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Consonant
with NC State’s
goal of producing future
global leaders and
world citizens, the
College of Humanities
and Social Sciences
seeks to equip students
with the knowledge and
experiences needed to
be successful in an
international environment.
The College fosters
students’ international
awareness and understanding
of global diversity
with its International
Experiences programming,
through the development
of courses across the
curriculum with international
content, and by the
establishment of an
International Studies
major and minor. CHASS
offers a range of faculty-directed
study abroad experiences
and field schools that
span the globe, and
study abroad scholarships
to support students’ participation.
CHASS also partners
with Alexander Global
Village to bring its
faculty expertise to
an even broader audience,
and supports other University
efforts aimed at internationalization.
CHASS
Summer Programs
- Some
of the many CHASS Summer
Programs include the "Summer
in India" program,
based in New Delhi.
Students enroll in
Hindi-Urdu language
classes and an "Introduction
to Indian Literature
and Culture." The
program includes academic
excursions to Haridwar,
Rishikesh, Agra, and
Jaipur.
- The “Mexico
Summer Program” includes
classes at the Universidad
Internacional in
Cuernavaca, Mexico
and homestays with
local Mexican families.
That program includes
excursions to Mexico
City, Taxco, Acapulco
and other sites.
- The “Florence
Summer Program” operates
in conjunction with the
University Scholars Program.
Participants enroll in
the course "Renaissance
Society and Culture" and
may take an additional
credit or non-credit
course. Program includes
academic excursions
to Pisa, Venice, Pompeii
and Vesuvius, and
other sites.
- The “Oxford
Program” is
now in its 31st year.
Participants live
in a Benedictine college
which is part of Oxford
University, and choose
among several courses
taught by Oxford fellows
and dons. There are
excursions to Stonehenge,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
London, and more.
- The “Vienna
Summer Program” operates
in cooperation with IKI,
a German language school.
Students enroll in a
German Language class
and in the course “Arts
of Vienna 1900.” Program
excursions include
Salzburg and Prague.
- The “Carriacou
Summer Program” involves
the archaeological
excavation of prehistoric
sites.
- In
the “Month
in Melbourne" program,
N.C. State students experience
a wide range of Australian
sites--including Sydney,
Tasmania and the Grampians--and
study travel writing
and Australian art & culture.
- The "Archaeological
Fieldwork" and "Caribbean
Archaeology" program
includes training
in high-tech survey
and excavation techniques
at the ceramic age
site of Grand Bay.
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| Students
at
an archaeological
site
in Carriacou. |
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A
view of the Gulf
of Naples during
an academic excursion
to Southern Italy. |
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NC
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on an Environmental
Studies excursion. |
For
more information on these
programs and others,
consult the Study
Abroad
Office Summer Programs website.
In
addition to these exciting
summer programs, CHASS
is launching three new
international initiatives:
France:
Participants
will discover
the
France
that most visitors
never
experience
by traveling
to a small
town
in Burgundy as
part
of the Interdisciplinary
Studies Abroad Program, "Artists
and Patrons.” French
culture from medieval
monastery at Fontenay
to the Belle Epoque
in
Paris is revealed
through art,
and by
presentations
on the artists and
the
patrons who paid
for
it. The Crusader
church
at Vezelay, the
collections
and tombs of the
Dukes
of Burgundy in the
age
of
chivalry, a Renaissance
chateau and selected
museum
collections in
Paris tell of changing
and enduring ideals
over several centuries
in
the formation of
a French identity.
The program is aimed
at upperclass undergraduates
and graduate students.
For
more information
contact: Stephanie_Spencer@ncsu.edu
Thailand:
Thailand has a rich
and vibrant history,
and is a place of incredible
natural beauty. It is
home
to one of the world's
earliest Bronze Age
cultures, as well as
ancient walled cities
and elaborate Buddhist
temples.
One of the few Asian
countries never
colonized by the West,
its culture has flourished
with little outside
interference.
Two programs in Thailand
are currently under
development. The first
is
a summer bioarchaeological
field school with a
particular focus on
excavation and analysis
of human skeletons
from Thailand's Bronze
Age. The second is
a semester program at
Silpakorn
University in Bangkok,
where students will
take courses in the
cultural studies, the
arts, and history of
Thailand. Both programs
will include
excursions to important
archaeological sites.
For more information,
contact Troy_Case@ncsu.edu
Florence
Semester:
Florence, Italy, has
ranked among
the world's greatest
centers
of learning for seven
hundred years.
It continues to be
dynamic
and progressive. Mary
McCarthy
observed that "Florence
is not a shrine of
the past...it is a
working
city." The "Florence
Semester Program
in Contemporary Italian
Society" helps
students to understand
that city, and Italian
culture more generally.
Participants register
for one common course, "Contemporary
Italian Society
and Culture," and
up to four other
classes. While
in Florence, participants
are also required
to take part in
volunteer
activities under
the auspices of
the non- profit "Florence
Angels," an
organization
that
offers
meals and services
to
the city's poor.
For
more information,
contact
Anne_Schiller@ncsu.edu
Director,
CHASS International
Programs: Anne Schiller
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