[MGSA-L] Summer courses in Greece 2015

CYA Bursar bursar at cyathens.org
Fri Feb 6 11:00:28 PST 2015


College Year in Athens (CYA) will be offering the following courses this
summer.  All courses include housing, course materials, and some meals.
Courses are taught intensively (each is the equivalent of a regular semester
course); students take one course per session and can attend one or both
sessions.

May 25 - June 20, 2015

Excavating in the Aegean: <http://www.cyathens.org/43/1/summer_courses/12/>
The Case of Despotiko (Paros, Antiparos)

This course will provide the opportunity for students to unveil the history
and the different phases of ritual activity at the second most important
Cycladic sanctuary.  The first week of the course will be spent on the
island of Paros, where students will work at the storage rooms of the
Archaeological Museum of Paros with the discovered material from the site.
During the following three weeks, students will be based on Antiparos, with
mornings spent at the excavation site on Despotiko and afternoons on
lectures and other activities.

Male and Female in the Greek Polis (Athens)
<http://www.cyathens.org/43/1/summer_courses/77/> 

Focusing on Athens and Sparta, this course considers the role of gender and
sexuality in the institutions of politics, warfare, athletics, marriage,
domestic life, myth, religion, and ritual.  Based in Athens, students will
visit nearby sites and museums, with overnight trips to Sparta, Olympia,
Delphi, and Thermopylae.

The Anthropology of Food in Greece:
<http://www.cyathens.org/43/1/summer_courses/71/>   the Mediterranean Diet
and More (Athens, Koroni)

This course will look at the history and social context in which the
Mediterranean diet developed in Greece, and explore the many different
meanings that the production, preparation, consumption, and contemplation of
food has in contemporary Greek society.  When not in the classroom, the
students will visit farms, vineyards, groves, restaurants, markets, museums,
kitchens, sweet shops, cooperatives, NGOs, and festivals.

Creative Non-fiction: <http://www.cyathens.org/43/1/summer_courses/76/>
Question of Travel, Perceptions of Place, and the Imaginative Gaze (Athens,
Poros)

This class on creative nonfiction will use Greece as a lens to examine the
ways writers, both native and foreign, draw on the rich myth, history, and
literary tradition of a place and culture.  Students will work on crafting
and analyzing nonfiction prose that is reflective, lyrical, and/or
investigative and borrows rhetorical elements from fiction and poetry.  The
first week of class takes place in Athens, the other three weeks on the
island of Poros. 

June 22 - July 18, 2015

When Egypt meets the Aegean:
<http://www.cyathens.org/43/1/summer_courses/72/>   Interconnections in the
Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean (Thera [Santorini], Crete, Athens)

The aim of this course is to offer a deep insight into the cultures of
Greece during the Bronze Age within the wider Eastern Mediterranean context.
The focal point of the course is the site of Akrotiri on the island of
Santorini, but the Egyptian Collection of the National Archaeological Museum
in Athens and a trip to the island of Crete are also essential elements.
Students will have the rare opportunity to experience hands-on activities
and behind-the-scenes visits at a number of archaeological sites.

Sustainability Across Time and Spatial Scales in Greek Urban and Island
Communities (Athens, Santorini, Folegandros, Hydra)
<http://www.cyathens.org/43/1/summer_courses/78/> 

This course will trace how human communities of different scales, from the
past to the present, used architecture, infrastructure and the natural
resources available in order to sustain themselves.  The metropolis of
Athens and three small islands of the Aegean will be used as case studies to
demonstrate how environmental factors shape our cultures and, conversely,
how our lifestyles can impact the natural world.

 

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis but CYA reserves the right to
cancel any course that fails to achieve the minimum enrollment of 15 by
April 1.

For further information, contact info at cyathens.org

 

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