Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic
May 6 - 28, 2012 (3 weeks)
Total Program Fee: $4,200
Academics and Courses Application, Cost and Important Details
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Program Location:
Often called 'Magic Prague' and 'the city of a thousand spires,' Prague is one of the most beautiful and least expensive European cities. The capitol of the Czech Republic is a cultural center providing a rich environment of museums and galleries. The city regularly plays host to numerous international exhibitions, events, arts and music festivals. Prague has always been a cultural city of influence: Mozart wrote "Don Giovanni" here, the great Czech composer Antony Dvorak spent most of his life here, Franz Kafka and Alphonse Mucha are only a few of the city's most famous sons. Prague is one of the most important art and cultural centers of Western and Eastern Europe.
Program Description:
Prague has become a center for contemporary art and photography with numerous museums, galleries and international art events, making it an ideal location to study art and photography. There are also hundreds of concert halls and frequent music festivals in the city. This program provides a unique opportunity for Photography students to visit and interact with celebrated Czech and Slovak photographers in their personal studios, to visit important photographic collections with local curators, and also to photograph outside of Prague on field trips provided. Students in the Art course will be captured by the physical beauty of the city’s historic and well preserved architecture (including Gothic, Baroque, Art Nouveau, and Cubism). This program takes advantage of all that Prague has to offer makes a study abroad experience here a once in a lifetime experience.
Please note: Prospective students should be aware that study abroad programs require a great deal of walking. You should be prepared to walk at least 2 or 3 miles each day. You may also walk over uneven, possibly slippery or rocky terrain even in cities .
Excursions: Depending on the course, students will have excursions to several local museums, photography studios, or theatres. An overnight trip will be planned to Cesky Krumlov and a day trip to Kutna Hora. Both are designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Individual instructors will arrange local excursions related to their classes.
Classes: Classes will be held three hours per day during the week.
Accommodations: Students will stay in a well located hotel or hostel with breakfast and dinner provided. Lunch will be the responsibility of the student.
All TnCIS programs are academic in nature and course work that takes advantage of the program location will be the central focus. TnCIS program courses are for credit only. In Czech Republic, students will enroll in ONE of the following courses:
PHOTOGRAPHY: Basic Digital Photography (No Prerequisites)
This course will teach the skills of Basic Photography with the use of a digital SLR camera. Emphasis will be placed on the student’s ability to successfully use many of the manual settings on their camera as explained in daily lectures and shooting exercises while also learning the fundamentals of composing quality images. Students should have their own digital SLR camera and a laptop with Adobe Photoshop or photo editing software. With the numerous historical and cultural sites to visit around Prague it should be a very easy task to find subject matter for some stunning images during this three week long class. This class will be visiting numerous sites around the city and take a few planned excursions outside the city limits. See course syllabus
ART: Individual Problems in Art (Prerequisite: Basic Photography)
This course is for students who have completed Creative Photography or an Intermediate level photography course. This course is for art majors with advanced standing or high competence. It is designed to offer investigation in areas of a specialized nature, which is not offered in the curriculum. Course content will be decided between instructor and student. Students should have their own film camera or digital camera and, if possible, laptop. See course syllabus
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