TX 201-202 IA Faculty-Led Travel Seminar
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the earth all one's lifetime." Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (1869) Chapter LXII
The International Affairs Program at Skidmore College offers majors, minors, and interested students the opportunity to engage in a focused travel experience that combines study of a region before traveling there and reflection upon return. Destinations vary each year. For information on previous seminars, click on the links to the 2005 travel seminar on "Chocolate and Gold: Politics and Culture in Ghana, West Africa," the 2006 travel seminar on "Safaris, Slaves, and Spice: Culture and Politics in Tanzania," and the 2007 travel seminar on "From Marx to Coca-Cola: Transitions in Germany and Poland", "Across the Andes and Pacific: From La Plata and Buenos Aires to Santiago and Valparaiso".
"The Viennese Waltz, Coffeehouse, and Dreams: Culture and History in Vienna, Austria"