Juniors Abroad Policies
In order to enrich the intercultural and international awareness of our campus community, ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓƵ Fox offers a transportation-subsidized overseas course of approximately three weeks to any junior student who has fulfilled the eligibility requirements. These trips occur each year in May.
Trip Objectives
As a student on these trips, you will:
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Experience cross-cultural learning opportunities in cultures distinctly different from their own
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Interact with the host culture through informal and formal contacts
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Experience what it means to be a cultural minority
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Understand how to participate responsibly in a diverse global community
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Learn, through the study of disciplines such as the fine arts, language, science, architecture, or history, how various social institutions affect the host culture
Policies
- To participate, you must have maintained three consecutive years of full-time enrollment. Transfer students may receive partial support for transportation expenses; requests for such support should be made to the director of Juniors Abroad.
- You must register for GEED 365 Cross Cultural Experience-International and GEED 465 (the registrar will automatically register students for these two courses if the student is enrolled in 365).
- Tuition costs of this course can be included as part of block tuition for the spring semester preceding the May study tour. You will be billed for whatever credits exceed the 18-credit-hour block tuition limit.
- You will pay room and board and other fees, in advance, for the study tour for which you enrolled. All transportation and accommodations are arranged by the university. For the eligible Juniors Abroad students, the university will pay approximately one-half of the total cost for the study tour. On occasion, a trip with unusually high costs may involve a transportation surcharge.
- You must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0 at the end of the fall semester preceding the trip.
- Lifestyle violations, as reported by the Office of Student Life, may affect your eligibility to participate (see Standards of Conduct).
- You must obtain approval from the Health and Counseling Center before final approval by the Center for Study Abroad will be given for a specific trip. You must also keep trip faculty apprised of any changes to your health status.
- The university reserves the right to disallow a student from participation if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the student or the study-tour group.
- You must intend to return and graduate from ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓƵ Fox University.
- Student accounts must be current as of Feb. 15 the year of the tour.
- You are required to have all childhood vaccinations to travel with Juniors Abroad.
- You must obtain a passport by the Monday after Thanksgiving prior to the trip.
- The university reserves the right to withdraw from this program and commitment prior to fall registration in any year. Students already registered under the program are guaranteed the trip.
- In the event of an international monetary, military, or other crisis, the university reserves the right to cancel or postpone a tour or to make substitute arrangements.
- The university does not obligate itself to offer alternative remuneration to students who cannot go, who decide not to go, or who are ineligible to go on a Juniors Abroad trip.
Discipline
As a participant on a trip, you are responsible for your personal conduct at all times and agree to comply with all expectations of ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓƵ Fox University, including the ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓƵ Fox Lifestyle Standards as given in the university’s Student Handbook and the Juniors Abroad Student Handbook in Canvas.
- In the interests of the entire group, the appointed faculty or staff reserve the right to send a person home at that person’s expense for reasons of disciplinary action or if the person is unable due to injury, illness, or other circumstances, to maintain the tour itinerary.
- For behavior outside of the university’s lifestyle statement or the Juniors Abroad Student Handbook your grade will be lowered at least one letter grade. The faculty/director of Juniors Abroad also reserves the right to fine a person, up to an amount equal to the university’s cost of the trip. You will not be entitled to a refund from the university in the event you are required to leave the program and return home.
- You must have a C- or above grade the week before travel begins or you will not be allowed to travel and will not receive credit for the course.