Carleton and HECUA: A Shared Commitment

20 July 2021

This feature highlights the 50-year partnership between Carleton and HECUA (Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs). The late US Senator Paul Wellstone helped to establish HECUA in 1971 while he was a Carleton faculty member.

a group of students hiking in a pine forest in winter

“Living London: Literature, Theater, Art, and the City”

16 February 2021

An English department blog interview with Pierre Hecker and Juliane Shibata, faculty directors of the spring 2022 London program. They discuss what’s new, what’s coming back from past years, and why students should be getting excited for the program.

Pierre Hecker looks out of an Irish cottage doorway

Hello from Rwanda!

2 November 2020

Anna Gwin ’22 writes: “It’s hard to pinpoint my favorite part of the program, but it’s probably the overall sense of fulfillment because I’m studying issues I am really passionate about.”

Soft lighting over roofs of houses looking down a hill, with a red dirt road in front.

Greetings from Greece

26 October 2020

Dima Rentel ’22 talks about his experiences with “incredible professors, friends, and travels” — and why he may stay in Greece for a second term!

Dima Rentel '22 Atop the peaks of Meteora, a series of monasteries suspended on top of rock cliffs

Carleton Travel Writing faces Hemingway challenge in Copenhagen

16 October 2020

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

White board with six word stories

Report from Copenhagen

9 October 2020

Elise Lehman ’23 describes her DIScovery trip to the oldest town in Denmark, which included a seal safari and blokarting.

Students Hiking in Jutland

Greetings from Jerusalem

30 September 2020

Dasha Palenova ’22 describes life during lockdown in Jerusalem, a city of “beautiful sunsets and colourful markets and interesting people.”

Dasha Palenova holding a pomegranate (rimon in Hebrew).

Our Iceland Trip

30 September 2020

Carleton students Tali Emlen ’22, Raven Dawson ’22, and Celine Smith ’22 describe their first weeks of study abroad in Iceland.

Icelandic Waterfall, Goðafoss, Northern Iceland

London OCS Spotlight: Jacob Isaacs ’20

19 November 2019

An interview in the English department’s blog with English major Jacob Isaacs ’20 about his experiences on Carleton’s 2018 English Literature and Theater in London program.

Jacob Isaacs ’20

Chris Lee ’20 shares his experience as a Boren Fellow in Korea

25 September 2019

Christopher Lee ’20, an ​International Relations and ​Philosophy major, studied Korean in South Korea on a 2018 Boren Scholarship. Hear about his experience in his own words in a three-minute video.

video thumbnail: Chris Lee, Boren Scholarship
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