Itinerary

LOCATION

ITINERARY

Principia College Campus 
Anderson House

Students arrive on campus and move into housing in Anderson after 12 Noon.

WEEK 1 –
WEEK 4

On Campus Courses

IN TRANSIT

WEEK 5

8:00 depart for STL Airport from Anderson

Group Flight to Prague via Philadelphia

PRAGUE

Arrive Prague

Transfer to Apartments

Students settle into apartments and have time to explore surrounding neighborhood.

Group dinner and church

 

8:30:  Group Meeting (apartment living room)

Morning: Getting Around Prague by Metro and Tram—end at Café

Afternoon and evening:
Students have time for grocery shopping and individual activities (exploring/drawing/writing, etc.)

15:00: Paul, Connie, and Dinah meet at the apartment to go to studio and go over set-up, keys, logistics.

 

8:30: Group meeting (apartment living room)

Morning: pick up art supplies and settle in at the Studio

11:30-13:30: ENGL 263 (Studio)

13:30-14:30 Lunch on your own

14:30: Funicular and the Tower at Petřin Hill

 

8:15 Breakfast (9 people, with Paul)
10:15 Breakfast (9 people, with Dinah)

12:00: Prague Is Your Teacher #1

 

8:00 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:00 (Rašin Embankment): Board boat for trip to Prague Zoo; Photography/writing opportunity (Day #1) [ARTS 251 & ENGL 345]

Late group lunch at Zoo and independent return

 

10:00 Church (apartment living room)

Open day after church

WEEK 6

Typical daily class pattern begins: 9-12 morning; 2-5 Afternoon: on days when a special event appears, unless it is an all-day event or there is an open half-day, assume that there will be morning and afternoon classes. Please note, however, that there is no routine schedule for each course. Every day is different. Pay attention to this itinerary and to the detailed weekly schedule you will be given each week.

8:30 a.m.-9:30 Group meeting (apartment living room) and PIYT trading cards

10:00 City Museum of Prague

13:00-14:30: Lunch on your own

14:30-17:00: ARTS 251: Meet at the Wallenstein Gardens

19:00: Estates Theatre: Kafka’s The Trial (Ballet)

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:00-13:30: Lobkowicz Museum

13:30-14:30: Group Lunch at Lobkowicz

14:30-17:30: Photography/writing opportunity: Praský Hrad (Day #2) [ARTS 251 & ENGL 345]

 

 

9:00-11:30: ARTS 251 (Studio)

11:30-13:00: Lunch on your own (unless otherwise specified, all meals will be on your own)

13:00 -17:00: ENGL 263: Literature lecture: Petr Bílek, “The Man Without Qualities,” followed by discussion of Kafka stories (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

19:00: Evening church (apartment living room)

 

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:00-Noon: ENGL 345 (apartment living room)

Noon-14:00: Lunch

14:00-17:00: Kafka Museum

18:30: Video Art Presentation with Czech Artist Slava Sobotovičová (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

10:00-Noon:  Lang 100 (Studio): Czech Language with Markéta Vojanová

13:00-14:30: Lunch

14:30-17:00: ARTS 251 (Studio)

19:00: ARTS 251 (Studio): Video Art Workshop with Czech Artist Slava Sobotovičová (3 hours)

Statehood Day (National Holiday)

Until 19:00: Open work time (in-country consider “open work time” as time to manage your own time for academic work–studio and writing time, reading, and other homework—as well as laundry, groceries, your own exploration of Prague, etc.)

19:00: ARTS 251 (Studio): Video Art Workshop with Czech Artist Slava Sobotovičová (3 hours)

Name Day: Václav [Brendan]

 

10:00 Church (apartment living room)

13:00-17:00: Architectural tour with Krištof Hanzlík, followed by group dinner with Krištof

WEEK 7

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:00-Noon: ENGL 263 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

Noon-14:30: Lunch

14:00-17:00: ARTS 251 (Studio)

19:00: ARTS 251 (Studio): Video Art Workshop with Czech Artist Slava Sobotovičová (3 hours) 

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:00-Noon: ENGL 345 (apartment living room)

Noon-14:00: Lunch

Afternoon: Prague Is Your Teacher #2

 

9:00-Noon: ENGL 263 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

Noon-14:00: Lunch

14:30-17:00: Technology Museum
Photography/writing opportunity (Day #3) [ARTS 251 & ENGL 345]

19:00 Church (apartment living room) and PIYT trading cards

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:00-Noon: Veletržni Palac, Mucha’s Slav Epic

Noon-14:00: Lunch

14:00-17:00: ENGL 345: (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

19:30: Reading by Sylva Fischerova (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

