ASMS SHORT VISITS ABROAD PROGRAM

German Short Visits Abroad Program
Spanish Short Visits Abroad Program

The Alabama School of Mathematics and Science (ASMS) is very proud of its active exchange programs in Münster, Germany, and in Seville, Spain. Both programs offer a direct immersion exchange with the prestigious Gymnasium Paulinum in Münster www.paulinum.net, www.muenster.de and the Europa International School www.europaschool.org in Seville.

Each year ASMS has sent two to four of its own students for a term to either Germany or Spain and has received an equal number of students from abroad. This immersion experience in the foreign country is academically accredited by ASMS with the opportunity to gain up to 1.5 CUs in either German or Spanish. Our students are placed in the homes of the foreign students who, in turn, stay on the ASMS campus.

Students interested in applying will have to show genuine interest in the further pursuit of the foreign language at ASMS upon their return and will have to demonstrate overall academic excellence. A junior planning to participate in the fall of his /her senior year must have started the three-part AP Physics series in the spring of junior year, for instance, in order to be able to finish by graduation. Therefore, incoming sophomores are strongly encouraged to consider the program for their junior year.

There are many benefits to our exchange program, the most obvious being the fluency gained in either German or Spanish in a relatively short period of time. Participants have scored very well on the College Board Advanced Placement (AP) exams, and often gained immediate access to upper level college language courses or even satisfied their college language requirement entirely.