Study Abroad Opportunities
2012-13 Study Abroad Programs in
the School of Fine Arts
Thematic Sequences (Open to all majors)
Visit the Life-Long Learning website for complete information on study abroad options including registration.
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Click Here To watch a video about The Ghana Program, which is associated with the Department of Architecture at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi and with the Department of Home Science at the University of Ghana in Accra. |
Thematic Sequences (Open to all majors)
Summer 2012
The School of Fine Arts offers study in two sessions that can be used as a Miami Plan Thematic Sequence. These programs are open to all majors, with no prerequisites.
Experiencing Arts & Culture: Paris 2012
Paris, France
May 14-June 14
Students will travel to Paris for an immersive thematic sequence focused on the global importance and impact of the integrated creative arts (e.g.: architecture, interior design, theatre, studio arts, graphic design, music, etc.). This intensive, experiential program will help students develop a general knowledge of cultural history, and an understanding of the theories and application of various forms of the creative arts. This sequence is intended to make the creative arts interesting, accessible, and valuable.
Contact:
Peg Faimon
513-529-1407
peg.faimon@muohio.edu
London Theatre
London, England, UK
May 29–June 25
Open to any student in good standing, both graduate and undergraduate, majors and non-majors, London Theatre is an exploration of the rich tradition and contemporary diversity of theatre in London and the historical, cultural and critical context from which they spring. Students will travel to London, home to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, The Royal National Theatre, and the West End, for a four-week summer immersion, attending performances, thinking critically about them, and learning about styles of dramatic expression particular to Britain's theatrical present and past. In addition, students will tour important cultural and historical sights both in and beyond London. Possibilities beyond London include Oxford, Cambridge, and Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon.
The program is open to both theatre majors and non-majors, both undergraduate and graduate students, from both Miami University and other universities and colleges.
Click here for Prezi Presentation
Contact:
Lewis Magruder
513-529-1288
lewis.magruder@muohio.edu
Architecture + Interior Design
Summer 2012 and 2013
UAA Cologne Design Summer
At the Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft
Cologne, Germany
May 12 – June 15
6 credit hours, undergraduate or graduate architectural design (or interior design) credit
Capacity: 18 Students
Prerequisites/Requirements: Rising third year undergraduates in architecture or interior design, or graduate students in architecture
The UAA Summer Workshop is an intensive architectural/urban design studio for upper-level undergraduate architecture and interior design students and graduate students in architecture. The studio site is the UAA. Students will interact with design professionals and collaborate with students from the TU Dortmund in a design charrette. Field visits will include significant projects by Prof. O. Mathias Ungers with historic and contemporary examples of architecture and urban design in Cologne, Frankfurt and Trier.
Contact:
Gerardo Brown-Manrique
513.529.7222
brownmg@muohio.edu
Türkiye Workshop
Turkey
July 15 – August 16
6 credits hours, counts as an elective ID studio for rising juniors and seniors
Capacity: 13 Students
Prerequisites/Requirements: A great interest in design and learning, sophisticated taste buds, and a sense of adventure.
The Türkiye workshop experience is structured to explore the issues of history and tradition, identity and culture, architecture and social and physical context, and effects of Westernization and globalization on spatial environment. Students are exposed to diverse ways of thinking through sharing and living with another culture. The first half will be devoted to travel, observation, documentation and analysis whereas the second half will be the design project in collaboration with Yeditepe University students.
Contact:
Gulen Cevik
513-529-7272
cevikg@muohio.edu
Design/Build Ghana 2012
Ghana, West Africa
May 11 or 12 – June 24
Credit: 6 credit hours design and build studio
Capacity: 18 participants maximum
Prerequisites/Requirements: Third year standing or approval of instructor. Must have completed ARC 202 or 204
The studio gives students the opportunity to affect a community through their efforts as aspiring architects and interior designers.Projects are driven by the needs of Abrafo-Odumase and respond to the feed back of the client before construction and during it. The group tours Ghana, and will design and build two teacher’s cottages. Students take part in all phases of construction with lessons from Ghanaian masons and carpenters with whom they work throughout the project.
