East Hampton student in Spain; International Education Week November 14-18

Sarah Joseph (right) visited the U.S. Supreme Court and other sites in Washington, D.C., with Mount Saint Mary College students majoring in business and interdisciplinary public relations last spring.

Sarah Joseph of East Hampton, CT, is studying in Granada, Spain this year and it’s changing the way she thinks.

“Learning about the culture in Granada is very enlightening,” said Joseph. “Whether it’s the more relaxed lifestyle, siesta, tapas (a variety of snacks), or learning what is respectful behavior and what isn't, has made me think differently than I did before I left the US.”

Joseph, an interdisciplinary/pre-law major with a concentration in business, wants to return to Spain after she graduates from Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY, next May.

“After teaching here in Spain for a year, I would like to go to law school,” she added.

Demonstrating the Mount’s mission of service, Joseph is teaching English to Spanish students at a high school in Granada, even though “I speak very limited Spanish,” she said.

She noted that her study abroad experience has “completely changed my ideology of what I want to get out of a career, while providing me with an educational experience that I will never forget.”

Mount Saint Mary College students who have been transformed by such experiences have gone on to venues including the Peace Corps.

The Mount’s office of international studies can arrange a semester or summer at a university anywhere in the world to enrich a student’s education while pursuing a degree at the college overlooking the Hudson River.

Study abroad options include Dublin, Ireland; Florence, Italy; Segovia, Spain; Oxford, England, and more.

Mount Saint Mary College marks International Education Week November 14–18 with activities including an exhibit of posters of nursing students serving abroad. Nursing faculty and students are planning a service trip to the Dominican Republic in January.