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EuropeSince 1978, the Tufts European Center has welcomed students from all over the world to study at Tufts' beautiful alpine campus in Talloires, France. At Talloires, students of all levels engage in stimulating international programs including poetry, writing, languages, international relations and history. Tufts was proud to host the Talloires Conference 2005, where the University led representatives of 22 nations to a first-of-its kind exploration of higher education's civic roles and social responsibilities. For 40 years, Tufts has offered study abroad opportunities in London, Madrid, Oxford, Paris and Tubingen (Germany) for students who wish to enrich their education by integrating themselves into the cultural and social life of a host country. Graduate programs include physics studies at the University of Pavia, Italy; occupational therapy in Scotland, England and Sweden, and environmental policy and planning in Sweden, among many others. On the Medford/Somerville campus, Tufts offers hundreds of classes and interdisciplinary courses of study in the fields of European affairs, history, culture, letters, art and art history, architecture, film, music, drama, dance, economics, geography, religion, languages, political science, sociology, women's studies and much more. The European Club, as well as culture units for many European nations, provides social outlets for students and faculty alike through which they can deepen their appreciation of European cultures. Regional ProgramsAnthropology
Anthropology at Tufts provides students not only with a strong background in critical thinking, analysis, and writing, but also with first-hand experience through original field research. The combination of intellectual community, disciplinary breadth, global and local understanding, hands-on research and public engagement makes anthropology a strong liberal arts major and an excellent preparation for both graduate school and a wide range of careers.
Archaeology
Tufts offers a general interdisciplinary undergraduate major in archaeology, incorporating courses from the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Students in archaeology combine course work with firsthand experience in recovery, conservation, and interpretation of material remains. The archaeology program has affiliations with several summer field schools, including the Murlo excavation in Italy, the Talloires/Mt. Musièges excavation in France, the Old Sturbridge Village Field School, and the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology.
Art and Art History
The wide range of courses offered by the department is designed to familiarize students with important artists, traditions and themes in world art and visual culture. Some courses focus on individual achievements, great artists and schools, while others explore significant periods, such as the Renaissance or the 1960s, or themes that cross time and cultures, such as the treatment of nature or the fear and destruction of images (inconoclasm and iconophobia). Artistic style and culture from a number of regions are explored, with course offerings such as Japanese Architecture, Contemporary Art in Africa, and Latin American Cinema.
Borghesani Memorial Prize
This prize is awarded to second-semester sophomores and juniors who undertake a research project, internship, volunteer activity, or plan of study in any field involving international issues. The prize encourages personal growth and independence, while increasing one's understanding of all peoples and encouraging a commitment to the world community. Past recipients of the prize have traveled abroad in order to study, conduct research, participate in international internships, and become involved in social change movements.
Center for International Environmental and Resource Policy (CIERP)
Established in 1990 to support the growing demand for international environmental leaders, the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy's mission is to educate students to become policy and decision-makers who will keep environmental concerns at the forefront of the national agenda. Through the Center, students develop the skills necessary to formulate effective environmental strategies and solutions.
Classics
Classics at Tufts constitute an interdisciplinary study of the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, and Europe. The Department of Classics is dedicated to the study of Greek and Roman culture and to clarifying and assessing its continuing impact on contemporary life. The role of the individual in relation to contemporary society, as the study of Classics shows, can be examined through the history, archaeology, art, architecture, science, philosophy, religion, mythology, and especially through the literatures of Greece and Rome.
Comparative Religion
The Department of Comparative Religion investigates the various expressions of religion encountered in human experience around the world. Students study the field of religion in both its functional and theoretical aspects. Courses explore the Western religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and others. Courses are designed to give a broad cultural appreciation of religion in accordance with the principles of a liberal arts education.
Department of Romance Languages
The Romance languages all derive from the Latin spoken in different parts of the Roman Empire. Courses in French, Spanish, and Italian give students an understanding of the spoken and written language and promote the reading and appreciation of each nation's literature. Students may deepen their linguistic sensibilities and expand their horizons by studying, through a Romance language, a civilization different from but connected to their own. Students may major in French, in Spanish, or in Italian Studies, and may minor in Italian.
Drama and Dance
The Department of Drama and Dance provides a liberal arts approach to the creative, historical, and aesthetic dimensions of the theater arts. It fosters critical thinking and challenges the imagination in the study and performance of theater arts. Drama and dance have forever been powerful forces in the world, an imaginative mirror through which we can better understand psychology, politics, religion, and gender. The Drama and Dance department offers many study abroad opportunities, such as the British American Dramatic Academy, the London College of Fashion Design, and Tufts-in-Madrid, a strong theater program for students fluent in Spanish.
