Ready to connect thinking and doing in a European capital this summer while fulfilling the Global Core requirement? Columbia Global is thrilled to announce a new opportunity for undergraduate students at Columbia Global Center Athens.

The Columbia Summer Global Core: Athens Experience offers undergraduate students – for the first time ever – the opportunity to get Global Core curriculum credits in an accelerated, three-week course at the Athens Center. 

Program Details 

During The Athens Experience, students will examine the way particular spaces — cultural, urban, literary — serve as sites for the production and reproduction of cultural and political visions. 

This program takes the Greek capital 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. 

The course includes field visits to unique locations, meetings with local experts and the creation of a permanent exhibition showcasing the significance of the Athens Global Center’s neoclassical building in the city’s cultural and political life.

This opportunity is open to undergraduate Columbia and Barnard students who have a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA.

Program dates: May 25 to June 15

Learn more about the course.