Student Gap Year Programs - Travel Trips, Tours

Student Gap Year Programs - Travel Trips, Tours

Gap year programs provide teens with rich cultural experiences. Teens spend a semester or school year in a foreign country volunteering or working in that community. They immense themselves in day-to-day life in that area and get to know the families. Many gap year programs count as college credit towards foreign language studies and even history.

Art Gap Year Programs in Italy

Head to Italy for a semester or two and study your favorite form of art. Whether you want to learn furniture design or sculpting, the Studio Arts Centers in Florence offer programs that provide transferable college credits at many SACI affiliated colleges in the United States.

Culinary Arts Gap Year Programs

Young Judea's Year Course Culinary Arts gap year program is a perfect choice for the budding chef. Students head to Israel for a year learning to cook kosher meals. They cover a number of cuisines including French, Italian, Japanese, Jewish and Moroccan. Students learn how to purchase and maintain kitchen knives, grocery shopping skills and all forms of cooking, including grilling and baking.

Gables School of Cookery in the U.K. Offers gap year courses that last one to four weeks. During these month-long gap year programs, you remain on the school campus. Options for classes include:

Canapes

Dinner Parties

Food Hygiene

Healthy Cookery

Indian

Italian

Pheasant & Game

Quick & Easy Cooking

Ski Chalet Cookery

Thai

It's likely you can find local gap year programs in the United States. Check with the New England Culinary Institute or Cordon Bleu for courses that can help to fill your gap year.

Intercultural Gap Year Programs

AFS is one of the leading providers of cultural and language gap year programs. Live in Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe or South America for a year. Because you reside with a family, you learn the language and culture first-hand.

Sign up with African Impact and spend a full year living and volunteering in Africa. You could spend part of that year helping to rehabilitate orphaned lion cubs or studying the migration of elephants. Live in Cape Town for a few months helping to teach children. From there, head to Mozambique helping out at a pre-school aged orphanage.

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