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Academic Program
4 Credits, 2 weeks
The program is designed to provide students with varied disciplines, the opportunity to participate in this program. All students will enroll in LITR 210 – Literature & Film: The Stor(ies) of Ireland.
Course Description:
Literary and cinematic works will be drawn from the long tradition of Irish poetry, fiction, and drama. Students will also explore the cinematic output of Ireland. The course and international experience will examine the use of narrative as a medium to share the Irish experience, both in Ireland and the United States. Students will explore the inspirations, contexts and spaces storytellers used in the development of their narrative works. Students develop critical skills necessary to explore literary narratives. The course content will be delivered by scholars both from Ireland and the United States.
Field Excursions
The program will include the following field excursions, to both complement the academic course, as well as provide insights into the culture and context of Ireland:
- Book of Kells (Trinity University)
- Newgrange Stone Age Passage Tomb – Boyne Valley, Ireland
- Inishmore (Aran Islands) including Dún Aonghasa.
- Galway area: Coole Park, Thoor Ballylee (Yeats’ home)
- Clonmacnoise Monastery
- Cliffs of Moher
- Poulnabrone
- Bloomsday Festival
Accommodations
Students will reside in student residences in Dublin and in hotels during excursions. Students will be placed in double rooms.
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Academic Program
4 Credits, 2 weeks
All students will enroll in MGMT 335: TRAVEL, TOURISM and HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
Course Description:
Employing 1 in 10 workers globally, pre-pandemic, a recovering travel and tourism industry will need to build back as an exciting, varied, and transformational field for innovative and sustainable management. This course provides an examination of the hospitality management industry pre and post pandemic, giving students exposure to the traditional functions of management such as leadership, decision making, sustainable operations, and organizational ethics within the fields of hospitality, travel, and tourism management. Two weeks of online learning, interspersed with course meetings and lectures, will be followed by a two-week immersive, experiential study abroad program.
Field Excursions
The program will include the following field excursions, to both complement the academic course, as well as provide insights into the culture and context of Ireland:
- Book of Kells (Trinity University)
- Newgrange Stone Age Passage Tomb – Boyne Valley, Ireland
- Inishmore (Aran Islands) including Dún Aonghasa.
- Galway area: Coole Park, Thoor Ballylee (Yeats’ home)
- Clonmacnoise Monastery
- Cliffs of Moher
- Poulnabrone
- Bloomsday Festival
Accommodations
Students will reside in student residences in Dublin and in hotels during excursions. Students will be placed in double rooms.
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