Economics
The mission of the department is to teach students to be critical thinkers and to use the discipline of economics to analyze important economic, political and social issues, ranging from international economic relations, development, growth, and income inequality, to education, housing and competition policy. Department courses, with continuing interaction with other scholars at Tufts and elsewhere, help mold future community leaders. Classes, collaborations, faculty research, and other study opportunities are available for students in the area of international economics.
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Programs Abroad
Students of the ECE Department can participate in study abroad programs, usually during junior year, at University College London or elsewhere.
EPIIC
The Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) program is a carefully integrated multidisciplinary program which, through its innovative and rigorous curricula and projects, prepares undergraduates to lead their communities -- local, national and global. Each year, EPIIC explores one broad global dilemma and provokes students to explore its complexity. High intellectual engagement, passion, and genuine objectivity have been the standard of EPIIC: the cornerstone of Tufts University's international relations education for the 21st century.
European Club
The purpose of the European Club is to debate and educate students and faculty about European politics and current events, focusing especially on Europe's path towards unification in the 21st century. The Club initiates and coordinates efforts to help the Tufts community understand the challenges facing a united Europe, as well as its importance to the rest of the world.
EXPOSURE
EXPOSURE is the Institute for Global Leadership's photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights program, dedicated to mentoring and developing young, knowledgeable photojournalists and documentary filmmakers. EXPOSURE's instructors include preeminent photographers from VII Photo Agency and other distinguished journalists who help run the program's hands-on workshops in Kosovo, Argentina and Philadelphia. These workshops are designed to examine the media's role in exposing the public to important social and international issues.
Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
The mission of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies is to create an academic environment for the promotion of greater understanding of the Eastern Mediterranean's rich culture and heritage, and the significant challenges which face this region in the 21st century, focusing on Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and their neighboring countries. The Center acts as a focal point for cross-regional and cross-cultural analysis, providing a forum for the articulation of diverse viewpoints: an effective means of conflict resolution.
Fletcher Student Exchange Programs
The Fletcher School provides many opportunities for students to supplement their education with joint degree and exchange programs with some of the world's leading professional schools and graduate programs. Student can choose from six pre-approved programs in countries such as Switzerland or Germany, or contact a host institution of their choice and create their own program.
Flowers of the Alps
Flowers of the Alps is a biology and environmental studies course offered at the Tufts campus in Talloires, France, during the first Summer Session. The course focuses on the Savoy region's world-class display of montane and alpine floral diversity. Sessions highlight outstanding representatives of important plant families, their human and ecological relevance, and the design of dichotomous keys. Outdoor field sessions are devoted to recognizing species in their native environment, evaluating shifts in alpine vegetation, and enhancing agricultural diversity in the region's farm community.
German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature
The department offers graduate and undergraduate courses in German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese, as well as Hebrew and Arabic language classes. Courses in literature and programs in Judaic Studies, Asian Studies, and Eastern European Studies are also offered.
Global Leadership Seminar
The Global Leadership Seminar seeks to raise transcontinental awareness by convening representatives from three continents to discuss contemporary global issues. This seminar fosters dialogue between students, faculty members, and practitioners from Europe, the United States, and Asia. It has two components: a seminar for students from Fletcher, the University of St. Gallen, the College of Europe, and the National University of Singapore, and a seminar for distinguished practitioners of international affairs.
Institute for Global Leadership
The mission of the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) is to prepare new generations of critical thinkers for effective and ethical leadership, ready to act as global citizens in addressing international and national issues across cultures. The Institute emphasizes rigorous academic preparation and experiential learning. Students learn through intensive engagement in classes, global research, internships, workshops, simulations and international symposia -- all involving national and international leaders from the public and private sectors.
International Institute for Prosthetic Rehabilitation of Landmine Survivors
The International Institute for Prosthetic Rehabilitation of Landmine Survivors is a Tufts-affiliated non-profit organization which strives to help landmine survivors regain their quality of life. The Institute was founded in April 1998 to contribute to the international effort to rehabilitate amputees, especially civilians, many of whom are children.
Joint & Exchange Programs with the Fletcher School
The Fletcher School allows students to supplement their education with joint degree and exchange programs with some of the world's leading professional schools and graduate programs.
Mechanical Engineering Study Abroad
The Mechanical Engineering Department offers the opportunity for selected students to study for one or two terms (typically during junior year) at the University of Sussex in England and the Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon in France. Although these are the only programs with which the department has formal arrangements, students have attended accredited engineering programs in other universities (e.g., University of London, University of New South Wales).
Music
The Tufts Department of Music is committed to a vision of musical studies that recognizes the increasing globalization of music. In all of its activities -- graduate and undergraduate curricula in western music, world music, and composition; performing ensembles and its new community music programs -- the department seeks to create an environment in which the vast diversity of musical cultures in the United States and around the world is appreciated and valued.
