Mayterm and summer session programs offer students up to 8 units of credit while studying off campus in the summer. All programs are faculty-led and provide students with an opportunity to learn, live, and engage with the culture around them while building community with their Mayterm cohort.
Mayterm and Summer Session programs 2025 are accepting applications. Click on program links to learn more. Applications for international programs are due November 15.
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New Mayterm and Summer Programs
Discover the four new Summer and Mayterm programs added to Westmont's Global Education offerings in 2025, from the Galapagos Islands to Iceland; click the links below to learn more.
MAY 5 - JUNE 5, 2025
London | MayTerm
Redemptive Entrepreneurship
Come explore London’s exciting landscape of social enterprise! Learn from seasoned entrepreneurs and innovators at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Westmont College as you study successful business ventures and workshop some of your own ideas.
MAY 5 - JUNE 14, 2025
From Berlin to Vienna | Summer Semester
Discovering the Roots of Psychology and Psychotherapy from Berlin to Vienna
This program will offer psychology majors the unique opportunity to study foundational concepts in their discipline in the context of the locations where modern psychology began.
MAY 5 - JUNE 5, 2025
Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands | Summer Semester
This program, led by Drs. Blake Kent (sociology) and Tim VanHaitsma (kinesiology), will explore all these regions while examining human/environment interaction at the individual and structural levels.
MAY 5 - JUNE 15, 2025
Food Systems and Food Writing through California, Iceland, and Italy | Summer Semester
From the Plate to the Page
This learning journey will not only help you learn people and communities' different rhythms and consumption patterns, but also invite you into experiencing them first-hand.
Westmont in Israel | Mayterm 2025
This Mayterm is designed to get you out of the classroom and into the real space of Israel’s story. For three weeks home base will be just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem at Jerusalem University College (JUC)--one day a week in the classroom; six days a week on the road.
Westmont in San Francisco | Summer Session
Live in a community house in the beautiful neighborhood of Pacific Heights as you gain valuable skills in an internship for organizations serving populations such as the homeless and refugees or for financial and technology companies.