STUDY ABROAD

International Development Studies students are treated to a dance lesson on the first day in Cuba. (Mark Rushton photo)

Learn by doing.

Graduates of the International Development Studies program will tell you that the chance to study abroad, put theory into practice and meet and interact with local people is exciting, exhausting and life changing — perhaps the most memorable part of their Dalhousie education. 

Andrey Barber, a Dalhousie student majoring in Spanish and International Development Studies, recently returned from Cuba where she spent three months enrolled in the Cuba Semester Program. Time spent in the classrom was invaluable, she said, and she learned a lot about economic, political, social and environmental issues in Cuba. But meeting local people was educational too.

"I learned so much about the Cuban way through my personal conversations with Cubans on the street and in public places," she remarks. (Read more about Audrey's experience by clicking here.)

Over the years, IDS has forged links with educational programs in the Cuba and Africa to provide these incredible opportunities for students.