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For The May Term Program students enroll in one of the three courses offered.
Classes are held each morning from Monday to Friday, field trips are scheduled
some afternoons. Participation in field trips is mandatory, as they constitute a very important part of the course experience.
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Academics
Students may enroll in only one of the three courses offered each May Term. Enrolled Clark students will receive normal day-college credit (1 full unit). Students from other schools must make arrangements to have credits transferred to their home institution (1 Clark unit is equivalent to 4 credits).
May Term 2008 Courses
Nutrition, Aging, and Health
(Biology 171) Professor Thomas Leonard, Clark University. This course will contrast European and American nutrition (including lifestyles and eating habits) with regards to nutrition’s impact on health, aging, and disease. While the major focus will be the basic components of nutrition and their importance, diffused throughout the lectures there will also be some elementary discussion of underlying genetic factors. Field trips to nearby retirement homes will be included where elderly men and women will be interviewed. Trips to vineyards and various marketplaces are also planned.
The course does not require prior background in Biology. It carries Science Perspective credit at Clark. Designation at Holy Cross is still to be determined.
Beyond Armageddon: Enmity to Amity in Europe
(History 006) Professor William Green, College of the Holy Cross. The course concentrates on the international history of Europe, commencing with the unparalleled disaster of the Great War, 1914-1918, and the ensuing, even more costly Second World War, 1939-1945. Paramount attention will be given to the conduct of warfare in the territories of Northern France, Western Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg (scene of the Battle of the Bulge). The class will visit sites of warfare undertaken in this region, some of them commemorative, some grisly, all of them important, including Verdun, the Maginot Line, and several military cemeteries--French, German, and American. The post-war reconstruction of Europe, the onset and development of the Cold War, and the process of reconciliation among former wartime enemies, particularly France and Germany, will be treated. Consideration will be given to the creation of the European Community and its remarkable expansion at the end of the 20th century. A visit will be made to Strasbourg, home of the European Parliament, crossroads of French and German culture, and principal city of Alsace.
This course does not require prior background in History. It carries History Perspective credit at Clark. Designation at Holy Cross is still to be determined.
Romans, Barbarians, and Scholars: Language and Culture
(Classics 005) Professor Paul Burke, Clark University. The course will be a comprehensive survey of the introduction of urbanism to Europe north of the Alps by the Romans, and the effects of this act on the society, politics, language, and religion of Western Europe. The historical range will be from the bridging of the Rhine by Julius Caesar in the first century BCE to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century CE. To the maximum extent possible, instruction will take place on the sites of the main urban, rural, and frontier monuments of Roman Germany. Nearby Roman Trier (Colonia Augusta Treverorum) and the associated rural villas of the Roman Imperial period will be primary resource material. “Romans, Barbarians, and Scholars” will include lectures, discussions, and field trips to appropriate sites in Roman Germany.
This course does not require prior background in Classics. It carries Language and Culture Perspective (LCP) credit at Clark. Designation at Holy Cross to be determined.
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