Off-Campus Extended Studies Courses

Faculty-led domestic and international study and service courses that provide students opportunities to explore and experience other cultures, learn in new environments, develop skills not readily acquired elsewhere, and deepen their understanding of the global community. Curricular offerings earn .5 course credit and count toward satisfying the Extended Studies requirement; co-curricular offerings do not carry academic credit but do count toward the Extended Studies requirement.

Winter Term information

CLST 183A: The Classical Tradition in Italy (off-campus)

During this course students will explore some of the most celebrated and significant monuments of ancient Roman culture and its tradition in Italy. We will begin our explorations with approximately a week in Rome, studying and exploring the Roman Fora, the Colosseum, the Vatican Museums and St. Peter's Basilica, and early Christian Churches. We will then explore the intercultural milieu of Southern Italy and the Bay of Naples before traveling into Tuscany to study Florence, Siena, and surrounding towns. The course will focus on the art, history, and politics of Italy and how they are shaped and defined by the country's relationship with Ancient Rome. Students will spend each day on guided site visits with the faculty and will be responsible for readings, directed journal entries, and site presentations.

For more information on program costs and how to apply for the program, paste this URL into your web browser: https://offcampus.depauw.edu/_portal/program-discovery

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HIST 183A: Berlin: Layers of History (off-campus)

This course introduces students to the contemporary German capital Berlin while exploring the layers of history present in the urban landscape. We will consider several historical eras and explore how they intersect and coexist with each other and the contemporary reality. We will read texts introducing us to the different eras of German history and visit a variety of sites associated with each one. Along the way, we will examine the relationship between the individual and society (across time), explore various political forms (including 4 different iterations of modern democracy), and study the transformation of the urban landscape. The historical eras we will investigate and visit include: Berlin as the capital of the kingdom of Prussia (18th century) Imperial Germany/Berlin (1871-1919) Weimar Berlin (1919-1933) Nazi Berlin (1933-1945) Occupied Berlin (1945-1949) Divided Berlin (East and West Germany, 1949-1989) (Re-) Unified Berlin (1989-now) There are sites/museums/memorials etc. associated with each era and we will explore how contemporary Berlin makes all eras visible, while embodying a postmodern multicultural, cosmopolitan metropolis. We will also take several day trips (to a nearby Nazi concentration camp, an 18th century palace, and the location credited with being the site where the Final Solution originated).

For more information on program costs and how to apply for the program, paste this URL into your web browser: https://offcampus.depauw.edu/_portal/program-discovery

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MUS 183A: Choir Tour - Peru (off-campus)

This year's choir tour will take us to Peru. We will explore the country's rich culture and perform concerts in beautiful venues. Our first stop will be at the capital Lima, where we will visit important cultural sites and discover the history of the city at a Peruvian Cultural workshop through songs. We will also perform our first choir concert in the city of kings. We then will fly to Cusco to learn more about Peru's most exciting ancient Incan sites in the Valle Sagrado, including stops in Pisac, Ccorccor, and Urubamba. Excursions to the Salt Pans of Maras as well as a day trip to historic sanctuary of Machu Picchu will also be on the itinerary. An outreach concert at Fundación Arco Iris, a local school in Urubamba, and a performance in Cusco will wrap up our musical experience.

For more information on program costs and how to apply for the program, paste this URL into your web browser: https://offcampus.depauw.edu/_portal/program-discovery

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MUS 183A: Choir Tour - Peru (off-campus)

This year's choir tour will take us to Peru. We will explore the country's rich culture and perform concerts in beautiful venues. Our first stop will be at the capital Lima, where we will visit important cultural sites and discover the history of the city at a Peruvian Cultural workshop through songs. We will also perform our first choir concert in the city of kings. We then will fly to Cusco to learn more about Peru's most exciting ancient Incan sites in the Valle Sagrado, including stops in Pisac, Ccorccor, and Urubamba. Excursions to the Salt Pans of Maras as well as a day trip to historic sanctuary of Machu Picchu will also be on the itinerary. An outreach concert at Fundación Arco Iris, a local school in Urubamba, and a performance in Cusco will wrap up our musical experience.

For more information on program costs and how to apply for the program, paste this URL into your web browser: https://offcampus.depauw.edu/_portal/program-discovery

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MUS 183B: Choir Tour - Peru (off-campus)

This year's choir tour will take us to Peru. We will explore the country's rich culture and perform concerts in beautiful venues. Our first stop will be at the capital Lima, where we will visit important cultural sites and discover the history of the city at a Peruvian Cultural workshop through songs. We will also perform our first choir concert in the city of kings. We then will fly to Cusco to learn more about Peru's most exciting ancient Incan sites in the Valle Sagrado, including stops in Pisac, Ccorccor, and Urubamba. Excursions to the Salt Pans of Maras as well as a day trip to historic sanctuary of Machu Picchu will also be on the itinerary. An outreach concert at Fundación Arco Iris, a local school in Urubamba, and a performance in Cusco will wrap up our musical experience.

For more information on program costs and how to apply for the program, paste this URL into your web browser: https://offcampus.depauw.edu/_portal/program-discovery

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MUS 183B: Choir Tour - Peru (off-campus)

This year's choir tour will take us to Peru. We will explore the country's rich culture and perform concerts in beautiful venues. Our first stop will be at the capital Lima, where we will visit important cultural sites and discover the history of the city at a Peruvian Cultural workshop through songs. We will also perform our first choir concert in the city of kings. We then will fly to Cusco to learn more about Peru's most exciting ancient Incan sites in the Valle Sagrado, including stops in Pisac, Ccorccor, and Urubamba. Excursions to the Salt Pans of Maras as well as a day trip to historic sanctuary of Machu Picchu will also be on the itinerary. An outreach concert at Fundación Arco Iris, a local school in Urubamba, and a performance in Cusco will wrap up our musical experience.

