Overview
IAU College is pleased to offer four January Term Programs. These programs are designed for students interested in an academic and cultural experience abroad. The academic component of each program consists of a series of briefings from leading academic, literary and political personalities and experts from around the world. Participants will visit several countries and will attend daily lectures and meetings with distinguished scholars from IAU in addition to local guides and experts in the field of politics, art history, history and culture.
Europe & the Islamic World:This program features an academic and cultural tour of key cities in France, Morocco, Spain & Turkey.Special emphasis will be placed on the importance of immigration to Europe and its current socio-cultural implications. The academic component consists of a series of briefings from leading European academic, literary and political personalities and experts on the European relationship with the Islamic world.Cities visited: Paris, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Marrakesh, Casablanca, Rabat, Algeciras, Seville, Cordoba, Granada & Istanbul.
Dates: December 29-January 18, 2015
Archaeology Tour: IAU’s January Term (J-Term) Traveling Seminar promotes visual literacy in the history of art and archaeology as well as philosophical literature from the Mediterranean Basin from Antiquity to Middle Ages. It cultivates strong research and critical thinking skills, and develops students’ abilities to synthetize cultural, historical, political, and social information as it bears upon the visual arts. The academic component consists of a series of on-site studies made by academic experts from IAU in addition to local guides and experts in the field of history, art history and archaeology. Cities visited: Rome, Naples (Pompei), Athens, Mycenia, Olympia, Delphi, Heraklion (Knossos) & Istanbul
Dates: January 2- January 18, 2015
Great Cities Tour: Traveling to some of the major European cities, this seminar will explore the rise and the establishment of the urban setting as the nexus of contemporary European culture and civilization. The course will focus primarily on the artistic conception of the city in the late nineteenth-century up to the contemporary setting, observing and studying sites that have inspired artists from Petronius to Alexandre Dumas to Franz Kafka. Through literature, cinema, music and painting, students will take advantage of the physical settings in order to better understand the aesthetic, demographic and historical importance of these cities in their European context. Students will have the opportunity to learn from and exchange their observations with experts from IAU College as well as distinguished on-site scholars and local guides in order to frame their own perception of the cities and these cities’ representation through the arts. At the end of this three-week traveling seminar, students will better appreciate the interplay between the historical realities and fictional and/or imaginary perspectives of European cities. Cities visited: Rome, Paris, Marseille, Prague & London
Dates: January 2-18, 2015
Shakespeare and the Theatre: There is no better place to study Shakespeare than the banks of the Thames, the alleys of East Cheap and amidst the architecture and vistas that he knew. This course will teach Shakespeare as one of history's great artistts - whose greatness was forged within the pressures and contingencies of the real world. Much of that world is there today to be studied and experienced. Cities visited: London, Oxford & Stratford
Dates: January 2-18, 2015
Travel Itinerary
During these seminars, participants will will stay in 3 and 4 star hotels where free Wi-Fi is available in most of the lobbies. All breakfasts and most dinners are included as well.
Course Options
The J-term Traveling Seminar can be treated as a stand-alone program (3 credits) or combined with IAU’s spring semester (18 credits) for which students would receive discounted tuition. Credit can be earned in one of six courses:
Europe & the Islamic World:
•Art History 395: Classical Islam and the European Renaissance
•Cross Cultural Studies 395: Jews, Muslims and Christians in Europe and the Islamic World
•French 395: Cultural History of France and the Islamic World
•History 395: Cultural History of Europe and the Islamic World
•Political Science 395: European Politics and the Islamic World
•Spanish 395: Cultural History of Spain and the Islamic World
Archaeology Tour:
• Art History 385: Ancient and Medieval Classical Art and Architecture
• History 385: Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean Cultural History
• Archaeology 385: Greek and Roman Archaeology
• Cross Cultural Studies 385: Muslims and Christians in Europe
• Religious Studies 385: From Polytheism to Monotheism. The Early Christian Period in Italy, Greece & Turkey
Great Cities Traveling Seminar
• European Studies 303: Europe and the Urban Space
• Anthropology 301: the Artist and the City
• Literature 375: the European City in Literature
• Communications 375: the European City in the Visual Arts
• Geography 201: Europe and its Cities
Program Fees
The program fee is $4,865 and includes:
•Tuition for 3 credits
•Lodging in 3 and 4 star hotels
•Breakfast each day and most dinners
•Entrance fees to all museums and guest lecture venues
•Intra-European transportation to and from each city
•Medical insurance
Note: Program fees do not include transcontinental airfare to Europe.
Candidates and Admission
APPLY NOW! The J-term Traveling Seminar is open to U.S. undergraduate students of any major. Applications will be accepted on a rolling, space-available basis until November 15, 2012. For any questions on the program, please contact Rebecca Deedman, IAU's J-Term Coordinator.
Visit IAU's Facebook Page to see photos from the inaugural J-Term Traveling Seminar held in January, 2012.
