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French Language and Culture in Paris

Location: Paris, France
Dates: June 29 - July 31 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 4 - French language and culture
Estimated program costs: $4,220, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, shared housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Catholic Institute of Paris
Academic Director: Karen Sullivan, ELL, Queens College, karen.sullivan@qc.cuny.edu
Airfare: NY-Paris-NY estimated currently at $1000

Living in the place you are reading about will make the texts come alive; reading about the places you are exploring will make your experience of those places much more exciting and meaningful. "Eyes-and-ears-on" writing assignments and visits to sites described in the texts will help you to discover the true joy and challenges inherent in traveling, in which, as Jack Kerouac said “You always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.” Through assigned journal entries and writing assignments, you will also have the chance to add your own voice, your own thoughts and impressions, to the existing body of travel literature about Paris.

Location: Paris, France
Dates: June 28 -July 25 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 3 - 4
Estimated program costs: $3499, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, shared housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Airfare: NY-Paris-NY estimated currently at $900
Faculty: Queens College
Academic Director: Janet Hulstrand, janet.hulstrand@gmail.com

Photography in Florence

This course (Studio Art 375) is an introduction to the digital photography world with particular focus on updated techniques and how they can be incorporated into classic fine art photography. The course will explore the use of state-of-the-art computer 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 the course. FUA's Digital Laboratory is equipped with the most updated computers, software and peripherals.

Location: Florence, Italy
Dates: Session 1: May 27 - June 27 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Session 2: July 1 - August 1 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 3 - Studio Art 375
Estimated program costs: $3,640, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, housing in apartments, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Florence University of the Arts
Academic Director: Tony Gonzalez Art Department, Queens College, gonoma2@yahoo.com
Airfare: NY-Rome-NY estimated $1000

Art History in Florence

This introductory art history course will take students through seven centuries of Italian art from the early medieval period up to and including the nineteenth century. Special emphasis will be given to Florentine art of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and to the 'Golden Age' of the Renaissance period . Since this course is aimed at students who have not taken a history of western art course before, a background in ancient Greek and Roman art will be covered at the beginning of the course. Slide lectures will alternate with on-site teaching in Florence, including architectural walking tours and visits to museums, churches and palaces.

Location: Florence, Italy
Dates: Session 1: May 27 - June 27 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Session 2: July 1 - August 1 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 3 - Art History
Estimated program costs: $3,640, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, housing in apartments, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Florence University of the Arts
Academic Director: Eileen Krest, Art Department, Queens College; eileen.krest@qc.cuny.edu
Airfare: NY-Rome-NY estimated $1000

Jewelry Making in Florence

This workshop-based course gives the students a solid grounding in the basic practical skills and techniques necessary for jewelry making as an art form. The emphasis of the course is on craftsmanship. Students will learn soldering, assembly skills and finishing, with emphasis on the handling of metals. Prerequisites: Please note this course has a limited enrollment.

Location: Florence, Italy
Dates: Session 1: May 27 - June 27 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 3
Estimated program costs: $3,640, includes tuition for one 3-credit course, cultural program, airfare, housing in apartments, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Florence University of the Arts
Academic Director: Elizabeth Lowe, Chair, Department of Family, Nutrition & Exercise Sciences, Queens College; elizabeth.lowe@qc.cuny.edu
Airfare: NY-Rome-NY estimated $1000

Food, Culture and Culinary Arts in Florence

This 3-credit course, Food, Culture & Society in Italy, focuses on what is generally defined as "made in Italy": culture and style in post-war Italy. Topics include the role of women in Italian society, the survival of superstitions, food and wine as cultural traditions, the effect of social change on culture and style. Field trips, cooking and wine tasting lessons, audio-visual material. Recommended for students with a interest in Italian food traditions, society, and culture.

Location: Florence, Italy
Dates: Session 1: May 27 - June 27 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Session 2: July 1 - August 1 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 3
Estimated program costs: $3,640, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, housing in apartments, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Apicius-The Culinary Institute of Florence
Academic Director: Elizabeth Lowe, Chair, Department of Family, Nutrition & Exercise Sciences, Queens College; elizabeth.lowe@qc.cuny.edu
Airfare: NY-Rome-NY estimated $1000

Fashion And Fashion Marketing in Florence

Fashion Marketing
Dates: Session 1: May 27 - June 27 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Session 2: July 1 - August 1 (Depart NY - Return NY)
This course is an introduction to marketing and merchandising concepts in fashion retail, with an emphasis on the apparel and accessory industry in Italy. Students learn terminology specific to the field and how to forecast trends. Other topics include: visual merchandising , planning, advertising, roles and components of the primary and secondary markets, different forms of in-store and non-store retail, consumer behavior and profiles, information systems, store location and design, and assessing the quality/cost equation of products. On-site visits to fashion retailers, buyers and trade fairs in Florence and Milan are an integral part of this course.

