Global Partners

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Global Partners Semester in Turkey ProgramFall
Term 2006 learning in a land of contrasts
Ortakoy mosque, Istanbul
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old
17th-c. Sultan Ahmet mosque, Istanbul
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new
European Istanbul from the Asian shore
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underground
Underground 6th-c AD (Byzantine) cisterns,
Istanbul
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ethereal
Aya Sofia, Istanbul
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exploration
On top of the 4th-c. AD city walls, Istanbul
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introspection
15th-c. BC Egyptian Obelisk of Thutmosis III in
the Hippodrome, Istanbul
14th-c. AD Church of St. Savior in Chora, Istanbul
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walls
Rumeli Hisar, Ottoman fortress on the Bosphorus,
Istanbul
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bridges
The Golden Horn, Istanbul
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passion
a Besiktas soccer game, Inönü Stadium, Istanbul
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• The Program begins in Istanbul, a city over 2,500
  years old that joins Europe and Asia
• 3 weeks at Istanbul Technical University (ITU)
• Turkish lessons
• the core-course introductory lectures on
  Turkish history, economics, politics,
  international relations, culture, art, and
  religion by ITU professors
• field trips on afternoons and Saturdays to sites
  and museums across Istanbul (also part of the
  core-course)
• optional trips to a whirling dervish dance
  performance, a super league soccer match, etc.
• ITU students serve as liaisons to help students
  acclimate
• A faculty director accompanies the students
  throughout their stay (in 2006 Professor Daniel
  Shaw of Colorado College)

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2006 Faculty Director Daniel Shaw, PhD, is
visiting professor of religion at The Colorado
College. Professor Shaw teaches courses in
Islamic Studies and in Christianity. He
specializes in issues of cultural interchange
between Islamic and Christian societies. He is
particularly interested in the intellectual
transmission of Hellenistic philosophy that
occurred as Islam encountered the Byzantine
Christian world. Dr. Shaw has lived in and
traveled throughout Jordan and Egypt, and in the
spring of 2006 will be living in Damascus and
exploring the cultures of Syria and the Lebanon.
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ITU dorm-room
education
The city is an
The gate where Mehmet II entered in 1453
ITU classroom
19th-c Sultans palace of Dolmabahce
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Istanbul Technical University was founded in 1773
view of the Bosphorus from ITU dorm-room
ITU Gumussuyu Campus
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Atatürk, founder of the modern Turkish Republic,
remembered during Victory Day on Taksim Square
Taksim Square and Istiklal Street, Istanbul
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The Program continues with a 7-day trip along the
West Coast. Visits may include the WWI
battlefield of Gallipoli, the citadel of Troy,
the Greek towns of Assos and Priene, the
Hellenistic city of Pergamon, an oracle of Apollo
at Claros, the Roman metropolis of Ephesos, the
burial-place of St. John and the House of Mary,
the Lydian capital of Sardis, the burial-mounds
of Bin-Tepe, the Phrygian settlement of Midas
City, as well as Alevi shrines, 19th-c. Greek
towns, and dramatic landscapes.
Gallipoli
Troy
Akçay
Assos
Pergamon
Midas City
Sardis
Claros
Ephesos
Priene
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Gallipoli Peninsula, 1915 a million men fought
here half of them became casualties of the Great
War
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Troy, ca. 1200 BC another war, another time,
that begat the tradition of Western epic poetry
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(not the actual Trojan horse)
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Village life
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Urbanism going back 10,000 years
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Modern town The village of Sirince, with its
traditional Greek houses and incongruous
satellite dishes
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Ancient metropolis a busy Roman street in
Ephesos, with the local library at one end
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Religious diversity The monument at Akçay to
Sarikiz, the blonde girl, a local legend whose
empty tomb is venerated by followers of the Alevi
sect of Islam
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Religious diversity The House of Mary at
Ephesos a fascinating blend of Christian and
Turkish cult traditions
wishing wall tying bits of cloth to a tree as
a wish or a prayer may go back to the shamanistic
traditions of Turks in their homeland of Central
Asia
The late-Roman house
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Vanished leaders The burial mounds of Lydian
kings and nobles at Bin-Tepe. The largest is 350
m. in diameter and 70 m. high.
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Vanished civilizations The acropolis tunnel and
a Phrygian inscription on the shrine of
mother-goddess Cybele at Midas City
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Vanished cities A corridor in one of the dozens
of underground cities in Cappadocia here a
mill-stone is ready to block off the passage.
Some cities are more than 8 stories deep and
could accommodate up to 10,000 people
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• The Program continues in Ankara, capital of
  modern Turkey
• students enroll at either of these élite
  universities, located adjacent to each other
  in the hills southwest of Ankara Bilkent
  University Middle East Technical University
  (METU)
• classes at Bilkent or METU are taught in English
• students participate in an orientation program
  at METU or Bilkent
• Turkish lessons continue
• the core-course continues once-a-week as a
  seminar with the resident faculty director
• additional trips within and around Ankara, such
  as to Cappadocia
• local students serve as liaisons to help
  students acclimate
• Turkish roommates in the dorms

the citadel, Ankara
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Bilkent
METU
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MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (METU)
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METU
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BILKENT UNIVERSITY
shopping center
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BILKENT
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For more information, or to apply, visit your
International Center or go to
http//www.global-partners.org/turkey/studyabroad/
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For more information, or to apply, visit your
International Center or go to
http//www.global-partners.org/turkey/studyabroad/
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For more information, or to apply, visit your
International Center or go to
http//www.global-partners.org/turkey/studyabroad/
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For more information, or to apply, visit your
International Center or go to
http//www.global-partners.org/turkey/studyabroad/
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For more information, or to apply, visit your
International Center or go to
http//www.global-partners.org/turkey/studyabroad/
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For more information, or to apply, visit your
International Center or go to
http//www.global-partners.org/turkey/studyabroad/