Baker University students are being given the opportunity to visit and explore foreign places they may have not had the chance to see before.

Professors in five different departments are offering four new travel interterms, with destinations from Paris to Peru.

Joe Watson, assistant professor of mass media and communication, is offering a trip to Amsterdam over interterm.

“Well, I’ve never done a travel interterm before … and I think interterm is a time when faculty can try new, different and fun things that wouldn’t necessarily support an entire semester class and I think Amsterdam is one of the most fascinating places I’ve ever been,” he said.

Watson plans to take students on two side trips while in Amsterdam, explore museums and visit plenty of historical sites.

“We’re going to go to the original neighborhood where Anne Frank grew up,” he said. “We’ll see the apartment where her family lived, and just around the corner is the bookstore where she bought her original diary and it’s still a bookstore.”

Assistant Professor of Art Brett Knappe and Assistant Professor of History John Richards are also offering a trip rich with history. Knappe, Richards and 26 others will be traveling to Italy for 10 days, where they will spend most of their time in Rome. However, the group will also spend two nights in Florence and take a day trip to Pompeii and Naples.

“It’s a great chance to really get to see both art and history in context,” Knappe said. “I mean on the one hand, it’s important to sit in a class and learn about some of these great artists or learn about the history of a period, but I think it adds quite a different dimension when you actually stand in front of these things. When you see them, when you walk in the same place as these great artists or figures of history have actually walked. You get to actually feel what it felt like to be in places like that and I think it really does mean a lot more.”

Lee Green, professor of business and economics, is planning a travel interterm to three places that have museums commemorating the 65th anniversary of D-Day. The interterm will begin in London and travel to Normandy and Paris.

Associate Professor of Spanish Sandra Schumm is planning on taking a group to Peru for interterm. The group will get the chance to live with Peruvian families and take classes at an institute in Cuzco, Peru.

“I’m hoping students become a lot more confident using Spanish and that also they become excited about a culture that uses Spanish,” she said. “When you go to a place where people speak Spanish and you see the history and the culture then you become a lot more excited about learning the language and so I hope to instill some passion in some of my students about the Spanish they’re learning.”