CHICAGO, IL. (July 30, 2009) –This summer, eight Columbia College Chicago departments offered study abroad programs that spanned the spectrum of academic disciplines. With each passing year, Columbia continues to add culturally rich destinations to its passport, exposing a diverse student body to an expanding international landscape of the arts and media.
The historic city of Florence, Italy was host to six programs organized by the college’s office of Academic Initiatives & International Programs. Classes ran from June 25 to July 25, and were offered from the departments of Fiction Writing, Film & Video, Journalism, Humanities, History & Social Sciences, Art & Design, and Arts, Entertainment & Media Management.
Art & Design also staked out another region of Italy, taking students to Venice from June 6 to July 4 to participate in an extensive class studying the world’s oldest and most prestigious international art exposition, The Venice Biennale.
Prague has served as a second home to the Fiction Writing department for a decade now. This summer, sessions ran from May 23 to June 25, and June 27 to July 30. Also in Prague is Marketing and Communications, which held session from May 26 to June 27, marking the department’s second year of studying in the elegant European city and working with the internationally acclaimed advertising agency, DRAFTFCB Prague.
From May 26 to June 27, the Humanities, History & Social Sciences department traveled to South Africa, offering a five-week intensive course entitled “The Future of History: Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” During the five week program, students visited Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban.
As Summer Session draws to a close, the Photography department will be traveling to the South of France from August 3 to August 18, returning to Chicago just in time to shake off any jet lag and get ready for the new school year.
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