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last updated: 10/19/07 Study Abroad With the assistance of the Office
of Off-Campus Studies/International Education, more than 50%
of all Willamette students go abroad for part of their studies,
usually during their Junior year. In addition, Classics students can
choose between a variety of other exciting study abroad possibilities
open only to Classical Studies majors. Most recently, two Willamette
students spent a summer at the American School of Classical Studies
in Athens and helped excavate the ancient marketplace,
the Agora. Many others travel through Greece with the popular
"Willamette in Greece" program (see below). Other
students have accompanied our archaeologists, Professors David McCreery
and Ann Nicgorsky, to their excavations in Jordan and on Crete.
Further options for interested majors include the prestigious College
Year in Athens or a semester at the Intercollegiate Center
in Rome. Classics majors may also apply for one of the Lionel
Pearson Fellowships awarded by the American Philological Association
to spend a year of post-baccalaureate studies in Classics at a British
university of the student's choice. This writing-centered
post-session course, open to non-Classics Majors as well,
is a 4-week postsession program that centers on a field study in
the museums and important historical/cultural sites throughout the
mainland of Greece and the Mediterranean islands of Aegina and Crete.
The one-credit course explores the origins of Western rhetoric through
the exploration of archaeological ruins, the readings of Pericles,
Lysias, and Isocrates, and the visualization of changes in Greek
art, architecture, and lifestyle. For further information, please
see the Willamette
in Greece website or contact Prof. Jeanne Clark <jclark@willamette.edu>
or Prof. Catherine Collins <ccollins@willamette.edu>
. Some Pictures from the Student
and Faculty Tour 2001:
Among the programs offered by the Office of Off-Campus Studies,
the programs in London, Perth (Australia) and Munich (Germany) are
of particular interest for Classics students. London offers
not only the British Museum, but also rich Roman remains. The
University of Western Australia in Perth (Australia) has
a strong Classics Department
with internationally renowned faculty. During a Spring semester
at the National University of Ireland in Galway, students
could enjoy not only Ireland's beautiful countryside but also take
their pick among many interesting courses offered by the Galway
Classics Department. For students with a background in German,
a year in Munich could be a very attractive option. Munich
is not only a Celtic-Roman city, it also houses world-class collections
of ancient art (Staatliche
Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek).
A center of Classical studies in Germany with excellent departments
of Classics,
Ancient
History, and Archaeology,
Munich is the home of the Thesaurus
Linguae Latinae, the ultimate dictionary of the Latin language.
(or, in Cataloguese, IDS 351* (W) Culture of Ancient
Greece)
Bus Trip to the National
Archaeological Museum in Athens; map-reading group in front (from
left to right): Jeanne Clark (Rhetoric), Bob Hawkinson (Dean), Stasinos
Stavrianeas (Exercise Studies)
Students on the site of
the so-called Apollo Temple in Corinth: Front row from left to right:
Trish, Megan, Kate, Allyson, Brynn, Prof. Gretchen Moon (English)
Professor Lane McGaughy
(Religion) in conversation with the Director of the American School
excavations of Corinth, Professor Robin Rhodes (Notre Dame), who gave
us a great tour of the site.
Students filled with the
Olympic Spirit in Olympia
Professor Stas Stavrianeas
(Exercise Science) dwarfed by the ruins of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia