DIS: Study Abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark
Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) offers English-language study abroad programs for American university students in their third or fourth year of study. Students take four classes, one of which is a core class that includes faculty-led, course-integrated study tours in Western Denmark (3 day trip) and a European city (5 day trip). Some DIS programs also offer internships, and all students have the opportunity to volunteer with various organizations in Copenhagen. DIS offers many unique housing options including living with a Danish host family, a Danish roommate, or with other students in apartment-like or dorm settings in greater Copenhagen.
DIS courses approved as HEST electives
- Applied Psychotherapy
- Complexity of Cancer
- Developmental Disorders
- Diabetes: Diagnoses and Diseases
- Epidemiology: Danish Case Studies
- Epigenetics and the Environment
- European Clinical Psychology
- Exercise Physiology
- Health Beyond Borders
- Health Delivery and Prioritization In Northern Europe
- Health Economics and Health Policy in Europe
- Health Technology Ethics
- Healthcare Strategies for At-Risk Populations
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Human Health and Disease: A Clinical Approach
- Immunology
- Impact of Epidemic Disease upon European History, The
- Medical Anthropology
- Medical Biotechnology and Drug Development
- Medical Ethics
- Medical Exploration of HIV/AIDS
- Neurological Disorders and Diseases
- Neuroplasticity: From Neurons to Behavior
- Neuropsychology of Pain
- Philosophy of Mental Health
- Pregnancy, Birth, and Infancy in Denmark
- Psychopharmacology: Substances and the Brain
- Public Health Ethics
DIS courses which may be approved as a health-related field experience, internship or research project (if topic Is health related)