Our summer study abroad programs provide our students the opportunity to infuse their education with valuable inter-cultural experience while earning typically three to six credit hours toward their degrees.
This summer, we are conducting two international programs: an interdisciplinary program with the Department of Art History touring several Central European cities and a program for our Master of Urban Design students touring three major Chinese metropolises and surrounding historic and new towns.
2012 CENTRAL EUROPE
[May 19-June 23, 2012]
Led by Profs. Emily Makas, Jeff Balmer and Jeff Murphy
In the past two centuries Central Europe has experienced rapid and dramatic political changes and the region's art, architecture, and cities both bear witness to and attempt to respond to this complicated and troubled history and its legacies. By exploring six countries, students will learn about the parallels among them and the differences between their artistic, architectural, and urban experiences with imperialism, historicism, nationalism, fascism, communism, and democracy.
Students and faculty will spend the majority of the time in six key cities:Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Krakow, Prague, and Berlin. Most of those cities we will stay in for 4 or 5 nights, however the last two weeks of the trip will be spent in Berlin. In order to visit all the proposed places, this tripwill involve traveling by chartered bus. This means of transportation not only gives more control over scheduling and is more comfortable and secure, but also enables us to easily show films, give lectures, and meet with students while in transit as well as take daytrips and stop and see other sites and cities along the way. These day trips and rest stops will include Dachau, Nuremburg, Salzburg, Mauthausen, Bratislava, Martin, Aushwitz-Birkenau, Brno, Terezin, and Dresden.
The trip is being led by two faculty members from the School of Architecture and one from the Department of Art and Art History. Four different classes will be offered, with all students taking one class in common about the history of Central European Cities. In the afternoons, students will all choose a second class - either drawing, digital photography, or a second history class on Jewish Heritage in Central Europe.
For more information on the Central Europe trip, click here.
Apply Today: http://www.edabroad.uncc.edu/eearch
Follow the link to the application form at the Office of Education Abroad website
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2012 CHINA
[May 14-June 18, 2012]
Led by Profs. Zhongjie Lin and Jason Slatinsky
In the past three decades, China has undergone dramatic urban transformation under the country's rapid economic growth and massive urbanization. Chinese cities continued to expand and develop in a high-density urban pattern, resulting in dynamic urban landscapes often characterized by a juxtaposition of Corbusian skyscraper cities and labyrinthine traditional neighborhoods. In historic cities like Beijing and Suzhou, the legacies of classical urbanism maintain their influence. In the meantime, numerous new towns have been created across the country to house the swelling population and sustain economic growth. All these phenomena make China an unparalleled place to mine new knowledge of urban design and architecture.
The Master of Urban Design 2012 China Program is an international study program for Master of Urban Design (MUD) students at UNC Charlotte. In this five-week program, faculty and students will travel to Shanghai, Suzhou, and Beijing, as well as numerous historic towns and new towns around these metropolises. A three-credit design studio session and a three-credit seminar will be offered. Students will not only visit many historic sites, cutting-edge new developments, and international design firms, but also have opportunities to work together with faculty and students of leading universities in China.
For more information on the China trip, click here.
Apply Today: http://www.edabroad.uncc.edu/maud/
Follow the link to the application form at the Office of Education Abroad website
2013 SCANDINAVIA
[May-June 2013]
Led by Profs. Bryan and Jen Shields
This unique four-week, six-credit travel program in May-June 2013 will be led by Bryan and Jen Shields, focusing on four waterfront cities. The program will begin in Copenhagen, traveling by ferry along the Swedish coast to Oslo, experiencing the fjords of Norway, followed by train to Stockholm, and finally crossing the Baltic by ferry to Helsinki, Finland. Students will visit projects by Alvar Aalto, Sigurd Lewerentz, Eero Saarinen, Juhani Pallasmaa, BIG, Snohetta, among many others. "We'll survey issues of place and multi-sensory experience at every scale, from the scale of the city in the complexity of its natural geography, to the scale of a light fixture or door pull, so thoughtfully considered by Scandinavian architects."