 

9:00-11:00:  LANG 100 (Studio): Czech Language with Markéta Vojanová
IMPORTANT: Be prepared for overnight travel, including packed bag ready and bag lunch packed, before LANG 100

13:00: Travel to Liberec as a group (bring your own bag lunch) by Student Agency Bus/Regiojet–leaving from Cerny Most)

14:15: Arrive Liberec—10-minute walk to drop bags at hotel; then go to race expo

Group will stay at Hotel Praha Liberec (Zelezna 2/1, 46001 Liberec, CZ)

 

 

Liberec Nature Run and Family Fun Run (start times and locations tba)

15:40: Return to Prague via RegioJet/Student Agency Bus (10-minute walk to bus from hotel)

17:05: Arrive Prague (Cerny Most)

Fall break begins upon Kon our return from Liberec

You should consider fall break as a time to work independently on your academics, in addition to any other plans you may make.

FALL BREAK (Open work time (studio and writing time; homework; laundry, groceries, etc.)

WEEK 8

FALL BREAK (Open work time (studio and writing time; homework; laundry, groceries, etc.)

 

FALL BREAK (Open work time (studio and writing time; homework; laundry, groceries, etc.)

 

FALL BREAK (Open work time (studio and writing time; homework; laundry, groceries, etc.)

 

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:00—11:30: ENGL 263 (apartment living room)

11:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00—17:00: ENGL 345 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

Evening church

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

10:00-Noon: LANG 100 (Studio): Czech Language with Markéta Vojanová

Noon-13:00: Lunch (NOTE: LUNCH IS SHORTER)

13:00-18:00: Exegesis of Place with Václav Cilek, followed by group dinner

19:30: Exhibition opening at huntkastner artworks

 

 

First Small Group Day Trips

During the Prague Writers’ Festival & between October 16 and November 4, please remember that you are responsible for working in the art studio at the on a regular a basis.

 

10:00 Church (apartment living room)
After church, report on day trips

Open work time

 


WEEK 9

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

10:00-13:00: ENGL 345 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

Afternoon: Open work time
[Rain date: Václav Cílek:  If we need to use this date as a rain date for the exegesis of place with Václav Cílek, you will need to bring a bag lunch to ENGL 345, and we begin the event with Cílek at 13:00.]

 

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:57 Depart Praha hl.n. for overnight trip to Kutná Hora (arrive Kutná Hora at 10:56)

 

Morning church

12:58: Return from Kutná Hora (arrive Praha hl.n. at 13:52)

14:00-17:00: Open work time

17:00 Prague Writers Festival (PWF)l: Screening of Barney’s Wall (American Center)

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

PWF (TBD)

Classes (TBD)

14:00: Veletržni Palac: Curatorial lecture by Veronika Wolf, followed by viewing (and drawing/writing) in Giacometti exhibition

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

No LANG 100

11:00: Film: To the Mountaintops, PWF, University of Economics

Afternoon: Open work time

17:00 PWF: Reading by Patrizia Cavalli and Nancy Huston (Czech Senate)

20:00 PWF: Conversation: “The horror of the world hides behind its beauty” –Michael Cunningham, Germaine Greer, François Jullien (Czech Senate)

Continue to schedule your own work time at visual art studio

 

Prague Is Your Teacher #3 (morning)

14:00 PWF: Reading by Junot Diaz and Alma Guillermoprieto (Czech Senate)

13:00-17:00 Four students—Pavel Pikar printmaking workshop

20:00 PWF: Conversation: “Beauty Saves the World”—Germaine Greer, Nancy Huston, Patrizia Cavalli (Czech Senate)

 

10:00 Church (apartment living room)

14:00 PWF Reading by David Zábranský and Jan Němec (Czech Senate)

17:00 PWF: Conversation: “Dancing and Drowning”—Junot Diaz, Alma Guilliermoprieto

20:00 PWF: Reading by Germaine Greer and Michael Cunningham

WEEK 10

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room) and PIYT trading cards

10:00-13:00: ENGL 345 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

13:00-14:30: Lunch

14:30-17:30: ENGL 345 & ARTS 251 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

 

8:30 Morning Church (apartment living room)

9:00-13:00: Cubism Museum

13:00-14:30: Lunch

13:00-17:00: ENGL 263 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

19:30: Lecture by art historian Veronika Wolf on Czech Modernism (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

 

 

Day Trip #2

 

8:30 Church (apartment living room) and report on day trips

10:30-12:30: ENGL 263 (apartment living room)

12:30-14:00: Lunch

14:00-16:00: Justin Quinn and Petr Borkovec Reading and Discussion (Studio)

