Study Abroad

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Our undergraduates have the opportunity, after their first year, to spend a full quarter living and studying in Athens or Rome through the College’s Study Abroad program. In both cities, students studying abroad complete a three-course sequence over ten weeks, which meets the College’s civilization requirement, and a language course in Italian, Modern Greek, or Ancient Greek. By choosing to study abroad, our students can attain a deeper, on-hand knowledge of both the classical world and the languages essential to studying it.

As well as the Athens and Rome programs, in which members of the Classics faculty are deeply involved, we also contribute faculty members to the Vienna in Western Civilization study abroad program, which runs in Autumn Quarter.

Students studying abroad pay full tuition, a program fee, and some living expenses. In order to defray the costs associated with studying abroad, students of Greek or Latin accepted onto either the Athens or Rome Program may apply for our Paul Shorey Foreign Travel Grant, which is worth up to $3,000.

Athens Program

The Athens Program runs in Spring Quarter. In order to participate in the Athens Program, undergraduates must apply to the College’s Study Abroad Office.

Students on the Athens Program typically live in apartments in the Pangrati neighborhood of Athens. During their quarter, they will experience both the lively and cosmopolitan nature of modern Athens and its unmistakeable heritage as a center of the classical world. As well as living and studying in Athens, students on the program will embark on excursions, covered by the program fee, to museums and archaeological sites in Athens and elsewhere in Greece, such as Delphi.

After completing the Athens Program, students receive credit for four courses:

1.  

The three-course civilization sequence “Greek Antiquity and its Legacy”, and

2.

One course in Modern Greek, or

3.

One text-based course in Ancient Greek.

The civilization sequence treats ancient Greece from prehistory to the present day and pays particular attention to the role the classical past has played and continues to play in the more recent history of Greece.

Students are placed into the language course according to their existing knowledge of Greek. Students who have sufficient knowledge of ancient Greek may substitute the text-based course for the Modern Greek course.

Rome Program

The Rome Program runs in Autumn Quarter. In order to participate in the Rome Program, undergraduates must apply to the College’s Study Abroad Office.

Students on the Rome Program typically live in apartments in the Monteverde neighborhood of Rome and study in the vicinity of the Colosseum. During their quarter, their studies and excursions will encompass the city of Rome from antiquity to the baroque, all while experiencing the vibrancy of the modern city, the center of the Christian world. The excursions covered by the program fee include a weekend trip to the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

After completing the Athens Program, students receive credit for four courses:

1.  

The three-course civilization sequence “Rome, Antiquity to the Baroque”, and

2.

The “Italian in Rome” language course.

The civilization sequence treats ancient Rome first, then early Christian Rome, and finally renaissance and baroque Rome.