Current Voyage
The Deans Welcome Students To The 2012 Short Term Voyage
Executive Dean Luke Jones and Academic Dean Rosalyn Berne introduced themselves to the students during the welcome orientation on May 21st. This was the students’ first chance to learn about the people who have made this voyage happen. Listen to the podcast below to get a sense of the depth, intelligence and wit behind these [...]
Embarking The MV Explorer For The First Time
Living on a ship is a foreign experience to most of us. Each Semester at Sea voyage, a new group of students experience the (sometimes literal) ups and downs and new found challenges of studying, attending class, eating, exercising, walking down a hallway and everything else inherently different aboard a ship. [...]
The Short Term 2012 Voyage By The Numbers
Today is a momentous occasion because it marks the beginning of Short-Term 2012 and the 109th voyage of Semester at Sea. The MV Explorer is ready to hit the high seas, the faculty and staff are prepped and ready to teach and most importantly, the students have boarded and are eager to begin their voyage of [...]
The Spring 2012 Voyage Says Goodbye
This semester’s 570 students disembarked this week in San Diego, heading out towards their futures with an international and interconnected outlook on life. The 108th voyage of Semester at Sea has officially come to an end after 105 days, 12 countries, and 25,000 nautical miles around the world.
The 6th Deck Museum of Art
Semester at Sea offers students classes in nearly every discipline, including art. Using the world as a classroom, students soaked up inspiration from the Amazon River to the Singapore Zoo and brought it all back to the canvas, crafting pieces with the steady hand only an art class on a gently rocking ship can supply. [...]
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Poet Joins S12 Faculty
The Spring 2012 voyage brought together a host of incredible faculty members on-board the MV Explorer including Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poetry editor at The New Yorker and recipient of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Muldoon, currently a professor of poetry at Princeton University, is teaching multiple courses on poetry this semester, introducing his [...]
Work of the World
Travel isn’t sight-seeing. Travel is experiencing. The Spring 2012 itinerary brought students to dozens of cities on 4 different continents in order to see firsthand how life takes place around the world–where people live, what they eat, how they get around, and–most importantly–where they work. From the endless activity of Shanghai to the sleepy slopes [...]
Student Photos – Japan
Konnichiwa from Japan, the final foreign country on the Spring 2012 itinerary. Students set out to soak in as much of Japan as possible, taking the transportation of tomorrow to the temples of the past, singing karaoke in Kobe, learning the geology of Mt. Fuji, catching a baseball game in Yokohama, attending traditional tea ceremonies, [...]
Student Story: Sailing Down the Amazon
Will Haddad, a cinema major from McDaniel College, cut this video of footage from his riverboat trip on the Amazon earlier this semester. Students spent 3 days and 2 nights sailing upriver from Manaus to the Rio Negro, exploring the rainforest by day and sleeping in swaying hammocks on the riverboat each night. “I [...]
Meditation Appreciation
Students in World Prayer class visited Kamakura, a former seat of power in the Shogun Era, to spend an afternoon understanding the essentials of Zen meditation at the 676-year-old Chōju-ji Temple. The World Prayer class is actually an English class, wherein students collect prayers from around the world and comparatively analyze them from a context [...]