TEACHING VISITS
As well as learning in the classroom, students benefit from a programme of teaching trips designed both to broaden their learning and to relate their study directly to its application in their communities. The trips will present examples of excellence and innovation already at work in community development, religious leadership, inter-faith dialogue, and other relevant areas.
The Annual Field Trip in August 2010 was to Rome, where the students stayed at a monastery, and visited historical sites, museums, the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) the Gregorian University, the Angelicum, the Istituto Tevere, and the Vatican, where they attended a General Audience with Pope Benedict XVI. The Field Trip in August 2011 was to Andalusia. Students were guests at the Faculdad de Estudios Islamicos at the Azzagra Foundation (Granada). An intensive lecture and orientation course included tours of the Alhambra, the Albaicín, and the Granada Mosque.
Teaching Trips at the College have so far included visits to:
The Annual Field Trip in August 2010 was to Rome, where the students stayed at a monastery, and visited historical sites, museums, the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) the Gregorian University, the Angelicum, the Istituto Tevere, and the Vatican, where they attended a General Audience with Pope Benedict XVI. The Field Trip in August 2011 was to Andalusia. Students were guests at the Faculdad de Estudios Islamicos at the Azzagra Foundation (Granada). An intensive lecture and orientation course included tours of the Alhambra, the Albaicín, and the Granada Mosque.
Teaching Trips at the College have so far included visits to:
- The Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies, including discussions with Ahmed Bullock and Dr. Afifi al-Akiti, Fellow in Islamic Studies.
- The Cambridge Union
- Press TV
- BBC Cambridgeshire
- Cambridge Union (Debating Society)
- British Science Museum (special tour with the Exhibition Coordinator)
- Royal Greenwich Observatory
- British Library
- House of Commons
- Ely Cathedral
- Nafas (a drug rehabilitation organisation in Tower Hamlets)
- Islamic Relief
- A tour of religious buildings in Cambridge including Westcott House, King's Chapel and Ridley Hall
- Woking Mosque and Brookwood Cemetery