Bucknell Study Abroad In Greece and Turkey: May 15 -- June 5, 2010

Ever wanted to contemplate Socrates in the Athenian Agora, St. Paul in Ephesus, or Constantine in Istanbul?  Ever wondered how modern identities in Greece and Turkey still depend in some ways on these figures and other well-known remnants of history?  The new Bucknell Study Abroad in Greece and Turkey program will help you find answers to these questions.

 

Our program for 2010 runs from May 15 -- June 5, beginning in Athens and ending in Istanbul.  In traveling to ancient and modern sites, reading selected sources, and in writing about your reactions and thoughts, you will complete the one-credit course CLAS 275/HUMN 275: Greece and Turkey: Myths and Histories of East and West.  Your final project will consist in photojournal of what you have learned, both academically and personally.

click here to see the course itinerary and here to see the syllabus.

Your fearless leaders will be Professors John Hunter (Comparative Humanities) and Stephanie Larson (Classics), both of whom have planned this version of the Greece-Turkey study abroad experience for you.  Please do not hesitate to contact either of them with any questions you may have:

jchunter@bucknell.edu

slarson@bucknell.edu

 

 

The Office of Financial Aid has some need-based institutional financial aid available for summer study abroad programs for select students who are of especially high need.

 

Just for fun, here are a few more images of places we will visit and discuss in Spring 2010!

 

   

(above)  The Interior of the Aghia Sophia,

built by the Emperor Justinian in the 6th century CE.

 

The Blue Mosque, Istanbul, built by the Emperor Ahmed I from 1609 to 1616

 

View of the Athenian Agora from the Athenian Acropolis: the Hephaisteion in the backgroundwith the Byzantine Church of the Holy Apostles in the foreground.