Travel

Cambridge

Where you go! 

Every summer, rising junior UNC Asheville Teaching Fellows participate in a 4-week travel and study abroad program. Destination: Lucy Cavendish College at the prestigious Cambridge University.

What You'll Do!

The Junior Enrichment Experience includes three weeks of classes with a long weekend and one full week of independent travel and experiences with new and old friends. Travel the whole island, hit some neighboring spots in the water, or go mainland on your 3 day weekend and one week of travel.

Why It Is So Fantastic!

Before they ever come to Asheville, many Teaching Fellows are already dreaming of their trip to England. Sponsored by UNC Ashevillle as a part of the Teaching Fellows Junior Enrichment activities and partially funded by UNC Ashevillle endowments, the Cambridge Experience takes students to Lucy Cavendish College in Cambridge for three weeks of study and cultural exchange. UNC Ashevillle Teaching Fellows are awarded $1,500 scholarship to use toward this program.

Participants receive up to seven hours of university honors credit in arts and humanities. "What better way to focus on issues and ideas in art than to use the museums, theaters, concerts, and architecture of England as a major resource and laboratory?" said Brenda Hopper, Director of UNC Ashevillle Teaching Fellows Program. "And, while on site, students become familiarized with the history of western civilization with emphasis upon Britain's role in the world community."

In addition to course work in Honors Arts 310 and Honors Humanities 324, taught by UNC Ashevillle professors, students are given opportunities to visit public and private schools. There they study the difference between American and British educational systems and discuss issues mutually important to American and British education. Learning continues outside of the classroom as students take side-trips to places such as Canterbury, Dover, Bury St. Edmunds, Ely Cathedral, Lincoln Castle, Stonehenge, Blenheim Castle, Bath, London and the Globe Theater to attend a performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company. These excursions give students the opportunity to tour cathedrals, castles, historic sites and to visit museums such as the Fitzwilliam, the British Museum and the Tate Gallery.

After three weeks of formal classroom study, students are able to continue their travels independently. Many students remain in Great Britain to explore Scotland, Ireland, or Wales, while others cross the channel to visit countries such as France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Additional multi cultural opportunities are offered to the UNC Ashevillle Teaching Fellows in annual trips to national and international cities. Aside from Cambridge, England, these Teaching Fellows have visited and toured schools in New York, New Orleans, Savannah, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Washington, DC

For more information on these and other travel opportunities, visit the Study Abroad website.

Winter Break Trip

Each January Teaching Fellows travel to cities such as New York, Atlanta, New Orleans and San Francisco to visit schools and attend cultural events. On these trips Teaching Fellows visit inner-city, rural and suburban schools to receive an inside look at education today.