Deepen your learning experience by immersing yourself in this one-week seminar on the history and culture of Athens and its environs through a combination of lectures, guided museum visits, educational walks, field trips, and hands-on workshops.
The seminar is offered by the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement in partnership with Columbia Global and its Global Center in Athens and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation. For more information, click here.
Sitting at geo-political, cultural, and geographic crossroads between the West and East, Greece is an exciting touchpoint for collaboration and learning. This program takes Athens as a vantage point to consider larger contemporary issues regarding urban planning and nation-making, public life and democracy, climate crisis and displacement, and immigration and the accommodation of cultural alterity. This program gives students the opportunity to:
- Learn Beyond the Classroom: Combine seminar study with field visits to unique locations, meetings with local experts, and the acquisition of practical project-based skills.
- Make a Lasting Impact: Collaborate to curate a permanent exhibition showcasing the significance of the Athens Global Center’s neoclassical building in the city’s cultural and political life.
- Expand Your Horizons: Develop intercultural competencies, acquire skills in critical thinking, archival and oral history research, and public presentation, and cultivate deeper self-awareness while engaging with global perspectives.
This program is offered by Columbia Global through its newly established Athens Global Center, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative, and the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement. Click on this link for more information.
This course fulfills the Global Core and Hellenic Studies Minor requirements.