Experiences Travel, Visits and Outreach
Spring Break Trip
The 35-person cohort of spring uses a few days of Spring Break week to travel to a city outside of Kentucky and will visit a mixture of locations relevant to our concentrations of study. National security facilities, corporations, museums, consulates, and non-profits doing international work are all part of these prepared journeys.
These visits are immersive, but also a time for the cohort to bond, and possibly network. There is no better vehicle for reinforcing your commitment to international education than to see the people doing the work in the place where it happens.
Join us and see your future.
2018 Spring Break Trip, Carter Presidential Center
Rick Spencer
It is not uncommon for students to travel to Washington DC during the semester to attend special events like the Middle East Institute Conference. There they are given a chance to see international dialogue on critical issues happening live. They listen, learn and engage with policy influencers from around the globe who converge on the center of the world's political stage.
In the recent past there have been trips abroad to Doha, Qatar, Japan, Canada and elsewhere. Ask us what what we're planning when you visit.
Students are briefed during a 2018 trip to Washington D.C.
Day Trips to International Corporations
Regardless of individual major and minor concentrations, all Patterson School students receive a general exposure to international commerce. This is accomplished not just through courses and special guest speakers, but also by trips to headquarters, manufacturing, and operations centers of major multinational corporations. Entering classes often begin with a visit to Toyota's vehicle production facility (TMMK), or Three Chimneys Farm and follow this with excursions to
2013 Corporate Visit to the Airstream Plant in Jackson Center OH
Plan a visit
You have questions and you want to know what it's like to be here. Come to Kentucky. You can sit in on a class, meet faculty and students, see the campus.
The journey of a lifetime begins with your visit to the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce.