World Languages and Cultures
WLC Study Abroad Photo Contest
Internationalization has long been core to the CSUMB student-learning experience. Many of WLC’s students return from study abroad with new understandings of both the world and themselves. This photo contest is intended to share their expanded perspectives with the campus and encourage the next class of global thinkers.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
– Marcel Proust
Call for Study Abroad Photos!
The 2025 photo contest asks current CSUMB students to share up to three photos from their recent study abroad experiences. Students should match each image and accompanying description with a LESCANT category. LESCANT is an acronym for a framework for exploring cultural values and perspectives according to Language, Environment, Social Organization, Context, Authority, Non-verbal and Time. Please submit a 50-200 word description of your image when you upload your submission. Only one submission per category is allowed, up to three photos total. All images remain the property of the original author and you will grant CSUMB permission to use them for this photo contest. Please see the consent details on the photo submission form. Submissions will be accepted between December 12, 2024 at 8:00am and February 6th, 2025 at 11:59pm.
Submitted photos will be juried before the show. Selected photos will be displayed in a special exhibition in the CAHSS Gallery from March 25–April 18, 2025. Photo contest winners will be announced during the WLC Spotlight on Culture event in March (date TBD).