On offer this summer are Religious Dreams and Symbols, Armenian Spirituality, and Post-Colonial Hermeneutics. Shared Living as Learning Both the shared living and the study are part of Bossey s unique learning experience. The students do not all speak the same language. Classes happen in French and English, with simultaneous translation. For many students, of course, neither tongue is a first language, so much extracurricular activity is carried out in ecumenical French and ecumenical English.
Mealtimes provide their own challenges.
The food is pretty solidly European. Even when they have adjusted to the food, there are still table manners. In the classroom, students are challenged to articulate their own traditions in ways they would never have to in either a denominational school or in a multiconfessional school in their own countries. Add to the mix a faculty that is interdenominational and multicultural. This year it comprises a Samoan Congregationalist, a Romanian Orthodox, an Uruguayan Methodist, a Tanzanian Roman Catholic, and a Presbyterian from the United States.