{"id":410,"date":"2014-01-03T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T18:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.eckerd.edu\/?p=195"},"modified":"2022-11-03T12:33:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:33:53","slug":"students-head-off-to-17-international-destinations-for-winter-term-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/students-head-off-to-17-international-destinations-for-winter-term-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Head Off to 17 International Destinations for Winter Term 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 250 Eckerd College students will make a quick stop on campus this weekend before heading off with their faculty leaders to 17 international destinations for\u00a0<a href=\"\/global\/winter\/\">Winter Term 2014<\/a>, which begins Monday, January 6, 2014. Students taking the Winter Term course at\u00a0<a href=\"\/global\/semester\/london-study-centre\/\">Eckerd\u2019s London Study Centre<\/a>\u00a0already are on their way to meet their classmates and faculty leader at the 200-year-old Georgian row house on Gower Street that the College has leased since 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Among the Winter Term 2014 international destinations are a trip to the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador where students and their faculty leader will camp in the Amazon rain forest, hike through the highland cloud forest, and spend a week snorkeling and exploring the Islands. Other students will head to Morocco for Arabic language immersion and a chance to experience its historical monuments, shrines and markets. Still others will visit a village in a mountainous region of Cameroon, where they will volunteer alongside an Eckerd College graduate who is in the Peace Corps and currently working with communities on environmental and water projects.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eckerd College students on a farm in Hoi An,\u00a0Vietnam (above) by Claire Pfeifer,\u00a0<\/em><em>2013 Winter Term Photo Contest winner, Students category.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eckerdcollege\/sets\/72157632881686854\/with\/8516149446\/\">See a larger version of this photo and all the other 2013 photos from winter term trips around the world<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Winter Term is an Eckerd hallmark. While hundreds of liberal arts colleges now have a January term, Eckerd was the first to institute it. Originally envisioned as a time for intensive study of a single subject, creative group work and independent studies, Winter Term has since become the most popular time for students to study abroad. Today, students can choose from approximately 20 off-campus destinations to spend a Winter Term designed and led by Eckerd faculty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/global\/winter\/\">Learn about all 20 international and domestic Winter Term 2014 trips<\/a>, and follow four Eckerd classes in London, Madrid, Paris and Japan as they blog about their Winter Term experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 250 Eckerd College students will make a quick stop on campus this weekend before heading off with their faculty leaders to 17 international destinations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,79],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-academics","7":"category-global-education"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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