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YEAR ABROAD PROGRAM

 

 

We are pleased to announce IDST Students were granted $2,500.00 each from Ontario International Education Opportunity School Scholarship (OIEOS) to help support their study abroad for the academic year. Some restrictions apply.

 

Study through a Year Abroad Program

IDS at Trent offers unique year abroad programs that provide students the opportunity to spend a full academic year in either Ecuador or Ghana. Students who participate in the year abroad program generally do so in the third year of an honours degree.

IDS year abroad programs are part of the IDS curriculum, and combine third year level university course work in a developing country context with valuable hands on experience through a community placement. Students learn about the history and culture of another society, acquire skills in community development, engage in a cross-cultural living experience, and make contacts and friendships in a new community. Students taking part in the Ecuador program also have the opportunity to become fluent in Spanish.

Many students who have participated in an IDS year abroad program have found it to be a positive and life-transforming experience. Working and living in another culture challenges many of one's assumptions, and opens new avenues of thinking and understanding.

 

          "My year in Ecuador was I think my most inspiring

          year in university - it made me fluent in Spanish, it

          taught me to get by in other cultures and to appreciate

          and understand people from totally different backgrounds,

          and it showed me things that gave me a sense of purpose

          that I had found hard to develop back in Canada."

~Jake Wilson, IDS Graduate and Trent-in-Ecuador Participant

         "I think that the program has given me a lot more then

          I could have ever imagined. The time I spent in Ghana

          gave me the confidence to travel anywhere, really.

          Coupled with that is the unique development perspective

          that it offers. To experience such a situation, with its

          heartaches, road blocks and the up-hill battle of

          development related work at such a young age is

          something that offers nothing but a chance to grow."

~Bromley Frey, IDS Student and Trent-in-Ghana Participant