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Counseling Students Have The Opportunity To Study In Vienna
For the past four summers, the Department of Counseling has been able to offer students and alumni (based on space available) CNS 750, an elective summer school class based in Vienna, Austria. The course description appears below.
CNS 750: The Vienna Theorists -- Freud, Adler, Moreno, and Frankl
This course focuses on four of the leading theorists behind modern counseling. The theories of each practitioner, i.e., Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Jacob Moreno, and Viktor Frankl, are examined in the context of the city in which they initially formulated their clinical ideas. Students will visit historical sites and institutes in Vienna as well as study original writings of each theorist.
Click to view course syllabus for summer 2008.
Cost and Accommodations.
Participants stayed at the Flow Haus, a beautiful former embassy now owned by Wake Forest. Some pictures of the house appear below.
The room cost is minimal ($40 per night) and tuition is usually covered by scholarship grants. Each participant pays for his or her own travel expenses and meals.
Course participants visit Mauthausen and Melk Abbey.
One of the most memorable experiences of the trip has been a chartered bus trip to Mauthausen,
one of the concentration camps in which Victor Frankl was held. This trip also includes a visit to incredibly beautiful Melk Abbey. The juxtaposition of these two sites offers a powerful ethical lesson about man at his worst and at his best.
The Department of Counseling hopes to offer the elective course each summer.