Kenyon’s travel-embedded courses intermix engagement in course curriculum and site-specific activities to enhance deep and reflective learning. The on-site component furthers learning goals by allowing you to contextualize course topics while gaining critical, site-specific experience.
These courses are designed with no or minimal prerequisites so they can be taken by first and second year students. Also thanks to our generous donors, these high impact experiences are fully funded so you can participate without financial worry.
Course Structure
Our travel-embedded courses traditionally take advantage of spring break. This structure includes seven weeks of academic work before and after the travel component, specifically designed to: a) prepare you to maximize your on-site learning and, b) upon return, help you continue deepening your understanding of course concepts and recognize how these concepts work in real-world settings.
“Experiencing the concepts we studied in class firsthand allowed us to forge a deeper connection with the material and gain a greater understanding of ourselves.”
Recent Travel Embedded Courses
Greek Archaeology
What do the material remains of a civilization tell us about its people? How do archeologists make sense of antiquities that are thousands of years old? Featuring an eight-day trip to Greece in the middle of the semester, students learn about the art and architecture of the ancient Greeks and then experience it for themselves.
Art, Money, Museums
Explore the complex history of art, money and museums from the fifteenth century to the present through this travel-embedded course which includes an eight-day trip to the Netherlands and Belgium. Consider the social and economic roles of artists; the international development of art auctions and fairs; and art collecting as a form of financial and cultural capital.
The Galapagos Islands: Nature, People, Politics, and Conservation
The Galapagos Islands are a living laboratory for evolutionary studies and also illustrate the conflicting interests of tourism, fishing, cultural identity and conservation. In this course, featuring an eight-day on-site trip, students study the unique flora and fauna of the Islands and consider complex questions about the often-competing interests of people and nature.
Self and Society: Intensive Introductory Spanish
Learn Spanish through an innovative, immersive approach. Daily classes with your professor and regular sessions with a trained student teaching assistant accelerate your learning to intermediate-level mastery by the end of the first year of study. The travel-embedded section of this course offers the opportunity to put your learning into action during an eight-day trip to Spain.
Travel Embedded Course Stories
Beyond the Classroom
Art history students received a special look at the art world when they visited the Netherlands and Belgium with Assistant Professor Katherine Calvin as part of a travel-embedded course.
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Learning on an Epic Scale
Kenyon NewsStudents enrolled in two travel-embedded courses experienced ancient temples and giant tortoises firsthand in Greece and the Galápagos Islands over spring break.
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Sun and Soil
First Person: Student Life at KenyonWhat a class trip to the Galápagos taught one student about connection, community and the heat that lingers long after the sun fades.
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Missing Pieces
First Person: Student Life at KenyonA trip to Greece as part of a travel-embedded course provided a valuable window into the plundering of ancient sites — and a resolution for one student to be part of the solution.
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