NextTerm Courses
The Freshman Experience, while varied depending on section, is a common experience for all freshman that explores our local cities and communities through a specific lense. One section may explore and design community parks and spaces in Asbury Park and Princeton, New Jersey, while another may explore and design community restaurants for Trenton or New Brunswick, New Jersey.
NextTerm for sophomores and juniors offers a menu of nineteen, distinctive courses from which to choose. The courses offer a range of disciplines as well as travel components so as to offer a growth opportunity for all students regardless of interest and previous travel experience.
How has the desire for resources impacted the development of Africa over time? Considering Ghana as a case study, how do governmental instability and external global forces impact the economic, social, and environmental development of a country?
Travel: Ghana
How does migration shape our cultural identity in this dynamic and highly globalized world?
Students investigate how migration informs and shapes American identity.
Travel: Arizona and Mexico
What place does the ‘other’ occupy in French history, society, culture, and memory? This course examines France’s treatment of minorities during World War II (1939-1945), the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), and the present day through an examination of internment camps, statues, cemeteries, commemorative plaques, and museums.
Travel: France