Greenland: A Scientific Expedition

Kangerlussuaq/Søndre Strømfjord
Fall 2009 | Spring 2010: US$ 1,295

A one week optional study tour integrated with the seminar course 'Greenland: A Scientific Expedition (Syllabus)' (1 credit). Limited space.

Climate change and global warming are hot topics around the world – and particularly relevant in relation to Greenland. The ice sheet is central in the debates on increases in global temperature. The research centre at Kangerlussuaq, which lies at the base of a 100-mile fjord, will be your base during your stay in Greenland. Here you will have lectures on issues such as global warming, geology, politics and history and join field trips to the Russell Glacier and the impressive ice cap, go on a musk ox safari, snow scooter tour or dog sledding, and experience the amazing Northern lights.

• Greenland Pictorial

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Vikings and Sagas: The Story of Iceland

Reykjavik & Western Iceland
Spring 2010: US$ 1,095

A one week optional study tour integrated with the seminar course 'Vikings and Sagas' (1 credit). Limited space.

Visit Viking landmarks and historical sites, providing a glimpse into the culture and value of the Viking Age. Experience the amazing nature of Iceland with its glaciers, spouting geysers, volcanoes (hopefully dormant), raging rivers and magnificent waterfalls, a multitude of birds and cavorting whales just offshore. The introductory course will give you an insight into the religion and world view of the pre-Christian Scandinavians as reflected in primary medieval texts and poems from the Viking Age (800-1050). An emphasis will be placed on the Icelandic Sagas.

• Iceland Pictorial

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Andalusia: Spain of the Arabs

Spring 2011: US$ 1,095

A one week optional study tour integrated with the seminar course 'Andalucia: Spain of the Arabs' (1 credit). Limited space.

In 711 A.D., the Arabs, or Moors, set up a Muslim Caliphate in Spain which was to last until 1493. This course and study tour introduce you to the history, culture, art and architecture of this uniquely dynamic and tolerant society as witnessed in Seville, Cordoba and Granada (with the Alhambra).

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Mediterranean Visual Journal

Fall 2009: Mallorca. Limited enrollment, so register early. US$ 1,095 | Spring 2010: US$ 1,095

A one week optional study tour integrated with the seminar course 'Mediterranean Journal' (1 credit). Limited space. Sketching experience and a personal sketching praxis are recommended, and completion of a course in drawing is required.

‘What you hear you forget. What you read you remember. What you draw you understand.’

This sketching study tour will take place on a Mediterranean island where the history, culture, climate, daylight, architecture, street life, etc. are significantly distinct from those you will be experiencing in Denmark. Emphasis will be placed on free-hand drawings made in the field, where you will be challenged to observe, analyze, and record a local town; including, but not limited to, studies of the people, streetscapes, civic squares, buildings, natural landscapes, etc.

• Mallorca Pictorial

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Sustainability in Austrian Architecture

Spring 2011: US$ 1,095

A one week optional study tour integrated with the seminar course 'Sustainability in Austrian Architecture' (1 credit). Limited space.

Sustainable design has increased in importance in recent years. This course and study tour will explore how sustainability is implemented in northern Austria and southern Germany, a region which has been at the absolute forefront of sustainable design for the last ten years.

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Turkey at the Crossroads

Fall 2009 and Spring 2010: US$ 1,195

A one week optional study tour integrated with the seminar course 'Turkey at the Crossroads' (1 credit). Limited space.

Turkey is a unique meeting point of eastern and western cultures, a crossroads of the Christian and Muslim worlds, a country that ruled from Baghdad to Budapest during the Ottoman Empire, and a secular state challenged by an Islamic popular movement. Istanbul – Constantinople in the Roman era, Byzantium in the Middle Ages – straddles two continents and is the meeting point of many cultures.

The tour introduces you to all this: from the Topkapi Palace, the Grand Bazaar and the Hagia Sophia to the bustling modern metropolis. Highlights include a visit to the lively Tunel neighborhood; a ferry boat trip up the Bosphorus strait to the Black Sea; lectures at the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT); workshops with Turkish students to discuss gender and migration; and EU relations and Turkey’s dual personality at Istanbul Universities.

• Turkey Pictorial

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Classical Greece

Spring 2011: US$ US$ 1.095

A one week optional study tour integrated with the seminar course 'Classical Greece' (1 credit course). Limited space.

Classical Greece is at the fountainhead of Western civilization. This course and tour introduces you to the classical heritage within political culture, philosophy, art and architecture as evidenced in Athens, Delphi and Olympia.