Occupational Therapy International Programs
Through international collaboration, the Department of Occupational Therapy sponsors three unique study abroad programs in occupational therapy in Edinburgh, Scotland; Oxford, England; and Stockholm, Sweden. The Boston School of Occupational Therapy is affiliated with Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh, Oxford Brookes University and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
Office of Programs Abroad
Tufts University has been offering foreign study programs to undergraduates for four decades, and at present runs its own programs for juniors and seniors to study in Chile, China, Ghana, Hong Kong, Japan, London, Madrid, Oxford, Paris, and Tübingen. Students may also choose from hundreds of approved programs run by non-Tufts providers.
Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits for Broadband Wireless Communication Systems Research
The Tufts School of Engineering is currently collaborating with the Optical Communications Group at the University of Oxford for this research project focused on developing novel optoelectronic integrated circuit architectures for broadband communication systems. The Oxford group provides expertise in the design of custom Indium Gallium Arsenide arrays of optoelectronic devices that are integrated with high-performance silicon electronic circuits developed by graduate research students in the Tufts Advanced Integrated Circuits and Systems Group, led by Prof. Valencia Joyner.
Russian and East European Studies
The Russian and East European Studies major offers students training in the history, politics, literature, and arts of Russia and other East European nations, as well as a grounding in contemporary oral and written Russian. (Training in some other Slavic languages is available as independent study.) The major is designed for students intending to pursue careers in which familiarity with Russia and Eastern Europe is an attractive or necessary asset, or for students planning to enter graduate school in law, business, or diplomacy with a specialization in Russian and East European affairs. The area concentration also prepares students for graduate work in Russian and East European studies.
Sustainable Sweden Tour and Internships in Swedish Eco-Municipalities
Sweden is developing a growing number of "eco-municipalities" in which the principles of sustainable development are put into practice at the municipal level. For the past two years, Urban Environmental Policy and Planning students, with help from the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Tufts Institute for the Environment, have arranged their own Sustainable Sweden tours and internships in a variety of eco-municipalities. Students then spend the second half of their internship in a U.S. municipality that has the potential to become an eco-municipality.
The Educational Resource Center - Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
The Educational Resource Center (ERC) for children with disabilities and their families at Beit Hana College in Dnepropetrovsk is known as a "little Eliot-Pearson" in the Ukraine. Teams of Tufts professionals and students in the fields of child development, pediatrics, and occupational therapy collaborate with colleagues in the Ukraine for this pioneering teacher-training program. Pilot research for a dissertation funded by the U.S. State Department was conducted at the ERC in 2004. Contact Child Development for more information.
The Russian Circle
The Russian Circle is an organization for students interested in the various cultures and politics that abound in the former Soviet Union, as well as for those studying the Russian language. Past activities have included lectures, a film series, restaurant trips, and celebration of Russian holidays. The Circle holds weekly meetings to which all students, particularly those wishing to converse in Russian, are invited.
Tufts-in-Madrid
The Tufts-in-Madrid program, run jointly with Skidmore College, offers undergraduates (usually juniors) with at least six semesters of Spanish classes the opportunity to study at one of two Tufts-affiliated universities: the Autonomous University of Madrid or the University of Alcalá, 16 miles east of Madrid.
Tufts-in-Oxford
Tufts-in-Oxford offers undergraduates (usually juniors) in high academic standing the chance to spend a year studying at Pembroke College, a 400-year-old, 400-student strong division of Oxford University.
Tufts-in-Tübingen
Tufts study abroad program in Tübingen, Germany, a town of 80,000 not far from Stuttgart, offers a full year or one-semester program for undergraduates (usually juniors) with at least two years of German classes. The program of 20 students, is completely integrated into the German university system, offering courses at Eberhard-Karls University, founded in 1477.
Tufts in Talloires Summer Program
Tufts in Talloires, a six-week summer program for undergraduates at Tufts and other universities, offers dynamic and diverse courses taught by Tufts faculty. Students choose two courses from a selection designed to take advantage of Talloires' ideal location in the center of Europe as well as its striking alpine setting, which inspires reflection and thought. In addition to course work, a wide variety of optional outdoor activities, weekly hikes in the Alps, field trips, and organized events offer students the opportunity to explore France's unique Savoy region.
Tufts University European Center
The European Center is Tufts University's campus in Talloires, France. An outstanding setting for study, contemplation and exploration, the European Center offers several academic programs for all learners: college undergraduates, high school students, alumni and adults. The Center, located in a former Benedictine priory that dates to the 11th century, just steps away from beautiful Lake Annecy, also hosts a variety of international conferences that seek to facilitate and promote international understanding.
Turkish Student Association
The Turkish Student Association represents the growing Turkish community at Tufts. The association embraces students of all cultures and backgrounds, and seeks to familiarize the Tufts community with Turkish culture and the Turkish perspective on international issues. Working with other religious and ethnic groups at Tufts, the association strives to provide the university with a diverse and prejudice-free environment.
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