This project provides students an opportunity to learn how to navigate a sailboat in charted waters under various conditions. In addition to learning navigation, students develop leadership skills as they take responsibility for functions and activities which are part of sailing and life aboard ship. The project includes three weeks of study and classroom work at Wofford, followed by a week of practical experience aboard a sailboat in the British Virgin Islands. Students must be good swimmers, mature, responsible, and compatible with others while lving for a week in close quarters. Valid travel documents , health insurance, and physician's statement of current good health required .
Travel insurance is required.
Trip cancellation insurance is optional. Once enrolled, each participant should complete arrangements for these without delay. This travel interim will spend approximately one week each in Rome, Florence, Paris and London. We will study the Baroque in Rome, the Renaissance in Florence, the 17th and 18th centuries in Paris and the 19th century in London. Primarily we will study the relationship between politics and power, urbanism and the arts.