Deadline Extended for Great Britain and Russia!
SPAN is taking applications from students from all Minnesota colleges to join our groups that will study and travel to Great Britain and Russia in summer 2012. Students can apply for these exciting adventures through January 15, 2012!
Russia
Russia has something for everyone: hockey or ballet, caviar or borscht, Tolstoy or Tetris, oil drilling or diamond mining, Tchaikovsky or hip-hop. Join us for SPAN 2012 in Moscow, a world-class multiethnic city of ten million people. Russia, the world's largest country, is leaving behind its Communist past and establishing itself as a new economic and military power on the global stage. During your eight weeks in Moscow you will work on research project of your choice, meet a wide variety of Muscovites, explore a city with 865 years of history, and take the train to surrounding cities and villages.
Possibilities for research are unlimited: innovation in the high tech industry, new social work ventures to assist orphans, creative developments in higher education, controversies surrounding immigration, or recent perspectives on classic poetry. The project advisor has lived, studied, and taught for eight years in Russia and is excited to help you make the most of your two months abroad!
Please contact Dr. Matt Miller, Northwestern College, Department of History, mlmiller@nwc.edu or fill out and return or fill out a SPAN application form.
Britain
Britain is home of so much that is familiar to us (the Monarchy, Stonehenge, Scotch whiskey, Wimbledon, cricket, Sherlock Holmes), but what do you know about the FA Cup, the Laurel & Hardy Museum, Llandudno, Samuel Palmer's paintings, and the Islands of Yell and Unst? Britain contains plenty of mysteries waiting to be discovered and studied: its unparalleled history, a splendidly preserved past, a vital place in Europe's present, a hopeful view of a changing future, and very long summer days.
Possible areas of research are unlimited. Following are a few suggestions from the advisor, Jack Miller, who teaches English literature at Normandale Community College and has lived, studied, and done research in England and Wales.
- Preparations for the Summer 2012 Olympics
- Role of the Church of England in a largely secular society
- HRH Elizabeth II in her 60th year as Queen
- Effect of colonial past on the country's present
- Physical remnants of Dickensian London
- History of Brick Lane
Please contact Jack Miller, Professor, Normandale Community College, jack.miller@normandale.edu.
or fill out and return or fill out a SPAN application form.
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What is SPAN?
SPAN, the Student Project for Amity among Nations, offers a one-of-a-kind international learning experience. Students travel abroad to conduct research on a self-chosen topic and to build bridges of understanding across borders, cultures, and continents. SPAN is Minnesota's oldest study abroad program and is open to students from all of Minnesota's colleges and universities. Since the program began in 1947, more than 2,500 SPANners have visited 93 countries on six continents.
During summer 2011 SPAN student researchers traveled to Hungary and Eastern Europe.
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Some quotes that apply to the SPAN experience!
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
"Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." - Miriam Beard
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the
life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell
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