EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS

Monday, June 10, 2019

The gorge hike was an amazing experience. We were able to see so many amazing things and have a good time together! The hardest part of the hike was climbing to the top of the Ottoman fortress. After finishing the gorge I still felt like I had plenty of energy to make the hike......then it started. Going up to the Ottoman fort was steep and difficult but that hike up showed the essence of team work and togetherness. Micheal and I fell behind on the way up but when we got to the top the rest of the group was up there waiting for us and cheered us on to the top. The hike was worth it and I am not only happy that I completed it, but that I completed it with such an amazing group of people.

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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.