Introduction to Fashion
Dates: Session 1: May 27 - June 27 (Depart NY - Return NY)

This course is an introduction to creative design development and fashion design skills. Topics include: design processes of trend research, storyboard compiling, color story, fabric selection, draping design concepts, design innovation and the 2-D to 3-D development of creative ideas. There will be assigned projects in all of these areas. Students will also be introduced to the basics of fashion illustration.

Location: Florence, Italy
Credits: 3
Estimated program costs: $3,640, includes tuition for one 3-credit course, cultural program, airfare, housing in apartments, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Florence University of the Arts
Academic Director: Elizabeth Lowe, Chair, Department of Family, Nutrition & Exercise Sciences, Queens College; elizabeth.lowe@qc.cuny.edu
Airfare: NY-Rome-NY estimated $1000

Italian Language and Culture

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, in collaboration with the European Languages and Literatures Department at Queens College and the University for Foreigners of Perugia (Universitá per Stranieri di Perugia), is offering a summer study abroad program for students interested in Italian language and culture. It will be held at Universitá per Stranieri di Perugia, Italy’s oldest and most prestigious enter of Italian language education.

Location: Perugia, Italy
Dates: Session 1: June 1 - June 30 (Program Start and End Date)
Session 2: July 1 - July 31 (Program Start and End date)
Credits: 6 - All levels of language, Italian culture, conversation, and Italian literature. Two month program and Intensive Language programs are also available (contact Joseph Grosso)
Estimated program costs: $1,370, includes tuition, cultural program, day visit to historical site, and program fee. Airfare, housing, and travel insurance are not included.
Faculty: Universita per Stranieri - Perugia
Program Coordinator: Joseph Grosso, Calandra Institute, Queens College, joseph.grosso@qc.cuny.edu
Academic Director: Hermann Haller, ELL, Queens College, hhaller@gc.cuny.edu
Airfare: NY-Rome-NY estimated currently at $900 June, $1050 July

Rome: A Portrait in Film and Literature

Rome… at once the ancient capital of an empire and modern capital of the world… seat of the Catholic Church surrounded by temples and monuments to the Roman gods… a city with thousands of years of history living and breathing in its aqueducts and abutting buildings, compressed and bound together, creating a unique mosaic in some kind of cohesive whole… What more intriguing and mysterious locale to inspire writers.

In this writing-based, thematic course, we will explore the character of the “place” of Rome as we walk its physical and temporal landscape. We’ll dive into relevant American and British literature and film inspired by or situated in the city of Rome. For instance, we’ll read Bryon, Shelley, and Keats on the Spanish Steps, then cross the street to the imaginary café (near the actual Café Greco, where the Romantic Poets held court) where Tom Ripley played his cat and mouse game in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Or to Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever”, and then watch Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. We’ll consider Mark Twain’s impressions of Rome then juxtapose to Ernest Hemingway’s. We’ll cruise the catacombs of Rome with the Vampire Lestat, and more!

Ultimately, through writing, each student will construct their own sense of Rome, its place, its mystery, its secrets, its nightmares and dreams. To ground this course, we must first establish an historical and cultural context for when and how and Rome came to be, from the former capital of an Empire to the epicenter of Catholicism and a European and world capital in its own right. You will also be introduced to some rudiments of Italian language, custom, and cuisine. Consider this a culture component of the program.

Location: Rome, Italy
Dates: July 11 - August 9 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 3
Estimated program costs: $2,998, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, shared housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Academic Director: Morgan Schulz, Queens College, mxism@aol.com
Airfare: NY-Rome-NY estimated $900

Traditional Music in Ireland

This course will combine music appreciation with Irish and Irish-American cultural history. It will offer students a cross-disciplinary insight into traditional music, song and dance culture in Ireland from pre-famine to the present. Using a diversity of multimedia presentations, workshops and live performances, students will be introduced to the transcultural journey of Irish music, song and dance during the last two centuries. Particular attention will be given to the impact of famine and emigration on Ireland’s musical heritage. The course will also examine the politics of music and song associated with the Land War and Home Rule movement of the late 19th century, as well as the foundation of major cultural nationalist organisations including The Gaelic Athletic Association, The Gaelic League, and Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Éireann. The course will culminate with a critique of the recent globalization of Irish traditional music culture, which has been fueled by transnational phenomena such as Riverdance and Lord of the Dance.

