May Term

Off-campus May term provides a unique opportunity for students and professors to live and learn together in an intense three-week course. Students gain three to four credits while spending time in a different context, combining classroom and experiential learning. Many students use a May term course, when appropriate, as the basis for fulfilling their COR337 requirement. Students who plan to travel off­ campus for May term are required to attend pre­-departure workshops.

May 2024 Courses

• ART373 Art and the Church: Catacombs to Counter-Reformation
  Dr. Elissa Weichbrodt
  elissa.weichbrodt@covenant.edu
  Offered in Rome, Italy from May 5th - 26th, 2024

  This course offers an examination of changing attitudes towards the visual arts in the Christian church, beginning with paintings in the Roman catacombs and continuing through the present. We will discuss how theological and socio-political concerns have shaped the Church’s understanding of art’s role in both public and private religious contexts. The course will focus on Roman Catholicism and western Evangelicalism, but we will look at some examples from Eastern Orthodox and non-western contexts.

  BUS499 Marketing the Olympics
  Professor Matos-Wood.
  arwen.matoswood@covenant.edu
  Not open to the general student body, Offered in Paris, France from July 22nd - Aug 12th, 2024

  This course explores the principles and practices of marketing within the context of the Olympic Games. It provides an in-depth understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities in marketing Olympic sports, athletes, and events. Students will examine various marketing promotional strategies, case studies, and practical applications while having the chance to volunteer at the Paris Olympics in 2024.

  COR325 Global Trends in the 21st Century
  Dr. Daphne Haddad
  daphne.haddad@covenant.edu
  Offered in London, UK from May 5th - 26th

  An overview of the economic, social, political, demographic, public health, environmental, cultural and religious issues that shape the agenda for the community of nations. This course affords students the opportunity to develop an awareness of globalization, to recognize ways in which societal trends converge, and to think biblically about such issues. London serves as an historically relevant backdrop for the discussion of interconnecting global trends throughout the 21st century and beyond.

  EDU296 Education Practicum
  Dr. Sarah Donaldson
  sarah.donaldson@covenant.edu
  Offered in Prague, Czech Republic from May 5th - 25th
  Live and teach for 3 weeks at a Christian international school

  This is a concentrated full-time practicum (internship) in a school with opportunity to participate in a variety of classroom activities for three weeks. Students keep a journal, work with individuals and groups of students, teach, and engage in other classroom-related experiences. In May, 2024, students will complete the practicum at the Christian International School of Prague

  HIS223 London, A Public History of an International City
  Dr. Richard Follett
  richard.follett@covenant.edu
  Offered in London, UK from May 5th - 26th, 2024

  Historical survey of London, England, from its foundations in the Roman era to the present, that explores the city both as a cultural center in British history and as an international city which always had connections beyond Britain. The course will use the city as a resource for the study of public history and as an urban landscape for exploration in its own right. Major themes include the foundation, evolution and expansion of London, the impacts of commerce, immigration, and industrialization, and the place of London in British intellectual and political life and in the arts. The course also introduces basic concepts and tools in public history.

  
  PSY302 Special Topics: Mind, Matter, and Consciousness
  Dr. Rod Wilson
  rod.wilson@covenant.edu
  Offered in Athens, Greece from May 6th - 25th

  What is the relation between conscious experience and the brain? What do we mean when we say my “self”? Is our experience of our own nature nothing but the reductive biological functioning of the brain, or can it be explained via other concepts and/or terms (e.g. nonreductive or emergent properties)? This course provides an exploration of the historical development of theories and concepts related to the human mind, cognition, and consciousness. Beginning with modern neuroscience and psychology and ending with the Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, the course will trace the conceptual understanding of the mind through major historical shifts and contributors