Global Course Connections 2012: Janet Hegman Shier
Munich Study Tour:"Present-ing" the Past through the Arts:
The Arts and Theater as Identity Markers
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Project Director: Janet Hegman Shier

What will participants do?*
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Students will spend 20-21 days in May (May 1-23) in Munich and surrounding alpine areas where they will:

  • visit outstanding art museums, featuring many art works that were banned in Nazi Germany (i.e., all the major modern artists, including Klee, Kandinsky, Marc). In the art museums, students will draw, write, and reflect;
  • attend several theater performances where current issues of identity are explored, small and large theaters that attempt to explore issues of interest to youth.) Students will discover that Munich has one of the most progressive and engaging theater scenes in Europe.
  • learn first-hand about the arts and theater by participating in drawing, painting, movement, and theater workshops led by local artists and project leaders;
  • partipate in a public reading of writer's works that were banned (and burned) by the Nazis;
  • take day trips to Dachau and Kochel, and visit a medieval town (. . .traveling back in time. . .)
  • go on a memorable hike in the Alps;
  • take unorthodox walking tours (the kind tourists don't get) and a classic bikes tour;
  • compile materials and reflections that document the overall experience.

* Some aspects may be subject to change.

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