Switzerland: Leysin

  Switzerland

Leysin

Term: Summer 
Dates: May 1 - June 5 or June 26 - July 31 (5 weeks)

Description: Since 1970, Florida State University has offered all students the opportunity to discover a world of hotels, restaurants, foods, and wines in the heartland of the European hospitality industry. This five week program achieves an ideal educational balance: accelerated classroom instruction, travel, and on-site observation of industry operations. In Leysin, professional, cultural, and recreational attractions abound. Sporting activities include a health spa, mini-golf, indoor swimming, tennis, horseback riding, and summer skiing on the Matterhorn, at nearby Zermatt.

Highlights: The class schedule is structured to provide appropriate lectures and class meetings and course-related field trips while providing ample time for individual and small group travel. The Burgundy and Alsatian wine regions, the French and Italian Riviera, Paris, Barcelona, Florence, Venice, Rome, Salzburg, Vienna, Munich, Lucerne, and Amsterdam are but a few destinations easily visited in a four-day trip.

Since 1970, Florida State University has offered students, hospitality majors and nonmajors alike the opportunity to discover a new world of hotels, restaurants, foods, and wines in the heartland of the European hospitality industry. This six-week program, headquartered in Leysin, Switzerland, in the Vaudois Alps, achieves an ideal educational balance: accelerated classroom instruction, travel, and on-site observation of industry operations.

Situated in the French-speaking southwestern region of the country, Leysin is an educational center as well as an important ski station. Professional, cultural, sporting and recreational attractions abound. Not only is the village convenient to the cosmopolitan cities of Montreux, Lausanne, and Geneva, but it is an excellent base for exploring the Continent, with regular train service by top trans-European lines. The program is structured so that participants have four days each week for travel, allowing both scheduled group excursions and personal trips throughout Europe.

While in Leysin, you will stay in a delightful chalet with arresting views of the Alps and the Rhone Valley. Leysin offers a full complement of services and conveniences, from outdoor cafes and specialty shops to physicians and pharmacies. Sporting activities are abundant: a health spa, hiking, mini-golf, indoor swimming, tennis, horseback riding, and summer skiing on the Matterhorn, at nearby Zermatt.

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Cost in US$: USD6,795

Not Included: round-trip international airfare; passport; food (except as noted); books and supplies; personal travel/activity/spending money; class-related performances and events; Eurail pass.

Experience Required: no

Scholarships are Available.

Application Process Involves:

• Other
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network

Florida State University International Programs's Mission Statement: The Florida State University International Programs is committed to providing a quality international learning environment where students are challenged to be learners, leaders, achievers and contributors within a global community. In the twenty-first century students must be able to understand and perceive global change, and we are dedicated to exposing them to international cultures, lifestyles and languages.

Year Founded: 1957