CLS 351/An Odyssey in Ancient Greece and STUDY ABROAD IN GREECE AND TURKEY

This multiweek experience includes visits to the major classical sites
of Athens, Olympia, and Delphi, as well as to important sites elsewhere
in the ancient Greek world, such as Knossos and other Bronze Age sites
in Crete or ancient and Byzantine sites in Istanbul and western Turkey.
The course examines various artistic media and intellectual traditions,
especially literature, philosophy, architecture, and decorative
sculptural programs, in their concrete physical context, with attention
to their religious and cultural functions as well as their social,
political, historical, and/or artistic value. The study of ancient
texts, ideas, and material culture takes place on site and in the
context of the atmosphere of the Aegean – the food, the climate, the
contours of the landscape, the people, the language, the light, and the
rhythm of life.

Faculty: Lee Ann Riccardi (riccardi@tcnj.edu) and Glenn Steinberg
(gsteinbe@tcnj.edu)
Trip Dates: Dec. 31, 2013-Jan. 17, 2014
Includes visits to sites in Greece in Athens, also Delphi, Olympia,
Mycenae, Tiryns, Corinth, Epidauros and sites in Turkey in Istanbul,
also Izmir, and Ephesus

African American Women’s History & Global Women Writers in New Orleans

The Women’s and Gender Studies Department will offer two courses taught in New Orleans for the winter session. Students enrolled in the course students will examine the literary expression of global women writers as a means of interrogating the roles of women as colonial and post-colonial subjects through the lens of feminist and post-colonial theory.In addition to archival work, students will explore the worlds of African American women with experiences such as plantation, museum and city tours.

Faculty:Professor Ann Marie Nicolosi and Professor Mary Lynn Hopps
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Summer Faculty Programs

TCNJ Italy – Maymester 2013

In La Cucina Della Nonna (grandmother’s kitchen) class students will study the origins and assimilation of Italian cuisine in American history and culture. Students will explore the relationship between food, culture and gender with special attention to the ways in which Italian American women have been the conduits of Italian culture and cuisine in their roles as mothers and grandmothers.The travel portion of this course will allow you to experience the “push” factor of the migratory process in the “push/pull” historical theory of migration by focusing on the southern Italian and Sicilian regions responsible for the majority of Italian migration to the United States in this era. It will also enable students to understand the ways in which food is transformed, as well as migrants, in the process of acculturation, and for this historical period, the process of “Americanization.’

Program Director: Dr. Ann Marie Nicolosi, Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and History/Chair, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

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TCNJ Silk Road – Maymester 2013

This 3-week experience is designed to acquaint students first-hand with the historical sites, culture, intellectual life and geography of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, located in the heartland of Central Asia.

The course will examine various cultural and intellectual traditions of central Asia, especially architectural, spiritual, and artistic traditions. During on-site visits, students will examine the relationship between material culture and historical transformation from the Islamic period through the tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet eras of nation building and economic change. Students will apply and expand upon the knowledge they gained from the spring 2013 seminar (HIS-445) as they experience this ethnically and linguistically diverse region of Turko-Persianate culture.

Program Director: Dr. Jo-Ann Gross, Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Eurasian Studies, Department of History

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TCNJ Holocaust Study Tour – Maymester 2013

This program has been designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the European Genocide of Jews during the mid-twentieth century. The class will travel to Germany, Czech Republic, and Poland, where we will visit historical sites related to the Holocaust and its commemorations. Students in the program will meet with historians, politicians, and others to discuss the political and social repercussions of the devastating episode in Europe. The study tour will bring students into contact with a variety of historical sites, including museum, religious institutions, memorial sites, and former concentration campus. While genocide and the Shaoh are program focal points, students will also have the opportunity to learn about the vibrant Jewish culture in pre-war Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, as well as contemporary European culture.

Program Director: Dr. Cynthia Paces, Professor of History

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