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The following students are studying abroad in Portugal during the Spring 2014 semester.

The following students are studying abroad in Scotland during the Spring 2014 semester.

The following students are studying abroad in Italy during the Spring 2014 semester.

The following students are studying abroad in Costa Rica during the Spring 2014 semester.

These students are studying abroad in Australia during the Spring 2014 Semester.

The following students are studying abroad in France during the Spring 2014 semester.

Students studied abroad in Sweden during the Spring 2014 semester.

Students studied abroad in New Zealand during the Spring 2014 semester

Students studied abroad at Champlain College's Campus in Montreal, Quebec during the Spring 2014 semester. At Champlain's state-of-the-art Academic Center in Montreal, students have the opportunity to receive international perspective and prepare to be global professionals.

Students studied abroad at Champlain College's Campus in Dublin, Ireland during the Spring 2014 semester at Champlain's state-of-the-art Academic Center in Dublin, and other students have the opportunity to receive international perspective and prepare to be global professionals.

Students studied abroad in Montreal, Quebec during the Fall 2013 semester. Students took full advantage of the local Champlain faculty and staff at the Montreal Campus who provided guided immersion tours and encouraged students to make their own travel opportunities. While abroad, students are also able to create strong friendships, share experiences and support each other in their explorations of place and self.

The following students participating in Champlain College's International Study Abroad Programs in Montreal and Dublin and other third-party providers. Learn more at http://www.champlain.edu/student-life/study-abroad

Local students have recently had the opportunity to study at Champlain College's abroad campuses of Montreal, Canada and Dublin, Ireland. At both of the satellite campuses students have the chance to receive international perspective and prepare to be global professionals. Local Champlain faculty and staff at each campus provide guided immersion tours, as well as encourage students to make their own travel opportunities. While abroad, students are also able to create strong friendships, share experiences and support each other in their explorations of place and self

While many college students were heading home for the Thanksgiving holiday, a class of 16 Champlain College students were bound for Beijing, China, for a 10-day trip to experience the culture, food and ancient sites of China. The trip, led by Champlain Core Adjunct Professor Rob Williams and Assistant Professor Kristin Wolf, gave juniors and seniors who had been studying the culture of "New China" a first-hand look at the historic Great Wall of China and The Forbidden City along with a modern-day, post 2008 Olympics city. The group's itinerary while in Beijing included three days on various sections of the Great Wall of China, with the remainder of the time spent in downtown Beijing. Students experienced all that the city had to offer - history, food and drink, education, shopping, and various other distinctive cultural aspects of China. In preparation for their trip, students primarily studied the Cultural Revolution under communist leader Chairman Mao from in 1949 until his death in 1976. They continued through the decades up to modern day "New China," which emerged in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Today, one can still see traces of Mao's influence and changes made for the 2008 Olympics everywhere. Students faced a culture shock, but were surprised by how much Western influence there was in China. There could not have been a better, nor safer time for the group to travel to Beijing. Security was high around the city in response to the 18th Party Congress and the naming of the new leader of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping, the weekend prior to their arrival. On their sixth day in Beijing, students traveled to Tsinghua University to sit in on an English class taught by native Vermonter, Jimmy Ronner. After a presentation made by the Chinese students, everyone was put into groups to discuss the perceptions of American and Chinese cultures. "While at the University we got a sense of Chinese culture as a whole, and saw the power that the single-party government had over everything," said Jim Courtney aEUR~13. For each student's final, Williams had him or her compose a list of the 10 most valuable take-aways from the trip experience and integrate embedded media to represent the revelations. They also included components of the four books they read about Chinese culture throughout the semester. The goal of the trip was to expose students to Chinese culture and hopefully make them feel comfortable enough to return in the future, whether for business or pleasure. Local students included:

Local Champlain College students played a part recently in helping to create a new Irish job initiative called "Hireland" while studying abroad a Champlain College's Dublin campus.The idea, first formulated in Spring 2011, was launched this past January and is more than halfway to its goal of encouraging businesses in Ireland to hire 5,000 workers.