Spring 2010 Semester on-campus courses
with Spring Break Studying Abroad

Duquesne University students have the opportunity to take a special kind of course - a course embedding international material in your studies for the entire semester here on campus AND including a faculty-led study tour during spring break. Since the study tour is integral to the academic course, all students enrolling in the course must commit to participating in and paying for the spring break study tour component. Cost of this component will range between $2000-$2500 per student. The exact price of each study tour will be available from the faculty leader by early September.

Course Format
Each course will meet on campus for a two-three hour class per week during the Spring semester. The early weeks of study preceding Spring Break will prepare you to take full advantage of your week at the international site. Upon return from Spring Break abroad, your studies will continue and include a project or paper based upon your international study experience.

Study Tour Format
The study tour will travel as a group under the guidance of your professor. All travel arrangements will be arranged and will include airfare, land transportation, hotels, site admissions, and many meals.

BREAK AWAY and enroll in one of these five exciting
Spring ’10 courses. Class size is limited.

BREAK AWAY to study art history in Paris, France

BREAK AWAY to study Sociology in Rome, Italy

BREAK AWAY to study Theater Arts in Brittany, France

BREAK AWAY to study Core Theology in Southern Spain

Your Next Steps (timeline to keep you on track)

BREAK AWAY to study art history in Paris, France.

Course: ARHY 331 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
(Theme Area Creative Arts)

This course will focus on the works of the French Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists. By studying the art of Manet, Monet, Cezanne, and other great masters of the period, students will explore how the artists of the late 19th century broke free from traditional rules and expectations and began the changes in style, technique and subject matter that characterize Modern Art.

Paris, the artistic center of that time, still teems with the culture and charm that inspired the artists of the period. From great museums like the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay to intimate collections like the Rodin Museum, from the artistic neighborhoods of Montmartre and the Left Bank--- Paris offers innumerable treasures for students of art history.

Max enrollment: 20 students

Prerequisites: Minimum GPA of 3.0

Professors:
Dr. Carmen Stonge (stonge@duq.edu)
Dr. Madeline Archer (archerm@duq.edu)

More information:
Dr. Stonge, 607 College Hall
or Dr. Archer, 604A College Hall

Information Sessions

back to top

........................................................................................................

BREAK AWAY to study Sociology in Rome, Italy.

Course: SOC 360 Italian Cultural Studies
(Theme Area Global Diversity, Pending Approval)

The course is an overview of contemporary Italian culture, including the changing dynamics and of the family; popular culture including music, food, cinema, media; and urban life and culture. We will read sociology, history, psychology, women’s studies and humanities related to Italian culture, and we will hone our skills as field workers in the months of the semester.

We will then take that knowledge and training to Italy during Spring Break and study the culture as a beginning ethnographer. We will spend our time in Rome, observing Italians and non-Italians in the routines of their lives. We will spend our time observing, photographing, taking notes, talking to people and in other ways gathering data that students will then use in term papers, completed back in the US.

Max enrollment: 20 students

Prerequisites: Any introductory course in social sciences or humanities.

Professor: Dr. Doug Harper (harperd@duq.edu)

More information: See Dr. Harper in 504 College Hall

Information Sessions

back to top

........................................................................................................

BREAK AWAY to study Theater Arts in Brittany, France

Course: THEA 304 Movement for the Stage: Semiotics for the Theater

This course will focus on the importance of voice and movement as crucial elements of theatrical structure and meaning; they hold the power to change the significance of words. Moreover, a great deal of theatrical content is communicated in the total absence of words. It would be truer to acknowledge that it is not just language but behavior that is being communicated in a performance. Apart from athletes, dancers, exercise physiologists and developmental psychologists, few of us have any need to be so cognitively aware of the movement aspects of our behavior. Rarely do we need to scrutinize how we accomplish everyday tasks or what varied choices we might have exercised. But a theater artist must think of how to convey these tasks, assign meaning to them, master the variations, and exercise discretion and creativity in the choosing.

Studies will be enriched by a spring break studying in collaboration with Pascal Guin, Artistic Director of Le Theatre Bleu, Riec-sur-Belon, France. Workshops will be conducted every morning and afternoon on various subjects. A workshop production of the student’s final project will be given before the French Minister of Culture who will also work with the students. Students will be billeted in private homes of the members of the Le Theatre Bleu while in France. The final evening will be spent in Paris attending a theater performance of the student’s choice.

Prerequisites
None, but students must be at least a sophomore.

Professors
Mark Thompson and John Lane (lanej@duq.edu)

More information
See Mr. Lane in 623A/B College Hall

Information Sessions

back to top

........................................................................................................

BREAK AWAY to study Core Theology in Spain

Global and Cultural Perspectives is a study of major world cultures and religions. It especially focuses on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The challenges of today’s global reality call for open and informed people who are comfortable with religious pluralism. In this course we will ask students to encounter cultural religious practices different from their own by visiting different religious communities within Pennsylvania. But in this special section we will expand our studies to learn about and travel to Andalucía in southern Spain, because for over 500 years this region successfully integrated cultural and religious diversity. Under Muslim rule, Jews, Christians and Muslims lived happily with each other.

Andalucia is one of the most beautiful parts of Spain. From the 9 th to the 15 th centuries, Christians, Muslims and Jews lived in harmony, and to this day we can see the physical evidence of this integration of cultural and religious diversity. We will be surrounded by the elegant and graceful architecture characteristic of this region, and we will explore the medieval cities of Cordoba, Grenada and Malaga. Malaga lies on the Mediterranean Sea and is part of the famous Costa del Sol (Coast of the Sun) and boasts of over 300 days of sunshine a year. It is the birthplace of Picasso, and is an attractive, cosmopolitan city situated on a beautiful sweep of bay. Cordoba and Grenada are beautiful medieval cities full of exquisite architecture, fountains and shops.

Max enrollment: 20 students

Prerequisites: None

Professors:
Dr. Marinus Iwuchukwu (iwuchukwum@duq.edu)
Dr. Aimee Light

More information: see Dr. Marinus, 612A Fisher Hall

Information Sessions

back to top

........................................................................................................

YOUR NEXT STEPS

The timeline below will help keep you on track in preparing to BREAK AWAY.

back to top