EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS

Friday, July 8, 2016

Being able to go to the US Naval base in Souda Bay and the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre was an experience I will never forget. It was such a privilege to be able to attend and have officials speak to us about what they do and what they offer. My favorite part of the trip was being able to walk around the training ship. You were really able to get a sense of what the training looks like compared to just seeing it in pictures. The technology on the ship was older but it was awesome to see first hand what it had looked like.

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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.