The School of Communications offers the New York City Experience, an exciting program that allows students to live and study in the heart of the nation’s media capital. Students selected for this program will focus on diversity and media literacy. Learning will be accomplished through reading, writing, and visiting significant places throughout the city. Learning will be enhanced by a trip to the Sacred Grove. For fun, the class may attend such things as Broadway plays or Yankees MLB games. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to explore the city on their own and with their classmates.
New York Experience
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DATES
2 May–15 June 2022
HOUSING
Students will be housed in the 92Y Residence complex, located in one of Manhattan’s best neighborhoods, three blocks from Central Park.
COURSES
Students will register for 6 credit hours during the program from the following courses:
COMMS 351 Media and Their Audiences (3 credit hours)
COMMS 481 Gender, Race, and Class in the Media (3 credit hours)
Students may not take any other courses on this program, including BYU online courses, without approval by the program director and ISP.
COST
$3,300–3,800
Includes Latter-day-Saint, undergraduate full tuition (increased cost for graduate and non-Latter-day-Saint students), housing, sponsored excursions, admission to cultural sites and events, and local transportation.
Not Included: airfare, personal expenses, and meals.
TRAVEL
Students are responsible for purchasing their own airfare to and from the program sites. Airline reservations must be made through BYU Travel. Students should contact a BYU Travel agent.
BYU Travel
280 HRCB | (801) 422-6293 | travel@byu.edu
PREPARATION
Accepted students are required to participate in a cross-cultural preparation course (IAS 201, 1 credit hour). This evening course will be held during the second block of winter semester 2022.
Part-time and non-BYU students will need to pay an additional tuition fee for enrolling in the prep class.
Accompanying spouses need to be credit-bearing participants on the program. Spouses will also need to apply online and enroll in the preparation course.
All participants are required to show proof of complete COVID-19 vaccination (including booster) at least two weeks prior to departure.
FUNDING SOURCES
Regular BYU tuition scholarships, Pell Grants, and Federal Insured Student Loans may be applied to study abroad programs.
Students who submit the financial aid section of the ISP application and who have a current FAFSA form on file at the Financial Aid Office (A-41 ASB) will be considered for a study abroad scholarship and may be considered for other scholarships.
Students must indicate on their original online application that they want to be considered for financial aid.
Academic departments and colleges may assist with scholarships and grants.
Private grants and scholarships outside of BYU may also assist (see kennedy.byu.edu/scholarships).
APPLICATION PROCESS
Students must be 18 years-of-age or older to participate.
Complete the online application at kennedy.byu.edu/apply. A nonrefundable $35 application fee is required.
Applicants will be interviewed once the application is complete.
Students will be notified via e-mail of their acceptance into the program. The first payment is due upon acceptance.
Please refer to the 2022 Payment Information document (see kennedy.byu.edu/isp-forms/ISPpayments2022.pdf).
Deadline: 21 January 2022
FACULTY
Dale Cressman, associate professor in the School of Communications, will direct the program. A former working journalist, professor Cressman has been teaching for 27 years, including 22 at BYU. His research and teaching specialty is media history. His on campus media history class focuses on the American civil rights movement. His most recent publication, about newspaper building signs in New York City, was recognized by the history division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication as its best journal article of the year in 2018. He has previously directed the School’s New York internship program and the New York Experience Field School.
SCHEDULE AND TIME COMMITMENT
Students should plan to be in New York on 29 April. The program will end 16 June. Students should refrain from scheduling late arrivals or early departures.
INTERESTED STUDENTS SHOULD CONTACT
International Study Programs
101 HRCB
(801) 422-3686
isp@byu.edu
kennedy.byu.edu/isp
Dale Cressman
(801) 422-1686
dale_cressman@byu.edu
PROGRAM ADJUSTMENTS
International Study Programs (ISP) reserves the right to cancel this program, revise its offerings, or make any adjustments to the preliminary cost. If it becomes necessary for ISP to cancel a program, all program payments made to BYU ISP will be refunded to the student’s BYU Financial account. ISP is the only office authorized to cancel any of its programs.