ACM India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization

  India

• Other Cities in India: 
Pune

Term: Fall 
Dates: Fall semester (July-December)

Description: From the high-tech industries of Bangalore -- India's answer to Silicon Valley -- to thousands of rural villages seemingly untouched by time, India embraces both the dynamic forces of globalization and the deep-rooted traditions of an ancient culture. The dichotomy is woven into everyday life in India -- cows interrupt the streams of cars and trucks on the roads, and farmers work with hand tools in fields under the flight paths of jumbo jets.

On the interdisciplinary ACM India Studies Program in Pune, students have the rare opportunity to experience India's dynamism and diversity firsthand through courses, independent study, and daily life in an Indian home and community. Pune, a city of over three million in the state of Maharashtra, offers students excellent resources for experience, exploration, and study. A gathering place for artists and intellectuals as well as an industrial center, Pune's residents include leaders in the fields of art, music, dance, yoga, theatre, film, religion, politics, environmental science, and social reform.

In pursuing their independent research, students can use the city's museums, educational institutions, government offices, political organizations, business and labor groups, and cultural and social welfare agencies. Local historical sites and archives chronicle Pune's role as a center of Hindu resistance to British rule and as the summer headquarters for the colonial government of Bombay. Maharashtra is among the more prosperous and stable areas of India, embracing nearly all of the nation's religious, social, and ethnic variety. Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), India's chief commercial center, is easily accessible to students by train.

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Cost in US$: Inquire for more information

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 20

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Transcript
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Alumni Network
• Job and Internship Network

ACM - Associated Colleges of the Midwest's Mission Statement: The Associated Colleges of the Midwest, a consortium of residential liberal arts colleges, aims to strengthen its member colleges as leaders, and exemplars, in liberal arts education through significant, innovative, and sustainable collaborations. One key component of ACM is to provide exemplary liberal arts learning through a wide variety of off-campus study programs. Almost all of ACM's off-campus study programs around the world are open to students from any college or university.

Year Founded: 1958