Student Resources

Study Abroad? Yes, Please!

The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University routinely ranks in the top five schools in the nation for the strength of our study abroad programming. Every year Bennies and Johnnies move across the globe to experience life in other countries and apply what they learn in the classrooms of CSBSJU to the world beyond. Check out our Center for Global Education for our many program possibilities and how to pursue them.

The Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program values study abroad, too! At present, our most important international opportunities are our study abroad programs in Greece and Italy [insert links to CGE webpages], now running for more than 30 years! These programs have at their heart a Classical curriculum and involve excursions throughout Greece and Italy, including site visits at Olympia, Delphi, Pompeii, and Florence. Every year many of our students take part in these programs, to see where Socrates reset the path of philosophy as he walked the agora, where ancient artists and architects built cities that inspired the world (then and now), where citizens fought for their right to govern themselves in democracies and republics. In these, our most popular, study abroad programs, Classics majors and minors have the edge!

Other Experiential Learning Opportunities

We care about experiential learning, which puts students in the driver’s seat of their own education in every way possible. What we do in our classrooms is key, but we also help students to apply their learning to special high-impact learning and leadership opportunities. In addition to study abroad, AMED students can act as Teaching Assistants and Tutors and participate in collaborative student-faculty research. Others, with their unique language skills in Latin and Greek, are equipped to intern at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) at St. John’s University. [insert link to HMML: http://hmml.org] Here they work with an internationally renowned team of experts and scholars to manage a collection of precious manuscripts and to promote HMML’s mission: to preserve human culture by enabling local communities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and south India to photograph their manuscript collections. Many of these collections are in politically sensitive areas. In good Benedictine tradition, this is a race against time and circumstance to save our shared history, so that it can continue to guide us as we all move into the future. The initiative is the biggest of its kind in the world—and our AMED students can participate!