Semester at DIS Stockholm
Ignite your love of learning, further your academic achievements, develop intercultural understanding, and acquire life skills essential for engaged citizenship. Discover Europe and meet the unexpected.
Pursue your Academic and Personal Goals
Choose a core course from 9 academic programs and select from over 50 upper-level elective courses. Your freedom of choice extends to your housing, where you apply for living arrangements that best fit you.
Academic Excellence
Intellectually stimulating courses challenge you to examine issues from various perspectives, as you debate, research, analyze, and reflect on contemporary topics and burning issues.
Experiential Learning
With an emphasis on hands-on learning experiences, you have opportunities to simulate real-life scenarios, make connections, and build your resume.
Europe as Your Classroom
Take your classroom on the road with two course-integrated, faculty-led study tours with your core course! Visit important sites and meet with local experts who add cultural perspectives to your knowledge of the field.
Faculty Who Teach What They Do
Most faculty work as professionals in the areas they teach, bringing theory to life by sharing real-world examples in the classroom.
Supportive Environment
Academic counseling and personal support resources are available to you during your time abroad, providing you a solid foundation upon which to grow.
Cultural Learning
In your courses, you focus on the importance of cultural context and are exposed to how issues are perceived, lived, and theorized in Europe. It is also your chance to reflect on the cultural norms and values that shape you.
Meet the Locals
Living in a Homestay, signing up for a sports team, taking a Swedish Language and Culture course, or attending evening seminar are among the ways to build your international network and meet the locals.
Instructions for Applying to a Non-NC State Program (Please carefully read the 3 steps)
1. Submit application materials to the non-NC State program provider. This could involve going to the provider's website and submitting an application online and paying an application fee to the program provider. Programs vary, and you will need to contact individual program sponsors for specifics.
2. Additionally, in order to remain enrolled at NC State during your time abroad, you must complete the NC State Student Application for Semester/Year (or Summer) Non-NC State Programs by clicking the "Apply Now" button on this page.As part of this application, you will download and print the Course Approval Form. You will take this form, and a printout of course descriptions for all courses that you might want to take while abroad, to your Academic Advisor and also to the designated advisor in your major college(s) for approval for transfer of the classes you plan to take abroad towards NC State course requirements. Course descriptions should be obtained from the program sponsor.Students going on non-NC State semester programs are required to attend the pre-departure orientation, and students going on non-NC State summer programs are strongly encouraged to attend orientation. You will complete similar financial aid information as students going on NC State programs. Students going on non-NC State programs are eligible to apply for scholarships from the Study Abroad Office.
The Transfer Credit Database lists courses that have been previously approved for NC State students at DIS- Study Abroad in Scandinavia. Please note: their applicability to a specific degree program varies by department. This list is not inclusive. Additional courses can be approved for credit by using the course approval form and process, which is a part of the application for study abroad. Please refer to the academic information on the host university website for all courses available to study abroad students.
All transcripts for non-NC State Programs should be sent to the Study Abroad Office at:
NC State Study Abroad Office
315 University College Commons
Campus Box 7344
Raleigh, NC 27695
USA
3. You should now have an application on file with your program provider and an application on file with the NC State Study Abroad Office. Please complete the NC State study abroad application by the
deadline.
Contact DIS
dis@umn.edu1 800-247-3477
http://www.disabroad.org/
http://www.disabroad.org/study-abroad-summer/
