This program, sponsored by the Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership at USF St. Petersburg, will start with a flight to Athens, Greece. Students will spend five days in Greece before flying to Italy for four days in each of Rome and Florence. Finally, students will spend five days in London before returning to Florida.
Information Nights
Wednesday, February 3, 5:00 PM Campus Activities Center CAC 133
Dates
The program will run from June 4 through June 23, 2010, preceded by classes in St Petersburg.
Program highlights
The challenges to ethical leadership and possible answers to these challenges are not new. But your conclusions just might be! Study and learn practical leadership ethics in the places where many of the great minds wrote and taught the knowledge and wisdom that still guides our thinking and behavior of today.
Debate the proper aims of leadership, justice, and the nature of the life worth living at the site of the Academy in Athens where Plato taught Aristotle. Discuss the tradition of Natural Law morality – a tradition evident in contemporary issues such as abortion, embryonic stem cell research, birth control - at Roccasecca Castle, the birth site of Saint Thomas Aquinas south of Rome. Consider Niccolo Machiavelli’s practical as well as moral claims regarding power and self-interest at the villa where he wrote The Prince while in exile from Florence. Explore the London “haunts” of John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham, the most famous Utilitarian's who envisioned a “greatest good” based on happiness and pleasure, and Thomas Hobbes, who championed social contract theory as a necessary response to our self-interested nature. Weigh counter arguments by Immanuel Kant that morality can only be found in universal, intentional respect for all persons.
Do all this, learn practical ethics and systematic moral analysis and still have generous amounts of free time to explore the art, culture and history of four world class cities.
Apply today to join a select group of students who will explore not only the wisdom of selected philosophers and political theorists but also the locations where they lived, taught, wrote and died.
Faculty
Dr. Steve Ritch is the director for the Wally and Louise Bishop Center as well as a professor here in USF St. Petersburg. While he teaches Fundamentals of Leadership, Survey of Leadership Readings, and Community Leadership Practicum, his signature course is Ethics and Power in Leadership. He firmly believes in experiential education and employs interactive teaching methods wherever possible. In the summer of 2007 he held a very successful study abroad version of this course, and is looking forward to doing it again this summer. As a teacher abroad Dr. Steve Ritch has been able to use his surroundings to provide a lively and meaningful experience for his students.
Tel: (727) 873-4985
E-mail:ritch@spadmin.usf.edu
Full biography
Cost $3,695 + $1,300 to $1,500 Airfare
Cost includes
- Accommodation in Athens, Rome, Florence, and London including breakfasts.
- European airfare and transfers to all sites.
- Tours of Athens, Vatican, Florence, admissions Uffizi and Accademia, London transportation pass.
- USF tuition up to 3 undergraduate credit hours.
Cost does not include
- Most meals. Estimated cost is $500.
- Personal Spending. Estimated cost is $500.
- Optional third party tours, including Delphi, Greek Isles, Pompeii, Assisi, Glastonbury and Stonehenge.
Payment Schedule
- Program application along with the $300 deposit is due on February 12, 2010.
- $2,300 payment due February 15, 2010.
- Balance due March 15, 2010.
- All payments are nonrefundable unless the program is cancelled by the university.
- Six $500 need based scholarships are available.
How to Apply
This information is found in our "How to Apply/ Forms" page.
Please make sure that you have filled out all five parts of the application, and have printed out a copy of your deposit before you turn in your application in to BAY 204.
Financial Aid and Scholarships
Students may apply for Federal or State Financial Aid for this USFSP course. A number of $500 scholarships are available from the Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership. Contact Study Abroad for details.
Academic Credit
The Study Abroad Office will register students for the course once the deposit and application are accepted. Students will be registered for three credits in LDR 4204, Ethics and Power in Leadership. For more specific information on this course please take a look at The syllabus and the topical outline itinerary for the class.
Eligibility
Students need not be USF students to attend the course. Students must be at least 18 years old.
Program Schedule
A pre-departure orientation and several classes will be held at USFSP before departure.
Organized visits are planned that are a compulsory part of the course.
Travel
Once the enrollment limit of 12 students is reached the best possible group rate will be reserved. All students must travel with the instructor to the arrival city of Athens, Greece.
Each participant must have a valid passport. No visas are required for this program for US students. Students who are not U.S. citizens are welcome to sign up; however, they must have a valid passport, and are responsible for researching whether their visa requirements are different from those for U.S. citizens. In addition, they are responsible for making sure that are eligible to reenter the U.S. after the trip.
Insurance
The State of Florida requires that all students studying abroad maintain adequate medical insurance for illness and injury. Students must show proof of health insurance coverage that is also valid outside the United States. USFSP provides all students with evacuation coverage.
All participants are responsible for obtaining and carefully reviewing the USFSP Study Abroad General Information Sheet. |
