CONNECTING 麻豆传媒WITH THE WORLD

The Office of Global Affairs is responsible for all matters related to global outreach at the 麻豆传媒. We connect you with enriching study abroad opportunities through Global Education programs while overseeing UNE鈥檚 Tangier, Morocco campus and building study-abroad partnerships with other institutions around the world.

Spend a Semester Abroad with Global Education Programs

麻豆传媒strives to empower students in becoming global citizens, and our students study abroad at nearly five times the national average. Our global education programs make it easy for you to gain valuable international experiences.

麻豆传媒Morocco

Spend a semester abroad at 麻豆传媒Morocco, the first U.S. university campus in Morocco. Our beautiful campus features state-of-the-art labs, classrooms, and residences in the heart of one of the hottest up-and-coming study abroad destinations, and new scholarships are available for most students.

Aerial view of Seville, Spain

Seville, Spain

Our partnership with the University Pablo de Olavide enables you to spend a semester in Seville 鈥 where the ancient meets the modern, and world cultures converge 鈥 for the same cost as a semester on campus in Maine.

Flower Market in Aix-en-Provence

Aix-en-Provence, France

Our partnership with the American College of the Mediterranean enables you to spend a semester abroad at 麻豆传媒France in beautiful Aix-en-Provence, a charming university city in the south of France near the French Riviera and the Mediterranean.

Akureyri City at Night

Akureyri, Iceland

Explore Iceland in our semester abroad program at the University of Akureyri. The northern city of Akureyri, 鈥淭he Green Town,鈥 is surrounded by mountains at the head of Iceland鈥檚 longest fjord.

Reykjavik, Iceland

搁别测办箩补惫铆办, Iceland

Explore Iceland in our semester abroad program at the University of Iceland, 搁别测办箩补惫铆办. Iceland鈥檚 largest city, 搁别测办箩补惫铆办, is a small, accessible city surrounded by glaciers, volcanos, waterfalls, hot springs, and an abundance of wildlife.

Panoramic view of Bergen's harbor in Norway

Norway and Finland

As part of the North2North Exchange program, you have the opportunity to study abroad for a semester or year at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway; the Arctic University of Norway in Tromso; and the University of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland.

Take a Short-Term Travel Course

UNE鈥檚 Global Education Program also offers an array of short-term travel courses to destinations like Spain, Belize, Egypt, Iceland, Italy, Guatemala, Panama, Ireland, Kenya, Ghana, Cuba, Mexico, and Morocco. Students accepted into these programs will meet in a traditional course setting throughout the semester to prepare for travel through readings, lectures, and coursework, then travel during a semester break or over the summer.

Explore Travel Courses

Andy Robinson stands on a beach smiling at the camera

Andy Robinson 鈥21

Experiential Learning

At UNE, the Marine Science Center is right on campus as opposed to a satellite campus a few hours away like it is at other schools. That stood out. The ability to do research as an undergrad was really important to me. From the start, professors are totally open to bringing on first-year students. A student may be really interested in working with a specific professor or in their subject area, or the student may just be curious. I know of students who signed on with multiple different professors in their first semester to learn about different subjects and what aligned with their interests and then followed a track with a particular project later on. It鈥檚 a really great thing to get involved like that so quickly. The staff are so willing to take students鈥 interests into account and find a way to work them into projects.

For my research, I spent a lot of time out on the boat deploying sensors. I worked with the makerspace to design some GPS drifters that recorded location as they went around the harbor. I got a paper published on that earlier this year, and it will be part of my thesis.

Talk to as many professors as you can about getting involved in research when you are taking the intro-level marine science classes in your first year. You'll get exposure to both marine faculty and marine grad students who are great resources for talking to about your interests and making connections to help you get involved.

Global Opportunities

Before diving into my research, I was able to go on the Galapagos travel course. The course was a 400-level marine class. It was a lot more open-format and discussion-based than my other classes. Each student presented on a few animals and plants that we would see when we took our trip to the Galapagos, which was really cool. It was a good mix of students across the different marine disciplines, environmental science, biology, and maybe one or two other programs mixed in as well. It was open to a lot of programs 鈥 there were 14 of us total. The professor really made sure we had a lot of diversity of thought.

The trip was amazing. We spent the first day in the capital of Ecuador going around to some of the historical places, like the colonial palaces and a few indigenous markets. Then we flew out to the Galapagos and spent the next week on a boat with just our group. There were snorkeling excursions and hikes each day. We got the chance to kayak and swim with sea lions. There was even one day when we were getting ready for lunch, and someone spotted a group of dolphins breaching out in the distance, so we all piled into the inflatable dinghies and went motoring off after them.

It was one of those things that I knew I was never going to have the chance to do outside of UNE, have that personal of an experience on a trip. It was really unique.

Before diving into my research, I was able to go on the Galapagos travel course鈥t was one of those things that I knew I was never going to have the chance to do outside of UNE, have that personal of an experience on a trip. It was amazing.

Agreements

The 麻豆传媒 has made a strategic decision to develop a global outreach beyond routine faculty-led travel courses or using the services of third-party providers. We don't hold empty agreements with other universities or institutions; the agreements we have signed in Spain and Morocco involve real partnerships, such as investing in outfitting new labs, developing exchange programs in health care professions, and sharing resources and faculty.

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Lecture Series

The Center for Global Humanities at the 麻豆传媒 is dedicated to exploring the human condition in the 21st century. Lectures are held on UNE's Portland Campus for the Health Sciences and are streamed live on the internet. All events are free and open to the public.