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AIFS Study Abroad in Rome, Italy
Summer 2012
Course Descriptions |
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Italian Language CoursesThese 45-hour courses are taught at the Rome Study Center by
highly-qualified local instructors. | Italian Language Courses | | | Course Code and Credits: | ITL 103 (3) | | Course Title: | Elementary Italian | | Course Description: | | Designed for students who have never taken any Italian language
course before. Students build an essential vocabulary and assimilate
basic grammar and sentence structures. Instruction is based
on listening, grammar and comprehension exercises, repetition
and easy conversation. | | | Course Code and Credits: | ITL 203 (3) | | Course Title: | Intermediate Italian | | Course Description: | | Students will develop the ability to communicate in Italian correctly
and with expanded vocabulary. Conversational practice,
including improved listening and interpreting skills, will encourage
students to better understand and respond to normal Italian
speech. Exercises in reading and writing will improve skills in
understanding prose and in writing letters and simple messages.
Admission is based on a placement test in Italian. Prerequisite: 3
or 4 semesters of Italian. | | | Course Code and Credits: | ITL 303 (3) | | Course Title: | Advanced Italian | | Course Description: | | With a focus on reviewing complex syntactic structures this
course will provide exercises in use of synonyms and idiomatic
expressions. Students will analyze readings from contemporary
authors, including samples of fiction and articles from newspapers
and magazines. Admission is based on a placement test in
Italian. Prerequisite: 5 or 6 semesters of Italian. | |
Courses Taught in English| Art, Design, and Media | | | Course Code and Credits: | ADM 341 (3) | | Course Title: | Photography for the Media | | Course Description: | | Recommended for Communications and Journalism majors as
well as photographers, this course develops knowledge and
experience in photojournalism and documentary photography
by studying the work of major practitioners and designing and
shooting projects using digital equipment. Students are required
to produce a number of documentary style projects and need
to provide a digital camera of at least 7 mega pixel and a laptop.
There is a lab fee of 80 euros to cover printing. | |
| Art History | | | Course Code and Credits: | ARH 273 (1) | | Course Title: | Introduction to Italian Art | | Course Description: | | Designed to introduce students to the history of several periods,
this course is taught primarily during the visits to Venice, Florence
and Naples. Richmond professors lecture before and during
the excursions on artistic and historical developments in Italy.
Students are required to write an art history paper on a topic assigned
by the professors, related to the visits. | | | Course Code and Credits: | ARH 305 (3) | | Course Title: | Introduction to Rennaisance and Baroque Art in Rome | | Course Description: | | This introductory course surveys the development of painting,
sculpture and architecture in Italy from the fourteenth through
the mid-seventeenth centuries. These four centuries mark
the passage from the Middle Ages to Modernity, through the
rediscovery of the heritage of the Classics, the transformation
of Christian Europe that followed Luther’s Reformation and the
passage from feudalism to absolutism. The course focuses on
Rome and offers the unique possibility of studying on site the
masterpieces of great artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael,
Caravaggio and Bernini. Much of the course is taught on site.
Students should budget approximately 55 euros for admissions
to museums and galleries. | | | Course Code and Credits: | ARH 308 (3) | | Course Title: | Art and Culture of Rome: 800 BC - 2000 AD | | Course Description: | | This is an introduction to major art historical themes, methods
and approaches. This course gives the students a knowledge of
Rome’s history and society, an overview of its architectural and
artistic expressions over a development span of 3000 years.
Much of the course is taught on site with visits to churches,
palaces and museums. Students should budget approximately 55
euros for admissions to museums and galleries. | | | Course Code and Credits: | ARH 309 (3) | | Course Title: | History of Ancient Art: Greece and Rome | | Course Description: | | The course examines the main motives and themes related with
study, analysis and appreciation of ancient art. Students study
the Idea of Classic, so largely part of the western culture, and
so widely object of misinterpretation. The analysis of Greek art,
the relation between Greek and Roman art, our position before
Classical art, continuity, discontinuity, inspiration from antiquity
and misunderstanding of antiquity are the main subjects covered
in class. The city of Rome offers the best instruments for this art
itinerary. Much of the course is taught on site. Students should
budget approximately 55 euros for admissions to museums and
galleries. | |
| Communications | | | Course Code and Credits: | COM 315 (3) | | Course Title: | History of Italian Cinema and Society | | Course Description: | | The course introduces students to the history of Italian cinema
as well as inviting a reflection on the evolution of Italian society
as represented in film. Post-war Italian cinema offers a valuable
range of films for such a study. By the end of this course
students acquire some knowledge of Italian cinema within the
context of world cinema, an understanding of realism as an
aesthetic convention and gain a useful insight into Italian culture
and ways of thinking. | |
| History | | | Course Code and Credits: | HST 311 (3) | | Course Title: | Rome Through the Ages | | Course Description: | | The history of Rome from its reputed founding by Romulus and
Remus to the establishment of the Roman Republic and the
creation of the Roman Empire and the conversion to Christianity
with the appointment of the first Pope. Students should budget
approximately 55 euros for admissions to museums and major
archaeological sites. | | | Course Code and Credits: | HST 326 (3) | | Course Title: | History of the Italian Mafia | | Course Description: | | The course analyses the Italian Mafia through an historical,
social and cultural perspective, tracing its progression from the
Borbonic Reign to the present day. Differences between the
Italian and the American Mafia will also be taken into consideration.
An analysis of the sociological aspects of the Mafia will be
developed, including “the language of the mafioso”, “the code of
silence”, the ways of violence, messages and messengers, structures
of power, profits and losses, and the relationship between
Mafia, politics, and religion. | |
| Literature | | | Course Code and Credits: | LIT 329 (3) | | Course Title: | Classical Mythology | | Course Description: | | Traditional stories of Greece and Rome in their cultural context.
Readings from Greek and Latin literature investigate their
sources, nature and applications to literature and art. Students
examine key figures and events in mythology, including gods
and major heroes, with on-site analysis of paintings, sculptures,
poetry and mosaics. Students should budget approximately 55
euros for admissions to museums and galleries. | |
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