EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS

Friday, July 15, 2016

July 10th, 2016

After we got settled in and took our naps we got to go to the Old City in Rhodes and it is beautiful. When you walk in its kind of like you're taking a step back in time because of all of the old architecture. However, there's still an immense modern presence as well because of all of the shops, souvenir stores, and restaurants. What I found really interesting about the Old City was the representation of all the different religions in or around Rhodes. When we were walking around we saw 2 different mosques which were beautiful and we also got to see an old catholic church. I want to go back to the Old City this week to look at the shops and hopefully go inside the mosques.

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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.