Summer Programs

Spend a summer on the Greek island of Lesvos, studying “The Great Books” from the ancient world and writing poetry! This three-and-a-half-week program will explore how the Aegean landscape was vital to the world’s most influential and enduring literary works, including the lyric poetry of Sappho, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Euripides’ Bacchae, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In the Poetry Workshop course, students will discuss the lyric’s enduring influence on contemporary poetry and produce their own creative writing, inspired by the history of the lyric, as well as the island’s beautiful setting. 

In the Poetry Workshop course, students will produce their own creative writing, inspired by the history of the lyric, as well as the island’s beautiful setting.

• Dates: July 1 – 24, 2025
• Accepting applications until March 14, 2025

Hunter College joins forces with the International Center for Development Studies (ICDS) to offer two exciting summer opportunities! Details below:

• Spanish and Health in Latin America: This program offers the opportunity to explore health care in a developing country while improving Spanish speaking skills. Clinical rotations for advanced Spanish speakers or community service in social welfare services for lower to intermediate level Spanish speakers are experiential learning components of the program.
  Dates: June 27 – July 27, 2024
  
• Spanish and Sustainability Practices in Latin America: This is a service-learning program with strong Spanish language and cultural immersion components divided in urban and rural experiences. The program starts in San José, the country’s capital city and then participants immerse themselves in the culture of rural Costa Rica by living on site at a local Finca.
  Dates: May 23 – June 24, 2024
  
• Learn more about the International Center for Development Studies (ICDS) programs offered!
• Accepting applications until March 15, 2024.

Join us in Riga, Latvia as we explore the first publications of clandestine manuscripts from behind the Iron Curtain. The course will consist of lectures and seminars each devoted to an author or a work of literature written at home but first published abroad, with or without the author’s knowledge or consent (e.g., Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna, Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Stories, Andrei Sinyavsky’s “Pkhentz”).

• Dates: June 2 – June 27, 2025
• Accepting applications until March 14, 2025

Join us in the summer for an unforgettable faculty-led study abroad experience that takes you from the vibrant streets of Barcelona to the historic town of Arles. The program features two courses, one exploring the transmission and translation of chivalric tales in the Iberian Peninsula during the Medieval and Early Modern periods, and the other focusing on key moments in French history and how they shaped the diversity and interconnectedness of languages, literatures, and cultures in modern-day France.

Considered a bridge between Africa, America and Europe, the Canary Islands is an autonomous region of Spain. This program focuses on subtitling, including insights into the situation of the current audiovisual market, work methodology for translators and technologies applied to the audiovisual area.

Experience one of the liveliest cities in the world — Madrid! The program encompasses college-level undergraduate programs for six credits each in June or July, or one Intensive Program for twelve credits — June and July combined.

• Session 1: June 2 – June 27, 2025
• Session 2: July 1 – July 24, 2025*
• Accepting applications until March 14, 2025

*The last day of classes will be July 24. July 25 is a bank holiday in Spain; students will have the option to review their exams on July 28, if they choose. They will be able to stay with their homestay family until July 29, 2025.