Past Blocks Away
WHY LOOK AT PAST PROGRAMS?
While many Block Away courses do not repeat every year, there is often a rotation within departments or fields of study. We hope this look at the programs offered in recent years helps you to understand the scope and diversity of offerings typically provided by Colorado College.
Using this information, you can get a sense of the variety of programs offered. If there is a particular course from this list which interests you, you can communicate with that course's faculty leader(s) to learn if they are planning the course for a future block. Many courses are offered in regular intervals, while others may not be scheduled for the future. The faculty member for each course is the best contact to learn what future plans may exist for a course.
When will upcoming Block Away Options Be Announced?
Summer Blocks Away are announced in mid-November, with the Summer Fair always scheduled for the 2nd week of Block 2 (Early December). That same day opens the application window.
Academic Year Blocks for the next year are announced during Half-block (January), with the Study Away Fair in the 2nd week of Block 5 (late January or early February). That same day opens the application window.
PAST BLOCKS AWAY: BY FIELD OF STUDY
RECENT ACADEMIC YEAR BLOCKS
| ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT & FACULTY | COURSE | LOCATION | YEAR(S) OFFERED |
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ART - Aitchison |
AS216: Topics in Printmaking: Art of the Boat | Utah & Colorado | 2026 |
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ART HISTORY - Murray/Ragan |
AH275: Paris on a Precipice (Also HY200) | Paris, France | 2022 |
| ART HISTORY - Murray/Ragan | AH285: 19th Century Paris: Art & Cultural History (Also HY200 & FR316) | Paris, France | 2023 |
| CLASSICS - Thakur/Fricke | CL222: Greek Archaeology (Also GY100) | Athens & Islands, Greece |
2024 |
| CLASSICS - Thakur | CL101: Greek for Beginners | Athens, Greece |
Annual |
| DANCE & THEATER - Sriram | DA230: Performance Away--India | Chennai, India |
2022, 2024 |
| DANCE & THEATER - Womack/Gould | DA/PS237: Art of Insurgency: Performance & Political Order | Belgrade, Serbia & Sarajevo, Bosnia | 2025 |
| ENGLISH - Hayward | EN286: Topics in Creative Writing: Writing Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia |
2026 |
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FILM & MEDIA STUDIES - Krzych |
FM310: Destination Filmmaking | Los Angeles, USA | 2023 |
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FILM & MEDIA STUDIES - Krzych |
FM200: Topics in Film: Politics, Film & Culture | New York City, USA | 2023, 2025 |
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FILM & MEDIA STUDIES - Krzych |
FM200: Topics in Film: Cinema & Psychoanalysis | Los Angeles, USA | 2024, 2026 |
| GERMAN - Lisiecki |
GR220: Understanding & Representing the Holocaust (Also GR320, CO200< FG206, RM200, and HY200) |
Germany & Austria | 2023 |
| GERMAN - Steckenbiller/Germen |
GR220: Global Berlin: Film, City, and Identity (Also GR320 & FM200) |
Berlin, Germany | 2024 |
| GERMAN - Steckenbiller/Germen | GR220: Turkish German Cinema (Also GR320 & FM205) |
Berlin, Germany & Istanbul, Turkey |
2025 |
| ITALIAN - Minervini | IT320: Gusto: Italian Food as Art, Culture, and Tradition | Rome, Abruzzo & Sorrento, Italy |
2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| MUSIC - Ben-Amots/Grace | MU397: In the Footsteps of Bach | Various Cities in Germany |
2021 |
| MUSIC - Grace/Chang | MU227: Experiencing Music in Austria | Vienna, Austria |
2023 |
| MUSIC - Carrizo | MU228: Puente del Mundo: The Musical Crossroads of Panamá | Various Locations, Panamá |
2025 |
| MUSIC - Chang | MU228: Music & the Museum | Vienna, Austria |
