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Moraine Valley class visits Dublin, Ireland during field trip
Several members of Moraine Valley’s fall 2006 semester LSC-108 International Travel class were able to reap the benefits of their studies by actually taking a trip that they planned and budgeted in their class last year.

Students Deb Hoyt, Denise Domagala, Ruth Granger, Mayuko Yoshida, Lynn Golonka, and Catherine Moran, along with professor Mary Beth Walsh, traveled to Dublin, Ireland—essentially paying for and taking the trip that they had researched and planned last fall. Walsh teaches Meeting Planning and Special Events classes at the college. The field trip was the result of class research in the LSC 108 International Travel class in the fall 2006 semester.

The college’s International Travel class provides instruction in international travel, documentation requirements, travel codes and terminology, hotels and tour manuals, and travel geography. Using what they learned in class, the group booked a Bed and Breakfast near St. Stephen’s Green, the epicenter of the city—within walking distance of Grafton Street, O’Connell Street, Trinity College, Dublin Castle, and Temple Bar.

The field trip was voluntary, but planning the trip was a class project during last year’s fall semester. Students researched various destinations looking for the very best airfare and hotel rates, factoring in proximity to the city’s center and their budget.

While there, the group was able to visit historic cities, take tours of Dublin and its musical and literary pubs and haunted areas, observe a sixth-century monastic settlement called Glendalough, and saunter through the Wicklow Mountains—the area where Braveheart was filmed.