by E.M. Auntie, Guest Writer
Aquinas will extend educational opportunities to its students with a semester in a culturally rich land, Oz. The one-semester long program is designed primarily for psychology, sociology and music] majors, but will offer something for all students, says Director for Over the Rainbow Tours Dorothy Gale.
“Management majors will find the Wicked Witch’s seminars helpful; psychology, biology and sociology students can study the Munchkins and communications majors should gain valuable techniques from the Great and Powerful Oz. All students will enjoy the travel opportunities available,” said Gale. The student group, which will have no maximum size, will leave Grand Rapids for Kansas on Aug. 29. They will go by air from Kansas to Oz, landing at Muchkin International Airport. This semester is much more travel-intensive than Aquinas’ traditional semester in Ireland.
There is no fixed location for lodging in Oz, but stops will be made along the main route taken by the student group, the Yellow Brick Road. The tour starts in Munchkin Land and moves through the farm belt of Oz, which produces apples, corn and pink poppies. Biology majors have study opportunities of the unusual apple trees in the area.
After the farm area, students will visit the capital, Emerald City. There, after meeting with the Great and Powerful Oz and examining the governmental system in place, they will travel, via balloon, to a picturesque, authentic castle. “The main thing students should find out from these semester is that there’s no place like home,” said Gate.
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