For more information on program costs and how to apply for the program, paste this URL into your web browser: https://offcampus.depauw.edu/_portal/program-discovery

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S&A 183AA: Public Health, Community and Culture in Cuba (off-campus)

In this course, students will become integrated in the local community and have the opportunity to experience health care delivery and culture in Cuba (topics include)-Training health professionals for the world's underserved communities -visit to the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) to exchange with US medical students and faculty -A community polyclinic and neighborhood family doctor-nurse office to talk with health care providers -A Biotech pharmaceutical company -A Maternal-child health programs -Elderly Day Centers: a continuous learning opportunity -Art and music in Havana communities. In addition, we travel outside of Havana to rural areas to compare the health care in these communities. This is just a glimpse of what you will be able to see in Cuba. Students will have the opportunity to live with host families, meet people from all walks of life, and see how health interfaces with the environment, education, and culture in Cuba.

For more information on program costs and how to apply for the program, paste this URL into your web browser: https://offcampus.depauw.edu/_portal/program-discovery

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UNIV 183IA: WTIS: Mexico City: The Flâneur's Megalopolis (off-campus)

Mexico City provides endless opportunities for academic explorations of key concepts in urban studies. We approach the megalopolis by assuming the role of academic flâneurs through a series of walking seminars where students learn by experiencing the city. The guides are Professors Kuecker and Puga, whose book, Mapping the Megalopolis, originated from a glorious day of academic flânerie in Mexico City. Students will gain insights from our expertise in Mexico City's prose narrative and urban theory. We will be inspired by the great intellectuals who have engaged the flâneur as a way to understand the urban phenomena, such as Baudelaire, Benjamin, and Solnit. Their works invite thinking about Lefebvre's spatial triad, planetary urbanization, and right to the city propositions, which will help us think about the megalopolis as it enters an uncertain future of 21st century crises. Walking together, and generating forms of the crónica - the primary written genre of the flâneur - we will contemplate the meaning of the flâneur in the liminal state, a time of in-between-ness in the meaning of Mexico City's existence as a megalopolis. And, yes, we will eat some great food and tell really bad jokes.

For more information on program costs and how to apply for the program, paste this URL into your web browser: https://offcampus.depauw.edu/_portal/program-discovery

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UNIV 183IB: Food, Psychology, and Culture in Spain and Portugal (off-campus)

Much scientific and popular attention focuses on what we should eat for reasons of personal nutrition, health, and global sustainability. This off-campus course will take students out of their cultural comfort zones, exposing them to novel food cultures and norms as a means of stepping back and taking a broader look at personal and societal decisions, health impacts, psychological factors, taste perception, cultural habits, evolved motivations, and unconscious cues that influence eating and impact how we produce and eat food. In sum, why do we eat what we eat, and how can people effectively change their eating habits if they have health, moral, or environmental motivations to do so? We will investigate how our relationship with food and eating contributes to the fact that the United States ranks 69th in the world for healthy life expectancy at birth, while Spain ranks 7th, and Portugal 20th. In addition, we will observe how people make different food choices (e.g., cuisine, portion sizes, time of day, norms for different meals of the day, greater reliance on cooking from fresh ingredients rather than processed foods, etc.) in Spain and Portugal, and students will get hands-on experience in cooking new cuisines.

For more information on program costs and how to apply for the program, paste this URL into your web browser: https://offcampus.depauw.edu/_portal/program-discovery

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UNIV 183IC: (North) Koreans in Tokyo: Colonialism and Education (off-campus)

As a result of a variety of factors stemming mostly from Japanese colonialism, there are currently around 700,000 ethnic Koreans living in Japan. After Japan's defeat in World War II and the division of the Korean peninsula, many of these Koreans became citizens of the newly-founded Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). To this day, there is a wide network of over 100 educational and cultural institutions for Koreans living in Japan who identify as DPRK citizens, including primary and secondary schools and one university. In this class we will study the history and present of North Koreans in Japan by visiting Chongryon (the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan), which manages these institutions. We will visit schools, cultural centers, and even temples affiliated with Chongryon, and engage in sustained dialogue with a range of North Koreans--including students, teachers and professors, administrators, monks, and parents--living in Japan about their experiences and perspectives. Through this opportunity, we will gain unique insight not only into this particular situation, but also into how colonialism manifests itself today.

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UNIV 183ID: Trip to Oman: An Arabian Odyssey (off-campus)

The course will expose students to the historical and archaeological sites in Oman, and students will become acquainted with the Omani culture, including Bedouin (nomad) and desert life. The course will take place in different parts of Oman. The Sultanate of Oman is one of the most peaceful and wealthiest nations in the world. With its magnificent natural beauty and well-preserved Arab cultural history, Oman is one of the fascinating tourist destinations in the Middle East. The country lies on the southeastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, overlooking the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Oman, and the Persian Gulf. Within this stretch of land lies an amazing range of scenery, sights, and activities. The country offers beautiful landscapes, including mountains, cliffs, canyons, deserts, and a near-pristine coastline. Omanis are liberal, compassionate, friendly, and welcoming to guests and visitors. During this trip, we will visit the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, such as Bahla Fort, the Archeological Sites of Bat, Al Khutm, and Al Ayn, the exceptional irrigation systems of Al Aflaj around the country, and the Land of Frankincense. We will also explore Nizwa fort, Jabal Shams, and Salaah city and spend a few nights in deserts to get an insight into the Omani Bedouin lifestyles and traditions. During our visit to each site, students will learn the history and discuss it with the local people linked to each site.

For more information on program costs and how to apply for the program, paste this URL into your web browser: https://offcampus.depauw.edu/_portal/program-discovery

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