Students may spend one or two semesters at College Year in Athens. Located at the foot of a mountain-park in the heart of Athens, CYA offers English-language courses in the archaeology, art, and history of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean generally. Students live in apartments, scattered throughout the area so that they will interact as neighbors with ordinary Athenians. All students at CYA learn some modern Greek; Classics students may also study ancient Greek and Latin.

Hope College is one of the schools that sponsor this program every fall semester. Students take some courses of their own choosing at universities in the nation's capital (where all courses are conducted in English), and some courses taught by the American faculty who have come to Turkey with them as Global Partners. Courses in archeology and ancient art history are always available at the Turkish universities, and sometimes (depending on their specialties) from the American faculty.