Study abroad courses integrate students into different cultures in ways that are not possible in a university classroom. Study abroad courses provide students with the opportunity to work through challenges and to rethink their assumptions about the world around them.

Earn credits towards your degree while travelling within Canada or overseas. For information on current study abroad and experiential learning opportunities please contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

HIST 272.3

Using a visit to the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg as their point of departure, students in this intensive experiential learning course will look at human rights as a product of history, the result of the changing moral frameworks that shape how people define and grapple with injustice in the world. Where did the concept of human rights come from? Why have demands for justice in the modern world so often been articulated as matters of human rights? How has the meaning of human rights changed over time? Finally, how does the CMHR present the history of human rights (or their violation), and in what ways do the museum’s choices influence the public’s understanding of that history? By engaging our senses and passions along with our rational and critical faculties, the encounter with the museum will heighten our interest in the subject matter and facilitate transformative learning. Moreover, the museum’s exhibitions and resource center will provide us with examples of case studies and contexts that may be explored further in class or in research projects.

This year—and exceptionally—air travel, accommodations, and other expenses for the trip to Winnipeg (except meals) will be fully covered by the University of Saskatchewan and Museum donors. You pay only for tuition, books, and your meals in Winnipeg.

Please e-mail Professor Meyers for details and updates.

Instructor: Dr. Mark Meyers
Offered in May 2024 (Spring Term, Quarter 1)
May 6-31 (MTWThF 9:30am-12:00pm), with mandatory travel to Winnipeg May 6-10, 2024.

Deadline: EXTENDED until March 12, 2024 or until all seats are filled - whichever comes first. Don't delay! Easy application process.

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HIST 433.6

This course is designed to give students an unforgettable experience of Italy, and particularly of Rome. It will be team taught by Dr. Kalinowski, a specialist in ancient Roman history who has led six study abroad courses in Italy, and by Dr. Ponzio, a specialist in 20th-century Italian history.

The course focuses on the architecture and the role of Rome as "imperial city" under Augustus and as symbol of national rebirth during the Fascist regime. The Roman emperors created art, architecture and urban landscapes that highlighted the ideology of their regime and the eternity of the empire. The 20th-century fascists under the Duce, Benito Mussolini, adopted the symbology of ancient Rome, and used and "reinvented" ancient monuments of the city as a spectacular backdrop for their regime and as the inspiration in creating their own architecture of power. Thus, the city of Rome and its monuments and buildings are the both the classroom and the objects of study of this course. To maximize students’ experience, we begin with 5 days of classroom seminars in Saskatoon. Once in Italy we will spend our course time in Rome. Mornings, the city will be our classroom and we’ll study sites, monuments and museums. Most afternoons, students will be free to study and explore Rome’s eternal secrets on their own.

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Hist 322.6/422.6

Your 5 weeks in South Africa will introduce you to a dynamic, complex society that has experienced dramatic change over the past two decades. A prolonged struggle of the majority of South Africans for freedom and an end to apartheid culminated in 1994 in the first truly democratic election. South Africa has taken great strides to move past the legacy of apartheid toward a new vision of South Africa as a ‘rainbow nation’. Still, poverty, inequitable development, and HIV/AIDS are among many continuing challenges.

Instructor: Simonne Horwitz
Last Offered: July 21-August 18, 2018

All students accepted to participate in the program will receive the $1000 Global Engagement Scholarship to help offset costs related to studying abroad (must be taking the course for credit to be eligible).

For more information on the study abroad program including the costs, activities, and course requirements see the program information sheet. Please contact Simonne Horwitz or the Program Coordinator for additional details.

HIST 308.6

This course is designed to give students an unforgettable experience of Italy, and particularly of Rome. The study of Roman architecture, monuments and urban planning will provide the material backdrop to understanding the lives of Roman people, rich and poor, in the ancient world’s largest city: how they worked, how they played, where they lived, what they valued and believed. Reading the voices of the ancient Romans, and seeing the remnants of their physical world, students will learn how environments shape human lives and vice versa.

Instructor: Angela Kalinowski
Last Offered: May 29-June 24, 2018

All students accepted to participate in the program will receive the $1000 Global Engagement Scholarship to help offset costs related to studying abroad (must be taking the course for credit to be eligible).

For more information on the study abroad program including the costs, activities, and course requirements see the program information sheet. Please contact Angela Kalinowski or the Program Coordinator for additional details.

HIST 212.3

Students in this intensive and bilingual experiential-learning course learn about the history of Paris – and of France – by exploring some of the city's most significant monuments, buildings, museums, gardens, and neighborhoods. Site visits will range from the Louvre to the Catacombs, Notre Dame de Paris to the bouquinistes, la Comédie française to Montmartre. You will also have plenty of free time to explore the city with the friends you'll make in this close-knit group.

Note: this course has been designed as part of the "U of S in Paris" program. It complements a three-credit French course (taught bilingually) on French theatre (FREN235.3). Students may take both courses, thus earning 6 cu while in Paris. No French is required to take the history course, though students majoring in French are welcome to do their course work in French. 

Instructor: Mark Meyers
Last Offered: May 1-28, 2017

There are scholarships available for this opportunity. Please contact Mark Meyers (mark.meyers@usask.ca) or LaVina Watts (aands.abroad@usask.ca) for details.

HIST 308.6

This three and a half week intensive, lecture-seminar summer study abroad class takes place in Italy every two years and focuses on the study of the ancient city of Rome (8 century BCE to 4 century CE). Architecture, urban planning, monuments and authority, aspects of everyday life in urban environments, Christianity in urban space, are some of the subjects that we cover, first in the classroom, and then during site visits in the city of Rome. This course will be of special benefit to students interested in classics, ancient history, CMRS, archaeology, art and art history, urban planning, museum studies and engineering.

Instructor: Angela Kalinowski
Last Offered: June 2016

HIST 399.6

This course introduces students to the history and politics of South Africa, and provides opportunities to learn experientially about the country’s culture and society. Through site visits, guest lectures, and formal and informal meetings with South Africans of all ages, races and socio-economic backgrounds, students will begin to develop an understanding of the diverse nature of South Africa and the historical issues that shaped it.

Instructor: Simonne Horwitz
Last Offered: Spring 2012