Travel Classes

EMU History faculty regularly teach two classes that incorporate off-campus travel.

Over winter break, Ron Delph tours Italy with the students enrolled in HIST 329: Power, Place and Image in Florence and Rome and HIST 516: Medieval and Renaissance Florence & Rome. Students travel to Italy over winter break, where they stay in the beautiful cities of Florence and Rome while studying the society and culture of Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Course work investigates the dynamics of social and political power, and the relationships between men and women, both inside and outside families. The class spends time studying tangible manifestations of power as expressed in monuments, palaces, city walls and churches. They also use the art of Medieval and Renaissance Florence and Rome to gain an understanding of the mentality and values of the period, and to explore the religious beliefs and practices of the time. In Rome students stay in a small hotel, while in Florence accommodations are in a family-run pensione. A complete trip itinerary and information on the cost and academic requirements are available here.

Over a week during spring semester, Steven Ramold travels to the southern United States with members of the class HIST 379/592: Civil War: Combat, Culture, and Place. Leaving the classroom behind, the Civil War Tour takes students to important Civil War sites, and allows students to understand the events of the war by walking the ground upon which the events occurred. Besides several battlefields, the Tour also visits Arlington Cemetery, Ford's Theater, and several Civil War related museums. The Tour also visits the Library of Congress, where students have the chance to view original letters and diaries written by Civil War participants. For more information, email Dr. Ramold.

EMU's office of Academic Programs Abroad offers several additional travel classes that carry EMU History credit, including the popular Cultural History Tours.

Professor Ramold lectures at Gettysburg.