Academics in Paros Island, Greece

Small classes make it easy for each student to get involved and engaged in the subjects.

• Fall or Spring Semester
• Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors
• Minimum 2.8 GPA
• U.S. accredited transcripts available, if necessary, through Massachusetts College of Art (Transcript FAQs)

SCHOOL: HELLENIC INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE ARTS
Hellenic International Studies in the Arts (HISA) brings together an interaction between students who desire more than a traditional lecture format and talented teachers and artists who wish to share their experience and knowledge in the historical and classical landscape of Paros Island, Greece.

Drawing on extensive and diverse backgrounds in university teaching and administration, Fulbright programs direction, and international art and academic seminars, HISA has now synthesized its experience into a single, unique and creative learning environment.

Each course in the HISA full semester program has been carefully organized to meet university standards, and all core courses carry from two to four units of credit each. Class enrollment is minimized to ensure that students can receive special, individual attention and profit from a close working relationship with their teachers.

At the completion of the studies in Greece, HISA will issue a transcript. If necessary, arrangements can be made for transcripts to be issued from a U.S. accredited university, Massachusetts College of Art, with the student paying the cost.

RESIDENT DIRECTORS
DR. DION NITTIS: BA, U. of Michigan, MA, Ph.D. in English, UCLA. Dr. Nittis - educator, painter and poet - has been a professor of English at Boston University, Indiana University, Cairo University, and the University of the Andes in Venezuela, and a Fellow at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

He also served as Fulbright Professor at the University of Haiti, and was for three years a Literature Specialist with the Fulbright Commission in Egypt.

His extensive international experience includes lectureships at universities in Brazil, Japan and Greece, and administrative positions as Director of the American Section of the Lycée Marcel Roby in Paris, and International Baccalaureate Coordinator for the International School of Prague. His publications include four books of poetry and a translation of the seventeenth-century Cretan verse drama The Sacrifice of Abraham.

DR. BARRY TAGRIN: Painter and Writer (Art and Academic Director): Masters Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. His varied and substantial teaching career began with the establishment of the Greenwich Painters and Writers Workshop in San Francisco, and has included over the years faculty positions with Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, Rikkyo University in Japan and the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain.

He has exhibited his paintings worldwide, read and lectured internationally with the Fulbright Commission, and held classes and workshops in Poetry in venues as diverse as Japan, Malaysia, Czech Republic, Egypt and Mexico. His latest book of poems is entitled Collage of the Soul and is available now on Amazon.com

COURSES
Courses are available in: Philosophy, Literature, Painting Workshop, Film Studies, Creative Writing, Art, Historical Sites, Women Studies, Art Studio, and Photography Workshop.

Fall 2009 courses (for reference) »
Spring 2010 courses »