Semester in the Mediterranean: Greek Heritage

Program Description and Highlights Program Itinerary Why Should I Join This Program? Host Institution Curriculum and Faculty Student Housing Admission Requirements Program Fees and Dates Host Country & City

Curriculum and Faculty

The curriculum consists of host institution courses open to local students. Courses are taught by host institution faculty. Students are required to take an introductory Greek language course and a course on Greek art and are free to choose 2-3 courses on any subject from the courses offered by the University of Nicosia in the semester they are enrolled in.

All applicants should aim to receive course pre-approval from their home institution.

To download a syllabus* and faculty bio for a course in PDF format, please click on a course number. If for any reason a course syllabus file is unavailable online, please contact us to request it.

Required Courses

Course Schedule

Students choose 2 to 3 additional courses from the catalog of regularly scheduled Spring and Fall semester courses offered at the University of Nicosia.

Please download the course schedule below to view the day and time that each course is offered to ensure that your selected courses do not conflict with each other.

IMPORTANT: If you are applying for Spring or Fall 2009, you can use the corresponding 2008 course schedule below as a guide to which classes will be offered. The University of Nicosia will release the final Spring 2009 course schedule in December and the Fall 2009 course schedule in May, however, typically most of the classes offered in the previous year will be offered again. When selecting courses for credit pre-approval, you should select and pre-approve as many alternates as possible, to avoid conflicts when the actual schedule is announced.

Course Syllabi by Subject

Below you will find links to syllabi for courses that have been offered at the University of Nicosia in the past. There is no guarantee that these courses will be offered but the syllabi are available for viewing and downloading, To see which courses will be offered, please see the course schedule for the semester you are interested in.

Accounting	Communications	Humanities	Life & Health Sciences	Music
Art & Design	Computer Science	International Relations	Management	Sciences & Engineering
Banking & Finance	Education	Language & Literature	MBA	Social Sciences
Business	Hospitality & Tourism	Law	Masters in Design	Sports

* NOTE: The University of Nicosia appears on the syllabi under its former name - Intercollege.


Teaching Methods

• All courses on the program are University of Nicosia courses taught by University of Nicosia faculty using University of Nicosia syllabi on the University of Nicosia campus. The University of Nicosia issues the transcript for this program.
• Courses are taught on an intensive schedule and meet for approximately 5 hours per week for the eight weeks that students are in Cyprus for a total of 42 hours of classroom contact hours.
• Students complement their in-class instruction with 10-15 days of travel and excursions  to Greece and Cyprus.
  
• While the travel portion is a required part of this program and linked to the curriculum, it is not-for-credit.