Repository: UIHistories Project: Planning Report - Future of International Programs (1968) [PAGE 14]

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I jberai Arts and Science In association with Harvard, Columl \ Cornell I nivcrsities, sponsored a program ol mi| l held training \x\ Utin America foi undergraduates interested in sex i.,1 anthropoid imj thc auspices first, of th< I larnt ie (lorporation and then of the National Science Foundation, In 196 the Colli e of Liberal Arts and Scieiu joined with other Committee on Institutional C<* peration (CI( ) institutions in sponsorin an anthropoid 'I summer program in Mexico City; in the same year, the Department of Anthropoid y initiat I an academic-year program in Peru, Beginning in the summei of U N n archaeologi< I research and excavation project will be undertaken in SiYilv in cooperation with Princeton University. The University of Illinois will nominate the field director, who will be assist I by four University of Ulinoi raduate students. The Center for Latin-American Studies and the < TCS also support | tduate student training and research project in Mexico during 1 > 6 sponsored by the I )cpartment of Geography.

2. Fine a n d A p p l i e d Arts

The newest organized Study a b r o a d p r o g r a m in o p e r a t i o n is t h a t of th<

Department of Architecture at La Naponlc, in southern Fran<

Cannes.

near

In the second semester of 1966-1967 the D e p a r t m e n t lx an a

program for fourth year architecture students, enabling thirty of them t < spend a semester in accredited study abroad. The program provided is nearly identical to the regular campus curriculum but is adapt I to th< opportunities available in this particular lo ttion, which is accessible to

h u n d r e d s of significant examples of a r c h i t e c t u r e a n d civic spaces, both old and new. Instruction is provided by three m e m b e r s of the D e p a r t m e n t at a COSl

which dors not exceed instructional costs at Urbana so far as expenditure •f State funds is concerned, although a staff p lition was added to th< Department when the program was approved. Transportation costs of staff and operational costs of the studio facilities have I n < vered by private gifts and student fees. Students incur approximately the saim living costs as they do at the Urbana campus, phis travel and personal expenses. Student applications for the fall semester of 1968 fai exceed the thirty pla< es available. Tin Department ol Landscape Architecture sponsors an annual RyerOJJ Traveling Fellowship for study of lands* ape architi < tin ahn I.

3. Engineering

A number of juniors and seniors in the COIN ol Engineering hav< parti< ipated in a summei work-ex. h.u • p,, ram during which the) iin te< hni' al exp riem i in a I - ign < ountry,

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