Travel / Learning Programs
"For my part, I travel not to go
anywhere, but to go.
I travel for travel's sake. The great
affair is to move." – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Simmons School offers a variety of travel-study opportunities throughout
the year. Forthcoming opportunities are described below.
To view an archive of past trips,
click here.
Dispute Resolution
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INDIA: January 6 - 16, 2012
Course: Multicultural Diversity: Applications to Teambuilding and
Counseling.
Click here for more information!
*This course is offered in conjunction with the Master of Liberal
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IRELAND: June 17-24, 2012
Course: International Consulting and Collaboration in Dublin,
Ireland.
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ITALY: June 24-30, 2012
Course: Religion and Dispute Resolution in Florence, Italy.
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ISRAEL: July 1-8, 2012
Course: Conflict and Trauma in Jerusalem, Israel.
For more information and pricing,
click
here, or call the SMU Dispute Resolution Program Office at
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Master of Liberal Studies
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POLAND HOLOCAUST SITES :
December 18 - 30, 2011 (Additional Dates: Spring Break 2012 TBD, August 2012 TBD)
Course: Independent Human Rights
Study: In the Camps: Poland Holocaust Sites
Instructor: Rick Halperin
Dr. Rick Halperin is Director of the Southern Methodist University Human
Rights Education Program, and teaches courses at SMU including:
America's Dilemma: The Struggle for Human Rights; America and the Age of
Genocide; and America Enraged: From Brown to Watergate, 1954-1974. Dr.
Halperin has served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International
USA from 1989-1995, and from 2004-2009; he served as Chair of the Board
from 1992-1993 and again from 2005-2007. He is also a member of the
National Death Penalty Advisory Committee, the National Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty and the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death
Penalty (serving as President from 2000-2006 and from 2007-2008).
Please contact our office at 214-768-4273 or email
mls@smu.edu for more information. This
course is offered in conjunction with Embrey Human Rights Department. |
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FRANCE - ART HISTORY TOUR (Paris
and Provence) : June 10 - 23, 2012
Course: FNAR 6323
Instructor: Dianne Goode
Join art historian Dianne Goode for a two-week tour to France. Enjoy the
first week in Paris, with deluxe accommodations on the historic Left
Bank, and the second week in Nice, at a luxurious seaside hotel. Daily
excursions by private motor coach. The tour explores modern French
painting and the significant contributions of Realism, Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, and the Nonobjective. Dr. Goode
delivers all lectures on site, explaining the works of Courbet, Manet,
Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso,
Kandinsky, Mondrian, and more. Highlights include special visits to
artists’ studios and residences.
This tour is offered for credit or noncredit through the MLS Program at
SMU. Additional information will be posted soon!
Please contact our office at 214-768-4273 or email mls@smu.edu. |
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