UW in Scotland Study Abroad Courses
Every Summer, UW faculty lead courses that start in Scotland, and end anywhere your interest, intellect, and local transportation can take you. Courses are led by two faculty from different disciplines who have trained in transdisciplinary teaching and experiential learning. Admitted students may apply for scholarship support and travel funding from their departments.
View the courses below for details, dates, and sample syllabi. Email course professors and Education Abroad for more information and to apply, or apply directly on UW Education Abroad portal.
Courses Available
- CRMJ 4990
- HLED 4900
Course Description
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.
Prerequisites and Restrictions
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
Sample Syllabus
Substance Use & Scotland Syllabus
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Substance Use in Scotland: Exploring the Intersection of Criminal Justice and Community Health
Courses Available
- THEA 3000
- ENR 4960
Course Description
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.
Prerequisites and Restrictions
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
Sample Syllabus
Crafting Creative Identity Syllabus
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Courses Available
- POLS 2460
- POLS 4810
Course Description
Using Scotland as a 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.
Prerequisites and Restrictions
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
Sample Syllabus
Information and Identity in the Scottish Enlightenment
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UW in Scotland Internships
Create your own internship with UW in Scotland, and earn funding up to $5000 to support your experience. From heritage tourism to environmental studies, and energy resources to stained glass restoration, develop a project to further your career abroad in Scotland.
Strong applications describe the project in detail, specify the educational need, host organization, logistics, and budgets. Applicants will also need a statement of commitment from the organization where the internship would occur, and a reference letter from a UW faculty member who will supervise the project.
Completed applications and reference letters, and any questions, can be sent to Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Director of Center for Global Studies: cmf@uwyo.edu.
Deadline: 2025 Internship application is closed.
