cyasummer courses

in Greece2016

COLLEGE YEAR IN ATHENS

SUMMER SESSION I: May 30–June 25, 2016

MS321 Excavating in the Aegean: The Case of Despotiko $2,990

MS383 Spartans and Their Worlds $2,990

MS348 Creative Nonfiction: Questions of Travel, Perceptions of Place, & the Imaginative Gaze $2,990

MS375 Sustainability Across Time and Spatial Scales in Greek Urban and Island Communities $3,600

SUMMER SESSION II: June 27–July 23, 2016

MS325 The Anthropology of Food in Greece: The Mediterranean Diet and More $2,990

MS347 When Egypt meets the Aegean: Interconnections in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean $3,600

MS384 The Global Governance of Migration: Emerging Responses to Irregular Migration $3,600

COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

Fees include tuition, course materials, housing, and some meals—see course descriptions online.

Students taking two courses are eligible for a tuition discount of $100 for each course.

For more than five decades CYA (College Year in Athens) has been offering unparalleled learning

opportunities in Greece with university-level courses taught in English focusing on Greece and

the Mediterranean world.

CYA is a not-for-profit educational institution based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and governed by a board of trustees. It offers programs in Greece through the Athens-

based International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies (DIKEMES).

COLLEGE YEAR IN ATHENSP.O. Box 390890 Cambridge, MA 02139

Tel: 617 868-8200 Fax 617 868-8207Email: info@cyathens.org

www.cyathens.org

For complete details on the CYA summer programs please go to:

www.cyathens.org

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MS321 Excavating in the Aegean: The Case of Despotiko

The course aims to introduce students to archaeological fieldwork methods and theory through active participation in the systematic excavation of the sanctuary of Apollo situated on the uninhabited islet of Despotiko, the most important Cycladic sanctuary after Delos. The first week’s classes will take place at the Archeological Museum of Paros where students will be trained in processing finds. The next three weeks will be on site learning basic methods of excavating, measuring and recording. Students will gain more fully a comprehension of the purposes of an excavation and learn how to place the sanctuary and its material culture in a theoretical context.

Faculty: Alexandra Alexandridou, PhD

The Islands of Paros and Antiparos

MS325 The Anthropology of Food in Greece: The Mediterranean Diet and More

The Mediterranean Diet is world-famous as a dietary regimen with significant health benefits. However, it also has a rich symbolic life, a place in social relationships, an importance to ritual, a connection to regional and national identity and powerful ties to memory. With an emphasis on experiential learning, the course explores the history and social context in which the Mediterranean Diet was developed and the place it has in contemporary Greek society. Issues of globalization, changes in agriculture, food tourism, food security, poverty, and consumer protection will also be discussed.

Faculty: Aimee Placas, PhD

Athens, Koroni and the Island of Aegina

MS347 When Egypt Meets the Aegean: Interconnections in Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean

The course explores the relationship of Egyptian and Greek cultures in the Bronze Age within the wider Eastern Mediterranean context. Focal points of the course are the Egyptian Collection in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the site of Akrotiri in Santorini (the Pompeii of the Prehistoric Aegean), Crete, and Mycenae. Students will have the very rare opportunity to experience hands-on activities and behind the scenes visits in order to comprehend more deeply the culture through actual contact with artifacts. In addition, distinguished scholars and specialists in Greek archaeology will be sharing their experiences and knowledge.

Faculty: Nanno Marinatos, PhD & Angelos Papadopoulos, PhD

Athens, Mycenae and the Islands of Santorini, Crete and Aegina

MS383 Spartans and Their Worlds

Since the 5th century BCE, Spartans have been viewed as paragons of military valor and of strict subordination of the individual to the state. But is this picture accurate? Through site visits and access to both literary and visual sources this history course will examine the mysteries of Spartan life and power. It will focus not only on the role of Sparta in ancient times but also on how the “concept” of Sparta and Spartan ideals were revisited and discussed in later times. In addition, the course will also look at the role and activities of Spartan women and trace the reception of Sparta in more recent centuries, from the French Revolution to Nazi Germany.

Faculty: Nigel M. Kennell, PhD

Athens, Sparta, Olympia, Messene, Delphi and Thermopylae

MS375 Sustainability Across Time and Spatial Scales in Greek Urban and Island Communities

The course will trace how human communities of different scale employed architecture, infrastructure and the natural resources available in order to sustain themselves. Students will observe the metropolis of Athens and three small Aegean islands as case studies of the structures and processes put in place to cover their needs of food, shelter, social engagement and economic development. The evolution of these settlements and the practices used in the past and present will be juxtaposed and questioned in terms of their environmental, social and economic impact.

Faculty: Vicky Sagia, MSc

Athens and the Islands of Santorini, Folegandros and Hydra

MS348 Creative Nonfiction: Questions of Travel, Perceptions of Place, and the Imaginative Gaze

Through creative nonfiction the course will use Greece as a lens to examine the ways writers draw on Greece’s rich myths, history, and literary traditions. It will explore questions that arise when writing about place and travel. In what ways do our expectations and our actual perceptions merge into a narrative? And how do outsiders’ perspectives contribute to the literary composition and creation of place? Students will work on crafting and analyzing nonfiction prose that is reflective, lyrical and/or investigative, and that borrows rhetorical elements from fiction and poetry.

Faculty: Natalie Bakopoulos, MFA & Jeremiah Chamberlin, MFA

Athens and the Island of Poros

MS384 The Global Governance of Migration: Emerging Responses to Irregular Migration

The course will study the emerging responses to irregular migration and particularly maritime irregular migration to the EU from a critical and comparative perspective. It will focus on examples from the US, EU and Australia. To see first-hand how irregular migration management is designed at the external borders of the Union, the class will travel to the island of Lesvos, currently a main disembarkation point for irregular migrants transiting from Turkey, and to Brussels, the center of decision-making. The course will effectively ask the question of whether there is indeed a global governance of irregular migration, what similarities and differences are in place, and how it impacts human mobility today.

Faculty: Angeliki Dimitriadi, PhD

Athens, the Island of Lesvos and Brussels

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