Study Abroad

UNM’s Honors College (HC) values study abroad experiences that offer enriched opportunities to develop and expand students’ international experiences. Honors offers summer courses abroad to enrich and enhance its students’ college experiences.
Honors College 2024-2025 Study Abroad Programs
The following study abroad programs will be offered by the Honors College in academic year 2024-2025.

write-to-roam_final.pngThe 2025 Honors College “Write to Roam” program consists of two team-taught upper-division courses (UHON 301 topics courses, Scotland as Text and Creative Impulse: Scotland) that will explore the interdisciplinary nature of place and creativity, with a focus on writing and multimedia projects, through experiential exploration of public art and spaces, libraries and museums, arts and letters institutions, and the ways that the design of cities reflects a culture’s relationship with and value of literature.  Using a combined approach of reflection, creation, and mapping, students will explore the roles of writing and literature in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the Scottish Lowlands.  Through these locations, students will learn how literature may be used to reclaim the land, negotiate political or cultural values.

 

 

 

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Conexiones Spain, Summer 2025


Flyer displaying information for Conexiones Summer 2025The Honors College is committed to students’ international experiences. Honors offers summer courses abroad to enrich and enhance its students’ college experiences.

The University of New Mexico, through the Honors College and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, presents Conexiones—an intensive program of Culture and Language study. Conexiones offers students up to twelve semester hours of credit, with orientation sessions at UNM and abroad and approximately thirty days of field session. This summer study abroad program alternates between Spain and Ecuador yearly.

 

 

 

 

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Honors College 2025-2026 Study Abroad Programs

Japan, Summer 2026

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Conexiones Ecuador, Summer 2026

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Honors College 2026-2027 Study Abroad Programs

Paraguay, Summer 2027

Program Director:

  • Jason Moore, Honors College Chair and Associate Professor, jrm@unm.edu 

Conexiones Spain, Summer 2027

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Scholarships

Study abroad is a transformative experience for students and the honors college wants to help support as many students travel abroad as possible. Here are resources to help students secure scholarships for study abroad opportunities: https://studyabroad.unm.edu/getting-started/funding-and-scholarships.html

Honors College Study Abroad Committee

  • Jonatha Kottler, Lecturer III, Study Abroad Chair, jkottler@unm.edu
  • Myrriah Gómez, Associate Professor
  • Megan Jacobs, Associate Professor
  • Lorena Rodríguez Vázquez, Department Administrator

The Study Abroad Committee welcomes faculty involvement in the planning and leading of study abroad programming in the UNM Honors College. Interested faculty members, with a track record of teaching in UNM honors, should contact the study abroad committee chair with their interest in developing a program. Mentorship about how to develop a program or the opportunity to shadow an existing program is available via the committee.