INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Travel is a life-changing experience for our students. Exchanges and field schools bring students into new landscapes, urban fabrics and the lives of others across the globe. Students become translators of experience, interpreters of culture, manipulators of material and ambassadors of the arts — both on site and when they return home.
Exchange and study abroad
We believe that travel should be part of everyone's time at Concordia and we encourage you to enrich your degree by spending a term, or up to a year, in another country.
Concordia fine arts students who want to study at another university will be impressed by the many connections we have to leading fine arts schools and universities around the world.
Our visiting-fee-paying student exchange options don't only apply to international universities : if you want to study at an institution anywhere outside Quebec, we can help arrange that, too!
Concordia Student Exchange Program (CSEP)
The CSEP program allows you to study abroad at a partner institution and pay Concordia tuition fees.
Visiting fee-paying options to study abroad
If your chosen institution does not have a partnership with Concordia, you still have the option of paying their fees to study there. This is an option to study anywhere outside Quebec!
Field schools
At Concordia, the Faculty of Fine Arts is a leader in developing field schools. More than study trips, these are intensive, place-based studios and carefully structured courses. These Summer Field Schools allow students to travel, learn and earn credits in another country under the supervision of a faculty member of the Faculty of Fine Arts. Field schools are a collaboration with the Faculty of Fine Arts and Concordia International. Students enroll in them through the Faculty as they would any regular course.
Apply for an award that supports students travelling to a Fine Arts Field School
Students in the Faculty of Fine Arts are eligible for up to $1300 through the Peter N. Thomson Family Trust to help fund their field school.
Summer 2025 Field Schools
Art, Music, Design, and Science Interactions @ Colombia
This 3-credit program will allow for the immersion of students in Colombia’s cultures, stories, architecture, intensity, speed, and beauty, through research-creation workshops and cultural activities.
Make in Japan
In this 3 credit course students will discover Japanese culture and its cultural manifestations through a variety of mediums, including design, architecture, space, art, fashion, visual communication, interaction and game design.
Laterna Magika (Prague, Czech, Republic)
Performing Arts in Prague
Explore the rich performing arts tradition in Prague and in the Czech Republic. Students will visit prestigious academies of theatre, dance and music; watch end of year concerts, shows, performances.
Performance Creation: Bread & Puppet Theatre
Experience a 2-week intensive summer apprenticeship working at the Bread and Puppet Theater, culminating in a new performance under the direction of the Theater’s founder, Peter Schumann.
Performing Arts of our Era: Montreal's Festival TransAmériques
The course program is intended to bring student performing arts practitioners into as close contact as possible with the international and local artists who are programmed in Montreal's Festival TransAmerique.
Learning from the Cloud Forest- Costa Rica
Discover how art, the cloud forest, and community come together in Monteverde, Costa Rica. This Field School will be combining art, the cloud forest and sustainability in Costa Rica.
Harmony, Love and War at the Straford Festival
Theatre lovers, be ready for what the Stratford Festival has to offer in summer 2025 as you are invited to encounter and question numerous design choices while enjoying its world class production values.
Study with us in Montreal
If you are not a Concordia student but you want to join us in the Faculty of Fine Arts, we have options for you to spend time with us. Concordia is one of the top places to study the fine arts in the world, located in one of the best cities for students in the world.