Contact:
J Elliott
513-529-2484
elliotje@muohio.edu
London 2013
May - June 2013
Credit: 6 credit hours design and build studio
Capacity: 18 participants maximum
Prerequisites/Requirements: Third year standing or approval of instructor. Must have completed ARC 202 or 204
I will conduct the London Energy Efficient by Design Studio again summer, 2013. We meet with local architects proficient in an integrated design approach that places energy efficiency in a place equal to or greater than other design drivers. These presentations coupled with field visits to exemplars of this approach and independent/group research helps to prepare the students for their design done in teams of two, of a mixed use building on a site in London.
Contact:
J Elliott
513-529-2484
elliotje@muohio.edu
Passive House: Malta 2013
Germany & Malta
mid May-mid June
Credit: 6 credits
Capacity: 15-18 students
Prerequisites/ Requirements: Junior or Senior Standing. 2-3 pre-workshop training sessions will be held to prepare for the workshop. Students will be required to learn thermal analysis software prior to the workshop.
The workshop begins at the International Passiv Haus Conference (site-TBD). After one week, the studio will travel to Malta to gain an understanding of the history of the island and examine traditional Maltese construction methods, several ancient temples, and the offices of contemporary Maltese architects.
We will stay in the city of Valetta, the island of Gozo, and then back to the main island where we will be designing a structure using Passive House principles.
Contact:
Mary Rogero
513-529-7271
rogeromr@muohio.edu
Architecture + Interior Design
Spring Break 2012 and 2013
Switzerland: Details for Architecture and Interior Design 2012
March 2 – 11, 2012
Students will observe, document, analyze, and critique details of at least eighteen buildings, working individually or in teams on case studies. We’ll spend two days at the renowned Therme Vals (in the water), and visit other Zumthor buildings: St. Benedikt chapel, Roman Ruins, the houses at Leis, and Kunsthaus Bregenz. We’ll study the multifaceted Vitra Design Museum (a must-experience for interior designers, plus Markli, Le Corbusier (Ronchamp!), Piano, Herzog & de Meuron, Gehry, Ando, Siza, Hadid.
Contact:
Ben Jacks
513-529-4916
jacksbm@muohio.edu
Netherlands: Details for Architecture and Interior Design 2013
March 8 – 17, 2013
Students will observe, document, analyze, and critique details of old and new Dutch architecture, working individually or in teams on case studies. Holland is on the forefront of design thinking, and we’ll engage it, with a visit to the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. We’ll look back to the iconic Rietveld-Schroder house, including the furniture and other buildings/ interiors of Gerrit Rietveld, and forward with some of the most thrilling new design on the planet.
Contact:
Ben Jacks
513-529-4916
jacksbm@muohio.edu
Architecture and Interior Design
All-Semester 2012
University of Applied Sciences in Rosenheim, Germany 2012
February 15-mid July
The University of Applied Sciences exchange program in Rosenheim, Germany located southeast of Munich enables students to study one semester at the partner university. Rosenheim offers a wide variety of courses for Interior Design and Architecture majors from visual communications, theory, and technical courses to design studios with architectural, interiors, and product design themes. Emphasis is placed on full-scale prototyping with projects frequently carried out with distinguished partners and the cities of Rosenheim and Munich.
Contact:
Diane Fellows
513-529-6447
fellow@muohio.edu
Korean National University of Arts
Seoul, South Korea
March-June 2012
This is a semester study at one of the world’s preeminent Arts institutions. You may peruse their website at knua.ac.kr. In addition to courses in architecture and design, students may enroll in other programs within the university subject to approval of the faculty. Dr. Blanning will be resident at KNUA for the semester.
Contact:
Howard Blanning
513-529-1270
blanniha@muohio.edu
Theatre
Summer 2012
London Theatre
London, England, UK
May 29–June 25
Open to any student in good standing, both graduate and undergraduate, majors and non-majors, London Theatre is an exploration of the rich tradition and contemporary diversity of theatre in London and the historical, cultural and critical context from which they spring. Students will travel to London, home to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, The Royal National Theatre, and the West End, for a four-week summer immersion, attending performances, thinking critically about them, and learning about styles of dramatic expression particular to Britain's theatrical present and past. In addition, students will tour important cultural and historical sights both in and beyond London. Possibilities beyond London include Oxford, Cambridge, and Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon.
The program is open to both theatre majors and non-majors, both undergraduate and graduate students, from both Miami University and other universities and colleges.
Click here for Prezi Presentation
Contact:
Lewis Magruder
513-529-1288
lewis.magruder@muohio.edu