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Winter 2008 Programs
For additional Program information, contact Gary Braglia
Florence: Jewelry Design
Conducted in English
This course introduces students to the creative practices of
jewelry design. The process begins with the execution of the design
through the use of orthographic projections, three-quarter views and
technical layout, and is followed by representational drawings using
watercolor, pen and ink, tempera-gouache or pastels. Students will explore
the practical rendering applications and techniques used in jewelry making
in order to better understand the planning stage of their initial designs
and the design's feasibility as a rendered object.
Location: Florence, Italy
Dates: January 2, 2008 -
January 26, 2008
Credits: 3 - FNES 390.3
Estimated program
costs: $3,215, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, housing in
apartments, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Florence
University of the Arts
Photography in Florence
Conducted in English
This is will introduce students
to the digital photography world with particular focus on updated
techniques and how they can be incorporated into classic fine art
photography. This course will explore the use of state-of-the-art software
and techniques. The instructor will guide the student in learning to
master photo computer software and how to control the scanning of a
picture, transparency and negative to make a good quality digital print.
Elements of photo composition and graphic design, photo history, and
relationships with other art mediums will also be addressed during this
course. FUA's Digital Laboratory is equipped with the most updated
computers, software and peripherals.
Location: Florence, Italy
Dates: January 2, 2008 -
January 26, 2008
Credits: 3 - Art 375
Estimated program
costs: $3,215, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, housing in
apartments, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Florence
University of the Arts (FUA)
Renaissance Art Florence
Conducted in English
This art history course gives the
student a unique and stimulating opportunity to study Renaissance art in
Florence - the city of its birth. Equally divided between slide lectures
and on-site teaching, the course will cover Renaissance painting,
sculpture and architecture from 1400 - 1500. Students will not only learn
to identify the individual styles of artists, such as Donatello, Masaccio,
Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo,
but they will also be able to relate the artists to the social, political
and cultural contexts of the time. Museum and other site visits include:
the Uffizi Gallery, the Bargello Museum, the Accademia, the Churches of
Santa MAria Novella and San Lorenzo. Museum visits form an integral part
of this course.
Location: Florence, Italy
Dates: January 2, 2008 -
January 26, 2008
Credits: 3 - Art History 200
Estimated
program costs: $3,075 , includes tuition, cultural program, airfare,
housing in apartments, travel insurance, and program
fee
Faculty: Florence University of the Arts
Italian Language and CultureItalian Language and
Culture is an interdisciplinary course which concentrates on rapidly
developing a basic command of Italian while introducing the student to
various aspects of Italian history, culture, cuisine and realities of
contemporary Italy. Students will have opportunity for on-site learning
with their instructors through a series of walking tours and visits in
Florence, a cooking and wine appreciation course as well as a two-day trip
to Rome. In addition students will have the opportunity to view classic
and current Italian films outside of class time. No prior knowledge of
Italian required - this course is a Beginner level course. Includes
visits, Rome trip, wine and cooking class.
Location: Florence, Italy
Dates: January 2, 2008 -
January 26, 2008
Credits: 6 - Italian
Estimated program
costs: $3,925 , includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, housing
in apartments, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty:
Florence University of the Arts
Food, Culture and Society in Italy
Conducted in English
Recommended for students with an
interest in Italian food traditions and society culture. This course
focuses on what is generally defined as "made in Italy": culture and style
in post-war Italy. Lectures will cover topics such as the role of women in
Italian society, the survival of superstititons, food and wine as cultural
traditions, the effect of social change on culture and style. Course
activities include field trips, cooking and wine tasting lessons,
audio-visual material.
Location: Florence, Italy
Dates: January 2, 2008 -
January 26, 2008
Credits: 3 - FNES 104
Estimated program
costs: $3,215, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, housing in
apartments, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: APICIUS
Meal Planning & Meal Management In The Italian
Family
Conducted in English
Understanding the meaning of
foods in Italian family meals,the course examines the development,
structure, and maintenance of the Italian family through history
Evaluation of different regional meals and examples of Southern, Central
and Northern family dishes will be prepared during workshops. We will also
compare and examine various social issues associated with the study of
Italian families.
Students will be accommodated with Italian Families
for the whole Intersession program and they will take part in preparing
meals 3 times a week with the family.
