The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Summer Session
Athens, Greece
Summer Course
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Greek, English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Summer Session at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens gives postgraduate students an intensive introduction to Greece from antiquity to the modern era. Participants research and present on-site, access archaeological sites and storerooms unavailable to others, and attend presentations and tours by leading archaeologists and specialists in classics, Byzantine, and modern Greek studies.
Career Outcomes: Participants can pursue museum curator, archaeological field director, university lecturer or researcher, cultural heritage manager, conservator, or museum educator, roles using fieldwork, excavation methods, material-culture analysis, art history, archival research, and public engagement in archaeology, classics, heritage, and museum studies sectors.
The Summer Session of the ASCSA is an intensive introduction to Greece from antiquity through the modern period. The program has provided the most extensive exposure to Greece, ancient and modern, for generations of students of Classics and related fields. It has a strong academic component with participants researching and presenting topics on-site and offers unique opportunities to interact with eminent archaeologists in the field.
Summer Session participants receive exclusive access to archaeological sites and storerooms inaccessible to others and enjoy presentations on ongoing excavations by preeminent scholars. Presentations and tours by the world's leading specialists offer Summer Session participants insightful, comprehensive overviews of Greek art and archaeology, and illuminate the full range of Greece's rich history– from the Bronze Age to the Classical Greek and Roman eras, through the Byzantine period, and into the twenty-first century.
