Five Arts and Sciences students will join 66 other UNL students for four weeks of courses and culture with the 28th annual Nebraska at Oxford program July 17 through Aug. 13.
The program is open to undergraduate students of all academic majors with a minimum 2.5 GPA. Business students take two lecture-tutorial courses on British political and international economic policy called Political Economy of Britain Since 1945 and International Economics, for six hours of UNL academic credit. Non-business students can enroll in the course Shakespeare's Dramatic Arts rather than International Economics.
Cultural excursions, including having high tea, attending the horse races at Sandown Park and a West End show in London, and experiencing a Royal Shakespeare Company performance in Stratford-upon-Avon, are part of the trip.
Sponsored by the UNL College of Business Administration, Nebraska at Oxford is the university's most popular study abroad program, with more than 1,700 alumni who now live in 39 states and 10 countries.
"The Nebraska at Oxford program is the premiere study abroad program offered at the university because of our relationship with the faculty and staff at Oxford," said Donde Plowman, dean of the College of Business Administration. "To be able to give our students the opportunity to study at this prestigious university gives our students a competitive edge in the job market and an experience they will never forget."
Here are the five Arts and Sciences students going:
- Theresa McBride, senior, English
- Camden Bilyeu, junior, economics and chemistry
- Jacob Melcher, senior, economics and computer science
- Erica Holcomb, senior, business administration and mathematics
- Frae Binder, senior, English
