Students attended an all-day visit to the Indiana University Medical School in Indianapolis.  Members of the medical faculty outlined the types of research opportunities available in a medical school setting.
 

An all-day trip to the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago included a tour of the Near Eastern collections at the Institute.  The class then dined at the Nile Restaurant, an arabic cafe that serves many of the dishes they might sample in Jerusalem. 
 

Students visited the Anastos Collection of Byzantine literature at the University of Notre Dame, one of the premier holdings of Byzantine resources in the United States.  They learned how to access resources in this specialized library, as well as a variety of web-based resources on Byzantine studies.

The class spent 3 days at  the New Melleray Abbey in Iowa with a practicing Cistercian community to enhance their understanding of the social and symbolic parameters of daily monastic life, analogous to those of Byzantine St. Stephen's.  They were expected to attend one full prayer cycle for a day (prayer every 3 hours) to better understand the daily rhythm of monastic life.
 

Students joined Dr. Schurr's archaeological field school for a day of excavation in northern Indiana where they learned basic excavation and geophysical survey techniques.