Types of Student Travel
Several different types of student travel are offered to students to enhance their education, including:
Leadership Development & Global Engagement
This is a group trip with a theme or stated purpose usually involving exposure to (a) a country, (b) region of the world, (c) event, (d) thematic development, (e) cultural asset or condition or (f) others to be determined. Students do not earn academic credit. This includes the Global Media Experience and Evanston Ambassador trips.
Service Learning
This is a group trip focused on exposure to diverse cultures, typically in a developing nation or region where students engage in a purposeful activity which involves hands-on experience in a development project. No academic credit is given.
Journalism Residencies
Typically, this an internship lasting ten weeks in a professional media or other communications organization, with academic supervision, site visits and rigorous assessment to determine work performance and value of experience. Academic credit is available, and this is a requirement of the Journalism Program.
Communication Exchange
This connects NU-Q students with their peers on the home campus as well as providing opportunities to take courses and engage in student life for a semester in the student's junior year. Communication students use this opportunity to take courses in Evanston and get exposure to faculty not available in Doha, especially the liberal arts and sciences and non-major fields.
Course-Related Travel
Some courses may have a module that involves international or regional travel which is built into the course and advertised in advance. This is typically for carrying out a professional journalistic or media assignment, conducting research or being exposed to an important thematic or time-sensitive situation.
Nonaffiliated Study Abroad
Students may choose to study abroad at another institution. Plans are to set up a formal affiliated program, but students currently take leave from NU and receive transfer credit upon return from another institution.
Independent Student Travel
There are limited funds available on a competitive basis for students who wish to propose innovative or otherwise worthy travel for defined projects. These trips can be funded in full or in part, depending on circumstances and available funds. These can include non-credit summer internships, foreign language trips, academic year research or creative projects, summer research or creative projects, attendance at conferences, participation in the main campus programs, travels sponsored by external grants, and other extra-curricular travel.
For other extra-curricular travel that is not eligible for one of the programs listed above, NU-Q has designated a committee of representatives from the academic programs, Student Affairs, and Business & Finance to review student submissions requesting support for internships or other independent projects. Students can submit their detailed proposals to the committee by a published due date each semester. The committee will review all of the proposals submitted and evaluate them individually based on the merits.
The following criteria will be looked at during the committee review:
- Does the project contribute in a unique way to the student’s academic or co- curricular growth?
- Is the opportunity already available at NU-Q?
- Are funds for the project available from other NU-Q or external sources?
- Does the opportunity involve a professional or co-curricular experience with a recognized university or other institution?
- Will participation reflect positively on NU-Q?
- If the student has had a similar experience already, will the new experience complement or increase the value of the original experience?
- Is there a faculty member working with the student or who recommends this as a valuable experience for the student?
Students must remember that projects involving travel must be approved three to four months ahead of the date of travel and will follow the student travel protocol and procedures. Students must be in good academic standing with the University.
The committee will communicate to the students with submissions the approval, disapproval, or request for additional details or suggestions along with feedback as to why the decision was made within two weeks of the due date. Approved projects will be communicated to relevant faculty and staff who will be needed to facilitate the project. A final report may be required depending on the project.
#IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship
The #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship is an opportunity for students at NU-Q who have a new or ongoing research or creative project to develop it into an original contribution to evidence-based storytelling and, hence, to knowledge of the Global South.
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