Butler Faculty-led Summer Programs - 2012
The following faculty-led programs are planned. If you
have questions, please contact the faculty member directly.
Applications are likely due sometime in February 2012 to secure
your spot!!!
Summer I
ISRAEL (and the WEST BANK)
May 15-23, 2012
Faculty Director's Name: James F. McGrath
email: jfmcgrat@butler.edu;
phone: 940-9364
Course Title: Religion in Israel/Palestine
RL399 Field Seminar Abroad, 3 credit hours
Program cost estimate: $3999 [or $3,636 if 10 students are
enrolled? See previous e-mail]
Israel. Palestine. The Holy Land. Even what to call this part of
the world can be controversial. In May 2012, Dr. James F. McGrath,
Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature,
will lead this 9 day trip to visit important sites connected with
the origins, history, and present day focus of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam. As you visit places with familiar names
like Jerusalem, Jericho, and Bethlehem, you will learn not only
about archaeology and history, but also the communities that live
and worship in these areas today. Students from any major are
welcome to participate, as the trip will have much to offer that is
of interest to students not only of religion but also of history,
political science, international studies, and other areas. Check
with your department to find out whether the credit for the trip
can be applied to your major.
NEW ZEALAND (Auckland)
May 13-June 1, 2012
Faculty Director's Name: Bob Bennett
email: rbennett@butler.edu
phone: 940-9502
Course Title: Sustainability in New Zealand
SW 221-COB 01 Sustainability in Institutions (May
also be taken as MG495-01 Special Topics in Management), 3 credit
hours
Program cost estimate: $2600 + Airfare
As a part of its ongoing efforts to internationalize its
curriculum, the College of Business seeks to offer Butler
University courses taught by Butler University faculty at
international locations. This year, we will offer
SW221: Sustainability in Institutions at Auckland, New
Zealand, hosted by one of our partner institutions, Auckland
University of Technology. Sustainability in New Zealand is a
unique interdisciplinary, seminar- and discussion-style, site-based
course on Sustainability. Sustainability represents an
emerging body of thought that argues that institutions of all
sorts, including but not limited to businesses, in order to be
successful in the long run need to take into account economic
performance, environmental impacts, and social justice. The course
will explore what these concepts mean and the challenge of
implementing a workable integration of these concepts. This
offering of the course will seek to take advantage of the course's
location in Auckland, New Zealand. Contact Bob Bennett (rbennett@butler.edu or
317-940-9502) to set up a 15 minute appointment. To sign up,
complete an application by March 1, 2012. Applications must
be accompanied by a deposit of $500 in the form or a check or money
order made payable to Butler University.
POLAND, RUSSIA, CZECH REPUBLIC
May 10 -June 3, 2012
Faculty Director's Name: Marek Cholewa
email: mcholewa@butler.edu
phone: 940-9664
Course Title: Special Seminar/Ballet Workshop in Poland and
Russia
DA 493-01, 3 credit hours
Dates of your program:
Program cost estimate: $4,500.00-5,000.00
The study tour would involve travel to both Poland and Russia,
for among other things to study ballet technique at the most
renowned schools of ballet in Poland and Russia. While in
Poland, we would study mainly at the National School of Ballet in
Warsaw. The Russia part of our workshop focuses on the city of St.
Petersburg in collaboration with the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory
and its teachers. The classes offered would be ballet technique,
pointe technique and repertoire. Many planned excursions outside of
classes are offered throughout the duration of the workshop. For
instance; visiting the National Museum of Fine Arts, seeing the
home of Chopin, and taking tours of historic and cultural landmarks
throughout Poland. While in Russia taking guided tours of the
Mariinsky Theatre, the Hermitage, Museum of Russian Arts, the
Museum of the Russian Ballet Academy, the Peter and Paul Fortress,
and the Pavlovsk and Catherine Palaces; and attendance at
performances of major dance companies.
There would also be a short visit to Prague, Czech Republic,
which would allow our group a chance to visit one of the most
beautiful city in Europe.
MEXICO (Guadalajara)
May 13- June 2, 2012
Faculty Director's Name: José
Roberto Alexander Quintanilla
email: aquintan@butler.edu
phone: 940-8557
Course Title: Guadalajara Summer
Study Abroad Program
SP370, 3 credit hours
Program cost estimate: $3,500
This is an intensive and full immersion program that takes place
in Guadalajara, the second largest city in Mexico. It is a 3 three
weeks program. It is unique in that there is no formal classroom
setting. Instead, students meet with a different tutor every day
for several hours and visit different places throughout the city.
