Wheaton Faculty-led Short-term Study Abroad Programs

German 099: Berlin: Site of Memory, Site of Construction

Faculty Leader
Tessa Lee, German Department

Dates TBA

Cost TBA

Course Description
Berlin is once again the place to be for both profit- and thrill-seekers, resonating with the vibrant energies of the Roaring Twenties before its imminent fall to fascism and subsequent division. This course examines the political, social and cultural metamorphoses of the city with a special focus on the intercultural crossroads in literature, film, music, and architecture. In this exposure trip, we will see firsthand how new identities and memories are formed at this local/global construction site, the burgeoning center of a unified Germany and a unifying Europe.

Credits
Students will receive .5 Wheaton credits for this 200-level course.

Course Prerequisites
All students participating in this course will have had at least one semester of German.

Attendance at all site visits and lectures are mandatory.

Students will be required to write a 5 page response paper to one or more of the three questions that will be addressed during the course of the program. Students will do an oral presentation on-site in Berlin. Students will also be required to present their individual projects in a post-travel meeting. Students will also be asked to complete an evaluation form at the end of the program.

MUSC 204: Innovative Music Traditions of Trinidad Tobago

Faculty Leader
Julie Searles, Visiting Instructor of Music

Dates TBA

Course Description
This course is designed to bring students to the communities that have created the inspired and uniquely innovative music traditions of Trinidad. We will explore the chronological development of Calypso, the song tradition of verbal artistry and social commentary that arose from the Chantwell as he walked among his Kalenda stick fighters. We can intellectually grasp how Tamboo Bamboo ensembles slowly morphed into percussive ensembles that initially utilized discarded biscuit tins and oil drums -- percussive ensembles that evolved and became one of the greatest instrumental contributions of the 20th century.

Credits
1 Wheaton credit upon successful completion of the program.

Assignments
The assignments will include a journal for fieldnotes and personal reflection that students will keep on a daily basis. A research project will focus on an aspect of the music culture that has been of particular interest to each individual student. The project paper will include secondary source material, accessed before and after our trip, but will rely most heavily on information gathered in the field. The paper will be turned in a week after we return from Trinidad.

Arts 298: Arts in Ireland

Faculty Leader
Andrew Howard, Faculty in Studio Art
Tim Cunard, Faculty in Studio Art

Dates June 9th -

Course Description
Arts in Ireland will provide participating students with an opportunity to create art inspired by the people, culture, and geography of Ireland. The specific area we will be visiting is known as the Burren. The Burren is located on the west coast of Ireland in County Clare. Our facilities and resources will be housed at the Burren College of Art, a small art college founded in 1994 in the town of Ballyvaughan. The Burren College of Art will provide our students with studio facilities, housing, and resources to make our time in Ireland truly memorable. Fifteen students will travel to Ireland, accompanied by Professors Howard and Cunard from Wheaton. We are all very excited about this program and we look forward to an inspired three weeks of art making.

Credits
1 Wheaton credit upon successful completion of the program

Course Prerequisites
Drawing 1 or 2-D Design, or 3-D Design. Students wishing to pursue photography as a part of this course must have completed Photo 1 at Wheaton. Limited to 15 students.

Course Blog

Religion 328: Buddhism and Development

Faculty Leader
Jeff Timm, Faculty in Religion

Dates June 27 - July 15, 2006

Cost $4,048.

Course Description
This special study/tour takes students to Bhutan for three weeks to study Buddhism and development. Traditionally Buddhism has emphasized development in the form of individual and collective Ã∞â≈ Ã≠¡Ã∞¢ââ√˚Ë˚Ã≠«psycho-technologiesÃ∞â≈ Ã≠¡Ã∞â√ı×â√« designed to transform affliction and confusion into enlightenment. In the case of Bhutan, in particular (and for contemporary engaged Buddhism in particular) development also concerns implementing Buddhist paradigms from the top down by developing Buddhist social theory, in economic development, as well as in environmental and cultural conservation. During this study/tour students will examine development in Bhutan from the bottom up, through visits to monasteries, temples and sacred places, as well as from the top down, i.e. by exploring contemporary Bhutanese approaches to economic development, to environmental conservation and to the forces of globalization.

Credits
1 Wheaton credit upon successful completion of the program.

Course Prerequisites
Religion 108, Religion 326 or permission of the instructor

Psychology 308: Child Development in the Navajo Nation

Faculty Leader
Derek Price, Psychology Department

Dates January 4 - 22, 2006

Cost $600

Course Description
A cultural perspective on child development is sought through a service learning relationship with a Navajo community school that itself engages in service learning with nearby families. The specific conceptual goals are: to learn about Navajo cultural contexts for child development; to understand schooling in the Navajo Nation; to learn about Navajo child development through direct interactions; to understand our service relationships with our hosts; and to understand our own views of child development as culturally constructed.

Credits
Students will receive 1 credit for this 300-level course.

Course Prerequisites
Students must have completed the Psychology 306 course prior to attending this program. Students should speak with Professor Price directly regarding program admission.

French 190: January In Paris

Faculty Leader
Cecile Danehy, Faculty in French

Course Description
The program is intended for Beginning French students who have taken French in the Fall semester. It will provide exposure to the French culture and will hopefully deepen their interest in the French language. Its purpose is to complement, but not replace the second semester of FR 102. Visits to museums, theater, and cinema along with a day trip to Chartres will be included.

