“100 Years to WWI: Sarajevo to Versailles” is a brand new four week summer program recreating the path of the First World War by traveling through Vienna, Berlin, Brussels, Lille, Reims, and ending in Paris, organised by George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Through visits to four battlefields and 25 plus museums and historical sites, participants in the program will get a glimpse of the lasting repercussions and begin to understand the magnitude of the events that transpired 100 years ago. Participants will also have the once in a lifetime opportunity to be there as Europe commemorates these historical events.
The four week program, begins on June 8th in Vienna, Austria, and ends on July 3rd in Paris, France. The program fee of $6,848 includes tuition, accommodation for 25 nights, 25 breakfasts, unlimited local transportation in each city, transportation between cities, entry to 25+ museums and historical sites as well as the four guided battlefield tours and welcome/farewell dinners. The program will offer six semester credits in History, Art History, Government and Global Affairs. We will also be seeking credits in Economics and German. Undergraduate and graduate students with at least a 2.25 GPA are eligible to apply as well as non-Mason students and non-students. The application deadline is March 7th.
Professor Marion Deshmukh, the Robert T Hawkes Professor of History at George Mason, will be leading the program. Dr. Deshmukh teaches courses in History and Art History with a focus on Europe, specifically Austria and Germany.
The online application is found on the programme website (see below).
Please contact the program officer (Laura Scooby: lscobey@gmu.edu) for any questions you may have or if you wish to connect to Professor Deshmukh to speak with her directly regarding the course syllabus.
Program Website: http://globaled.gmu.edu/programs/facultyled/summerstudy/sarajevo-versailles.html