GER F295/395
May 21–July 2, 2009
Instruction provided by Akademie für Internationale Bildung

Take six weeks of the summer and immerse yourself in the language and culture of Germany. Bonn, a major university town and the fourth largest city of Germany is the setting for this language intensive. Language will be the focus but culture will also be addressed with day trips into the Eifel region, the city of Cologne, and a boat trip down the Upper Middle Rhine Valley with a castle visit included. At the end of the program a five-day excursion to Eisenach, Erfurt, Dresden and Berlin is planned. Permission of instructor is required.

Contact Josef Glowa at ffjkg@uaf.edu.

GEOS F495/695
August 2–17, 2009 (tentative)
Pavel Izbekov and John Eichelberger, Instructors

Kamchatka is without exaggeration one of the most spectacular regions in Russia, boasting more than 160 volcanoes that help define the Great Pacific “ring of fire”. Volcanoes, cyclones, and underground heat have created a mixture of twenty climate zones. Here you will find a great variety of flora and fauna in addition to the numerous volcanic calderas, stone sculpture “parks”, pristine crater lakes, geysers, and mineral springs.

Tanzania
December 28, 2009–January 10, 2010

Zanzibar
(optional tour at the end of the Tanzania Tour)
January 10–14, 2010

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Explore Tanzania, an East African nation on the Indian Ocean with this travel experience that will go beyond the safari. Discover the people of a nation living somewhere between a traditional cultural existence and the threat of globalization. Learn how students receive access to education and technology. Appreciate the grassroots organizations behind alternative development. Meet the people behind the local community groups who are coming together in support of the development of children’s and women’s rights.

There is an optional side trip to the island of Zanzibar which was East Africa’s slave trade center for over a thousand years. Explore how this island’s slave trade history has directly affected Tanzania.

Deadline for registration: September 1, 2009. Enrollment is limited to 25 participants.

Tanzania Program Fee: $3600/person double occupancy; $450 single supplement. Optional Zanzibar program fee: $1000/person double occupancy; $150 single supplement. Program fee includes: Hotels, three meals a day, travel within Tanzania, educational programs, performances, and entrance fees to all scheduled events. Program fee does not include: Travel to and from Tanzania, and visa and passport fees.

For more information contact Summer Sessions at (907) 474-7021.