2026 |
| PHILOSOPHY - McEnnerney/Lee | PH205: French Philosophy in Context | Paris, France |
2022, 2023 |
| PHILOSOPHY - Riker/Dobson | PH263: Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Also CO200) | Chicago, USA |
2021, 2023, 2024 |
| PORTUGUESE - Wood | PG316: Afro-Brazilian Pop Cultures | Salvador, Brazil |
2022 |
| RELIGION - Reaves | RE200: Martyrs & Saints (Also HY200) | Rome, Italy |
Annual |
RECENT SUMMER BLOCKS
| ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT & FACULTY | COURSE | LOCATION | YEAR(S) OFFERED |
| ASIAN STUDIES - Ericson/Matson | P350/JA340: Japanese Food in Culture & Literature | Tokyo & Fujiyoshida, Japan |
2023 |
| CLASSICS - Thakur/Pavlick | CL223/AH207/HY200: Greek & Roman Art and History | Rome & Naples, Italy |
Annual |
| ENGLISH - Hayward | EN225/405: Shakespeare in London | London, UK |
Annual |
| ENGLISH - Evitt/Neel |
EN280/HY200/CO120: Topics in Literature/History: Medieval Colonialisms: History & Fantasy in the British and Celtic Borderlands |
London, Oxford, Cornwall, and Wales, UK |
2026 |
| FRENCH - Wade/Diop | FR317/CO200: Cultural Studies in Senegal | Dakar, Senegal |
2024 |
| FRENCH - Tallent |
FR316: Topics in French Culture: Fairy Tales & the French Renaissance |
Toulouse, France |
2026 |
| MUSIC - Reed | MU398: Adv. Topics in Music: Traditional Irish & Scot-Irish Music | Dublin, Ireland & Edinburgh, Scotland |
2025 |
| MUSIC - Reed | MU398: Adv. Topics in Music: On the Road | Western USA |
2025 |
| MUSIC - Laswaman/Macy | MU222/PA 250: Arts & Cultures of Bali | Bali, Indonesia |
2022, 2023, 2025 |
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PHILOSOPHY - Hernandez-Lemus |
PH203: Maasailand - Indigeneity in the Postcolonial British Commonwealth | Kenya |
2023, 2024 |
| PORTUGUESE - Wood | PG298: Accelerated Portuguese | Salvador, Brazil |
2022, 2026 |
| RELIGION - Reaves | RE200: Myth & Ritual in Ancient Mediterranean Religions | Greece |
2025 |
| RELIGION - Reaves | RE200: Monks & Monarchs | London, York & Edinburgh, UK |
2024 |
| SPANISH - Ruiz (et al) | SP111/211/305/306 - Summer Spanish in Spain (2 Blocks) | Soria, Spain |
Annual |
RECENT ACADEMIC YEAR BLOCKS AWAY
| ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT & FACULTY | COURSE | LOCATION | YEAR(S) OFFERED |
| COMPUTER SCIENCE - Ellsworth |
CP341: Topics in Computer Science at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Livermore, California, USA | 2023 |
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EDUCATION - Coomer/Valtierra |
ED300: Constructing Childhood in Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and Steiner Schools |
Rome, Italy |
2026 |
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EDUCATION - Fitzhugh |
ED110: Linking Literacy, Language, and Linguistics: Spain |
Barcelona & Sevilla, Spain |
2022, 2024 |
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EDUCATION - Fitzhugh |
ED110: Linking Literacy, Language, and Linguistics: United Kingdom | Edinburgh & London, UK | 2025 |
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES - Kummel |
EV209: Ecology & the Environment | Monteverde, Costa Rica |
2021, 2023, 2025 |
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES - Minervini |
EV261: Voice & the Non-Human | Galapagos, Ecuador |
2025, 2026 |
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES - McKendry |
EV360: Sustainable Development, Conservation, and Social Justice in Costa Rica | San Jose & Monteverde, Costa Rica |
2026 |
| GEOLOGY - Fricke/Thakur | GY100: Rocks & Ruins (Also CL222) | Athens & Islands, Greece |
2024 |
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HUMAN BIOLOGY & KINESIOLOGY - Bull |
HK260: HBK Research in Scandinavia/Nordic Research | Denmark, Finland, Sweden |
2022, 2025 |
