new context, culture, and academic perspective.
Enrich your graduate degree with a global perspective! Our intensive, credit-bearing study abroad courses will broaden your horizons in a dynamic, intercultural setting, and are open to all NYU graduate students. Most programs are also open to undergraduates with Senior standing and non-NYU graduate students and professionals.
January 2025 Programs
Argentina: Artistic Activism, Social Justice, and Radical Education in a Third Space
Discover the "third spaces" between formal institutions and explore the ways in which they are sites of pedagogy and artistic activism.
Brazil: Emerging Models and Markets for Music
Learn about major theoretical, technological, and sociological threads linking popular music and networked communications systems and media, with an emphasis on key international and diasporic markets.
Cuba: International Issues in Nutrition and Food
Examine the complex factors affecting food, nutrition, and health practices in Cuba through hands-on experiences and meetings with local experts.
Dominican Republic: Culture & Language Learning in Real-Time
This January, gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of culture and its relationship to language while studying in the Dominican Republic.
Turkey: Global Perspectives in Higher Education
Examine Turkey's colleges and universities through site visits and meetings with students, faculty, college leaders, and policy researchers.
Uganda: Dance Education
Learn how to teach, create, and perform dance and to build community through the lens of another culture.
Spring Break 2025 Programs
Ghana: Cross-Cultural Counseling
Immerse yourself in contemporary Ghanaian culture and explore the ways in which helping professionals’ and clients’ worldview, values, and biases are shaped by multiple cultural influences.
Italy: Politics, Migration, and Education
Explore the ways in which politics, migration, and education intersect within the context of Italy and western Europe more broadly.
United Kingdom: Creative Industries
Compare and contrast the creative and cultural industries in the US and UK from the perspective of non-profit arts leaders, government officials, and cultural entrepreneurs.
United Kingdom: Migration, Media, and the Global City
Explore how migration is imagined in the global urban context and how media and technology enable the (re)imagining of transnational communities and cultural politics in London.
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