At different points in their Core career, students have the chance to bring their studies out of the classroom and into the world through distinctive learning and travel programs.
Spring Break Program in London, UK
“I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow…”
—William Blake
Core will take students to London, UK during Spring Break, March 8-15, 2025 for an experiential learning trip with Professors Walsh and Gapotchenko. The London Spring Break trip is an exciting way to experience a city that has long been central to the global imagination, and that affords access to some of the world’s richest collections of art and artifacts, and to some of the most important sites related to authors and thinkers, that feature in the Core Curriculum. Designed as a capstone to the work done in several Core courses, but especially the second-year Humanities sequence, we will complement our studies of the Parthenon, the Roman Empire, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Milton, Shelley, Austen, and others with visits to London’s Roman ruins, the British Museum, the Globe Theatre, the Tower of London, the National Gallery, and day trip to the Jane Austen House, along with other activities. Through critical engagement with these spaces, students will learn about the positive as well as the negative legacies of London as a culture capital, and as the metropole of a global empire. Scholarships are available.
Click here to download an information flyer for Spring Break 2025.
Special thanks goes to our alumni community, whose generosity on Giving Day has helped the Core provide grants to students to substantially reduce the cost of program participation.
APPLY HERE FOR CORE IN LONDON
CC101 Trip to New York City
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” —Sagan
In the fall semester, first-year students have the opportunity to go on a one-day trip to NY, visit a museum and/or see a Broadway show, and enjoy lunch together. Three Core professors will join twelve students to encounter cultural works that are in conversation with our course. The cost is subsidized through the Stephen Cohen Sublime Firsts Fund. This inquiry-based study trip gives priority to students enrolled in CC 101; application instructions are below. Find out more at core@bu.edu.
The date for the trip to NY in F24 is Saturday, November 9, 2024, there are twelve spots and the cost is $40.Core in New York Application
January Program in Florence, Italy
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.” —Verdi
The Florence Winter Break Trip is an exciting way to experience a city that we study thoroughly in CC201: Renaissance, Rediscovery and Reformation. Students will have the opportunity to encounter many of the sights, monuments, and great works of art so important to this city. Complementing our studies of Dante, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Machiavelli and many other figures of the Italian Renaissance, students will visit the Uffizi, the Galileo Museum, the Santa Croce, the Accademia, among others; students will also learn about the legacy of the Medici family in the city and learn about the family’s archives from a lecture at the Medici Archive Project; we will also take a day trip to explore another city. Chaperones, docents and other local experts will guide you along a culture-packed itinerary, but free time is also built into the schedule for you to explore and discover the city on your own. Scholarships are available.
The dates for Italy this year are January 10-18, 2025.
Click here to download an information flyer for January 2025.
Special thanks goes to our alumni community, whose generosity on Giving Day has helped the Core provide grants to students to substantially reduce the cost of program participation.
APPLY HERE FOR CORE IN FLORENCE
Summer Program in Athens, Greece
“Of all the peoples, the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.” —Goethe
Thanks to an ongoing partnership with the BU Department of Classical Studies, Core students are invited to spend a summer studying in Athens. Students take classes from both BU professors and professors from the American College of Greece, and study classical history and culture while immersing themselves in the contemporary Greek world. Coursework is complemented with day trips to locations such as Delphi, Mycenae, Corinth, Nauplion, Poros, and of course the Acropolis. Since the inception of the Greece summer program in 2013, the cost to students has been heavily subsidized by scholarships funded through donations from the BU Philhellenes, alumni, and other patrons. Visit the website of the Classics department to learn more about the application process and program details (click on the “Study Abroad” tab). Information about the planned Summer 2023 trip will be posted here as soon as it is available.
Videos featuring student interviews and photos from the program can be found on YouTube and Facebook. For more information, email the Classical Studies Department: classics@bu.edu or the Head of the Modern Greek program, Kelly Polychroniou at kpol@bu.edu.