Center for Global Studies
1000 E. University Ave. Dept. 3707
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 1-307-766-3889
Email: cgs@uwyo.edu
UW in Scotland's 2025 course offerings are now available. Check out the courses below for details, dates, and sample syllabi. Email course professors and Education Abroad (uwyoabd@uwyo.edu) for more information and to apply, or apply directly on UW study abroad portal.
Explore the intersection of criminal justice and community health within the context of substance use. Compare the similarities and differences present in Scotland versus the United States regarding these topics. The history and culture of Scotland will also be explored.
To be announced
No class prerequisites required. Students must have successfully completed requirements for UW Education Abroad, including the UW faculty-directed program application and interview.
For more information, contact the course instructors:
Dr. Jamie Snyder: jsnyde29@uwyo.edu
Dr. Alisa Siceloff: asicelof@uwyo.edu
Sample Syllabus (to be updated as course date nears):
Substance Use & Scotland Syllabus
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Substance Use in Scotland: Exploring the Intersection of Criminal Justice and Community Health
Edinburgh is known as the "Festival City" of Scotland, coming alive each summer to host the largest arts and culture event in the world—the Edinburgh International Festival, Festival Fringe, and many others. Join us to explore how creativity, the arts, culture, identity, and landscape converge in a remarkable experience of place. We'll begin in Melrose at Abbotsford, the spectacular home of Sir Walter Scott, and then be immersed in Edinburgh, learn from festival organizers, arts organizations, academics, and local experts, visit sculpture parks and historic sites, and explore how Edinburgh builds its cultural economy through place identity.
Students will learn strategies for reading and documenting landscapes of many kinds—ecological, cultural, and creative—while engaging with the incredible range of performances on offer at the festivals, culminating in a multimedia portfolio that represents each student's own creative identity and experience of place.
Class online: July 7-25, 2025
Travel in Scotland: July 31-August 14, 2025
Students with Junior Standing and above are given preference, though Rising Sophomores will be considered.
Students must have successfully completed requirements for UW Education Abroad, including the UW faculty-directed program application and interview.
For more information, contact the course instructors:
Scott Tedmon-Jones:stedmonj@uwyo.edu
Maggie Bourque: maggie@uwyo.edu
Sample Syllabi (to be updated as course date nears):
Crafting Creative Identity Syllabus
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Scotland: Festivals, Creativity and Place
Using Scotland as an historically constructed “imagined community,” this course will examine how the dissemination of information and its objectivity (or lack thereof) functioned in the work of Scottish Enlightenment figures, especially in the work of David Hume and Adam Smith.
The questions raised by Hume and Smith, about how broadly information circulates in society, the class and educational dimensions of access to it, the reliability of the information, and whether factional allegiances (especially political and religious) will prevent persons from accepting the information they are given, continue to be of central import today. We will utilize sites in Scotland to pursue these questions in their historical context.
June 24–July 8, 2025
Successful completion of requirements for UW Study Abroad, including application (with two letters of reference), interview, and completion of health certification.
For more information, contact the course instructors:
Dr. Brent Pickett:bpick@uwyo.edu
Dr. Eric Krszjzaniek: ekrszjza@uwyo.edu
Sample Syllabus (to be updated as course date nears):
Information and Identity in the Scottish Enlightenment
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Political Obligation, Rights, and the State: Scotland and the Making of the Modern Self
Center for Global Studies
1000 E. University Ave. Dept. 3707
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 1-307-766-3889
Email: cgs@uwyo.edu