Location: Galway, Ireland
Dates: May 31 - June 28 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits:
Estimated program costs: $2,899, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, shared housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Queens College
Academic Director: Clare Carroll, Irish Studies; Ed Smaldone, Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College,

Airfare: NY-Ireland-NY estimated $800

Irish History

The course surveys the major political, economic, and social developments in Ireland from the Act of Union to the present day. Events highlighted in the early part of the course include the birth of Irish Republicanism and the Orange Order, the Act of Union, Catholic Emancipation, and the causes and consequences of the 1840s Famine. The survey of post Famine Ireland covers the development of modern Nationalism and Unionism with an examination of why Ireland was partitioned along apparently religious lines in the 1920s. An overview of Ireland since Partition concludes with an analysis of the current post Celtic Tiger Republic, and the prospects for continuing peace and devolved government in Northern Ireland.

Location: Galway, Ireland
Dates: May 31 - June 28 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 3
Estimated program costs: $2,899, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, shared housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Queens College
Academic Director: Prof. Patrick McGough, Queens College
Airfare: NY-Ireland-NY estimated $800

Mythology and Heroic Literature

Location: Athens, Greece
Dates: June 30 - July 30 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 3
Estimated program costs: $3,299, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, shared housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Queens College
Academic Director: Constance Tagopoulos, Queens College/UNIDY
For more information, contact Gary Braglia
Faculty: Queens College

Athens Seminar in Drama

Seminar in Drama (3 credits)
Acting Projects Drama (3 credits)
European Languages and Literatures (1 credit)

This course looks at how Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles inspired The Rest of Oedipus by Robert Montgomery. We will study theater’s great beginnings in the world around Athens, how it served the community, and then compare this with our own purposes in theatre. Field trips to the classic theatres in the area will be an indigenous part of our search for the modern relevance of the ancient Athenian genius. In class, we will study the differences and similarities between Oedipus at Colonus and The Rest of Oedipus – in story and structure, in purpose and effect, and in its use of music and the Chorus. Students will discuss and try their own hands at the process of adapting and being inspired from the classic text – in dialogue as well as choral lyric. Professor Constance Tagopoulos of Indianapolis University in Athens will read portions of Oedipus at Colonus in its original Greek, for us all to hear the original music Sophocles still sings today. Major themes of The Rest of Oedipus – inspiration, attention, the dramatic action of “sitting” meditation – will be explored in the text as well as with some theatre exercises.

Location: Athens, Greece
Dates: June 27- July 27 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 4*
Estimated program costs: $3,469*, includes 4 credit tuition, cultural program, airfare, shared housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Queens College
Academic Director: Robert Montgomery, Susan Einhorn, Queens College
* - students have option to receive an additional 3 credits, making the total program cost for 7 credits - $3979
For more information, contact Gary Braglia
Faculty: Queens College

Society and Politics in Ancient Greece

Location: Athens, Greece
Dates: May 31 - June 28 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 3
Estimated program costs: $3,299, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, shared housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Queens College
Academic Director: Helen Gaudette, History, Queens College
For more information, contact Gary Braglia
Faculty: Queens College

Berlin - Language and Literature

Location: Berlin, Germany
Dates: Session II: Six weeks, June 5 - July 19 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Session III: Four weeks July 24 - August 23 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 3 - 12
Estimated program costs: $2,910 - 5,300, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, shared housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Queens College
Academic Director: Christa Spreizer, christine.spreizer@qc.cuny.edu,
For more information, contact Gary Braglia

Mexico: Art and Culture

Location: Guanajuato, Mexico
Dates: July 12 - August 9 (Depart NY - Return NY)
Credits: 3
Estimated program costs: $2,610, includes tuition, cultural program, airfare, shared housing, travel insurance, and program fee
Faculty: Eileen Krest, Art Department, Queens College; eileen.krest@qc.cuny.edu
Academic Director: Kassaundra Gutierrez-Thompson, Queens College, kassaundra.gutierrezthomps@qc.cuny.edu
For more information, contact Gary Braglia

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