Every student has to take a 2 week long 5 hour a day intensive Czech language course. It is a lot to absorb but 100% necessary. Your brain will be fried by the end of the day but it’ll help you get by and you’ll receive 3 credits. (I believe SUNY schools, at least Purchase, grades you abroad on pass/fail and the grades won’t hurt/help your GPA. But check with your registrar) This all happens in the first weeks you are there before classes start. Normal classes meet once or twice a week for either 1.5 or 3 hours. They aren’t extremely hard and all of them are based off of Czech culture in some way. There are art history, literature, history, cinema studies, economics, and politics classes. It is really interesting to see how different the viewpoint of the Czech Republic is opposed to that of the US. Most of the midterms and finals are essays that are somewhat open ended so you can write about what part of the class interested you. The classes I took were Czech for Everyday Use, Alternative Literature, Music and Culture, Czech Art and Architecture and Czech Surrealism. All of the professors are native Czechs but teach in English. 95% of the other kids in the classes are other American students from your program. I have no Czech students in any of my classes and it is relatively hard to meet them. There are a few international students in each class which does mix up the class a bit. My one critique of the classes is the lack of student diversity. I was hoping I would be the odd man out because I was American but this wasn’t the case.