Optional Study Tours
Optional Study Tours are integrated into specific elective courses, meaning you must enroll in a particular course to go on that tour. If you choose an elective course with a study tour, participation in tours is required.
Please note: As study tours at DIS are dynamic, the listed examples of activities are merely to give you an idea of what you might do on a study tour, and may change due to availability and other circumstances.
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Auschwitz: From Genocide to Memorial
A four-day course-integrated study tour to Krakow Available Fall & Spring | 1 creditsSpring and Fall 2013: $675.00Better understand historical implications of the Holocaust through visits to Krakow and the nearby Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Barcelona: Football is Never Just a Game
A four-day course-integrated study tour to Barcelona Available Fall | 1 creditsFall 2013: $675.00Explore why F.C. Barcelona calls itself "more than a club" and operates as a symbol of Catalan pride and independence.
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Battlefield Europe
A four-day course-integrated study tour to Budapest Available Fall & Spring | 3 creditsFall 2013: $675.00Explore Budapest and how the battles of the 20th century impacted the history of Hungary and shaped current relations in Europe
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Berlin: Capital of Queer Europe
A two-day course-integrated study tour to Berlin Available Fall & SpringFall 2013: $575.00Discover how sexuality and gender are embodied in a different cultural context by visiting Berlin's contemporary queer spaces and historic LGBTQ sites
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Classical and Renaissance Rome
A four-day course-integrated study tour to Rome Available Fall & Spring | 1 creditsFall 2013: $775.00Culture has flourished in Rome for centuries. Explore the grand masterpieces and timeless architecture of the Eternal City.
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Holocaust and Genocide
A two-day course-integrated study tour to Hamburg Available Fall & Spring | 3 creditsSpring and Fall 2013: $275.00Contextualize the events of the Holocaust through visits to the Bullenhauser Damm School, Neuengamme work camp and the historic city of Hamburg.
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Impressionism in Paris
A four-day course-integrated study tour to Paris Available Fall & Spring | 1 creditsSpring and Fall 2013: $675.00Experience the masterpieces of Monet, Degas, Renoir and their contemporaries, as you delve into the historical and cultural context of the Impressionist movement in Paris.
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Literary London
A four-day course-integrated study tour to London Available Fall & Spring | 1 creditsSpring and Fall 2013: $675.00Explore the United Kingdom's cultural capital: home of great authors, brilliant artists and world-renowned fashion designers.
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Russia Past and Present
A seven-day course-integrated study tour to Moscow and St. Petersburg Available Fall & Spring | 3 creditsSpring and Fall 2013: $1595.00Venture behind the facade in St. Petersburg and Moscow to better understand the enigma that is, and always has been, Russia.
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Turkey: Ancient Conquest and Legacy
A six-day course-integrated study tour to Turkey Available Fall & Spring | 1 creditsFall 2013: $1095.00Explore the western part of modern day Turkey through the footsteps of Alexander the Great to discover where Alexander the Great made his first conquest; where Hellenism was born and flourished out of the spoils of Alexander’s conquest; and later where the Romans left their mark until the Ottoman Turks had conquered it all.
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Venice: Power, Art, and Urban Space
A four-day course-integrated study tour to Venice Available Fall | 1 creditsFall 2013: $675.00Examine Venice through the lens of the art, architecture and urban space in order to understand how the city communicated its power and glory to the outside world
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Vienna: Capital of Classical Music
A four-day course-integrated study tour to Vienna Available Fall & Spring | 1 creditsSpring and Fall 2013: $675.00Gain a deeper understanding of the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler and others-- luminaries of European classical music.
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Vikings and Sagas: The Story of Iceland
A five-day course-integrated study tour to Reykjavik & Western Iceland Available Spring | 1 creditsSpring 2013: $1095.00Explore the stunning icelandic landscape as you gain insight into the colorful personalities of the Icelandic sagas & Viking era.
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