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What is Pitt Map?
Pitt MAP, or Multi-region Academic Program, will be a semester-long globally comparative and academically rigorous study abroad experience. Pitt faculty and thirty students will travel together to three sites, each on a different continent, taking courses designed to address one to the six Global Studies concentration themes. Each trip will vary in terms of theme and sites. The first trip will be in spring term 2010 (2104).
Where is Pitt MAP going?
For the Spring 2010 term, the sites are:
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Beijing, China
The program will spend four weeks in each site and will take place at partnering universities in each location.
What is the theme?
Following the Changing Identities in a Global World concentration, the theme for Spring 2010 is State Memory/Private Lives. The curriculum will address the ways memory systems are constructed and sustained across three very different cultures. This focus could be pursued in coursework and site investigations examining the tension between state structures of cohesion—city museums, war memorials, national sites of commemoration—and private practices of self and family, such as holiday ritual, marketplace routine, and civic activism.
Who are the faculty?
- Dr. Nancy Condee (Slavic Languages and Literatures) will be the Academic Director in Spring 2010
- Pitt faculty
- Local on-site instructors
Do I need to study another language?
No- courses will be offered in English. However, speaking one or more of the three site languages would be quite helpful
How can I learn more about the Pitt Map Program?
You can learn more about the Pitt MAP program by contacting Vanessa Sterling (contact info listed below). You can also learn more by going the Pitt Map Study Abroad website.
Contact Person:
Vanessa Sterling
Coordinator, Pitt MAP
Study Abroad Office
802 William Pitt Union
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
phone - 412.624.2033
vmsst4@pitt.edu