Connecticut College - SATA Vietnam 2008

SATA Vietnam 2008

Informational Meetings | Arrangements | Academic Program | Schedule, Travel and Excursions | Contacts

Vietnamese women making bricks.

Hanoi, Vietnam is the location of the seventh SATA program, scheduled for spring semester 2008 and led by Professors Rolf Jensen, Economics, and Fran Hoffmann, Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies.

Informational Meetings

During the fall and spring semesters of 2006-07, there will be several informational meetings for students who may be interested in SATA Vietnam 2008. Watch for posters and the Online Calendar for notification of specific times and places.

For more information, students may contact Professor Rolf Jensen, or Professor Frances Hoffmann, (860) 439-2030. Professor Jensen will be in Vietnam for the spring semester, 2007; questions during that time should be referred to Professor Hoffmann, or Shirley Parson in the Office of International Programs, Fanning 113.

Arrangements

As in all SATA programs, each student's financial arrangements and obligations, mainly the comprehensive fee and financial aid, are the same as they would be if he or she were staying at Connecticut College for the semester. The SATA Vietnam 2008 program includes round-trip travel from New York, room and board in Vietnam, and all group field trips in Vietnam.

Students will live in a foreign-student residence hall on the campus of Vietnam National University in single rooms with private bath, air-conditioning, and a refrigerator. Multiple restaurants and cultural attractions of Hanoi are within easy walking distance; the city also has an extensive and inexpensive bus system for ease of travel throughout the metropolitan area.

Schedule, Travel, Excursions

SATA Vietnam 2008 students will depart as a group from John F.Kennedy Airport in New York sometime in January, shortly before the start of the Spring 2008 semester. While in Hanoi, we will follow an academic calendar similar to that of Connecticut College.

In addition to classes which are scheduled on Mondays through Thursdays, there will be numerous day trips to sites of historical and cultural interest in the surrounding regions of Hanoi.

During the spring break, there will be a long trip which will likely begin in Cambodia and then continue by boat into the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. From there, students will travel to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) where they will sample life in the largest and most modern of Vietnam's cities. The group will then head up the coast of Vietnam by bus, visiting places such as the beach resort city of Nha Trang, the old city of Hoi An, and the ancient imperial capital city of Hue. Late in the semester, there will be an extended trip to the northwest mountain region of the country; highlights will be a visit to Dien Bien Phu and to the ethnic minority villages around the town of Sapa.

The end of the semester, like the beginning, will closely coincide with that at Connecticut College. Students will be ticketed to depart Hanoi around the middle of May, 2008, for their return to the US, but they are free to arrange for later departure, subject to current airline rules and regulations, at their own initiative and expense.