EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Cant believe the second week is already over! We did so much this week its all blending together. S/O to Tess for the reminder of what we did. My favorite thing that we did this week was go to the NATO Missile Firing Installation. It was a privilege to be able to have such an experience. It was so interesting to learn about the process a country must go through to use the base if they are not a user country. I also was greatly interested in the safety precautions the base uses. What shocked me the most about this was that they have a set time of year for firing to avoid high traffic periods.

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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.