During your time in Munich and Paris, you will discover stories each of these cities offer through the study of icons and stories, their connection to the present, and how they reveal parts of the historical and cultural context of these diverse European cities. Students will study facts, figures, food, fashion, and more via film…
This course examines tourism and travel as rhetorical practices. Tourism invites us with carefully crafted promises: must-see wonders, authentic cultures, hidden gems, once-in-a-lifetime experiences. These phrases—common across destinations—do more than encourage travel; they shape expectations, frame histories, and influence perceptions of places and people. Through readings, discussion, analysis, and field experiences, we investigate how tourism…
This course offers an examination of Middle Eastern history and politics, with a focus on the Ottoman Empire, the rise of the Turkish Republic, and the region’s evolving dynamics in the 21st century. The course examines Turkey’s complex relations with its neighbors, including Greece, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, as well as its role in broader…
Independent course work done on an individual basis under the guidance of a selected faculty member. Students are expected to propose a specific topic related to the sites, monuments (works of art), or artists available for a study in Prague.
This course engages students with particularities of Italian social life and cultural identity through selected readings, self-guided explorations, interactive encounters, creative responses and current events reports, and through group activities such as place-as-text observations and analyses of the thriving cultural spaces and distinctive neighborhoods of Rome and Florence.
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