Lycoming’s unique 4-4-1 academic calendar offers yet another opportunity for exploration abroad...the May Term. This term is a four-week voluntary session that provides students with classes not regularly offered during Fall and Spring semesters. Many May Term courses involve traveling abroad and are open to majors and nonmajors alike.

Some recent May Term programs include:

BIO 329

Join Dr. Mel Zimmerman, Professor of Biology, in the “expedition to the Caribbean.” Tropical Marine Biology, BIO 329, is a field oriented course offered on Roatan Island off the coast of Honduras. Lycoming students study coral reefs, use oceanographic instruments to analyze water quality,learn to snorkel, watch the complex territorial behavior of damselfishes in tide pools, while being minutes away from Dunn’s River Falls, Jamaica’s premier tourist attraction.

Studio Art

In recent years Lycoming students have studied photography, digital imaging, drawing, painting, sculpture, and art history in Greece, Italy, France, Jamaica, Spain, and Vietnam/Cambodia. The Photography/Digital Imaging section is taught by Lynn Estomin and may be taken for Photography II, Photography III, Photo IV or Advanced Digital Imaging credit. Photo students shoot and discuss photography from sun-up to sundown for three weeks while abroad and then return to campus for one week to process and print their work. The drawing and painting sections taught by Roger Shipley may be taken at any level of drawing and painting. Painting and drawing students will meet with the professor in the studio at Lycoming before leaving for the foreign study experience. They complete their landscape studies in painting and drawing while traveling abroad. All studio art students produce a portfolio of work and are required to display the completed work in a group exhibition in the College gallery upon their return. Art history students work with Dr. Amy Golahny prior to the travel portion of the trip, visit museums and galleries abroad and complete the writing portion of the course when they return to the US. The most recent May term to Vietnam and Cambodia was organized and led by Howard Tran. The Art May term is usually offered in alternate years. Go to http://www.lycoming.edu/Art/travel.htm for more information.

Bon Appetite

Culture Through Cuisine is a course designed by Dr. Garett Heysel, Assistant Professor of French, to enhance students’ understanding of the central role food plays in French culture, language and literature. Excursions throughout gastronomically significant regions of France accompany readings, discussions, and preparation of culturally authentic meals. In recent years Lycoming students have also studied photography and drawing.

IMS in London & Europe