Amherst College Global Education Blog
By Kate Becker ’26 Amid towering poplar trees, locals and tourists drink beers, listen to music, and zip by on bikes along a winding path. Mothers push baby strollers. Elementary students join a scavenger hunt. Sunbathers enjoy the last rays on flower-covered fields. Beneath them, thousands of Danes lie buried. Among them is philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels
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As a final post, I look back to my study abroad experience in Copenhagen and focus on aspects often overlooked when choosing your study abroad location: academics and housing. The bulk of this post consists of my photography (again), so feel free to just skim. But you might get some good insight as well by reading the margins! Academics As
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One of the central themes of my blog posts has been to locate Denmark in a broader, relative understanding of the world. Owing to the satire of this blog, Denmark is just as much a bubble as American liberal arts colleges are. Here I discuss how we can get out, literally. Because it is so easy to cross over national
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Why do we go to Denmark? Francis Fukuyama, in After the End of History (2022) If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark. Richard Wilkinson, in Oxfam Inequality Report (2021) In this blog post, I outline my tentative answers to questions I set out my study-abroad with. These are questions about Denmark as the premier
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Hej! I’m Haru (Harufumi Nakazawa), studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark for the semester. At Amherst I am a junior majoring in economics and sociology. I am also an international student from Tokyo, Japan enjoying my study-abroad ^2 experience right now! In Copenhagen, I am concentrating on my primary interest in migration studies, taking courses on international refugee law, the Scandinavian
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Hi everyone, Thanks for tuning in for my last blog post! Although I’ve been at home for the past month instead of in Copenhagen, I have been continuing with my abroad courses online, including Danish (which has definitely been much less useful outside of Denmark). It has been an adjustment being back at home and living through this unprecedented pandemic.
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As I began my blog, I stated that food is both an ecological and personal act; where environmental and cultural traditions are woven together. The fact remains true for me. As the semester draws to a close, I wanted to pursue a more research-based investigation of the history of food in Denmark to share with you.
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A random email slid across my screen, now a month ago, an email from the Global Footprint Calculator, an email whose message has clung to me, redefined for me the aspect of this pandemic crisis that is not often discussed. It read: “Sustainability will be attained whether by disaster or design.” Today no one celebrates the clearing of polluted skies
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Last week, I said a premature goodbye to Denmark and I’m now completing my classes online from my couch, along with the rest of the world. This entry was supposed to be a photo journal about alternative transportation in Copenhagen and I was planning on doing a loop throughout the whole city by taking every form of public transit for
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Hi everyone! My name is Kiera and I am from Long Island, New York. I am an Environmental Studies and English double major, Class of 2021. This semester I will be travelling to Copenhagen, Denmark for the program of Food Sustainability: from Production to Consumption with DIS. I also will be living in the Green Living and Learning Community. I
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