The Statement of Purpose essay is a very important factor in the selection process. You should carefully review your essay and ask an advisor to proofread your essay for spelling, grammar, and content prior to submission. In the text box provided below, please address the following questions, in no particular order. Be specific in describing your individual reasons for studying abroad keeping in mind that this is a scholarship for academic study abroad.
1. Why do you wish to study or intern abroad and what factors led you to this decision? What do you hope to gain from and what do you anticipate will be the impact of your experience abroad?
2. Describe your study or intern abroad program. What factors led you to select this program and length of study?
3. Why have you chosen your country of study? What factors led you to select this country?
4. How will this study or intern abroad program and the coursework you take abroad impact your academic and future professional goals?
5. Are there any distinctive components to this program, beyond coursework, that will impact your overall learning experience abroad? (i.e. home-stays, internships, field research, volunteer activities, extra-curricular activities, etc.)
6. What challenges, if any, did you face in your decision to study or intern abroad? How did you meet these challenges and what impact do you foresee them having on your experience abroad? These could include, but are not limited to, being a parent, being a non-traditional student, having a learning or physical disability, being in a field of study for which it is difficult to incorporate study abroad, etc.
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Instructions: There are two essays required as part of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship application: the Statement of Purpose Essay and the Follow-on Service Project Proposal.
– Compose your essays first in a word processing program and then copy and paste your essays into the text boxes provided below. This will allow you to save your essays and ensure that your information is not lost due to a session timeout (approximately 15 minutes of inactivity).
– Compose your essays in paragraph format (not as numbered responses to the questions below).
– Each essay is limited to 7,000 characters (including spaces), which is approximately 1.5 pages, single-spaced in a word processing program.
– Please double check your essays once you have pasted them into the application to ensure that that a portion of your essay was not cut off because you exceeded the character limit.
– Do not format (i.e. bold, underline, italics) your essays in the word processing program because your formatting will not be retained upon transferring. You will be able to reconstruct the spacing of your essays once you have pasted them into the text boxes.
Resources for Essay:
1. Gilman Scholarship Website – Essays
2. Live Interactive Webinars for Composing Successful Essays. Gilman staff will lead webinars focusing on how to compose successful essays for your Gilman Scholarship application. To register, please visit the Gilman website to access registration links.
Florence, Italy has been a source of inspiration to scholars and artists throughout the centuries. For more than 25 years, Sarah Lawrence has offered an academic semester/year-long program that allows students to immerse themselves in the rich culture of this city and its environs. Now, we are pleased to offer this experience to students through a new summer program. Centered in the historic heart of the city, Summer in Florence is designed for students who wish to learn about Florence while working and living with families in the city.
Curriculum
Students select two courses from the following offerings:
The Renaissance and the Modern
Join SLC professor Joseph Forte as he explores the rich art and architecture of Florence and its surrounding cities. Students will attend seminars at the Sarah Lawrence College center situated in the heart of Florence. The class will also include visits to many of the area’s museums and field trips to surrounding cities.
Creative Writing Workshop
Students will be asked to create new writing by using the city and the regional landscape as inspiration. Study will be complemented with readings by American writers living in Italy and Italians who write in English.
Sketchbook
A drawing class that uses the city as the classroom. Students will meet for assignments and critiques with a member of our Florence art faculty.
Italian Language
Students can be introduced to the language at the beginning level or study the language more intensively at the intermediate level.
About Florence
Spread out along the Arno River, Florence boasts a medieval historic center surrounded by beautiful hills and vistas. Although smaller than most major cities, Florence offers all the culture and vitality of a key metropolis. Its extraordinary past�from Etruscan village, to small Roman outpost, to Renaissance center, to capital of united Italy, to modern European city�offers palpable immersion in an age-old civilization. Life in Florence offers a unique opportunity to inhabit history while enjoying a vibrant modern city.
Living in Florence
While in Florence, students live in an Italian home. Homestay hosts might be a traditional family unit, a couple in their 50s with grown children, a single mother and her college-age daughter, or a young couple who enjoy hosting students. They are all Italians and welcome students into their home as they share dinner, conversations, and social experiences throughout the semester or year. Students participate in many aspects of their host family’s life�discussing the day�s events, meeting extended family�which both develops an “insider’s” knowledge of the language and culture and creates lifelong friendships.
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