Fulfill your year-long civilization studies requirement in a single quarter. Courses are taught primarily by University of Chicago faculty and carry no language prerequisite, other than for the civilization sequences taught in French and Spanish. You also study a local language.

Civilization Studies Core

Title Program Term Type Deadline
Athens: Greek Antiquity and Its Legacy Spring UChicago Faculty-Led
Barcelona: Civilization in the Western Mediterranean Winter UChicago Faculty-Led
Barcelona: Civilization in the Western Mediterranean (in Spanish) Spring UChicago Faculty-Led
Beijing: East Asian Civilizations Autumn UChicago Faculty-Led
Cairo: Middle Eastern Civilizations Winter UChicago Faculty-Led
Dakar: African Civilizations Winter UChicago Faculty-Led
Istanbul: Middle Eastern Civilizations Spring UChicago Faculty-Led
Jerusalem in Middle Eastern Civilizations Spring UChicago Faculty-Led
Marrakesh: Middle Eastern Civilizations in Morocco Winter UChicago Faculty-Led
Oaxaca: Mexico in Latin American Civilizations Winter UChicago Faculty-Led
Paris: African Civilizations: Colonialism, Migration, Diaspora Autumn UChicago Faculty-Led
Paris: Colonizations Winter UChicago Faculty-Led
Paris: European Civilization Autumn, Winter, Spring UChicago Faculty-Led
Paris: European Civilization (in French) Autumn UChicago Faculty-Led
Paris: European Civilization (Summer Quarter) Summer UChicago Faculty-Led
Paris: Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations Autumn UChicago Faculty-Led
Paris: Music in Western Civilization Autumn UChicago Faculty-Led
Paris: Russian Civilization Spring UChicago Faculty-Led
Pune: South Asian Civilization in India Autumn UChicago Faculty-Led
Rome, Antiquity to the Baroque Autumn UChicago Faculty-Led
Vienna in Western Civilization Autumn UChicago Faculty-Led
Vienna: Jewish Civilization Spring UChicago Faculty-Led