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Liberal Studies Department

Travel Opportunities

During January 2007 students will travel to Italy with history professor Tim Rawson and writing/lit instructor Gina Miller. The itenary will include visits to Rome and Florence. More details to come.

Recent trips

January 2006 students travelled to Southern Spain following the adventures of Don Quixote in a quest for the "Literature of Moorish Spain". Philosophy professor Mark Faller and writing/lit instructor Gina Miller led students on an itinerary that included visits to Madrid, Segovia, Toledo, Cordoba, Seville, Granada and Costa del Sol.

In 2005 students along with a group of war veterans explored the history and culture of Vietnam with history professor Tim Rawson and communications professor Lynn Paulson. The goal of this course was to examine Vietnam as a country rather than as a war. Themes included Vietnamese religion, philosophy, literature, arts, architecture, cuisine, political evolution and struggles.

With the return of the Summer Olympic Games to Athens in 2004, philosophy, religion and history professors Mark Faller, Regina Boisclair and Tim Rawson thought it appropriate to lead a course there as well. This course focused on the history and culture of Greece, from our modern roots in pre-Christian Greece through the Byzantine era, conquest by the Ottoman Turks, WWII and so forth. The main theme was Greece as a modern nation state shaped by the cross-currents of history. The team's itenerary included the Mycenaen ruins and the theater of Epidaurus in Corinth, the site of the origional games in Olympia, the Oracle at Delphi, Thessalonika and the Acropolis in Athens.