INT 298: Witnessing Contemporary Africaness

Faculty Leader
Peony Fhagan-Smith, Professor in Psychology (January 2008)

Dates TBA

Course Description
Witnessing Contemporary Africaness is an intensive, interdisciplinary course designed to give students exposure and an overview of two different African countries Ã∞â≈ Ã≠¨C South Africa and Botswana. Course activities and assignments will function through the use of on-site visits to townships and neighborhoods, museums, meetings with local politicians and journalists, lectures from local academics, and meetings with university students.

Course Objectives
-Study the idea and history of African identity in southern Africa
-Identify how contemporary social issues such as changing gender roles, orphanage, migration and urbanization impact identity formation
-Learn about and identify ways in which globalization, technology and various social problems, such as AIDS, interact with expressions of African identity
-Collect and catalogue artifacts that illustrate such expressions
-Engage in critical reflection in order to name, analyze and write about the differences between contemporary African and American identity

Credits
Students will receive 1 credit for course.

Course Prerequisites
None

Deadlines
Applications are due by TBA.

Applications Students must complete a Wheaton Study Abroad Application and submit materials to lead faculty by specified deadline.

EDUC 070: Education Internship: Brighton, England

Faculty Leader
Mary Lee Griffin, Professor in Education

Dates June 2 - 17, 2006

Cost
$2,200. tuition plus expenses for students which typically run about $700.00. Tuition covers airfare, room and breakfast, faculty travel and stipend as well as stipends and fees to participating UK schools.

Course Description
This course places Wheaton education minors for two weeks as classroom interns in British primary school classrooms. The two school sites for 2006 are Woodingdean Primary School and DownÃ∞â≈ Ã≠¡Ã∞â√ı×Ë˙s View School, both in Woodingdean, U.K. This experience allows Wheaton education students to observe and learn about British literacy and numeracy practices as well as the educational implication of implementing a national curriculum in these school settings, one a Ã∞â≈ Ã≠¡Ã∞¢ââ√˚Ë˚Ã≠«typical school,Ã∞â≈ Ã≠¡Ã∞â√ı×â√« the other a school for profound special needs students.

Credits
Students will receive .5 credits for this course.

Course Prerequisites
None

Art History: Ritual and Representation in Early Modern Florence

Faculty Leader
Allison Levy, Professor in Art

Dates Three weeks in January 2005

Course Description
Ritual and Representation in Early Modern Florence is an intensive, focused course taught in Florence, Italy over a three-week period in January. This interdisciplinary though fundamentally art historical course explores the relationship between social rituals associated with the life-cycle -- such as birth, childhood, marriage, family and death -- and visual and material culture -- deschi da parto (birth trays), cassoni (marriage chests), spalliere (installed wall paintings), portraiture and tomb sculpture, for example. The course will consist of 10 two-hour lectures, all conducted on-site in the corresponding churches and chapels, galleries and museums, and piazze and palazzi. Two academic excursions (an overnight trip to Venice and a day trip to Bologna) allow for comparative study. In addition, three two-hour directed museum visits will emphasize style and iconography.

Credits
Students will receive .5 Wheaton credits for this 200-level course.

Course Prerequisites
Participants need not be an art history major or minor, but should have completed Great Works I and II, the survey of Western art. This is a rigorous program; mature, responsible and focused students are encouraged to apply. Limit: 15 students

Deadlines For further information contact Professor Levy

Applications Students must complete a Wheaton Study Abroad Application and submit materials to lead faculty.

Biology 318: Tropical Field Biology

Faculty Leaders
Dr. Scott Shumway has travelled, studied, and/or taught in Bahamas, Belize and Costa Rica. Dr. Shawn McCafferty has conducted research on tropical fish including six years at the Smithsonian Tropical Reseach Institute in Panama.

Dates
January 6 - January 22, 2007
One week at South Water Cay, a small island located along the world's 2nd largest barrier reef. Snorkel over coral reef, mangrove lagoon, and seagrass beds. One week at La Selva Biological Station, the most studied tropical rainforest in the world.

Course Description
Field based study of the biology of coral reefs, mangroves, seagrasses, and tropical forests. To be taught at field stations in Central America. Lectures, guided natural history walks, guided snorkel tours, class research projects, and independend research projects. Prerequisites: 200-level biology and/or permission of the instructors.

Credits
1 Wheaton Credit

Deadlines
Information Session will be on Wednesday, September 20th in President's Dining Room 1. Applications will be distributed and are due with a deposit by Wednesday, September 27th.

Applications Students must complete a Wheaton Study Abroad Application and submit materials to lead faculty by the specified deadline.

Russian: Spring Break Cultural Field Trip to Russia

Faculty Leaders
Francoise Rossett, Professor in Russian
Marina Aptekman, Professor in Russian

Cost $1,200 - $1,450

Program Description
This is meant to be a cultural trip in which students will have the opportunity to utilize their Russian language skills first-hand. This course, though not credit-bearing, is equivalent to 20 contact hours including studies in both Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Credits None

Sociology 095: Cultures, Communities and Change in Vietnam & Cambodia

Faculty Leaders
Hyun Kim,Chair, Associate Professor in Sociology
Michelle Harris, Assistant Professor in Sociology

Dates Three weeks in January 2004

Program Description
Taught in Vietnam and Cambodia, this three-week course focuses on the socioeconomic, cultural and political change of South-East Asia. The
course is field based and includes the study of local markets, factories, agricultural coops, housing projects, NGO programs, museums, and historical sites.

Credits
Students will receive .5 Wheaton credits for the program.

Deadlines For further information contact Professor Kim or Professor Harris in Sociology Department.

Applications Students must complete a Wheaton Study Abroad Application and submit materials to lead faculty.