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

10:00-Noon:  LANG 100 (Studio): Czech Language with Markéta Vojanová

13:00-14:30: Lunch

13:00-18:00: Studio visits with painters Josef Bolf and Jana Vojnárová

Continue to schedule your own work time at visual art studio at the

 

Photography/writing opportunity (Day #4) [ARTS 251 & ENGL 345]

Open work time

Time change

10:00 Church (apartment living room)

13:00-17:00: Four students—Pavel Pikar printmaking workshop

Open work time
 

Independence Day (National Holiday)

WEEK 11

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:00-12:00: ARTS 251 (Studio)

12:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00-16:00: ENGL 263 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

18:00 National Theatre: Opera: Libuše

 

9:00-18:00 Day trip to Terezín

Group dinner and church after we return from Terezín

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:00-Noon: Justin Quinn writer’s workshop (Day 1) (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

Noon-14:00: Lunch

14:00-17:00: Visit Dox Art Center

19:30-21:00: Reading and talk by Michael March, poet and Director of the Prague Writer’s Festival (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

 

 

9:00-Noon: Justin Quinn workshop (Day 2) (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

Noon-14:00: Lunch

14:00-17:00: Church of St. Cyril and Methodius

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

10:00-Noon: LANG 100 (Studio): Czech Language with Markéta Vojanová

14:00-17:00: Kacha Kastner, huntkastner artworks

 

 

Day Trip #3

 

8:30: Church (apartment living room) and report on day trips

11:05: Bus connection to Lidice Memorial

WEEK 12

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

10:00-13:00: Kampa Museum

13:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00-17:00:  Josefov and the Old Jewish Cemetery
Photography/writing opportunity (Day #5) [ARTS 251 & ENGL 345]

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:19: Pendolino from Praha hl.n. for three-day trip to Olomouc (arrive Olomouc 11:43)
Group lunch at the Green Bar
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8:30 Morning church

Olomouc: Activities TBA

 

 

Olomouc: Activities TBA

 

8:30 Group meeting

Morning activities: TBA

14:12: Pendolino from Olomouc hl.n. (arrive Praha, hl.n. 16:19)

From 16:30: Open work time

 

9:00-Noon: Open work time

Afternoon and evening: Prague Is Year Teacher #4

13:00-17:00: Three students—Pavel Pikar printmaking workshop

 

10:00 Church (apartment living room)

Open work time
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WEEK 13

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

10:00-13:00: ENGL 263 (apartment living room)

13:00-14:30: Lunch

14:30-17:00: Communism Museum and Jan Palak memorial

19:30: Tentative: Talk by literary scholar Martin C. Putna (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

 

9:00-Noon: ENGL 345 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

Noon-14:00: Lunch

14:00-17:00: ARTS 251 (Studio)

19:30 Church (apartment living room)

 

 

Day Trip #4

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room) and report on day trips

10:00-13:00: ENGL 345 (apartment living room)

13:00-14:30: Lunch

14:30-17:30: ENGL 263 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)
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8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

10:00-Noon: LANG 100 (Studio): Czech Language with Markéta Vojanová

13:00-14:30: Lunch

14:30-17:30: ARTS 251 (Studio)

 

 

Prague Is Your Teacher #4

Open work time

Freedom and Democracy Day (National Holiday)

10:00 Church (apartment living room)

13:00-17:00: Four students—Pavel Pikar printmaking workshop

Open work time

 

WEEK 14

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

9:30-12:30: ENGL 345 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

12:30-14:30: Lunch

14:30-17:00: ARTS 251 (Studio)

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room) and PIYT trading cards

10:00-13:00: ENGL 263 (Large Meeting Room, Friends Coffee House)

Noon-14:00: Lunch

14:00-17:00: ARTS 251 (Studio)

 

8:30 Morning Church (apartment living room)

Studio Visit: Ivana Lomova—two sessions

  • 10:00-11:00
  • 11:00-12:00

12:00-14:30: Lunch

14:30-17:00: ARTS 251 (Studio)

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)
Sign up for final portfolio reviews

Prague Is Your Teacher #5

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

Final Portfolio Reviews with Dinah and Paul (individual schedule)

10:00-Noon: LANG 100 EXAM (Studio): Czech Language with Markéta Vojanová 

 

8:30 Group meeting (apartment living room)

Final Portfolio Reviews with Dinah and Paul (individual schedule)

 

10:00 Church (apartment living room) and PIYT trading cards

Noon-16:00: Clean studio at (group activity)

19:30 Group Dinner

Departure    

Program Concludes

*Please note schedule and activities are subject to change
** Detailed weekly schedules will be distributed. Weekly schedules are also subject to change.