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2009 STUDY TOUR DESTINATIONS
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10/10/08: The service that hosts the Study Tour websites, edublogs, has been undergoing site maintenance for the past week. This maintenance has limited the pages' accessibility. The GBC plans to migrate the pages to another server if the problem continues through the weekend. In the meantime, if the tour site doesn't load, you may download and review the proposals that were submitted for each tour last spring by clicking on the "Proposal" added for each tour. Changes from the proposal to the current program are noted in the proposal link. |
APPLY ONLINE BY OCTOBER 27. Applicants will be notified of their placement via email on October 29. A deposit of $1,000 is due on November 3 to secure your tour slot.
ELIGIBILITY
Study tours are open to any matriculated University of Washington graduate student. However, if we receive more applicants than the maximum 20 students per tour, participants will be selected through a lottery process. Details on the lottery process will be available in the application packet.
COST
Each Study Tour is priced individually. Participants will have the option to have the student leaders purchase the airfare and travel in a group with the leaders, or to purchase their own airfare and arrive at the destination hotel by the time/date specified by the student leaders. Students must arrive at the destination and return to Seattle within strict time frames. With the exception of the tours going to Canada and Europe, all tours are 2 weeks long.
The flat rate includes all accommodations (double-occupancy), in-country transportation, some meals and cultural excursions, and covers the travel costs for 2 student leaders. Some tours may include more in-country incidentals than others.
The cost of international roundtrip airfare, entrance visas, required immunizations, personal expenses, optional cultural events, and some meals is not covered in the tour budget. Each tour budget is not to exceed the flat rate shown below. All airfare is approximate. Funds remaining in the Study Tour account will be refunded equally to the student participants after all tour expenses have been paid.
- Argentina: $2,150 + airfare (approx. $1,500)
- Canada: $750 – 4 days, Presidents Day Weekend, Feb 2009
- Japan: $2,950 + airfare (approx. $1,200)
- Germany/Switzerland: $2,700 + airfare (approx. $1,100) – 10 days
- Taiwan/Hong Kong: $2,100 + airfare (approx. $1,500)
- India: $3250 + airfare (approx. $1200)
Students may seek additional financial aid to participate in a Study Tour but must enroll for IBUS 570. Credit cards will be accepted for tour payments.
The Global Business Center pays the faculty representative’s travel costs.
ACADEMIC CREDIT
Tour participants have the option of enrolling in IBUS 570: Global Study Tour for two academic credits during winter quarter prior to the tour departure. To obtain credit, students must attend four out of five scheduled pre-departure sessions and complete a paper/project under direction from the tour faculty representative.
QUESTIONS
For questions about the Study Tour program, contact Jenn Adrien in the Global Business Center at jadrien@u.washington.edu or phone 206.616.3806. |
