EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Adventure

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Adventure

june 23, 2016

What a day of adventures. I've only been in Crete for week and I've already gone cliff diving, snorkeling, cave exploring, to a vineyard and a packing company. Crete is truly a gift to man kind, it may have its economic issues but you would never see it in the faces of the locals. everyone here is so kind and welcoming, i go on morning walks and every person i pass by says hello to me, a stranger in the community.

-Atka

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EC Eastern Security Studies Program

In the summer of 2011, as the "Arab Spring" was unfolding and the "Eurozone Crisis" was entering its second year, the Emmanuel College Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies Program was established in Crete, as a way to make the location the classroom. Beyond the grand theoretical, historical and political understanding that can be achieved through reading and classroom discussion and exchange, a more immediate, intimate and truer appreciation of the complexities can only achieved by experiencing the cultures, languages of personal interaction.

Since 2012 students have been able to combine an intensive curricular study, with the experience of immersion and living in a local setting. The geopolitical and geoeconomic forces that have acted in the region for centuries, can be identified in the classroom, but they can only be understood by being there. This year's EC EMSS Program will add a fourth week of study, experience and exploration and will also travel to the islands of Rhodes, and Cyprus. In Rhodes we will be partnering with the Prefecture of Southern Aegean and the Aegean University, while in Cyprus we will be hosted by the University of Nicosia.