Since 1993, engineering, science, and liberal arts students have satisfied part of their Georgia Tech humanities requirement abroad, in another setting, and in another way:

• Living in major European centers rather than in Atlanta.
• Learning from the piazzas and monuments of Athens, Rome, Florence, and Venice instead of a classroom.
• Living the history and culture being studied rather than merely reading (or being lectured) about it.

The Summer Study in Greece and Italy is designed to introduce the architecture, painting and sculpture of the Classical Greek, Roman, Renaissance and Baroque world to non-architecture students. All instruction takes place on site, at museums, in historic buildings or on walking tours through the cities we visit. Classes meet in the mornings with afternoons open for individual project research. During the first weeks in Greece organized trips by bus will take the group to Mycenae, Tiryns, Eleusis, Brauron, Sounion, and Delphi. The second week includes an organized four-day trip by boat and bus in Turkey in the ancient sites of Assos, Pergamon, Ephesos, Miletos, Priene and Didyma culminating with a weekend stay at the Greek island of Samos. The third week includes an organized trip by bus to Peloponnesos, Epidauros and Olympia and it continues by boat to South Italy and Magna Grecia including Taras, Metapontum and Paestum, and finally Pompeii and Herculaneum. During the two weeks spent in Rome, organized trips by bus or train take the group to Tivoli, and Ostia. The final two weeks includes travel north to Florence and Venice with side trips to Pienza, Vicenza and Verona. Several two or three day weekends will offer the opportunity for individual travel to other locations.

As technical fields, such as engineering and architecture increasingly operate in an international arena, as professional activity and research increasingly require knowledge and experience of other parts of the world, a program such as Summer Study in Greece and Italy can serve as valuable preparation for work that you intend to pursue after Georgia Tech.

The number of credits for which students must enroll is twelve semester hours. The program is approximately seven (7) weeks in length and is led by Associate Professor Athanassios Economou, Professor Douglas Allen, and Professor Mario Carpo.

Explore the program website for further information.