Susquehanna University Students Visit ITRC

Last week, a group of American students visited the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre and received a lecture on tourism in Iceland given by Guðrún Þóra, director of ITRC. The students, who are from Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania are participating in an interdisciplinary course on Iceland and Icelandic culture. 

It is a multi-disciplinary study abroad program where the students, after learning about Iceland, are free to design their own research agendas. Some choose tourism, some folklore, some history and Vikings, some literature on this trip, for example. The program starts with a 7-week course getting the students familiar with Iceland, its history, and some of its contemporary issues. During their field trip in Iceland, they meet various speakers and researchers to extend their knowledge on different topics. In the fall semester, the students participate in another 7-week course to finish and polish their projects.

It is the field academy Svartárkot, nature and culture that is responsible for organizing the course here in Iceland, and student groups from Susquehanna University have been coming here for years.