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Classical and Renaissance Rome

Fall 2009 and Spring 2010: US$ US$ 995

A one week optional study tour integrated with the seminar course 'Classical and Renaissance Rome' (1 credit course) or 'Classical Foundations: The Copenhagen Collections' (spring). Limited space.

Ancient Greece and Rome heralded the beginning of European civilization, while the Renaissance rediscovered the classical world and ushered in the modern world. The tour introduces you to all this: The Forum Romanum, the Colosseum, the Pantheon and other monuments of Rome’s classical past; the Vatican with Saint Peter’s Cathedral and the Vatican art collections, including Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel; Raphael, Titian and Bramante; Renaissance palaces and churches (and those of the Baroque for comparison). Plus the charms of of modern Rome. Please note that the tour includes a lot of walking.

• Italy Pictorial

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Russia Past and Present

Moscow and St. Petersburg
Fall 2009 and spring 2010: US$ 1,395

A one week optional study tour integrated with the seminar course 'Russia Past & Present' (1 credit), 'Russian Literature Cultural Context' (3 credit). Limited space.

This study tour lets you experience first-hand the complex processes of change that Russia has been undergoing since the breakdown of Communism in 1991, as well as evidence of the country’s historical past. You will visit the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square, spend time in the homes of Russian students, walk the Nevsky Prospect and have a tour of St. Petersburg ‘behind the facades’, visit famous art museums, such as the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow and the Hermitage – located in the tsars’ Winter Palace – in St. Petersburg, enjoy an overnight train ride between the two cities with a stop-over in ancient Novgorod. You will return to Copenhagen with a much better understanding of the enigma that is, and always has been, Russia.

• Russia pictorial

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Weekend Tours

Literary London

Fall 2009: US$ 425

A 3-day long optional weekend tour integrated with the companion course: 'Reading the City: Literary London' (1 credit). Limited space.

From Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, London has held writers spellbound for centuries with its terrace gardens and manors, famed theatres and crooked little alleys. This tour aims at celebrating and bringing to life London’s great literary achievements. The program includes destinations such as the Globe Theatre, the ‘Poets Corner’ of Westminster Abbey, Baker Street, as well as literary walking tours through Dickens’ Victorian routes and the Bloomsbury quarter, a fashionable district made famous by a group of writers, philosophers, and artists including Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forester.

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Impressionism in Paris

Fall 2009 and Spring 2010: US$ 425

A 3-day long optional weekend tour integrated with the companion course: 'Reading the City: Impressionism in Paris' (1 credit). Limited space.

By the 1870s, in the heyday of Impressionism, the medieval center of Paris had been razed and rebuilt as a modern metropolis of long boulevards lined with cafés, restaurants and theaters. This new city was the center of the Impressionist movement. On the tour, we will see Impressionist paintings on the walls of famous museums such as Musée d’Orsay, but we will also walk around Paris in the footsteps of the Impressionists, thus bringing the museum experience into the real world to better appreciate both the art and the city, one through the other.

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Vienna: Capital of Classical Music

Spring 2010, Fall 2010 and Spring 2011: US$ 495

A weekend tour integrated with the companion course: 'Vienna: Capital of Classical Music' (1 credit). Limited space.

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, Brahms and Schönberg – luminaries of European classical music – all lived and worked in Vienna. This course and study tour will introduce you to basic forms of classical music, to masterworks of the leading composers, and to the city that fostered so many great composers. Due to the inclusion of a study tour, there is an extra fee of $495 for this course.

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Holocaust & Genocide: Hamburg

Fall 2009 and Spring 2010: US$ 175 | Fall 2010 and Spring 2011: US$ 180

A 2-day optional weekend tour integrated with the companion course: ‘Holocaust & Genocide’ (3 credit). Limited space.

The 20th century has been termed ‘the century of genocide’. The “Holocaust & Genocide” course analyses the causes and consequences of genocide. Specific cases of genocide, including the Holocaust as well as modern-day examples, will be studied along with cross-cutting issues such as perpetrator profiles, commemoration and genocide prevention. As a special feature in this course we organize a field trip to the Neuengamme concentration camp, the largest concentration camp in north-west Germany. This camp was established to the south-east of Hamburg in 1938 and existed until 1945. Over 100,000 prisoners from throughout Europe were imprisoned in the main camp and its 86 satellite camps. At least 42,900 people died in Neuengamme, its satellite camps and during the camp evacuations at the end of the war. This field trip will also include a short guided tour of Hamburg.

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