This panel describes three short (one to three week) study tours in Italy, Greece, and Paris offered by the Department of Classics at the University of Maryland College Park. Our brief tours serve as intensive introductions to the classical art and archaeology of the countries visited, as well as to the classical tradition as reflected in the art, architecture, and culture of later eras. The panel will consist of presentations by the College Park faculty who have organized and led the programs, to be followed by general discussion with the audience. The panel will offer advice for those interested in implementing similar programs at their own institutions; in so doing, it will continue the emphases of recent CAAS presentations and panels (e.g., the 2005 panel celebrating Henry Bender and the one hundred trips to Greece, Italy and the Mediterranean world that he has led for a variety of clienteles). We hope that the panel, like its CAAS predecessors, will serve as a resource on the practical implications of taking students abroad, the nature of the pedagogical preparations such courses entail, and the challenges that one can expect involving personal safety, language barriers, and travel logistics.
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