Freshman Seminar Abroad
And Yet It Still Moves:
A Study of the Scientific Revolution in Florence
This program is open only to incoming Freshmen for Summer 2011.
Conducted in English
Queens College Freshman Seminars, open
exclusively to first-year students, explore intriguing topics in small study
abroad classes. Students will meet Queens College faculty and staff, meet other
incoming students, learn about life at college, and begin their social,
academic, and even professional journeys. Students will spend two days and one
overnight at The Summit dormitory on campus. While on campus, they will learn
how to read a text analytically, receive lessons on writing a successful term
paper with proper citations, acclimate themselves to campus, set up a travel
blog and learn how to use the QC library and its resources. Students will take
a bus to the airport and a group flight from New York to Florence, get picked
up and dropped off at the airport by QC faculty and transferred to and from
apartment housing in Florence. While living and studying in Florence, students
will enroll in two courses (1 credit each), a history course examining the
Scientific Revolution taught by a Queens College faculty member and an Italian
Culture course. Classes will be held in the mornings and afternoons, and will
consist of visits to museums and historic sites in Florence.
Highlights: Uffizi Museum,
walking tour to Piazzale Michelangelo, visit Santa Croce, Boboli Garden, Museo
degli Argenti and Galleria Palatina in the Palazzo Pitti, Galileo’s Telescope
and the Institute and Museum of the History of Science. During the evenings,
various activities will be scheduled, such as a welcome dinner, music night at
BeBop, movies, wine and cheese tasting, a field trip to Pisa, and a farewell
dinner.
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Syllabus
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Macaulay Honors funding cannot be applied to this program
Location: Florence, Italy
Faculty: Queens College Faculty
Credits Offered: 2 Credits- History course and Italian Culture course (1 credit each)
Housing: Apartment Housing
Dates
for program: July 20-August 6, 2011
Pre-departure orientation at Queens College: July 20-21, 2011
Depart to Florence: July 21, 2011
Arrive in Florence: July 22, 2011
Course Dates: July 22-August 6, 2011
Fly home: August 6, 2011
Program Costs
Cost (includes all expenses below except airfare): $1495
CUNY tuition (for in-state, matriculated undergraduates): $205 (1 credit)
Travel insurance, housing, excursions, welcome & farewell dinner: $1290
Total cost with airfare: $2995
Airfare: $1500
Additional costs
Minimum budget for meals and personal expenses of $15 to $20 per day
(approximately $420 to $560)
Meal Plan also available
Application deadline: May 30, 2011
Travel on Fridays and some Saturdays for some
programs.
Education Abroad Office
Kiely Hall, Room 183
Queens College - CUNY
Flushing, New York 11367-1597
718-997-5050
718-997-5055 (FAX)
