OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS

2009-2010 Academic Year

University of San Diego's London Summer Program 2010

HIST 358/POLS 494: THE END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN INDIA (June 17-July 10, 2010). The University of San Diego's London Summer Program offers students the opportunity to explore the end of the British Empire in India and the birth of a modern nation state through the use of the interactive role-playing game, Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence. Frequent field trips will allow students to follow Mohandas K. Gandhi's journey of self-discovery through London. Click here to view the PDF brochure.

For additional information, please visit http://gointernational.sandiego.edu. You may also contact Dr. David Hay (Tel: (619) 260-7763 / E-mail: dhay@sandiego.edu) or Molly Parkan (Tel: (619) 260-4598 / E-mail: mollyp@sandiego.edu). The application deadline is December 18, 2009.

Past Opportunities

Queens College Study Abroad Course in Israel (January 2009)

This January, Queens College is proudly offering a new study abroad course in Israel on the History of the Crusades. In this course, we will study the history of the crusading movement, focusing specifically on the crusades to the Holy Land from the 11th to the 13th centuries, and the history of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Designed as a study tour, classes will be held as we travel around Israel from Tel Aviv to Caesarea, Akko, Tiberias, and Jerusalem in order to visit to some of the most important surviving crusader sites, including the Tower of David, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and the Church of St. Anne in Jerusalem, as well as the remains of Belvoir and Montfort Castles, the Horns of Hattin, and the citadel of the Hospitallers and the Templar tunnel in Akko.

This course will also feature the Reacting to the Past game, "The Second Crusade: the War Council of Acre, 1148," which brings to life a dramatic moment in the history of the crusades. For a week, the students will “become” the great gathering of monarchs, barons, religious authorities, and others that met as a war council in Acre (Akko) on the eve of the Second Crusade, and “react” as participants in the discussions and debates that might have been held there. Readings for the course will consist of Christian and Muslim teachings about peace and holy war found in the New Testament and the Qur’an, St. Augustine’s ideas about just war in his City of God, documents from the Investiture Controversy, and selections from various chroniclers of the crusades and the crusader states. An important goal of this course is a critical examination of the legacy of the crusading movement on the relations between Christians, Jews, and Muslims around the world today.

Undergraduate students from all universities in the US with a GPA of 2.5 or above may apply. The current deadline is October 31, 2008. Please encourage interested students to visit the QC Study Abroad website at http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/studyabroad/ or call Gary Braglia, the QC Director of Education Abroad, at 718-997-5521, for more information.

UGA Study Abroad Course in Athens (May 2008)

The University of Georgia will offer a Reacting Abroad program in Athens, Greece, in summer 2008 (May 11 - June 5). The program consists of two courses: CLAS 4300/6300, Reacting to the Past, in which students will play "The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 BC," and CLAS 4340/6340, Ancient Athens, for a total of six credit hours. Classes will meet Monday through Thursday. The course will be taught by Nancy Felson, Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia  Additional information is included in the attached brochure and online at http://www.classics.uga.edu/courses/reacting/reacting_abroad.htm. 

Queens College Study Abroad Course in Paris (July 2008)

This summer, Queens College is proudly offering the study abroad course "Revolutionary Paris" featuring "Rousseau, Burke and Revolution in France, 1791," to be played in Paris from June 30 to July 28. Students will plunge into the intellectual, political, and ideological currents of thought that coursed through revolutionary Paris at this time and visit important sites where it all took place: The Louvre, Les Invalides, the Bastille, the Palais-Royal, the Conciergerie, the “revolutionary 6th” arrondissement, and take day trips to the Palace of Versailles and the Royal Palace of Fontainebleau. Undergraduate students from all universities in the US with a GPA of 2.8 or above may apply. The registration deadline has been extended to April 18. Financial aid is available. Please encourage interested students to visit the QC Study Abroad website at http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/studyabroad/ for more information!