Peace StudiesProgram
Study Abroad
While the Center for Global Education offers abroad programs on six continents, faculty from the peace studies department sponsor programs in Jordan and Belgium.
Amman, Jordan
The HWS Jordan program is offered in affiliation with the School for International Training (SIT), an organization that has placed U.S. students in rigorous, highly specialized programs throughout the world for decades. HWS students join other students from colleges throughout the U.S. to share course work, excursions and the study of place. A unique feature of the program is that all students design and carry out, in consultation with SIT and HWS faculty, a four-week long independent field study project within the city of Amman in any of a broad number of academic areas.
Brussels, Belgium
The Brussels Program is offered in partnership with Vesalius College, an English language division of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Vesalius has an enrollment of approximately 300 students from over 50 nations and is part of a larger university community of 10,000 students scattered throughout the city of Brussels. Students take courses in communications, economics, European studies, history, international relations, politics and sociology. A centerpiece of the program is a credit-bearing, intensive internship with a European organization, arranged for the students by Vesalius College.