Project Vienna

Carl Raschke – Project Vienna

Project Vienna

Project Vienna is a full-quarter, study abroad program in Vienna starting in the fall of 2011 led by Dr. Carl Raschke of the Department of Religious Studies. A one-week, 4-hour credit, travel course to Vienna entitled RLGS 2106 “Religion and Social Justice in Vienna” will be conducted Dec. 5-12, 2011. For more information, contact Dr. Raschke at craschke@du.edu or carlraschke@gmail.com.

Pictures of previous trips with University of Denver students in Vienna can be viewed below.

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Fall Quarter in Vienna

A University of Denver Faculty-Led Program

About DU Faculty-led Programs

The University of Denver’s select number of full-quarter, faculty-led programs provides students doing study abroad with the unique opportunity to focus on an integrated and thematic body of courses that fulfill university requirements while offering a variety of electives and options for relevant majors. Faculty-led programs also give students access to a close, supportive community of like-minded people, both from the University of Denver and from the host culture. Such programs are designed to give students a rich multicultural, social, and intellectual experience in an international setting that augments or complements their regular undergraduate course of studies.

Highlights of the Vienna Program

The Vienna program’s distinctive features are:

An occasion to live, study, meet, socialize with, and engage both peers and the peoples of Central Europe, while developing future professional or career skills, in a famous European city with a rich cultural, artistic, and historical legacy that has earned number one ranking for the last several years among all the world’s metropolises in Mercer’s Quality of Living Survey
The chance to take courses in the arts, sciences, and humanities in the city that Wolfgang Mozart, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, Erwin Schrödinger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein built
The opportunity to do advanced study in the theory and practice of social justice and perform service learning internships within a professional environment dominated by “UN City,” the United Nations’ international development and human services headquarters around which the global offices of countless non-governmental organizations (NGOs) congregate
The prospect of pursuing beginning, intermediate, or advanced studies and having conversations in the German language

Location and Housing

Both housing and classrooms will be located in facilities for foreign students either on or near the University of Vienna main campus in the center of the city. The city has a world-class public transportation system that connects with trains and flights to other cities that are within several hours of Vienna, including Prague, Salzburg, Munich, Warsaw, Bratislava, and Milan as well as the Austrian Alps, which are world-famous for skiing.

Academics

The program is open to all English and German speakers. Although Vienna is virtually a bi-lingual city with English spoken fluently by most shopkeepers and professionals, German language study and conversation will be required of all students enrolled in the program. Intensive German language classes at the DeutschAkademie will be required of all students at various levels, including beginners, regardless of their previous coursework, background, or experiences. Tuition for the first, intensive one-month course is included in the cost of the program.

A seminar entitled “Social Justice in a Global Context, Theory and Practice” and the companion course “International Service Learning Colloquium” (a total of 8 hours) will be required of all students. Students can choose for the remainder of their course load from the following three options (all 4 hours each): “Culture and Conscience in Vienna,” a course on the cultural, intellectual, and religious history of the city; “Art, Thought, and Spirituality,” an advanced seminar that fulfills DU’s common curriculum requirements on modern art and poetry in the context of Austrian arts and letters; “Cleantech and Sustainability”, a course for science majors and liberal arts students with a special interest in environmental issues and concerns. Dr. Carl Raschke, an internationally known DU professor in religious studies and philosophy and program director, will teach the social justice course, service learning colloquium, and advanced seminar .

Calendar

The beginning of September to Thanksgiving.

Eligibility

This program is competitive. Only 15 DU stundents per term can participate. You must be in good academic and disciplinary standing at the University of Denver. For more information contact Prof. Raschke at craschke@du.edu.