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Albanian students learning at GSU
Group tours Georgia during visit
Albanian Students
A group of Albanian students visiting Georgia Southern toured the Andersonville National Historic Site last week. - photo by Special
A two-week trip some 9,000 miles from home — that requires more time in a classroom than it allows outdoors — would not pique the interest of too many students. But for a group of Albanian scholars in town this week, the opportunity was a thrill of a lifetime. Since Feb. 18, Georgia Southern University’s Center for International Studies and the Department of Writing and Linguistics played host to the school’s first-ever delegation of law, political and social science students — and two prominent lawyers — from the Eastern European country.
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