Summer Trips

Each year the Deerfield faculty organize and lead trips abroad, which give students the opportunity to apply classroom learning to the outside world. These trips are academically-based, and learning takes place in and out of the classroom.

France

An annual three to four week summer program in France is chaperoned by Deerfield French teachers. While the program varies from year to year, there is always a language study component, daily activities geared to the cultural offerings of the area, weekend excursions, and a homestay with a French family.

Spain and Uruguay

Faculty members who teach Spanish organize and supervise summer study abroad trips each year. On alternate summers, the Spanish trip goes to Madrid, Spain, or Montevideo, Uruguay. Students spend one month living with host families, attending language classes in the mornings, and exploring the city in the afternoons. These programs offer students of Spanish a wonderful opportunity to immerse themselves in a new culture and become more proficient in Spanish.

Great Britain

Seniors may elect the Cambridge Seminar: Literature in Culture, 1900-1922, which includes a two-week long series of seminars over spring break at the University of Cambridge, England.

China

In alternate summers, students of Chinese and two Deerfield faculty members travel to China for four weeks. In the past, students have attended two weeks of classes in Beijing, lived with host families for several days, and then for the final two weeks explored Inner Mongolia, Yellow Mountain, Najing, Shanghai, and Suzhou.