This program, sponsored by the Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership at USF St. Petersburg, will start with a flight to Athens, Greece.  Students will spend five days in Greece before flying to Italy for four days in each of Rome and Florence.  Finally, students will spend five days in London before returning to Florida.

Dates
The program will run from May 29 to June 17, 2009, preceeded by classes in St Petersburg.

Program highlights

The challenges to ethical leadership and possible answers to these challenges are not new. But your conclusions just might be! Study and learn practical leadership ethics in the places where many of the great minds wrote and taught the knowledge and wisdom that still guides our thinking and behavior of today.

Debate the proper aims of leadership, justice, and the nature of the life worth living at the site of the Academy in Athens where Plato taught Aristotle. Discuss the tradition of Natural Law morality – a tradition evident in contemporary issues such as abortion, embryonic stem cell research, birth control - at Roccasecca Castle, the birth site of Saint Thomas Aquinas south of Rome. Consider Niccolo Machiavelli’s practical as well as moral claims regarding power and self-interest at the villa where he wrote The Prince while in exile from Florence. Explore the London “haunts” of John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham, the most famous Utilitarian's who envisioned a “greatest good” based on happiness and pleasure, and Thomas Hobbes, who championed social contract theory as a necessary response to our self-interested nature. Weigh counter arguments by Immanuel Kant that morality can only be found in universal, intentional respect for all persons.

Do all this, learn practical ethics and systematic moral analysis and still have generous amounts of free time to explore the art, culture and history of four world class cities.

Apply today to join a select group of students who will explore not only the wisdom of selected philosophers and political theorists but also the locations where they lived, taught, wrote and died.

Cost $4,800

Cost includes

• Accommodation in Athens, Florence, Rome and London.
• Breakfast each day
• All airfare and transportation from St Petersburg, including all airport transfers.
• Tours of Athens, the Vatican City, admission to the Uffizi and Accademia, London transportation pass (zones 1 and 2)
• USF Tuition for up to 3 undergraduate credits. Students will register for SLS 4274, Ethics and Power in Leadership.

Cost does not include

• Some meals. Estimated cost is $600.
• Personal Spending. Estimated cost is $600.
• Optional third party tours, including Delphi, Greek Isles, Pompeii, Assisi, Glastonbury and Stonehenge.

Payment Schedule
$300 nonrefundable deposit due one week after your application is approved, no later than December 19, 2008.

$2,000 nonrefundable payment due February 27, 2008.
$2,500 nonrefundable payment due March 13, 2008.

How to Apply

Please submit the following forms to the Office of International Affairs before December 12, 2008. If your application is accepted, you will be notified and will have one week to pay your deposit. The other payments are due on the schedule above.

•   Study Abroad Application
•   Student Contract
•   Liability Waiver
•   Medical Questionnaire

Financial Aid and Scholarships
Students may apply for Federal or State Financial Aid for this USFSP course. A number of $500 scholarships are available from the Office of International Affairs. Contact International Affairs for details.

Academic Credit
Students must register for courses with USFSP International Affairs Office. Students may register for three credits in SLS 4274.  The draft syllabus for the class is available here.

Eligibility
Students need not be USF students to attend the course. Students must be at least 18 years old.

Program Schedule
A pre-departure orientation and several classes will be held at USFSP before departure.

Organized visits are planned that are a compulsory part of the course.

Travel
Students making their own travel arrangements must arrive at the starting point at the designated time on the designated date. All students must provide their flight itinerary to International Affairs before departure.
Each participant must have a valid passport. It is the student's responsibility to obtain any necessary visas. Students who are not U.S. citizens are welcome to sign up; however, they must have a valid passport, and are responsible for researching whether their visa requirements are different from those for U.S. citizens. In addition, they are responsible for making sure that are eligible to reenter the U.S. after the trip.

Insurance
The State of Florida requires that all students studying abroad maintain adequate medical insurance for illness and injury. Students must show proof of health insurance coverage that is also valid outside the United States. USFSP provides all students with evacuation coverage.

All participants are responsible for obtaining and carefully reviewing the USFSP Study Abroad General Information Sheet.