Undergraduate Activities and Study Abroad

Undergraduate Student Activities

In addition to campus-wide events, the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies offers community-based programs, conferences, lectures, and discussions that are of interest to undergraduate students enrolled in our programs. Please see below for a list of these opportunities.

LA Opera’s Community Circle program

LA Opera’s Community Circle program’s mission is to serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, pioneering spirit and artistic sensibility unique to Los Angeles.

Goethe-Institut Los Angeles

The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles offers cultural programming related to German language and culture, including film screenings, lectures, exhibitions, and panel discussions. Many events are open to students and provide opportunities to engage with contemporary German and European cultural topics.

Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles

The Italian Cultural Institute organizes lectures, author talks, film series, exhibitions, and concerts that highlight Italian language and culture. Programs frequently connect with literature, history, and the arts and are accessible to students interested in Italian and Mediterranean studies.

UCLA Language Clubs

Language clubs at UCLA offer students opportunities to practice languages and explore cultures beyond the classroom through conversation hours, cultural activities, film nights, and student-led events. While independently organized, these clubs are often of interest to students in ELTS programs and provide valuable spaces for informal language use and community building.

Undergraduate Study Abroad 

The Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies strongly encourages students to take advantage of opportunities to immerse themselves in French and Francophone, German, Italian, and Scandinavian culture abroad. We sponsor a number of such programs that enable students to study or work for the summer, a semester, or an entire year.

ELTS Summer Travel-Study Programs

External Programs

Please click the links below for expanded descriptions of the listed external programs.

  • DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service
    The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) is a German national agency for international academic cooperation and exchange. It provides scholarships, information, and counseling about...
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS)
    The U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship program supports graduate training in modern foreign languages and related area studies during the summer...
  • Fulbright U.S. Student Program
    The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually-designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs. A candidate will submit a Statement of Grant Purpose defining...
  • German Chancellor Fellowship
    The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's German Chancellor Fellowship Program is for university graduates from the United States, the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, Brazil, and...
  • German-American Internship Program by Steuben-Schurz Gesellschaft
    The German-American Internship Program was founded by the Steuben-Schurz-Gesellschaft e.V. (SSG) and the U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt. The Hessen Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts,...
  • International Cooperation Education (ICE): Internships and Work Abroad
    The International Cooperation Education (ICE) Program matches students with summer internships or other jobs overseas. You can work for as little as 8 weeks or up to...
  • Teaching Assistant Program in France
    The Teaching Assistant Program in France offers you the opportunity to work in France for 7 months, teaching English to French students of all ages. Each year,...
  • The Junior Year in Munich
    The Junior Year in Munich is America's oldest intercollegiate study abroad program in Germany. First established 1931 as an extension of the University of Delaware Foreign Study...
  • UC Education Abroad Program (UCEAP)
    The University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) is the official, system wide study abroad program for the University of California. UCEAP partners with universities worldwide and...
  • UROP International at RWTH Aachen University
    RWTH Aachen University, Germany, is one of Europe’s leading universities
 of science and technology and distinguished by Germany’s Excellence
Initiative. 
The program UROP International is specifically designed for...
  • Kurzporträt der Studienstiftung
    The Study Foundation of the House of Representatives is a grant programme for young researchers from the United States of America, Great Britain, France, and the successor...