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Apply to study development in Vietnam!

Offered by Asian Societies, Languages, and Cultures (ASCL), this interdisciplinary program explores development in contemporary Vietnam.  Students will study the remarkable social, economic and environmental changes that have transformed Vietnam since the 1980s.  Developing Vietnam  incorporates research methods and perspectives from History, Environmental Studies, Religion, and other fields.  This Guarini Study Away (GSA) program is based in Ho Chi Minh City, with field trips to the Mekong Delta and other sites in southern Vietnam.  The 2024 edition of this program will be co-taught by ASCL faculty Sujin Eom and Edward Miller.

Developing Vietnam is offered in a unique fall-winterim format known as "fall term plus."  Students admitted to the 2024 program will enroll in two required courses.  The first is ASCL 70.22, a one-credit course that students will take in Hanover during September-November 2024, as part of their regular fall term course load.  The  second course is ASCL 59.04, a one-credit, three-week intensive course that will take place in Vietnam during the December winterim.  Both courses will count as fall term courses.

Developing Vietnam is open to students in any major or program of study. To be eligible to enroll, students must have taken at least one ASCL course (or another course with significant Asian Studies content) in a term prior to Fall 2024.

Developing Vietnam is a key component of Dartmouth's partnership with Fulbright University Vietnam, an independent liberal arts university in Ho Chi Minh City.  Starting during the fall term, all participants will be placed on joint teams of Dartmouth and Fulbright students.  Each team will collaborate on the design and execution of a research project on some aspect of development in southern Vietnam.  The field research for each project will be conducted during December, when the Dartmouth students join their Fulbright teammates in Vietnam.

Click here for logistical info about this program (including financial aid and budget info) from the Guarini Institute.

In 2024, the in-Vietnam portion of this program will take place December 1-December 23.

The application deadline for the 2024 edition of this program has passed.  ASCL does expect to offer the program again in 2025; applications for that edition of the program will open during Fall 2024 and will be due on February 1, 2025.

Click here for a Dartmouth Communications story about the research work that students undertook on the 2022 edition of our program.