Study Abroad

The 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.

Program Directors:

• Amaris Ketcham, Associate Professor, Honors, ketchama@unm.edu
• Jonatha Kottler, Lecturer III, Honors, jkottler@unm.edu

Conexiones Spain, Summer 2025

The 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.

Program Directors: 

• Myrriah Gómez, Associate Professor, Honors, myrriahg@unm.edu
• Margo Chavez Charles, Part-time faculty, Honors, margocc@unm.edu
• Damian Vergara Wilson, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, damianvw@unm.edu

Honors College 2025-2026 Study Abroad Programs

Japan, Summer 2026

Program Directors: 

• Megan Jacobs, Associate Professor, Honors, mejacobs@unm.edu
• Amaris Ketcham, Associate Professor, Honors, ketchama@unm.edu 

Conexiones Ecuador, Summer 2026

Program Co-Directors: 

• Marygold Walsh-Dilley, Associate Professor, Geography, marygoldwd@unm.edu
• Santiago Vaquera Vasquez, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, svaquera@unm.edu

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

Program Director:

• Myrriah Gomez, Associate Professor, Honors, myrriahg@unm.edu

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