John Lucas

ISEP International Student Exchange Programs · Executive

Study abroad' programs in the United States make great claims about the learning outcomes of an experience overseas. Beyond cultural orientation sessions, however, many do not address intercultural or cross-cultural issues. This study brings together two conceptual axes, experiential learning and cultural adaptation, to provide a teaching model for...

Henry Mayer set up one of the first printing presses in Toulouse around 1484. Although he primarily printed legal and scholastic texts in French and Latin, Mayer also published texts for export south of the border. His masterful Spanish edition of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’ De proprietatibus rerum (Libro de las propriedades de las cosas, 1494) must ha...

This article presents a study that stemmed from the author's personal struggle to help several students abroad suffering from mental illness (endogenous depression, anxiety disorder, borderline personality, paranoia, anorexia). At the time, little research had been written on the role of the resident director in relation to the mental health challe...

Previous attempts to understand the usage of the terms Catalan, Provençal, Occitan, and Limousin and the languages these designations represent have fallen short of any real analysis. Most scholars to date have either presented historical data without linguistic explication or have attempted to use the data to argue for particular political views o...

The fifteenth century Catalan chivalric romances, Tirant lo Blanc and Curial e Güelfa, constitute two literary landmarks in the evolution of the early modern novel. The use of Bahktin’s concepts of the carnivalesque and the grotesque deepen our understanding of the two texts by helping us understand both the subversion of traditional social order a...

Curial e Güelfa is a Catalan romance often slighted by literary critics as too "affected" or lacking in style. Upon closer reading, this fascinating text undermines the rules of chivalric romance in innovative ways, for example, by subverting gender norms. The kiss functions as a signifier of women's control over the male protagonist and the subver...

For decades, large numbers of students have undertaken exchange semesters abroad, usually traveling from one high-income country to another, without provoking much concern about their impact on host communities (apart from the occasional complaint by residents about drunk students making too much noise in the streets at night). However, more seriou...

Review of current trends in the management of health, safety and well being on international education programs.

This volume focuses on two questions. First, how can education abroad be embedded into undergraduate education so that students experience it as an integral component of their education and something they help shape, rather than as time away from their education and as a commodity to be consumed? Second, how can colleges and universities maximize t...

Strategies for leveraging membership in consortia to deepen international engagement.

Is student mobility mutually beneficial? Achieving positive host community impact in learning abroad Overview: As outbound mobility continues to grow in scale and diversify in format (from exchange to short immersive experiences and internships) and destination (from the West to the Indo-Pacific), our engagement with local communities is changing....

Authors provide case studies of various faculty-led education abroad programs, demonstrating ways in which strategic partnerships helped improve the experience for leaders and participants

eeding an Urban World: A Call to Action, published in June 2013, is the fourth report in the Emerging Leaders Perspectives series. The report by The Chicago Council’s Emerging Leaders Class of 2013 offers an action plan for analyzing and addressing the issue of urban food security and the dual challenges of under-nutrition and obesity that have bes...

Published in October 2011, the IES Abroad MAP for Language & Intercultural Communication is a ground-breaking publication that we believe will set a new standard for study abroad language learning. Written by a task force of 17 language-learning experts from IES Abroad and from international academic institutions worldwide, the easy-to-understand,...

Exploration of the concept of the Gran Tour from the Nineteenth Century origins to the present day democratization in the form of study abroad and educational exchange.

The Tractat de prenostication de la vida natural dels hòmens, a late fifteenth-century Catalan incunable, draws on a rich tradition of astrological magic, geomancy, Pythagorean numerology, and Hebrew gematria. This practical manual offers a method of determining the birth sign based on calculations performed on the subject's name and his or her mot...

Condemnation of astrology in the Latin Middle Ages and its vindication in the thirteenth century demonstrates a deeply-rooted fascination with the science. A slow but steady inflow of new ideas began in the twelfth century with the translation of Arabic sources and Arabic translations of the Greek and Roman astrological corpus. By the thirteenth ce...

This essay applies Valerie Flint's thesis about the adoption of astrology and derivative forms of prognostication by the medieval Catholic Church to Catalan treatises on astrology. Two main arguments against the practice of magic in the Middle Ages actually favored the development of astrology and astrological magic. By demonstrating that astrology...

Overview in Catalan of Astrology and Numerology in the XV and XVI centuries.

TRACTAT DE PRENOSTICATION: ASTRO-NUMEROLOGY IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN CATALUÑA John Scott Lucas Institute for Social and International Studies, Barcelona Portland State University The Tractât de prenostication de la vida natural dels hòmens, a late fifteenth century Catalan incunable, demonstrates the influence ofastronumerology in the Iber...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2000. Microfilm (positive).