This daily dynamic gives them the opportunity to practice Spanish
with a different person each day and to keep speaking the target
language constantly with a native speaker for a long period of
time. Tutors are usually students at the University of Guadalajara.
Students are also involved in different cultural activities as well
as in artistic workshops (dancing, painting, music, etc.) and have
weekend excursions to neighboring towns and the beach. Tutoring,
activities and excursions are organized by CEPE (Centro de
Enseñanza para Extranjeros), an institution that is part of the
University of Guadalajara and that has a lot of experience in this
kind of programs in Mexico. Students stay with a family and live
close to campus.
CUBA (Havana, Las Terrazas, Santa Clara, Matanzas,
Varadero)
May 14-25, 2012
Faculty Director's Name: Craig Auchter
email: auchter@butler.edu
phone: 940-9571
Course Title: Sustainability and the Cuban Revolution
GHS303, PO380, or IS470, 3 credit hours
(Section Numbers TBA, but expected to be 01 in all cases)
Program cost estimate: $1150
This course will focus on sustainability in Cuba through
readings on agricultural and environmental policy, development
tourism, history, culture, society and polity; dialogues with eco
planners, youth activists, urban farmers, rural organic producers,
Afro Cubans, and grassroots ecumenical groups; and visits to sites
such as the Las Terrazas eco tourism project, the Kairos Ecumenical
Community of Matanzas, the Che Guevara Mausoleum and Museum in
Santa Clara, the CESERSE Social and Education Center at Varadero,
and the University of Havana, the Ministry of Science, Technology
and the Environment, farmers markets and historic sites such as
Revolution Square and Old Havana in Havana. The group will be
hosted by the Havana-based ecumenical NGO, the Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial Center.
CARIBBEAN
Preparation dates: May 7-11, 2012
Travel dates: May 13-19, 2012
Faculty Director's Name: Tim Brimmer
email: tbrimmer@butler.edu phone:
940-957641
Course Title: Vocal Jazz in the Caribbean
ME382, 3 credit hours
Program cost estimate: $600
This three-credit course includes preparation for and
performances aboard Royal Caribbean's FREEDOM cruise ship, and
immersion activities with local musicians, whenever possible in
Labadee; Haiti, Falmouth; Jamica, Geroge Town; Grand Caymen, and
Cozumel; Mexico May 13-19, 2012.
More details to come about:
Ken Creech, Germany
Elaina Artemiev, Russia
Angela Lupton, Italy and Greece
Travis Ryan, Biology in Panama
Carrie Maffeo, China
Summer II
LONDON
June 29-July 20, 2012
Faculty Director's Name: Chuck Williams, Dean, COB
email: crwillia@butler.edu;
phone: 940-8491
Course Title: Leadership London
MG301, 3 credit hours
Program cost estimate: $3500
Leadership London is a unique interdisciplinary, seminar- and
discussion-style, site-based course on leadership. While it
originates in the College of Business, the course is designed for
any undergraduate student regardless of major. Site-based
instruction means that the resources, institutions, and history of
the destination city (London) are utilized to explore cultural,
historical, and ethical issues relevant to leadership. After
the morning seminar each day, the afternoon is used to visit a
London-area site relevant to the day's discussion. For
instance, when Churchill is the topic, the students will visit the
Cabinet War Rooms from which he guided England during World War
II. When Gandhi is the leader under discussion, students will
visit a Hindi temple. Other attractions and sites include
Hampton Court Palace, the Tower of London, the National Gallery,
Westminster Abbey, and Shakespeare's Globe Theater.
ENGLAND (London, Bath, Stratford-Upon-Avon)
Aug 3-17, 2012
Faculty Director's Name: William Walsh
email: wwalsh@butler.edu
phone: 940-9545
Course Title: Shakespeare Study Abroad
EN384-01, 3 credit hours
Program cost estimate: $3450.00
We travel to the United Kingdom to see Shakespeare in
performance in six plays. Performances are by the Royal Shakespeare
Company and the companies at the new Globe Theatre and the Open Air
Theatre at Regents Park. These performances are by the best
Shakespearean actors in the world. We will discuss each play
beforehand and its performance afterwards; students write five
reviews of the plays. Course is about one third of our time.
More details to come about:
Marilyn Sudsberry, Finland and Sweden