SUMMER FIELD SCHOOLS
Field schools bring students into landscapes, urban fabrics and lives of others across the globe. Field schools are more than study trips – they are intensive, place-based classrooms or studios with carefully structured courses. Students become translators of experience, interpreters of culture, manipulators of material and ambassadors of their field of study — both on site and when they return home.
Our 2025 international summer field school offerings will be published in January 2025.
Summer 2024 Field Schools
Art, Music, Design, and Science Interactions @ Colombia
This 3 credit program will allow for the immersion of students in Colombia’s cultures, stories, architecture, intensity, speed, and beauty, through research-creation workshops and cultural activities.
Curating a Capital of Culture in Estonia
This field school will bring Concordia students behind the scenes to meet the many Estonian artistic directors, curators, artists, and community members who are programming the “Arts of Survival” City of Culture theme.
Performing Arts of our Era: Montreal's Festival TransAmériques
The course program is intended to bring student performing arts practitioners into as close contact as possible with the international and local artists who are programmed in Montreal's Festival TransAmerique.
Imagining Iceland
A 3-credit mixed level (BFA to PhD) artist’s residency in north Iceland, with a fibre arts inflection. The course content draws on the environmental and cultural specifics of Iceland, with specific reference to its textile and 'green energy' traditions and practices.
Make in Japan
In this 3 credit course students will discover Japanese culture and its cultural manifestations through a variety of mediums, including design, architecture, space, art, fashion, visual communication, interaction and game design.
Concordia in China
A 6-week program hosted on the Chinese Communication University's (CUC) campus comprised of one Chinese language course (6 credits), and one Chinese culture course (3 credits), for a total of 9 credits.
Concordia Summer in Spain
A 4-week program hosted by the University of Oviedo (Asturias, Spain) consisting of Spanish courses at intermediate or advance level, for a total of 6 credits.
KERAMIK
Hosted at the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark, this field school is designed as a 3-credit course that offers an intensive three-week artist in residence experience.
Concordia Summer in Greece
This program will provide students with first-hand experience of the art, architecture, sites, and museums of Greece to better understand its history and cultural achievements.
Critical Heritage and Memory Studies in Contemporary Post-Holocaust Poland
This site-based, 3-credit interdisciplinary field school will introduce students first hand to the “social lives” of key sites of Holocaust history and memory in the city of Kraków, Poland (and selected other sites)