EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Through the Mountains

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Through the Mountains

On Saturday we went to the Gorge. It completely exceeded my expectations. The scenery of the gorge was more beautiful than anything I have ever seen. It was very peaceful to walk through the mountains and be surrounded by nature. While walking, I thought about the people who once lived in those mountains and how their lives must have been. The mountain villages are very isolated and I can only imagine how close their communities were. Reaching the end of the mountain, we all felt a great feeling of accomplishment. Although most of us were sore the next morning, I thought it was absolutely worth it and I would love to go again in the future.

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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.