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Courses
Required Courses*
Global Studio
Global Futures
Greek II
Culture and Place: The Greek Legacy
Mediterranean Cultures: Travel Journal
Possible Elective Courses
Teachings of Paul (Cities of Paul)
Undergraduate Science Research
*Non-architecture students can opt out of Global Studio and choose one of two elective courses or an online course. The number of elective courses offered per term varies based on student demand and faculty availability.
Global Studio (ARCH/GLST 418)
Global Studio draws on the deep and diverse knowledge of students and faculty at the Drury Center to address - and perhaps solve - problems identified by the city of Volos and surrounding regions. It offers opportunities for architectural design and planning, art and art history, philosophy and religion, history and political science, business and economics and environmental science to combine in new and productive ways.
The studio is organized around one or more projects selected in collaboration with the Volos Municipal Planning Agency and the Municipal Center for History and Research for their educational merit and their compatibility with course and program objectives, especially interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration.
Global studio is a unique course, available only through the Drury Center to Volos.
Download the Global Studio Class Syllabus
Global Futures (GLST 301)
In the same way the Global Studio addresses issues in and around Volos using a variety of disciplines, Global Futures takes an interdisciplinary approach to global issues. Students in this course look at trends and prospects for the future and consider options for addressing those issues as responsible citizens of a global community. The course expects students to pull together knowledge and skills from other courses and experiences to consider questions of values, humanity, ethics and the environment. Global Futures also is part of Drury’s unique Core Curriculum (GP21).
Download the Global Futures Class Syllabus
Greek II (GREE 102*)
An immersion in modern Greek language. This semester takes advantage of the surroundings to develop both proficiency in the language and awareness of Greek culture.
Greek 101 taken on Springfield campus the semester before going to Volos.
*Visiting students will take GREE 101 (Greek I) in Volos.
The Greek Legacy: Culture and Place (ARCH/GLST 456) (“Ideas and Events” GP21 requirement)
An exploration of Greece as a place of major significance in the consciousness of Western civilization. Through thousands of years, Greek artistic, intellectual and spiritual traditions have made a dramatic impact on European and Asian cultures. This intensive seminar examines the relationship of ideas, events and artifacts in the landscape that nurtured them. Seminars will be coordinated with site visits and field trips and will cover topics such as prehistory and early Greek settlements; The Classical era and its Western interpretations; modern controversies and the road to the European Union: Christianity and the dismantling of antiquity; and contemporary attitudes toward globalization.
Download the Greek Legacy Class Syllabus
Mediterranean Cultures (ARCH/GLST 426) (“Minorities and Indigenous Cultures” GP21 requirement)
An intensive course in observing, experiencing and recording the shifting relationships among Mediterranean cultures in an area where Europe, the Middle East, and Africa intersect and combine. This course applies cultural theory to the diversity of experiences, rituals, habits and artistic productions of the Volos region and its inhabitants. Students will be required to examine social processes and institutions and the ideological systems that underline them, emphasizing how such systems, institutions and processes change over time.
This course provides the opportunity for direct, personal, in-depth study of the geographical region. Students will keep a multimedia journal, which will be reviewed and discussed during the semester. Assignments include analyzing public and private institutions and spaces. Students will also complete a research project on the history and development of a particular cultural formation in the region. The class will meet every day in Volos and during field trips to locations outside Volos.
Download the Mediterranean Cultures Class Syllabus
Teachings of Paul/Cities of Paul (RELG 390: Special Topic) (“Ideas and Events” GP21 requirement) This class attempts to retrace the travels of the Apostle Paul and reconstruct the urban, cultural and religious landscapes at the major stops in Paul’s journeys. A principal goal is for the students to understand the atmosphere in which Paul found himself on each occasion, to place themselves in those landscapes and study the people, the buildings and the ideas that surrounded the Apostle, among and toward which he directed his preaching. This course is only offered in the Spring semester. Download the Cities of Paul Class Syllabus
Undergraduate Research Experience (NSCI 361: Undergraduate Research Experience)
This is a three-hour culminating course. Teams of students will work on projects to solve problems in natural science, that require them to collect empirical data using the methods of science. Students write up their research results in the form of a scientific publication and present their work in a campus wide science poster session.
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