Semester in Europe: Custom

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Curriculum and Faculty

Overview

Taken as a whole, the Semester in Europe: Custom study program curriculum allows students to compare and contrast the cultural and social structures in the European Union.

Students are required to take a course focused on European Culture and can then customize their course curriculum by choosing 3-4 courses from hundreds offered each Spring semester at our host institution, the University of Nicosia.

All applicants should aim to receive course pre-approval from their home institution.

To download a syllabus* and faculty bio for a course in PDF format, please click on a course number. If for any reason a course syllabus file is unavailable online, please contact us to request it.

Required Course

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Course Schedule

Students choose 3 to 4 additional courses from the catalog of regularly scheduled Spring semester courses offered at the University of Nicosia.

Please download the course schedule below to view the day and time that each course is offered to ensure that your selected courses do not conflict with each other.

IMPORTANT: If you are applying for the Spring term, you can use the previous year's course schedule below as a guide to which classes will be offered. The University of Nicosia will release the final Spring schedule in December, however, typically most of the classes offered in the previous year will be offered again. When selecting courses for credit pre-approval, you should select and pre-approve as many alternates as possible, to avoid conflicts when the actual schedule is announced.

NOTES: 

• The Education (code EDUC), and Social Work (code SOWK) courses are only in Greek, and thus not available to study abroad students
• Undergraduate students are only eligible for course numbers 100-499
• Practicum courses are approved on a case-by-case basis only
• When using the class schedule on the University of Nicosia website, make sure to select 'undergraduate' when filtering for types of courses

University of Nicosia Subjects of Study

Here is a list of subjects of study at the University of Nicosia:

Teaching Methods

• All courses on the Semester in Europe study abroad program are University of Nicosia courses taught by University of Nicosia faculty using University of Nicosia syllabi on the University of Nicosia campus. The University of Nicosia issues the transcript for this study program.
• Courses are taught on an intensive schedule and meet for approximately 5 hours per week for the eight weeks that students are in Cyprus for a total of 42 hours of classroom contact hours.
• Students complement their in-class instruction with over 20 days of on-the-ground travel to key cultural institutions in 9 EU countries (e.g. the Louvre, Van Gogh Museum, etc.). We endeavor to have relevant experts leading these sessions and, additionally, provide guides for general city and sightseeing tours.
• While the travel portion is a required part of this study abroad program and linked to the curriculum, it is not-for-credit.