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S O C I 4 9 9 T r a v e
l & S t u d y I n G r e e c
e : A V i r t u a l T o u r
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C O U R S E D E S C R I P T I O N |
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| This course will take students on an intensive 10-day field trip to Greece, a country often called the world’s greatest outdoor museum yet also offering cosmopolitan cities, tranquil villages, and sun-drenched islands. Upon completion of this course students will have a better knowledge of the intricacies of international travel and a better appreciation and understanding of Greece’s ancient, Byzantine, and modern society, culture, politics, history, economics, many forms of artistic expression, philosophy, and international relations. This year's field experience will entail traveling about 12,000 air-miles 1, and 600 land-miles 2, across 14 time zones 3 to there and back, and 3,000 years of recorded history to visit 6 world-class museums4, 7 archaeological sites5, the National Parliament, Library, and Academy, a tour of many parts of Athens by coach and on foot, and much more. | |
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P E D A G O G Y |
| The accompanying professor will be lecturing and conducting dialogues with the students throughout the trip. The students will be expected to answer occasional questions on lectures delivered while traveling. Perusal of the cyber page companion site and access to its links and resources is required. There also will be a series of pre-trip group orientation meetings and two post-trip overall evaluation and group reflection meetings. Some of the pre-trip sessions will be organizational and the rest academic in nature. At the latter sessions students will also be provided with a list of book titles and other multimedia references for required perusal prior to the trip in order to familiarize themselves with various aspects of the subject studied. Students may use their own initiative to select books on Greece that reflect their own academic discipline or interest. In this case, the professor’s approval of the book chosen is required. Students shall be expected to share their experience with the rest of the university and the community at large through a variety of interactions such as guest appearances in classrooms or in more formal public forums following their return. | |
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S T U D E N T E V A L U A T I O N |
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| Students will be evaluated by completing and turning in a term paper and a book review (each worth 35% of the total grade) within 30 days from the day the class returns to SSU. The term paper must be a reflection, rather than a descriptive travelogue, of the trip and must include an interpretation of the information gained from lectures and first-hand experience. The book review must include a descriptive and an evaluative part. Click here for general instructions for a successful book review. The remaining 30% of the grade will be allocated on the basis of informal and formal evaluation by the professor during the trip on the basis of participation in discussions, scholarly conduct in general, and by meeting the pre- and post-trip expectations discussed above. Students or non-student participants of this trip who are interested in learning Greek are advised they can do so online in this excellent site. If students or community members are interested to attend Greek language courses at SSU please e-mail Prof. Hadjiyannis to register your request. |
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