May 23rd to June 29th 2007

Offered through the Communication Department at Villanova University

This five-week, 6 - credit summer program will allow Communication majors and minors and honors students to gain important insights into the roots of the discipline and make contemporary applications through hands-on experience in Greece. Students can gain additional intercultural insights by observing and participating in a contemporary culture that continues to surround itself with, and to be influenced by, its ancient history.
 

Two team-taught courses, one focusing on ancient Greek rhetoric and myth and the other on Rhetoric and Democracy in Ancient Greece. Course instruction will take place both in traditional classrooms and in specific ancient performance sites
 

1. COM 3208: Rhetoric and Myth in Ancient Greece: Course examines
2. COM 3204: Rhetoric and Democracy in Ancient Greece: The course
 

Field Trips
Scheduled field trips include the Athenian Acropolis, Agora, and Pnyx, Delphi, Ancient Corinth, Ancient Olympia, Crete, Santorini, Mycenae, Tolo and Epidaurus. A number of ancient theatres, for example, such as the Herodotus Atticus and the Dionysius Theatre, both located at the foot of the Athenian Acropolis, are still relatively intact. The Pnyx, where Pericles, Socrates and other statesmen addressed the Athenian citizens will be the site of numerous classes. Outside of Athens are a number of other important rhetorical sites, such as Ancient Olympia (the home of the first Olympic games), Delphi (the most important oracle of the ancient world), Ancient Corinth (the governing seat of a neighboring important city-state) Ancient Mycenae, center of the Mycenaean world, The Palace of Knossos on Crete, the center of the Minoan civilization, and Epidaurus (the site of ancient annual rhetorical and theatrical contests and currently the site of ongoing summer performances of important ancient Greek plays). Thus, Greece is an ideal site for instruction in rhetoric and democracy and rhetoric and myth in ancient Greece.
 

Housing and Meals
The Villanova University summer program is located in three and four-star hotels for one week in Athens, while spending the remaining four weeks in Crete, Santorini, Delphi, Olympia, and Tolo. Students will take their breakfast in the hotels.
 

For program costs and application form, please visit:
http://www.internationalstudies.villanova.edu/summer/greece.htm
 

For more information, please contact the Faculty Program Coordinator:
Dr. Susan Mackey-Kallis
Department of Communication
susan.mackey-kallis@villanova.edu

Deadline is December 16, 2006

Undergrad students are encouraged to submit papers for the Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference (UHC) to be held in conjunction with the 2007 Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) convention.

Papers are welcome across the many areas, topics, theories, and methodologies of communication study.  The conference theme is "Relationships and Communities in the Digital Age," papers do not have to be in relation to the theme but are welcome.

The Author of the top paper will receive $100 and a plaque.

for more information and guidelines please contact:

Dr. Jerold L. Hale

SSCA VP-Elect and UHC Director

jhale@uga.edu