EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS

Friday, July 15, 2016

July 13, 2016

Today was our second scavenger hunt trip in Rhodes, but this time there was a plot twist Prof. Vamvakas made it an individual assignment. For this scavenger hunt we were able to go inside a beautiful castle and look for certain objects, which we had to write descriptions for. Once we had all 10 of the objects we had to run back to the hotel in order to show Prof. Vamvakas. I wish I had taken a video of us running down the Old City because everyone kept starring at us as if we were crazy.

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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.