Slovenia: Language, Culture and Society at a Crossroads

Slovenia
Next Offered
Summer 2025

Application deadline: February 15, 2025

Program dates: August 24 - September 13, 2025

Spend three full weeks exploring the culture, society and language of one of Europe’s most striking, most environmentally advanced countries embracing Alpine peaks, forests and Adriatic coastline in a geographic space the size of Western Washington.

  • No prior foreign language knowledge required
  • Multi-disciplinary introduction in English to a fascinating culture and society with a history reaching back more than a millennium.
  • An EU country bordered by Italy, Austria, Hungary, Croatia and the Adriatic Sea.
  • History, geography, music, art, architecture, literature, archaeology, environment, sociology, and more…
  • Live, have meals and take classes in a former Ursuline convent built in the 17th century
  • Field trips to Trieste (Italy) and elsewhere
  • 5 credit hours
  • Program is open to all eligible persons regardless of race, sex or other identity.

Instructor: Prof. Michael Biggins, mbiggins@uw.edu

For more information and to apply, visit UW Study Abroad’s listing for 2025 EFS Slovenia

Program Status
Active