Jan Term and May Term off-campus courses allow students to travel and study
for a month under the direction of a Whitworth professor. January is a period
that affords a broad variety of short study programs. Aside from courses offered
on a regular basis (usually alternating every other year), there are often
several "one-of-a-kind" experiences for student selection. Tuition
for Jan Term is included in a long semester. May Term tuition is additional to
the program cost.
To view more program details, click on the name of a program below. For additional information you may also contact Sue Jackson (sjackson@whitworth.edu). Most programs take place every other year.
| Anthropology in Hawaii |
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A section of SO 200 (Cultural Anthropology) is offered on site in Hawaii.
Students purchase their own airline tickets for this program..
Click here to view an online travelogue from Hawaii (January 2009) |
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| British Culture through the Arts |
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British culture through music and theatre. Attend plays and concerts and visit world-renowned museums in this center of culture. Students stay in a central London hotel, keep a journal and discuss their experiences. |
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| Central America Study and Service Program |
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Study Spanish in Guatemala for four weeks before beginning a life-changing journey to Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and El Salvador. The program includes rural service projects, family home stays, and encounters with both breathtaking scenery and wrenching poverty. |
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| Christian Spirituality at Tall Timber |
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The history, theology and practice of spirituality, and its implications for life today as we worship, work, build friendships and play.
**Every other Jan Term ** |
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| Christianity in Britain |
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Examine the origins, development and influence of the Christian Church in Great Britain, particularly England and Scotland. Primary consideration will be given to the Church’s major historical figures, religious movements, spiritual traditions, theological issues, and ecclesiastical controversies that have played a formative role in British culture from the arrival of the earliest Christian missionaries to today.
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| Core 250 in Europe |
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Travel across Europe and visit the key historic sites associated with Western philosophers. |
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| Costa Rica Center: Freshman Honors Jan Term |
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Open to incoming Freshmen Students admitted with honors to Whitworth University Jan-Term program at Whitworth's Costa Rica Center.**
This academic program focuses on Spanish language (multiple levels) and Latin American studies or ecology courses that meet general education requirements for students in any major. Co-curricular activities include family home-stays; service learning; travel to cloud forests, volcanoes and other regional sites; and cultural activities in the region. |
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| CS/Math in a Cultural Context - Ireland & Wales |
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This program explores CS, applied math and related business in modern Irish and Welsh societies. The program includes university exchanges, industry visits. Students design and propose a technical project particular to a visited location. We reflect on roles technology plays in the societies, on issues having local and global impact. Cultural exchanges occur in working activities, church fellowship, housing arrangements and personal interactions. Experience sites rich in heritage and culture - contrasts between rural and contemporary, Neolithic/Celtic and Roman sites, castles, churches and more. We travel London, Wales and Republic of Ireland. This program is open to non-CS/Math majors meeting prerequisites.
Click here to view an online travelogue from Ireland & Wales (January 2008) |
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| Early Christian Sites in Turkey |
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A study program of Biblical Asia minor (modern-day Turkey). Students will be exposed to the earliest Christian sites in the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul and his companions, sites in Turkey associated with the early church fathers and the monastic movement in Cappadocia, the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, and the expansion of Islam in Turkey. |
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| International Business Abroad |
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Fulfills the Global Perspectives requirement. Students will travel to one or more of the following destinations: South East Asia, China, El Salvador, etc.
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| Japan |
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Athletic Training Seminar.
Take part in seminars with athletic training specialists in Japan. Live with Japanese families in Nishinomiya, and visit Hiroshima and Tokyo. (Open to athletic training majors only.)
Click here to view an online travelogue from Japan (Spring 2008)
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| Marine Ecology |
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Field-based course designed to explore the interaction of temperate marine organisms with their living and non-living environment. Students explore life histories and ecology of intertidal marine life in rocky shore, sand, mud flat, and planktonic communities. Usually held in Friday Harbor, Washington.
