Welcome!
I am excited that you are interested in Study Abroad. This is a wonderful opportunity to live in and explore another culture in the safest possible situation. The rewards to students are life long and include the opportunity to acquire a level of global competence recommended by the US Congress and valued by transfer institutions and employers.
We are currently accepting applications for the 5 week Summer '08 program in China and the 13 week Fall '08 programs to either London, England or Spain. You must attend a mandatory orientation meeting to receive an application and program materials.
Students take regular community college classes from professors in the consortium. The consortium is made up of all 4 Los Rios colleges, College of San Mateo, Santa Rosa Junior College, and Diablo Valley College, and professors from those colleges apply and are selected to teach the same courses, obviously in English, that they teach here. All of the courses are transfer level courses so students make excellent progress toward their graduation and transfer goals. And you learn and develop so much more in knowledge, skills, abilities and values.
The basic requirements to be accepted into the program are pretty simple: you must be a student in good academic standing with 12 college units, in non-performance classes, completed by the time you go abroad, and you need to have a minimum overall GPA of 2.5 in your college classes. During the 13 week semester program, all students take 12 units in the Study Abroad program, a 3 unit Life and Culture class, one other CRC class and then two other classes from the list of offerings. During the 5 week Summer programs, all students take 7 units in the Study Abroad program, a 1 unit Life and Culture class and 6 units from 2 course offerings.
I would like to personally invite you to attend the informational meetings at Cosumnes River College about the program. We’ll go over the whole structure of the program then and students can pick up applications.
Bonnie Green, Study Abroad Program Assistant (916) 691-7187 or
Ellen Arden-Ogle, Study Abroad Program Director (916) 691-7170
