How are USAC programs structured and who administers them?
USAC offers two types of programs, Specialty and Partnership. Specialty programs are wholly designed and operated by USAC and located on the host university campus. Each Specialty program has a Resident Director (most of whom have a Ph.D.) who hires excellent faculty (in many cases from the host university), arranges housing for USAC students, organizes field studies and excursions, and assures the general well-being of students while overseas. Specialty programs offer intensive language tracks and cultural studies along with a variety of focused areas of study which takes advantage of the program location (i.e. Business in Bilbao, Art History in Madrid Spain; Sociology/Health Studies in Puebla, Mexico; and Ecology in Costa Rica). Partnership programs differ in that students are directly enrolled in that foreign university and have access to that university’s curriculum.
