General Athens Program Information
Penn State's Spring Semester in Athens enables up to twenty-two students and the Penn State faculty director to live in central Athens and to explore the city and the Greek countryside, both together and on their own. Course work involves both classroom activity and visits to a number of important archaeological sites and museums through field trips around Athens and to various parts of Greece. Students live in private apartments a few blocks from the classroom facilities (located at the Athens Centre, a private language/cultural institute that coordinates semester abroad programs each semester for several American colleges and universities) in the residential neighborhood of Pangrati, about a mile from the center of the city and from the Acropolis. Instruction is provided both by local faculty (some American, some Greek) and by Penn State professors. All instruction is in English, although a required course in modern Greek emphasizes the use of this language. Courses can be counted toward appropriate major and minor requirements or toward General Education and Bachelor of Arts requirements in Arts and Humanities. Participants may be eligible to receive a minor in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS). All courses earn PSU credits (transferrable to home institutions of CIC students); participation satisfies Gen. Ed. International Literacy requirement.
Hephaisteion and Agora, Athens
Panathenic Stadium from the Pangrati Neighborhood