Location: Florence, Italy
Dates: January 2, 2008 -
January 26, 2008
Credits: 6 - FNES
Estimated program
costs: $3,925, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, housing in
apartments, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty:
APICIUS
Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean
Conducted in English
Program includes a week spent in historic Taormina/Naxos (founded 734
BC) and two weeks in Syracuse (founded 733 BC) - the oldest Greek cities
of Sicily. The program includes a three credit class examining the
archaeology and history of the ancient Mediterranean, enabling students to
study the history and culture of Western Civilization within the unique
context of Sicily. One week on site in Taormina, two weeks on site in
Syracuse, housing in the historic center of Taormina and in the historic
center of Syracuse, entrance fees to sites and museums, transportation and
day trips to Agrigento and Palermo, and guided site visits of Taormina and
Giardini Naxos Location: Taormina and Syracuse,
Italy
Dates: December 28, 2007 - January 20,
2008
Credits: 4 - ARTH 200
Estimated program costs:
$3,395, (NEW: Reduced Program Fee) includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, housing, travel
insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Queens College
Rome and Pompeii: Daily Life in the Roman World
Conducted in English
This course focuses on life in ancient Rome by examining Pompeii as a
model of Roman society. In this course, students will study the ancient
Roman city of Pompeii before its destruction by the eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in AD 79. By examining the surviving artworks (frescoes,
sculpture, objects d'art and architecture), and by reading primary
sources, students will explore the daily life of ancient Pompeii including
its economy, religios practices, entertainment, urban development,
politics and relationships with Rome. Students will spend four days
on-site between Rome and Naples. Students will visit in Rome: The Forum,
Colosseum, Pantheon, National Museum of Rome and the Baths of Caracalla
before moving on to Naples where they will finish their presentations
on-site in Herculaneum and Pompeii and visit the center of
Vesuvius.
Location: Rome, Pompeii and Naples,
Italy
Dates: January 2, 2008 - January 26,
2008
Credits: 6 - ARTH 200
Estimated program costs:
$3,925, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, housing, travel
insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Florence University of the Arts
The History of Ancient Athens
Conducted in English
During this course about Athens in the 5th century BCE, we will use
the pedagogy "Reacting to the Past" to study the background and history
of the Peloponnesian War, the reign of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens, and
the Trial of Socrates. And, we will "react" or debate in the historical
moment of the meetings held by the Athenian Assembly in 403 BCE.
The course recreates the intellectual dynamics of this formative period
in the human experience. After nearly three decades of war, Sparta crushed
democratic Athens, destroyed its great walls and warships, occupied the city,
and installed a brutal regime, "the Thirty Tyrants." The excesses of the tyrants
resulted in civil war and, as the game begins, they have been expelled and the
democracy restored. But doubts about democracy remain, expressed most ingeniously
by Socrates and his young supporters. Will Athens retain a political system where
all decisions are made by an Assembly of 6,000 or so citizens? Will leaders continue
to be chosen by random lottery? Will citizenship be broadened to include slaves who
fought for the democracy and foreign-born metics who paid taxes in its support?
Will Athens rebuild its long walls and warships and again extract tribute from
city-states throughout the eastern Mediterranean?
These and other issues will be sorted out in debates held by students playing
roles as radical and moderate democrats, oligarchs, and Socratics, among others.
The debates will be informed by Plato’s Republic, as well as by excerpts from Thucydides,
Xenophon, and other contemporary sources.
Location: Athens, Greece
Dates: December 28, 2007 -
January 22, 2008
Credits: 3 - History 200
Estimated
program costs: $3,478, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare,
housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Queens
College
Greece Through the Eyes of Travelers
Conducted in English
Since ever, Greece has been
considered a great challenge and a spiritual intrigue to its many
visitors. The land of gods and myths, of a glorious past and a
cosmopolitan present, has long lured many of the finest British and
American authors and poets.
In this course, you will have the opportunity to explore and better
understand the idea of modern Greece, as it is reflected in the works of
Anglo-American travellers. Living, reading, and writing about the places
you are encountering will make your own experiences of those places much
more exciting and meaningful. After all, as Henry Miller said, "Greece is
like the projection of your consciousness."
Location: Athens, Greece
Dates: December 28, 2007 -
January 22, 2008
Credits: 3
Estimated program costs:
$3,478, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, housing, travel
insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Queens College
A Look Inside the Japanese Film Industry
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Conducted in English
In this series seminar, we first
view a few classics of Japanese Cinema with lectures to follow and Q and A
with Japanese film producers, directors, actors, and/or critics. We then
explore the business and production side of the industry with Executive
Producers. We also visit a mid-size independent Japanese film company,
SPO, for an in-depth look at how the Japanese film industry works. Lastly,
we consider sub-genres of Japanese film, including anime. Field trips
include the Gibli Anime Museum, a film set, SPO, and Ozu's grave in
Kamakura, the cultural heart of Japan.
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Dates: January 1, 2008 -
January 24, 2008
Credits: 3, MEDST 344 and Special
Topics
Estimated program costs: $3,495, includes tuition,
cultural program, airfare, housing, travel insurance, and
program fee
Faculty: The Film Academy at Magic Hour
Japanese Writers: Dreams and Nightmares
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Conducted in English
In this course, we consider one
seminal work from three seminal Japanese authors: Kenji Miyazawa (The
Milky Way Railroad), Kobe Abe (The Woman in the Dunes), and Haruki
Murakami (The Wind-up Bird Chronicle). Specifically, we explore the
surreal landscape particular to these writers, equal shades life and
death, day and night. We also search for pieces of the Japanese identity,
an identity radically shifting (perhaps) from the 1930's when Miyazawa
wrote to Abe in the 1960's and finally to Murakami in the 1990's.
