LEAD Greece

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Overview

LEAD Greece is your 4-week Mediterranean getaway designed to balance travel, personal growth and six hours of course credit focused on community and service-learning. Our itinerary is expertly designed to provide the best Greece has to offer, from the historic sites of Athens to the breathtaking, iconic islands of Santorini and Crete. In each location, our group will visit world-famous attractions while also learning directly from local community leaders and organizations. Past students have assisted community centers through donation organization, led beautification efforts and learned about homelessness and human trafficking from non-profit leaders. You will end your time in Greece with a stronger leadership foundation and personal vision for your future along with countless memories from paradise.

What’s Included

Let us do the planning so you can stress less and travel more. Your program fee covers many of the expenses of your time abroad.

Transformative Lessons

You will enroll in two courses for a total of six credits from Oglethorpe University. Everyone participates in the same courses: “Leadership: Global Theory and Practice” and “Global Citizenship and Civic Engagement.” To provide more flexibility in your course selection, you can choose to label these courses in a variety of disciplines on your transcript under the subjects of leadership, history, politics, sociology or philosophy. Past students say that they have learned more about themselves from these two courses than any other class taken during their college career. Courses focus on who you are as an individual and where you want to go in life. They allow you to define your vision and values in a way that you may have never thought about before, and they provide you with direction after you return home.

Tours & Excursions

Maximize your time abroad as you hop between program locations in Greece with all of your included activities and tours. You’ll feel like you have stepped back in time when you see the first Olympic stadium and the Acropolis in Athens. You will also have opportunities to stretch your comfort zone – whether you decide to take a leap and bungee jump over Corinth Canal or get your blood pumping with a day hike in stunning Samaria Gorge. Other excursions include a visit to hot springs, volcano hike, and trips to world-famous attractions like the blue domes of Oia and the charming town of Chania. Oia is the only place in the world we know where everyone stops to applaud when the sun finally sets because the experience is that breathtaking.

Community Engagement & Service

As part of our service-learning curriculum, you will dive into the local culture and gain perspective as you observe and learn from some of Athens’ best non-profit organizations. These experiences are made possible through unique partnerships with local organizations such as the Salvation Army, The NO Project and animal rescue centers. In all service projects, you will make a difference whether you are rehabilitating a building, organizing donations, completing a beach cleanup or increasing outreach on global issues like human trafficking. The service-learning curriculum comes to life through hands-on work, debrief discussions and journal reflections. Our faculty and teaching assistants will ensure that you are understanding the experience and connecting it back to your life at home.