Vietnam

Learn art, make art and get away from the well-trodden path to explore Vietnam - an ancient land of enchanting beauty!
 
Immerse yourself into an all-encompassing experience through a course that provides you unique insight into Vietnamese art and culture. Vietnam’s history dates back to over 4000 years bringing together a cultural blend that can be experienced in its pagodas, local cuisine, and continuing practice of Confucianism.

During your time in Vietnam, you will share experiences with local students, artists and chefs. You will become a local as you walk the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. The program offers an insider’s view of the local arts community through exhibition openings, private gallery and museum tours as well as food tastings in some of the most exotic restaurants of South East Asia. These encounters will challenge all of your senses!

Undergraduate Courses:

  • ART 1760:  Art in Vietnam
  • PSY 2010: Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • PSY 4953: Independent Study: Early Intervention

Graduate Courses: 

  •  PSY 810: Advanced Research Seminar in Selected Topics: Early Intervention in Early Childhood: Assessment, Intervention and Program Evaluation
  • PSY 627: Cultural Diversity in Psychological Services Vietnam

Students must select a minimum of 1 course (3 credits) and a maximum of 2 courses (6 credits). Coursework will include additional independent research assignments.

Please note you may only register for graduate or undergraduate level courses, but you may not register for both levels.

Dates:  May 20-June 1, 2010
(Please note you must depart from New York on May 18 and depart Vietnam on June 1.)

**The ART 1760 course will begin on the Queens campus on May 12-15, from 9:00am-2:55 pm. Students will depart for Vietnam on May 18, and arrive on May 20.
 
Information Sessions:
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 12:15PM – 1:00PM
St. John’s Hall, Mezzanine, Fine Arts Studios (Queens Campus)
Free pizza courtesy of the Department of Fine Arts

Tuesday, March 30, 12:15PM – 1:00PM
Lourdes Hall (Office of Global Studies, Queens Campus)

Thursday, April 15, 12:15PM – 1:00PM
Lourdes Hall (Office of Global Studies, Queens Campus)

Accommodations:
Ho Chi Minh City: Rex Hotel
Hanoi: Hilton Opera Hotel

Meals: Breakfast only

Professors:

  • Prof. Parvez Mohsin (Director of St. John's University Art Gallery),
  • Cathy Lancellotti (Associate Director, Center for Psychological Services; Director Vietnamese Initiatiatives)
  • Prof. Mark Terjesen.
  • Prof. Samuel Ortiz

Program Fee: $2,090 (Please note: tuition and airfare are additional.)
Program fee includes accommodations in hotels in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city, breakfast daily, airport transfers, local transportation, transportation from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, overnight cruise on Halong Bay with meals.

** Students who take 6 credits during summer 2010 study abroad programs will receive a $1,000 tuition discount.

Location: Ho Chi Minh City

City Hall (1908 French, decorated by Ruffier)
Reunification Palace (Reconstructed in 1966, Architect Ngo Viet Thu) Museum of Vietnamese History (1927 French, it documents the evolution of Vietnam’s various cultures; the Dong Song Bronze Age, Southern Chinese Funan, Cham, Khmer and Vietnamese)
Ho Chi Minh City Museum (1866 French Colonial, contains pictures of the Wars amongst other displays such as the flat-bottomed boats)
Notre Dame Cathedral (1828 French Colonial)
Thien Hau Pagoda – Dedicated to Lady Thien Hau, The Sea Goddess (18th century Chinese)
Phung Son Tu Pagoda – Dedicated to the God of Happiness and Virtue (1914)
Lacquer factory
Independent private art galleries
 
Location: Hanoi

Old Quarter (This area was one of the main resistance centers against the French colony, it contains a remarkable example of six hundred year old architecture and lifestyle)
Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (Soviet Architectural Influence 1945)
Fine Arts Museum (Beginning with 10,000-year-old Dong Noi Stone carvings to the Post-Impressionism of current day)
Temple of Literature Van Mieu (1076 built under the reign of King Ly Thanh Tong)
Women’s Museum (Exhibitions focus on the female dress of various ethnic groups)
Workshop with local artists at the Hanoi Institute of Fine Arts
Art workshop at Vietnamese orphanage        
Cook off with local chefs

Attention all Graduate Students:

Please be advised that at this time graduate students are unable to apply through the St. John's UIS system for graduate level courses.  Graduate students must file a paper application and an approved course option form in order to apply for this program.  Print the Application PDF and Course Option form, complete the application and submit to the Office of Global Studies located in Lourdes Hall. The Course Option form should be signed by your Dean or Academic Advisor to ensure that you will receive credit toward your course of study.