Spring 2024 | Asia, Africa, and Europe Exploration
Course Offerings & Field Work
Courses will be posted as they are approved by our academic partner, Colorado State University.
Overview
- All Semester at Sea students take 4 courses, including the required core course, IE 200 Global Studies, for a total full-time load of 12 credits.
- 70-72 courses will be offered on the Spring 2024 voyage.
- Lower-division courses are designated with 100-299 numbers; upper-division courses are 300-499 numbers.
- Each course has an experiential Field Class in one of the ports.
- Spring 2024 courses are posted as they are approved by our academic partner, Colorado State University.
- Courses are listed between 9-12 months prior to the voyage.
- Syllabi are available between 6-9 months prior to the voyage.
- Course registration opens 3-4 months prior to the voyage.

Field Programs & Field Work
When Semester at Sea arrives in each country, student voyagers will either explore via required Field Work for their classes, participate in optional Semester at Sea-designed Field Programs, or they can plan their own travel experiences.
Spring 2024 Courses & Field Work
Course Offerings
Agricultural Sciences
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Plants and Civilizations (Bousselot)
Bousselot
3.0
Field Work: World Interdependence-Population and Food (Seidl)
Seidl
3.0
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Introduction-Economics of Natural Resources (Seidl)
Seidl
3.0
Anthropology
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Music as Human Practice (Strand)
Strand
3.0
Art
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Art History (Goeltzenleuchter)
Goeltzenleuchter
3.0
Field Work: Art History
3.0
Field Work: Introduction to the Visual Arts (Goeltzenleuchter)
Goeltzenleuchter
3.0
Field Work: (Section 2) Introduction to the Visual Arts
3.0
Field Work: (Section 1) Introduction to the Visual Arts
3.0
Business
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Strategic Management (Shi)
Shi
3.0
Communication Studies
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Nonverbal Communication (Bowman)
Bowman
3.0
Field Work: Film and Social Change (Lewis)
Lewis
3.0
Field Work: Interpersonal Communication (Bowman)
Bowman
3.0
Field Work: Communication and Popular Culture
Bowman
3.0
Field Work: (Section 2) Public Speaking
Lewis
3.0
Field Work: (Section 1) Public Speaking
Lewis
3.0
Economics
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Principles of Microeconomics (Seidl)
Seidl
3.0
Field Work: Introduction-Economics of Natural Resources (Seidl)
Seidl
3.0
Field Work: Comparative Economic Systems (Kling)
Kling
3.0
English
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Reading Without Borders (Billingslea)
Billingslea
3.0
Field Work: Modern Women Writers (Billingslea)
Billingslea
3.0
Field Work: Short Fiction (Focus: Dimensions, Form, and Meaning) (Billingslea)
Billingslea
3.0
Field Work: Gender in World Literature (Gray)
Gray
3.0
Field Work: Contemporary Global Fiction (Granoff)
Granoff
3.0
Field Work: Intermediate Creative Writing: Fiction (Granoff)
Granoff
3.0
Ethnic Studies
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Black Cinema and Media (Euell)
Euell
3.0
Finance
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance (Simmons)
Simmons
3.0
History
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: U.S.-China Relations Since 1800 (Shive)
Shive
3.0
Field Work: China in the Modern World, 1600-Present (Shive)
Shive
3.0
Field Work: World History, 1500-Present (Keller-Lapp)
Keller-Lapp
3.0
Horticulture
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: The Importance of Plants (Bousselot)
Bousselot
3.0
International Education
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Plants and Civilizations (Bousselot)
Bousselot
3.0
Field Work: World Interdependence-Population and Food (Seidl)
Seidl
3.0
Field Work: There is no field class associated with Global Studies
Cushner
3.0
Field Work: There is no field class associated with Global Studies
Cushner
3.0
Field Work: (Section 1) Focus: Global Human Rights
Gray
3.0
Field Work: (Section 2) Focus: Race, Culture, Sex, and Business
Simmons
3.0
Journalism and Media Communication
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Video Production (Itaya)
Itaya
3.0
Field Work: Media in Society (Itaya)
Itaya
3.0
Field Work: Documentary Video Production (Itaya)
Itaya
3.0
Field Work: Advanced Digital Documentary Photography (Itaya)
Itaya
3.0
Landscape Architecture
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Fundamentals of Ecology (Bousselot)
Bousselot
3.0
Life Science
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Fundamentals of Ecology (Bousselot)
Bousselot
3.0
Management
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Contemporary Management Principles/Practices (Shi)
Shi
3.0
Field Work: Social and Sustainable Venturing (Shi)
Shi
3.0
Field Work: Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship (Simmons)
Simmons
3.0
Marketing
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: International Marketing (Byrnes)
Byrnes
3.0
Field Work: (Section 2) Marketing
Byrnes
3.0
Field Work: (Section 1) Marketing
Byrnes
3.0
Music
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Music as Human Practice (Strand)
Strand
3.0
Field Work: (Section 2) Exploring World Music
Strand
3.0
Field Work: (Section 1) Exploring World Music
Strand
3.0
Natural Resources
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Biological Diversity (Bybee)
3.0
Field Work: Coastal Environmental Ecology (Bybee)
3.0
Field Work: (Section 2) Oceanography
McConnico
3.0
Field Work: (Section 1) Oceanography
McConnico
3.0
Field Work: (Section 3) Oceanography
Quillmann
3.0
Philosophy and Religion
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: World Religions (Stewart)
Stewart
3.0
Field Work: Religions of the East (TBD)
3.0
Field Work: Meaning and Truth in Religion (TBD)
3.0
Field Work: Environmental Ethics (Stewart)
Stewart
3.0
Political Science
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: International Relations (Karlin)
3.0
Field Work: US Foreign Policy (Karlin)
3.0
Field Work: International Security (Karlin)
3.0
Field Work: Global Environmental Politics (Shive)
Shive
3.0
Psychology
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Positive Psychology (Cronin)
Cronin
3.0
Field Work: General Psychology (Cronin)
Cronin
3.0
Field Work: Mind, Brain, and Behavior (Montoya)
Montoya
3.0
Field Work: Adolescent Psychology (Cronin)
Cronin
3.0
Field Work: (Section 2) Psychopathology
Montoya
3.0
Field Work: (Section 1) Psychopathology
Montoya
3.0
Restaurant and Resort Management
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Culinary Tourism & Hospitality Management (Shmuel)
Shmuel
3.0
Sociology
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Social Problems (Cardenas)
Cardenas
3.0
Theatre
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: (Section 2) Introduction to Theatre
Euell
3.0
Field Work: (Section 1) Introduction to Theatre
Euell
3.0
Uncategorized
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Issues in the Study of Religion (Stewart)
Stewart
3.0
Women’s Studies
Meets
Instructor
Credits
Field Work: Introduction to Women’s Studies (Gray)
Gray
3.0