| MATHEMATICS - Moran | MA220: Mathematical Symmetry in Spain | Seville & Granada, Spain |
2024 |
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ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY -Gamboa |
BE440: Island Ecology | Channel Islands, CA, USA |
2024 |
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ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY - Linkhart/Khorsand |
BE390: Ecology & Biogeography of Patagonia |
Bariloche & Puerto Madryn, Argentina |
2025 |
RECENT SUMMER BLOCKS AWAY
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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT & FACULTY |
COURSE | LOCATION | YEAR(S) OFFERED |
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EDUCATION - Coomer |
ED250: Constructing Childhood in Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and Steiner Schools |
Rome, Italy | 2023 |
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EDUCATION - Valtierra |
ED250:International Teaching & Learning |
Granada & Sevilla, Spain | 2026 |
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES - Kummel |
EV320: Ecology & Management of Shallow Lakes | Czech Republic | 2024 |
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES - Kummel |
EV120: Himalayan Odyssey | Nepal | 2022 |
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FEMINIST & GENDER STUDIES - Lewis |
FG214/RM200/GR210: Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives, Intersectionality Studies in Berlin | Berlin, Germany | Annual |
RECENT ACADEMIC YEAR BLOCKS AWAY
| ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT & FACULTY | COURSE | LOCATION | YEAR(S) OFFERED |
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ANTHROPOLOGY - Hautzinger |
AH380: Community-Based Field Study: COP27 in Egypt | Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt |
2022 |
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ANTHROPOLOGY - Hautzinger |
AH380: Community-Based Field Study: COP 28 In Dubai | Dubai, UAE |
2023 |
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ANTHROPOLOGY - Hautzinger |
AH380: Community-Based Field Study: COP 29 in Azerbaijan | Baku, Azerbaijan |
2024 |
| HISTORY - Rotating Faculty | HY410: History Senior Seminar at the Newberry Library | Chicago, USA |
Annual |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE - Gould/Womack |
PS237: Art of Insurgency | Belgrade, Serbia & Sarajevo, Bosnia |
2025 |
| POLITICAL SCIENCE - Derdzinski | PS203: Comparing Vibrant Democracies in Southern Africa |
Gabarone, Botswana & Cape Town, South Africa |
2025 |
| PSYCHOLOGY - Roberts | PY130: Gazing in Italy (Also IT320) | Florence, Italy |
2021, 2024 |
| PSYCHOLOGY - Weaver | PY178: From Pearl Harbor to Honouliuli (Also PA250) | Honolulu, Hawai'i |
2022, 2024, 2026 |
| SOCIOLOGY - Murphy-Geiss | SO270: Contemporary French Society (Also FR317) | Toulouse, France |
2022, 2024, 2026 |
| SOCIOLOGY - Popkin | SO267: Development & Grassroots Resistance in Latin America | Santiago, Chile |
2023 |
RECENT SUMMER BLOCKS AWAY
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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT & FACULTY |
COURSE | LOCATION | YEAR(S) OFFERED |
| ANTHROPOLOGY - Holst/Hernandez-Lemus | AN208: Indigenous Environmental Activism | Ecuador |
2022 |
| HISTORY - Neel/Evitt | HY200/CO120/EN280: Topics in Literature/History: Medieval Colonialisms: History and Fantasy in the British & Celtic Highlands | London, Oxford, Cornwall, and Wales, UK |
2026 |
| HISTORY - Sanchez | HY200: Africa & the Atlantic World | Cabo Verde |
2025 |
| POLITICAL SCIENCE - Gould | PS203: Central Europe's Post-Communist Journey | Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic | 2022 |
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