Fieldtrips include visiting the locales inspiring these writers, or the
actual places these writers wrote. Last, we consider films spawned from
these works, varying from anime to neo-realism and postmodern film.
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Dates: January 1, 2008 -
January 24, 2008
Credits: 3, Japanese 250 and Special
Topics
Estimated program costs: $3,495, includes tuition,
cultural program, airfare, housing, travel insurance, and
program fee
Faculty: The Film Academy at Magic Hour
Japan: Business
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Conducted in English
Business Course (in
Tokyo): Japan and East Asian Business Management, Marketing Organization
and Strategies.
The economies of East Asia are presenting challenges and opportunities
for Western firms. Japan’s rise to economic superpower status in the 1980’s was followed by the
"Dragons" becoming newly industrialized economies in the region, namely, Hong Kong, Korea,
Singapore, and Taiwan, in the 1990’s. While the Asian financial crisis of 1997 hit many of them
severely, they not only recovered quickly, but accelerated their dynamic growth. It is in this regional
context that China emerged as a global economic player in the late 1990’s.
In what areas of business are the companies of Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China most competitive?
Why are they successful globally? In what ways are their organizations and strategies similar to and
different from their American and Western rivals? What kinds of competitive advantages do American
and European companies have against them? This interdisciplinary course covering diverse issues,
topics, and academic disciplines will be taught by subject experts under a careful coordination to help
students explore broad factors that drive companies of Japan and East Asia to global success, and to
examine underlying social, economic and political dynamics.
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Dates: January 1, 2008 -
January 24, 2008
Credits: 2, BALA and Global Business
Strategies
Estimated program costs: $3,495, includes tuition,
cultural program, airfare, housing, travel insurance, and
program fee
Faculty: Rikkyo School of Business
Australian People
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Explores several dimensions of
Australian social life, drawing on examples from Indigenous and
non-Indigenous contexts. With a cross-cultural focus, students use what
they learn about other cultures in order to achieve a deep and reflexive
understanding of experiences within Australian society. Excursions in
Western Victoria, where Gunditjmara people had developed a sophisticated
local aquaculture economy based on the eels and fish of the lake.
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Dates: January 2, 2008
- January 26, 2008
Credits: 3 - ANTRO 219, Topics in Cultural
Area Studies
Estimated program costs: $4,575, includes tuition,
cultural program, airfare, housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Deakin University
Spanish Language and Culture
Study Spanish in Valladolid, Spain, an historic yet modern city, where Ferdinand and
Isabella got married and Christopher Columbus died - home to one of Europe's most
important science museums. Picture yourself at one of Spain's oldest university campuses
(dating from the 13th century), or at a 21st Century institution - named in honor of Miguel
Delibes, a leading anti-Franco writer of the post-Spanish Civil War period.
Study where Cervantes, Quevedo, Gongora, Delibes, Umbral, and other literary greats created
masterpieces in Spanish, a vibrant language for culture, business, and politics throughout the
world. Sample the richly varied cuisine of Castilla-Leon, and visit the city's numerous museums and
galleries to embrace one of Europe's oldest cultures.
Location: Valladolid, Spain
Dates: January 1, 2008 -
January 25, 2008
Credits: 3 - Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Estimated
program costs: $3,215, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare,
housing with two meals per day, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: University
of Valladolid
For all ProgramsApplication Deadline: October 26,
2007
Programs are open to all undergraduate students from all CUNY
campuses (unless restricted by level of study, language fluency or other
program criteria.) * Tuition cost quotes is for In-state, Matriculated,
Undergraduate student, and may include supplemental tuition paid to
Education Abroad school.
Additional costs: Budget for meals and
personal expenses: minimum $15-20 per day (approx. $420 - 560).
Travel
on Fridays and some Saturdays.
STOCS Travel GrantsParticipants in STOCS (Study/Travel Opportunities for CUNY students)
eligible Winter programs may receive travel grants. These STOCS scholarships, ranging from $500 to $1500, are offered
to eligible undergraduate CUNY students who participate in short-term (summer and
winter intersession) CUNY study abroad programs.
Essentials:
2.8 GPA
Application Deadline: October 12, 2007
For
application, visit the Education Abroad Office or contact STOCS Project,
Jennifer Bertsch, Jennifer.bertsch@mail.cuny.edu
See CUNY Website http://www1.cuny.edu/academics/oaa/uei/inted/stocs/for-students/w0708StudentApplicationForm.pdf
for STOCS details.
E-mail: Study Abroad
Study Abroad Office
Kiely Hall, Room 183
Queens College -
CUNY
Flushing, New York 11367-1597
718-997-5521
718-997-5055
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