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The Associated Colleges of the South, the consortium of nationally-ranked
liberal arts institutions of which Birmingham-Southern is a member, provides
numerous special cooperative programs of unusual significance to students
and faculty. Four programs of special interest appear below.
British Studies at Oxford is a summer program
in which students spend six weeks of study for two or three units of
credit at Oxford University
in England. Students live and dine in the seventeenth-century buildings
of St. John’s College and attend lectures and seminars covering
the arts, history, literature, and philosophy of a distinguished age
of Britain’s past. In addition, students are given the opportunity
to travel throughout England and Europe. Students, at their option, may
have one course count as an interim unit. The second course taken through
British Studies at Oxford that summer will count as a unit credit in
a discipline. Special scholarship assistance is available to Birmingham-Southern
College students participating in this summer program.
The Central Europe Semester includes trips to
Budapest, Vienna, Prague, Krakow, and other locations as part of a
study of Central Europe’s
changing political system, economic development, art, music, environment,
and ecology. Non-traditional locations, such as museums, government buildings,
and factories, offer settings for many classes.
The Costa Rica Science Semester takes place in the Talamanca Mountains
of Costa Rica. Students engage in independent research, collecting, analyzing,
and presenting data on the mammalian species in their natural environment.
Participants also study Spanish as part of the project.
The Oak Ridge Science Semester provides students
an opportunity to study at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee. The program
takes place during interim and spring terms. Oak Ridge is one of the
world’s most outstanding research facilities. This program allows
students to associate with scientists whose research frequently takes
them to the very cutting edge of human knowledge. Students majoring in
biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, political
science, sociology, and economics participate in this program.
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