Global Studies

In concert with the University's mission as "The Leader in Global Education", the School of Criminal Justice offers its students, the opportunity to study abroad at FDU's campus at Wroxton, England, along with a host of other foreign agencies that are currently working in collaboration with the University. Featuring courses on Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems, Global Cyber-Crime, Terrorism, and other topics of special interest, students are afforded the opportunity to study under the esteemed professoriate of foreign colleges and universities, as well as participate in field visits to various criminal justice agencies within the host countries.

FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY'S
WROXTON COLLEGE
OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND

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Wroxton College of Fairleigh Dickinson University is located in the Village of Wroxton, which lies on the northeast edge of an ironstone escarpment bordering the Cotwolds. These hills are in the southern Midlands, the rural heart of England. The Midlands region is rich in both urban and rural landscapes. Its influence in modern and historic Britain is hard to exaggerate. Birmingham is 40 miles to the north; it is Britain's second largest city. Oxford is 26 miles to the south; it is the home of Britain's oldest university. Between these two cities are thousands of acres of the finest agricultural land, the ancestral homes of a score of great English families, and two important towns: Stratford-Upon-Avon and Banbury.

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Wroxton village is two and one-half miles from Banbury. Although the village is small, it supports three churches (Church of England, Roman Catholic, and Methodist), a post office, a good hotel, and two public houses. "One of the most beautiful villages in the country," wrote E. R. Lester in his short story of Wroxton. Around the small pond in the center of the village stand fourteenth through twentieth century homes. They are built mainly of local honey-brown Horton Stone and roofed in decorative thatch.


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The main College building is Wroxton Abbey, home of Wroxton College, a fully modernized Jacobean mansion on 56 acres of its own lawns, lakes and woodlands.

The Wroxton College program is, above all, an academic program designed to be both rigorous and stimulating, exacting and stretching, interesting and exciting. However, the academic content of the program is supplemented by the cultural and social experience of living in another country and by the travel opportunities. It is only through the systematic and first hand examination of the customs, traditions, and values of another country that one can develop a clearer understanding of not only a society and culture very different from our own, but also perhaps what is more important, of oneself.