USC SPONSORED SUMMER PROGRAMS

Honors College Programs

AZERBIJAN (Baku) and New York City
Honors College Program
Dates: July 15-August 2, 2009 
Credits: 3 undergraduate

Maymester Course: Cross-Cultural Therapeutic Family Camp in Azerbaijan: Land of Fire  
This inquiry-based learning course will include on-campus preparation sessions and a study abroad component of two weeks.  The course objective is to learn and apply methods of promoting positive individual and social change, social justice, and civil society through cross-cultural exchange and collaboration in Azerbaijan. 

Planned activities include: spending three days in New York City at the beginning for a seminar with the Board of Global Ministries and a tour of the United Nations. In Azerbaijan, students will spend time exploring the capitol city of Baku. Participants will plan for and participate in a week-long cross-cultural family camp. Included in the program are visits to cultural, political, educational, religious and social welfare institutions, and visits to sites of historical significance.  

For more information and to apply, contact:
Dr. Miriam Freeman
Miriam.freeman@sc.edu

Jim Clark, Director of Off-Campus Education
Honors College
(803) 777-9172
jclark@schc.sc.edu

ENGLAND (London and cities in Southern England) 
Honors College Program
Dates: May 10-24, 2009
Credits: 3 undergraduate

Maymester Course: Castles, Colleges and Cathedrals in Southern England

An awareness of our English heritage is crucial to our understanding of our own American tradition, and this course is designed to develop an appreciation of that heritage.  For this purpose, the castles, colleges and cathedrals of England will be seen as a framework for our understanding of the political, cultural/educational and religious life of the nation.  We will explore the particular character of a number of these institutions, their history, and the place they have held in the life of England.  While such a study could cover a wide range of geographical locations, for purposes of time and economy this course will limit it parameters to southern England.

For more information and to apply, contact:
Dr. Hal French
FRENCHH@mailbox.sc.edu

Jim Clark, Director of Off-Campus Education 
Honors College
(803) 777-9172
jclark@schc.sc.edu

POLAND (Krakow, Warsaw and Holocaust sites) and the UKRAINE (Kiev and Holocaust sites)Honors College Program 
Dates: Maymester 2009
Credits: 3 undergraduate

Maymester Course: Krakow to Kiev: Encountering the Holocaust in Eastern Europe

Optional spring Honors College course: Representations of the Holocaust

The optional spring class "Representations of the Holocaust " will analyze the Holocaust in film, art, and literature produced in the aftermath of World War II. The class will consider how artistic representations both create and debunk mythologies that pose as authentic knowledge. 

“Krakow to Kiev” will take students to Poland in Maymester to examine the extermination centers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Majdanek along with the historic cities of Krakow and Warsaw. The Ukraine is considered the frontier of Holocaust Research and the class will visit scenes of ongoing field studies, and also the Ukrainian capitol of Kiev. 

For more information and to apply, contact: 
Dr. Ted Rosengarten
TedRSC@aol.com

Jim Clark, Director of Off-Campus Education 
Honors College
(803) 777-9172
jclark@schc.sc.edu