Study Tours

Study Tours: Europe as Your Classroom

As a unique feature, DIS includes study tours for all students as part of the academic experience. There are two types of study tours – the obligatory program-integrated study tours and then the optional, but credit-bearing, study tours. Study tours allow you to approach your area of study in a hands-on and experiential manner, combining theory with real-life experience and cultural perspective. They also give you the chance to see Europe in a meaningful way and to visit people and places you would never otherwise have access to.

Program Study Tours

DIS places significant emphasis on study tours as a fully integrated component of the academic study abroad programs. Study tours are faculty-led, academic tours where student attendance is required. A core course at DIS includes two course-integrated study tours: a short tour in Denmark and a longer tour to a European destination relevant to the core course content. In this way, we invite you to enhance your studies by adding a strong European hands-on dimension, and to increase their travels in Europe.

The program study tours form an intense combination of academic and cultural exploration and experiences, socializing, and fun. You will visit course-relevant sites such as (depending on the program of your choice) famous art collections, European Union institutions, multinational companies, schools and kindergartens, architecture and design projects, university hospitals, media headquarters, NGOs, minority groups, and many more. Plus you will meet important actors in your field of study. Work performed during the tours forms the basis of course assignments.

Optional Study Tours

The optional study tours at DIS are also academic and embedded in a 1-credit companion course, which you must take should they want to participate in the optional study tour. This is to ensure quality and depth of the tour. Optional study tours include trips to Turkey to study the meeting of western and eastern culture, Greenland to examine climate change, Rome to study Classical civilization, as well as many more destinations and topics of exploration.

While the program-integrated study tours mentioned above are included in the DIS tuition, the optional study tours come at an additional fee. However, they are subsidized by DIS by an average 25 percent of the cost.