Home » Academics » International Programs » Potential Trips

International Programs

Potential Trips

Summer 2009 Tentative Trip

HUMA 299: Experiencing Tanzania through Travel, Literature, and Writing

Andi Penner, Rick Loether

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This special topics International Programs course allows students the rare opportunity to increase their awareness of an African country, its peoples, and its natural environment. Students will experience Tanzanian cultures and wildlife ecosystems in Tanzania and Zanzibar through 18 days of travel, reading, and writing. The course stresses observation and daily writing practice, as well as interactions with local people (including a village stay), reading literary texts, and discussing the need for cross-cultural understanding in this age of globalization. [Note, this trip is tentative only. Official trips will be posted on this website in the fall.]

2009 International Study Abroad Program
(PRELIMINARY)

Location: Greek Cyclade Islands - Santorini and Mykonos

Discipline:
ARTS 112 Beginning Drawing I
ARTS 113 Beginning Drawing II

Contact Info: SmallK@sanjuancollege.edu

Activities:
Drawing island scenes and seascapes
Drawing buildings and townscapes
Drawing what you "see" not what you "think" you see
Experiencing everyday village life on remote islands

Cultural trips: museums, churches, monasteries, archaeological sites, windmills

Application: Final submittal in Fall 2008