Prerequisites: BI 150-154, BI 230 |
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| Math History |
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Historical background and cultural context for many of the ideas in mathematics curriculum. |
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| Media Impact Across the Contemporary U.S. |
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Students will visit New York City and Washington, DC to learn from media executives and scholars what they believe are the main issues currently facing the media impact on contemporary US society. Media industries visited will include newspapers, television, radio, magazine and book publishing, and advertising. The program is designed to expose students who have an interest in the mass media, both those majoring or minoring in Communication Studies as well as students from other disciplines, to some of the media-related issues affecting contemporary US society.
Click here to view an online travelogue from New York and Washington, D.C. (January 2009) |
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| Oral French Abroad |
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Study French by immersing yourself in wonderful French-speaking cultures of the world. Students will travel to one of the following destinations: France, Guadeloupe, Quebec (May 2014).
Québec’s motto is Je me souviens – I remember – and here you will form your own wonderful memories. You will have the opportunity to take French language courses at your personalized level in an immersion environment; to have a homestay and two meals a day with French-speaking Québecois families; to participate in a volunteer service-learning program in Québec city with other French-speaking Québecois volunteers; to learn about French-Canadian culture, history, and politics; to explore the only North American fortified city north of Mexico; to go to museums and festivals, and to experience how French-speaking culture has developed outside of France. You’ll learn about how France has shaped Canadian language, religion, and history, and what kind of impression Canada has made in return. It’s all waiting for you in Québec, in May 2014!
Click here to view an online travelogue from Guadeloupe (January 2005) |
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| Oral Spanish Abroad |
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Advanced Spanish Conversation. Students will stay with local host families during the program. Students will travel to one of the following destinations:: Chile, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru. Jan Term 2014 will take place in Chile. |
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| Peace & Conflict - Ireland |
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Historical, political and religious roots of The Troubles. |
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| Poverty, Altruism and Hope in Tanzania |
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Service learning in local community. |
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| Reformation |
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Visit sites in Germany associated with the Reformation of the 16th Century and with the German Church struggle under Hitler in the 1930s.
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| Science in Hawaii |
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This program will provide students with a knowledge base from which they will understand the fundamental principles and concepts of earth science.
Fulfils General Education Science requirement. |
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| South Africa |
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People, Prophets and Politics. This study program focuses on understanding the people of multi-ethnic South Africa as they continue to build a post-apartheid society. In particular, we look at the role of the church and politics. This four-week program begins in Cape Town, a diverse and cosmopolitan city, and takes students up the country's spectacular east coast for stays in Grahamstown and Durban, before moving inland to Pretoria and Johannesburg. Days are spent meeting with academic specialists and leaders in the church, business, the media and other organizations. Particular attention is paid to understanding South Africa's AIDS crisis, as well as the other socio-economic issues it faces. Most nights are spent with host families, giving students the chance to get to know ordinary South Africans in their own homes.
Click here to view an online travelogue from South Africa (January 2008) |
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| Technology & Culture |
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A Jan Term study program that focuses on the interactions between technology and culture. Students will broaden their cross-cultural understanding by exploring the role of technology in another culture as well as the influence the culture has had on technology. Students will participate in university exchanges, visit vital industries, travel to important historical cultural sites, attend different churches, and engage in other rich cross-cultural experiences such as service projects. Students are required to prepare for this program by taking CS 359 Introduction to Technology & Culture. |
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| Technology & Culture, SE Asia |
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Explore Tech & Culture across SE Asia: China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore |
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| The Actor's Experience |
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Attend plays and concerts. The city is the classroom, with students staying at a downtown New York residential hotel. (Meets fine arts requirement.) |
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| The Arts in Christian Worship |
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The Arts in Christian Worship explores the ways that the music, art, and architecture have shaped and been shaped by Christian worship practice from the early church to the present. Through on-site visits in Rome, Florence, Paris, and London, students will become more familiar with the various artistic styles and study many facets of the role of the arts in Christian worship. |
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| The Power and Politics of Art: Italy/Germany |
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"Power and Politics of Art". Sample the arts (music, theatre, art and architecture) in Rome, Florence and Berlin on the same trip. (Meets both Global Perspectives and Fine Arts.) |
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