Deadline: February 14, 2020
SRAS is very excited to draw your attention to our Winds of Change program in Central and Eastern Europe.
This coming summer, Dr. Nicholas Gossett of University of South Alabama (USA) will be leading the “inaugural” run of this itinerary. He will lead a group of USA and SRAS students through Berlin, Warsaw, Gdansk, Prague, Kyiv, and Tbilisi. At each stage, they will look at the years leading up to the collapse of communism. Through lectures, experiences, and conversations with those who lived through this period of change they will attempt to understand what life was like and what social, economic, and political forces were at play. They will connect with the student generation of that period. They will listen to the music. They will create graffiti. In each country, they will learn firsthand just how the transformation took place, who the key players were. And finally, they will look to the long-term repercussions, the evolution of politics in the region, the rise of populism. Last but not least, they will spend some time enjoying the food and nature of Georgia.
To read more about the Summer 2020 program, see www.sras.org/winds.
Note that there is a credit (6 credits from University of South Alabama) and non-credit option.