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SPRING:
March 3 - June 1, 2009
Cost: $ 10,850 |
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FALL:
September 10 - December 9, 2009
Cost: $ 10,850 |
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| ( HISA works hard to keep its fees low. When comparing study abroad fees, consider what makes HISA the unique and most value-added program in Europe. All field trip boat travel to five Cycladic islands is included, as are museum and site fees, basic texts for critical classes, studio and lab fees, and the occasional HISA festive dinners. Most important for your ability to study, create, and enjoy your semester is that each student is provided lovely private accommodation with bath and kitchenette. The HISA lodging building - just one block from the beach - is for HISA students only, with a film room, an additional communal kitchen for group meals, a cafe and lounge area, and internet room with free wireless connection for your laptops. You will also enjoy reading or visiting with your fellow students on the large, bamboo-covered rooftop garden overlooking the bay of Paroikia. ) |
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| THE PROGRAM OF STUDY: |
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| CORE COURSES |
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| CROSS DISCIPLINARY PHILOSOPHY/LIFE
THEMES |
2 Credits |
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A survey discussion that explores and evaluates the sources of knowing, believing, and existing. Rather than a traditional survey of philosophers and their writings, the course calls upon each student to examine where his/her moral, ethical, spiritual, political and romantic belief systems originate: how and why we lead our lives the way we do. Fundamental to Life Themes is a challenge to preconceived notions of what we accept as Truth, and in particular preconceived notions of "correctness" in morality, ethics, taboo, loyalty, sacrifice, sex, and social and family relations. |
VISIT TAO'S: Paros' Life Management Center,
where some of the classes are held. |
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| LITERATURE |
2 Courses - 3 Credits each |
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Small
group and individual tutorials allow students to concentrate
on archetypal themes and patterns in core and individually selected
texts. From the rite of passage in Homer to the ironic reversal
in modern literature, students will develop an ability to link
different works across borders of time, language and genre.
Both the Classical and Modern readings share a common concern
with structuring Truth out of a world of disorder. Relevant
to the students' study and experience on Paros is special attention
given to the myths of Apollo, Dionysos, and Orpheus, as well
as a consideration of modern Greek writers, such as Kazantzakis,
Seferis, and Ritsos. |
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THE ART WORKSHOP/INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED PAINTING
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2 Courses - 3 Credits each |
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Study Art in Greece - The
Art Workshop aims to deepen the student’s knowledge of painting
by studying intensely such elements as light, color, composition
& texture. It offers expanded practice in the basic concepts
of painting, exploring a variety of approaches, media, processes
and experimentation. The class will enhance the student’s understanding
of developing a painting both physically as well as conceptually,
and expose the student to different genres of the vocabulary
of painting, from the traditional objective through the non-objective.
Class trips to museums, islands, and villages will help students
learn not only about past Greek art, but also let them experience
contemporary Greek society, art, music, and passion for life.
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| FILM STUDIES |
2 Courses - 3 Credits each |
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A
variety of films and film genres is considered in order to gain
a sense of historical cinematic development, while students
learn to critique the disparate elements of acting, direction,
and in particular the script. Students will learn to view
film as an art form rather than an entertainment, while appreciating
different aspects of what makes a film what it is, and deepening
their critical judgment as to worth. Approaches to screen writing
are explored, with special reference to the patterning of thought
and theme as developed through the archetypal approaches central
to the Literature and Creative Writing courses. Students who
wish to are encouraged to complete over the semester a script
of their own.
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| PHOTOGRAPHY |
3 Credits |
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Covers both fundamentals and further explorations in B&W analogue photography. The departure point for the class is our encounter with new cultures and peoples. Projects are designed to allow students to focus on various aspects of the new environments. There is a choice of projects designed to allow students to try a variety of approaches. Technically, the class functions somewhat like a workshop where different students may be working in very diverse ways. Some students may work with traditional black and white documentary images, others making collages and personal or impressionistic studies . The course will offer numerous demonstrations of a variety of techniques and processes which students can choose to use for one or more of the projects.
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| DIGITAL IMAGING |
3 Credits |
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For the student who has conventional photography experience, this class is intended as a solid grounding in digital imaging techniques, but aims as well to move forward students who have some acquaintance with artistic digital photography. General procedures related to new technology and equipment including digital photography and digital manipulations, Photoshop and video editing software basics, input and output options will be covered. The course will provide a background for contemporary thought about digital images, including a survey of current artists working with digital techniques and a discussion of these practices in terms of conceptual questions of documentation, reproduction, what is “live,” self-expression, and theories of objectivity.
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| STUDIO FOR INTERRELATED MEDIA |
3 Credits |
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This intensive inter-disciplinary arts studio class is designed to help students focus their experiential and creative study abroad experience within the context of their Greek island historical, cultural and artistic environment. Elements of mixed-media projects, painting and drawing, digital still and video film, graphic art constructions and installations, will all form part of the student's semester of study. Also inherent will be lectures and instruction concerning website design and online presentation of art and installation projects, leading to the student's own career objectives. With an eye on depth of content, as well as exploratory and investigative approaches, basic themes may be drawn from personal experiences, archetypal literary patterns, philosophical and spiritual beliefs.
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| CREATIVE WRITING SURVEY AND WORKSHOP |
2 Courses - 3 Credits each |
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An
intensive workshop designed to encourage writers to discover
and experiment with their own voice. The course will assist
the student's exploration into the realm of his/her own creative
resources, away from the dependence on learned authority or
the weighty impressions of the "great writers." To
aid in this process of discovery, students perform spontaneous
writing exercises in class and experiment with persona, voice
and character. Each week, students can submit new writing for
open, non-judgmental critique and discuss in a small workshop
setting the ideas and feelings they possess about writing and
how it relates to their lives. Questions on craft will be examined
from different points of view, but no hierarchy of style or
manner will be imposed. |
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| THE THEORY OF ART |
2 Credits |
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A
comprehensive review of artists' own perceptions of their work
as presented in autobiographical writings, letters, essays and
manifestos. Discussion sessions will center on how and why
different painters, writers, sculptors, and filmmakers structure
their vision the way they do, with a view towards assessing
the classic question "What is Art?" Discussion sessions will
also focus on the personal themes and beliefs that each student
feels are central to his/her own art. |
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| HISTORICAL SITES OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN |
3 Credits |
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In an attempt to deepen students' understanding
and appreciation of the rich cultural history of the Eastern
Mediterranean world where they are spending the semester, visits
are made to important Cycladic island sites as well as museums where appropriate.
For each excursion there is a pre-visit preparation by a teacher
or contributing artist, historian, folklorist or mythographer
in order that participants can receive the maximum benefit
from their visit. Primary emphasis is given to myth, history,
and classical religious traditions rather than art history
per se. Temple sites of the gods and goddesses are predominant,
but visits include archaeological sites, marble quarries,
and museums that showcase ancient sculpture, jewellery, artefacts,
as well as later Byzantine and Venetian times. |
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WOMEN'S STUDIES: WHEN THE GODDESS RULED
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3 Credits |
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