EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Send off

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Send off

I'll keep this short,

As most of you depart today and tomorrow, I wish you all good luck in your travels home or on your continued adventure abroad. The last four weeks have been full of many highs and enough lows to really put in perspective the joy it has been to travel with you all.

In familiar words, let us reflect on our "roses, thorns and buds," and hopefully, see full gardens.

Fondly,
Cole

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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.