Northwestern College Romania Semester

10/25/2024

Dream work for me...Launching IMPACT in East Africa!

Image Source I recently had the incredible opportunity to join two OCMC directors on a trip to Kenya and Uganda. I’m Dana Bates, a new youth development sp

09/08/2024

Welcome to our students from NW College's Romania Semester!

03/16/2024

Hi all previous Romania Semester Abroad (SAP) students! I am trying to make a database with all students from 2007 until now. (And if you have any group photos, would love them!) Please message me, and this includes those from Calvin, Gordon, Trinity and other colleges.

Northwestern’s Transylvania Semester enables NWC students to participate in NHF’s unique experiential education mission by interacting with Romanian youth while learning about post-communist Eastern Europe.

09/22/2022

The Retezat 2022 trip!

11/09/2019

Hey NW folks! here is a report about a project I and some of the students have been involved with to renew our area:

Seriously? You are going to Romania? Where? Why? What are you going to do there? Just a few of the most often questions we got when announcing we are going for

01/25/2019

Hi, any of you former students or interns... we are trying to develop the semester site a bit more and want to mention the food. Anyone want to say something about that? Papanasi, sarmale, pizza? whatever strikes your fancy?

01/23/2019

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/22/headlines/oxfam_26_wealthiest_people_own_as_much_as_worlds_38_billion_poorest?fbclid=IwAR0MDrdxuOPku2ogx0qOxRgoB9f3fpTifstQsLZom9Bg2hPtEV5qlQuKtuo :(

And a new Oxfam report finds that billionaires’ wealth increased by 12 percent in the past year, with the 26 richest owning the same amount of money as the world’s poorest 50 percent, or 3.8 billion people. Economic inequality hits women and girls the hardest, according to the report, which is b...

01/23/2019

www.romania-semester.ro We are looking forward to a good Fall 2019! Maybe our biggest year yet?!?!

Northwestern College provides a unique study abroad experience engaging the culture of post-communist Romania, building on the grassroots development work of New Horizons Foundation. Living in the Jiu Valley of Romania, students study and experience: Romanian culture, history, and language, Eastern....

08/30/2018

And a new group of students begin their adventure in Romania!!

02/05/2018

Ever wondered what everyday life looks like on the Romania Semester? Check out all the fantastic and the normal moments of the program in our new promo video!

A look into the everyday life of a student in The Romania Semester 2017. The Romania Semester is a program coordinated by Northwestern College and New Horizo...