About Our Courses:

Courses in the Summit Europe program are academically rigorous, comparative, and deliberately integrated with travel. Students are expected to be engaged, open-minded, and prepared to learn through both classroom instruction and direct observation across multiple European contexts.

All courses combine on-campus instruction with academic travel. Classroom learning is reinforced through structured professional and institutional visits, followed by faculty-led debrief sessions that connect experience to course frameworks. Rather than treating travel as supplemental, Summit courses use place as an analytical tool for understanding European business, policy, culture, and society.

Courses are taught in English, both on campus and while traveling, by an international faculty team. Instruction is led by Summit’s traveling professors and supported by local faculty from our partner institutions, including IQS in Barcelona and University of New York in Prague in Prague.

Who Can Apply
Students from all academic majors are welcome. Both undergraduate and graduate students may apply.

Number of Courses and Credits
Students may take one or two courses, depending on session and academic goals.

• Earn up to 6 U.S. semester credits
• Courses are designed for straightforward credit transfer
• Final credit approval is determined by the home institution

Course Options:
Required course:

• Introduction to the European Union:  Study the EU’s institutions, history, and decision-making processes. Use the European Union as a comparative framework to understand how regulation, integration, and policy shape social and economic life across member states.
• All students participate in an Introduction to the European Union course framework. This course provides the academic foundation for the program and examines how European institutions, regulation, culture, and history shape economic and social life across member states.

Optional courses (B2 Session only):

• International Business:  For students who choose a business track, this course examines how firms operate across borders, including market entry, organizational adaptation, regulatory environments, and cross-border coordination.
  
• Cross-Cultural Communication and Cross-Cultural Management:  Explore how culture shapes communication styles, leadership expectations, teamwork, and decision-making. Students apply frameworks to real interactions observed during academic travel.

B1 students enroll in a single integrated course. B2 students may enroll in one or two courses, depending on their academic goals.

Shared Intro to EU Module
(20% of the grade in every course)

All courses include a shared EU module that ensures academic consistency across the program. This module turns travel into assessed learning for every student, regardless of course selection. The module integrates professional visits, cultural context, and daily debrief sessions. Students prepare questions for site visits, maintain comparative field notes, and connect observations directly to course concepts. 

Assessed through: participation and prep, field journals, two comparative memos that connect visits to course frameworks.

Dates, Sessions:
Program Length Options

Session B1:

• Four-Week Intensive Program (June 17th - July 16th, 2027)
• For students with limited time, the four-week option provides a single combined course that integrates the EU foundation with cross-cultural learning. Instead of choosing, you get a curated mix of both. Exams are streamlined into one final assessment, making it a shorter in duration, but still rigorous option that earns 3 credits.
  
• Intensive session.

      This is the only option for courses:

• EUR 326 · Introduction to the European Union, Culture and Society

Session B2:

• Session B2 · Six-Week Full Program (June 17th - July 30th, 2027)
• Our standard six-week program includes the required EU course plus your choice of an elective in either International Business, Cross-Cultural Communication or Cross-Cultural Management. Students can earn up to 6 credits and experience the full arc of coursework, exams, and applied learning across all cities.
• Regular session.  You can pick 2 courses.

      Required course:

• EUR 324 · Introduction to the European Union 

      and, pick any one of these courses

• BUS 328: International Business
• COM 320: Communications - Cross Cultural Communications
• MGT 321:  Management - Cross Cultural Management

 

Daily course schedule:

During our upcoming study abroad program in Europe, students should expect to be in class in the mornings from around 9am until just after 1pm.  Then there will be a break for lunch, followed by professional and cultural visits in the afternoons.

 

Note:  Program (itinerary, courses, professors, prices and more) subject to change without prior notice