Study Abroad
Experience all the world has to offer – follow your curiosity, expand your community and immerse yourself in a rich learning experience hundreds of miles or more from home. When you travel the globe you’ll see, learn, live and connect as part of an academic and personal exploration you’ll remember for the rest of your life.
Barcelona, Spain
Georgetown in Barcelona
On this program, you’ll combine intensive coursework focused on the relationships between the history, culture, and language of your host city with intensive language immersion. Readings, lectures, and discussions go hand-in-hand with guided fieldwork throughout the region to create a space for intellectual development. Engaging with Spanish peers from the host university Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) is a key program component.
Quito, Ecuador
Georgetown in Quito
Delve into the world of language, literature, and culture in Latin America on Georgetown’s summer program in Quito, Ecuador. Alongside distinguished professors from Georgetown University and Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), you’ll immerse yourself in the study of Spanish while exploring critical theories of race, gender, and ethnicity in the context of Latin American history and modern society.
Bahia, Brazil
Georgetown in Bahia
Join us on a four-week program to learn about Brazilian history, the city of Salvador, and its importance during the slavery trade from the 1600s to the 1800s, through its history, and the presence of West African or Yoruba traditions in Bahia’s culture (religion, music, food). Hosted in partnership with the ICR (Instituto Clara Ramos), Georgetown in Bahia blends four weeks of intensive, Georgetown-designed summer study with enriching cultural immersion in the city of Salvador. Also, it includes learning about Brazilian public policies and tropical diseases. Students will also learn basic Portuguese. The program is also open to non-Georgetown students.