Department Recommendations
Current Architecture Students
Architecture courses abroad may not meet architecture course requirements at the University of Minnesota. Meet with your academic adviser to review their study abroad academic planning prior to your study abroad experience.
Prospective Architecture Students
Once admitted to the College of Design, your architecture academic adviser will work with the architecture faculty to help you evaluate major related coursework. Architecture courses abroad may not meet architecture course requirements at the University of Minnesota.
Best Times to go Abroad
Consult your four year plan for the best time to study abroad.
Fulfill Requirements
Be sure to meet with your academic adviser to fill out an Academic Planning Form.
Major Coursework
The DIS program offered in Copenhagen, Denmark (fall and spring semester, academic year, and summer) gives students the opportunity to take studio courses that can be used to satisfy workshop credit. Check with your academic adviser for more information.
Internships & Obtaining Internship Development (IDP) Credit
If you are interested in pursuing an architecture internship abroad, and you would like to obtain IDP credit, you are encouraged to contact the Minnesota Internship Development Program (IDP) coordinator.
Liberal Education
You can fulfill liberal education requirements while abroad. Decide early which requirements you want to satisfy through courses taken abroad so you don't fulfill them on campus. Consult the Learning Abroad Center's U Credit Abroad Search of study abroad courses that have already been evaluated or submit courses online to be evaluated for liberal education requirements.
Study abroad courses may not meet multiple requirements
Some University of Minnesota courses are approved to meet multiple requirements. For example, one course may count toward your liberal education requirements and meet a requirement in your major. Study abroad courses may not meet multiple requirements.
Programs
Africa & the Middle East
Senegal
Designing for Black Liberatory Futures: Back to Senegal
- May Term 2027, open to all students
- Led by Terresa Hardaway, Associate Professor of Graphic Design
- Using an Afrofuturist and Pan-Africanist lens, explore values, policies, and design practices in Senegal that could reimagine Black futures in the United States.
- Understand new ways to decolonize your understanding of design impact on society.
- Meet with Senegalese community members and learn ways to help heal our communities, promote abolitionist principles, and advance collective liberation.
- Fulfills the Race, Power, & Justice Liberal Education requirement. Consult with your academic adviser to see if this program will meet major or minor degree requirements.
Asia & Oceania
Australia
- This program is available each semester and summer term
- Complete a 3-credit internship, which allows you to integrate with Australians, experience the local culture first-hand, and gain professional skills
- Focus on job training, career networking, and resume building in an international setting
Europe
Denmark
Study Abroad in Denmark—Architecture & Design Program
- Offered each fall and spring semester, as well as academic year
- Designed for architecture, interior design, and interior architecture majors, and, for pre-architecture majors, in fine arts or studio art
- Develop professional skills and knowledge through interaction with Danish architects and designers in studio, classes, and on field studies and study tours
- No language prerequisite
Summer in Denmark and Sweden—Architecture & Design Program
- Offered summer session in Copenhagen
- Designed for architecture, interior design, and interior architecture majors, and, for pre-architecture majors, in fine arts or studio art
- Develop professional skills and knowledge through interaction with Danish architects and designers in studio, classes, and on field studies and study tours
- No language prerequisite
Italy
- The Design in Sicily is a 7-week program offered in Siracusa, Italy during Summer Session. A College of Design instructor accompanies the program and teaches a 3-credit studio course open to all students. Earn 6-7 credits as you make Sicily your classroom. Consult with your academic adviser to see if this program will meet major or minor degree requirements
- Engage in the design process with local and international designers through coursework and a collaborative practicum
- Create visual projects in response to your Italian experience, honing your own sensibilities as a designer in the rich visual culture of Italy
- Engage with the theme of how meaning is created through both the still and the moving image, and you will engage in hands-on explorations through a variety of forms of visual representation including drawing from observation and imagination, illustration, photography, video, and collage
Additional Options to Consider
- 3-week, 3-credit programs at the 3000-level led by University of Minnesota faculty and staff over winter break or May session.
- Explore an exciting location and topic, Fulfill Liberal Education requirements, or earn major/minor credit.
- Check out additional LAC Instructor-led Seminars that might run over winter break, spring break, May, and summer sessions. They vary in length, dates, and content so students can find one that best fits their academic and professional goals.
- Begin your language study or work toward completing requirements for a language minor.
- Complete a semester of language on a short-term program or explore options to complete two or more semesters of language on semester-long program.