Apartheid was a South African system of legalized racial discrimination that ended in 1994, when Nelson Mandela was elected president and subsequently established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In this […]

Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India between 2007 and 2010 and is currently the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of India. […]

As mindful travelers on Semester at Sea, students are always looking for alternative experiences to commercial tourism in every port, such as service-learning or engaging with professors on a field […]

Following a wildly successful TEDx SemesteratSea in San Diego in January, the next TEDx SemesteratSea takes place on the MV Explorer August 5 while the ship is docked in Helsinki. To […]

Before the voyage’s arrival into each port, the shipboard community has the opportunity to attend a Language Bootcamp presentation. The intention of the Language Bootcamp series is to help students […]

A group of students from different regions of East Asia recently presented how they celebrate the Lunar New Year while back at home. Although they will not be with their families on […]

The Fall 2013 Semester at Sea voyage returned to Havana, Cuba after nine years and was greeted by officials and students from the University of Havana. The dock was lined […]

Greg Brusseau, a research scientist in the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography, joined the Fall 2013 voyage shipboard community during our trans-Atlantic crossing from Cape Town to Buenos Aires. […]

Mario Marino, a student at Cabrini College, is passionate about fair trade issues to help improve communities throughout the world. Mario is currently sailing on the Fall 2013 voyage and […]

The San people were the true indigenous people of southern Africa, whose territory had spanned most areas of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Angola. The San were hunter-gatherers and […]

Doctoral student Warrick Moses joined the Fall 2013 Semester at Sea voyage as the interport lecturer to South Africa. During his time on the ship, he spoke with several classes […]

Cathy Rodgers, vice president of global opportunities at IBM, sailed on the Fall 2013 voyage from Ireland to Morocco, and held a captive audience among our shipboard community during her […]

Over the past 50 years Semester at Sea’s library has grown into one of the largest floating resource centers.  Open day and night, the library aboard the MV Explorer gives […]

The Fall 2013 Semester at Sea community had the pleasure of sailing with Dmitry Strovsky, a professor at the Ural Federal University, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, from Southampton, England to St. […]

When we discuss the economic problems in a country, we hardly consider the environmental impacts. Although Greece has been in a poor economic state since World War II, rapid urbanization […]