Global and Off-Campus Travel

Some of NMH’s exciting and enriching opportunities are nowhere near campus. They’re in places like Brazil, China, Ghana, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, and across the United States. When you participate in one of our travel programs, you travel for one to three weeks, gaining incredible insights and new perspectives on yourself, your own culture, and the world at large. Each program focuses on specific themes. For instance, the sophomore interdisciplinary travel program visits Brazil, South Africa, and Spain/Morocco on a rotating cycle. Students in this program are simultaneously enrolled in World Religions and World History, which is NMH’s Humanities II program. Similarly, students enrolled in our junior interdisciplinary U.S. domestic travel program to New Mexico explore themes in U.S. history and American literature in the U.S. Southwest. Our language immersion programs promote intensive Chinese, French, and Spanish language learning through engagement with people in a range of real-life situations. Other travel opportunities include the Model United Nations program, in which students participate in MUN conferences across the U.S. and the globe; a servicelearning program to Belize, where students live with a host family and are trained in facilitating basic medical screenings; a career-exploration program to Costa Rica focused on wildlife and environmental conservation; and an arts and culture program in Ghana. Activities abroad can include anything from visiting favelas in Brazil to learning dance and drumming in Ghana to visiting the Hassan II mosque in Morocco. You might meet with students at a local school, work on a community-service project, or conduct an independent research project. Whether you’re writing critical analyses or personal narratives, exploring indigenous community political issues or the role of Islamic art, you’re sure to gain insights you simply couldn’t have gotten at home. Participation in our travel programs is selective and by application only. Participants pay a program fee in addition to NMH tuition. The programs vary each year, depending on enrollment and staffing.

For sophomores: Humanities II in Brazil, Spain/ Morocco, South Africa For juniors: American Literature and U.S. History in the U.S. Southwest

Destinations vary

Belize: Healthcare, Development, and Service Costa Rica: Wildlife and Environmental Conservation Ghana: Arts and Culture Reciprocal exchange program to Scots College in Wellington, New Zealand

Note: Travel programs are currently on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will resume again when safety guidelines allow and travel restrictions are lifted.

Dean of Experiential Learning and Institutional Research ayanghandy@nmhschool.org 413-498-3099

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