This coming summer Clayton Lehmann of the University of South Dakota and Nelson Stone of Mt Marty College will offer for the fourth time an interdisciplinary sailing and study tour in Greece for undergraduate and graduate students.

This course will introduce students to a variety of aspects of life in Greece over the five millennia from the Bronze Age to our own time. Topics include history, literature, geology, religion, philosophy, ethnography, marine biology, archaeology, and cultural resources management. Sailing and hiking, lectures and readings, snorkeling and diving, visits to sites and museums, conversations with faculty and fellow students, student reports, encounters with our Greek hosts, and travel diaries will provide opportunities for students to acquire information and reflect on their experiences. In particular, the nautical life will give students a sense of the Greek islands as the Greeks saw them in an age before mechanized travel: from the sea in sailing vessels. Students will learn to sail and to live aboard a sailboat.

This three-credit course takes place 20 May to 8 June 2008. The fee will be $2800.

For further information and instructions for application click here for the prospectus, or email Mr Lehmann at clehmann@usd.edu.