EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: For the Betterment of the State

Thursday, June 27, 2019

For the Betterment of the State

Over the past three weeks we have all changed the way that we conduct ourselves and it has been amazing to watch and understand. When we first started we would be running around and all run into the store to buy a bottle of water, but in Rome almost 3 weeks later it changed. When we were all running to the airport we helped share the load. We passed bags around to help relive the weight, and there were times when people went into stores to get water for the whole group. This teamwork makes you feel whole. It really makes our group feel like a family. Originally we had a joke about all being comrades and doing things for the betterment of the "State". Now we actually do things to improve the State (our group).

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Michael GiordanoJune 27, 2019 at 11:38 AM
Yes, comrade. We are one.
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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.