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BCA Ramallah Director Discusses Book

Dr. Thomas Ricks, BCA's Resident Director for the Ramallah, Palestine program presented a lecture on his most recent book at the Palestine Fund in Washington D.C.

Summer 2013 in Spain

Intensive cultural and language study in Spain Summer 2013! Four options to choose from running May through August.

Palestinian and Arabic Studies

Join BCA for a multidisciplinary study of Palestine, past and present focusing on the social justice issues of Occupation, Women’s Rights, and Refugees, with Arabic language or social science study at Birzeit University (BZU).

Teaching English in China

My kids always surprised me on how fast they picked up English; we were only allowed to speak English in class, and I taught them using pictures on flash cards.

Experience Rural China

Hiking out from the valley that held Fugong, we travled straight up into the mountains to stay with a Lisu family and experience a night with them.

Consider a Career in Translation

Interested in becoming a German language translator?

Xalapa Student in Round Table

Discussion focused on the Undocumented Migrant movement in the United States.

Studying archaeology in Mexico

Working with Dr. Lourdes Budar and Proyecto Arqueologico Piedra Labrada (PiLab) through the University of Veracruz was the best experience of my life.

Discovering Da Vinci in Belgium

Standing inches from a 500 year-old Da Vinci masterpiece, separated only by air, is something that few people can claim to have done.

Summer Seminar in The Hague

Field-based learning melded with an intense classroom experience in The Hague, Netherlands.

Students Explore The Eden Project

BCA Cheltenham students visited The Eden Project, an educational charity and social enterprise constructed in a 160-year-old exhausted china clay quarry at Bodelva, near St. Austell, in Cornwall.

Celebrating Holi

Our group had it marked on our calendar since the beginning of March, and it was on my list of goals for the semester alongside learning to wrap a sari and sample as much food as possible: celebrating Holi, the Hindu festival of mischief-making, love, affection, and color.