AHST 210: Italian Art Selected Topics (Rome)                     1 Credit

Prerequisite: Intro to fine art or Italian art history, or advisor approval (or equivalent)

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Art History

The class is taught on site in Rome and during field trips to Venice, Florence, Naples and Palermo. This course covers selected topics in Italian art, especially pertaining to painting and sculpture, up to the Renaissance and the Baroque ages. Early Italian art from the Etruscans and the Romans up to the early modern times will be considered in their art historical contexts; key topics will be covered such as artistic patronage as well as other social, religious and cultural developments. Students write a project paper based on a topic agreed with the instructor and related to field exploration.

AHST 310: Masters of the Renaissance and Baroque in Rome                     3 Credits

Prerequisite: Introduction to Art History or History of Western Civilization, plus intermediate Art History, or advisor approval (or equivalent)

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Art History

The course deals with the features and the evolution of the Italian and especially Roman painting, sculpture and architecture in the Renaissance and Baroque periods between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The transition from the Medieval to the early modern times in Rome will be examined from the art historical point of view. Students will get to know impressive works of art along with the key figures of their masters within the social, cultural and historical contexts of their production and fruition. The focus of the course is Rome and classroom lectures are complemented by on-site visits to works by masters such as Caravaggio, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Bernini.  

ANTH/HIST 320: Food, Culture and Identity                        3 Credits

Prerequisite: History of Western Civilization, a basic knowledge of ancient history, plus intermediate art history course, or advisor approval (or equivalent)

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Sociology

This is a course on the history and the evolution of food-related cultures and behaviors, from the ancient to the recent times, passing through the Classical and the Medieval ages. The focus will be on the social function of eating and food, through the analysis of feastive occasions related to meals, table manners, dietary prescriptions and identities. Different types of sources will be considered, from written texts, to artistic and archaeological finds, to highlight the variety of traditions and social rules developed through the ages with regard to food and eating. Those topics will also be contextualized in the different environments they were part of, such as cities, houses, noble palaces or abbeys.

BUSI 320: Italian Luxury Fashion and Design                       3 Credits

Prerequisite: Intermediate Business course or equivalent, or advisor approval

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Marketing

The course covers the development of fashion and fashion industry in Italy through visual merchandising and retail with particular focus on Rome. Peculiars aspects in relation to the instore experience of the costumer vs the spread of the e-commerce model of buying will be addressed and discussed. In this respect, students will engage in a project called The Luxury Shopping Experience, for the sake of which they are tasked with visiting, examining and reporting about specific luxury stores of the Via Condotti and Via Borgognona fashion district in Rome.

CLAS/ENGL 315: Greek and Roman Mythology                  3 Credits

Prerequisite: Introductory history course, plus intermediate history or classics course, or advisor approval (or equivalent) 

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Classical Studies

This course discusses Greek and Roman mythology through Classical literature and against its historical and cultural backgrounds. English texts from all the major Latin and Greek authors, such as Ovid, Virgil, Aeschylus, Omer, and Hesiod, will help identify and analyze Classical myths in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, using the results and methods of literary, religious, historical, and archaeological studies to reconstruct narratives involving gods and heroes.

COMM/FILM 310: A Century of Italian Cinema                   3 Credits

Prerequisite:  Introductory History of Western Civilization, Film History, or Media Studies, and intermediate-level film or media studies course, or advisor approval (or equivalent)

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Communications

This course covers Italian cinema and society through the movies, with specific attention to the period following WWII. Students will analyse the evolution of Italian cinema through its masterpieces and against the background of international cinema. The aim of the course is to provide students with a deep grasp of Italian contemporary cultural trends through the cinema and the diffusion of realism as a cultural convention.

COMM/PHOT 315: Photojournalism: Rome Reportage                   3 Credits

Prerequisite: Intro to photography plus intermediate communications or journalism course, or advisor approval (or equivalent)

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level English

Both communications and journalism majors as well as photographers will benefit from this course, the aim of which is to foster practical skills and advanced knowledge of photojournalism through the works of major contemporary photographers and through the exploration of the city of Rome. Students will engage in the production of assignments related to the real world of photojournalism. The only technical requisite for the course is to bring to class a DSRL - digital reflex - camera along with a laptop equipped with a photo editing software.

CRIM/HIST/POLI 332: Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Sicily                       1 Credit

Prerequisite: Intro to history or criminal justice, plus intermediate criminal justice or Italian studies course, or advisor approval (or equivalent)

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Politics

The class is taught in Rome and Palermo, Sicily.  The first part consists of introductory lectures and audiovisual materials analyzed in the classroom, with reports presented.  The second part consists of a three day field trip based in Palermo, the County Seat of Sicily.  Students analyse the political and social history of the Italian Mafia from its origins to the present day.  The visits focus on the emergence of a new Sicilian culture and society based on the fight against the Mafia, and the reasons for the successes and failures of the anti-Mafia struggle.  

FASH 321: Italian Style in Made in Italy                                 3 Credits

Prerequisite: Introductory and Intermediate Marketing, Fashion, or equivalent, or advisor approval

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Marketing

The place of Italy in today’s world economy is relevant. This course aims at exploring the evolution and the features of consumption of goods and services in Italy. A variety of approaches from other disciplines, such as social and cultural anthropology as well as microeconomy will help analyze the topics at the core of the course. Italian society will be approached from the point of view of consumer society to see how a specific Italian style has been evolving in specific areas such as fashion, industrial design, advertising, sport, food and beverages. The shaping of a specifically Italian cultural identity as related to all those aspects will also be examined and discussed. Visits to major Italian companies will be integral part of the course.

FNAR 310: Rome Sketchbook                     3 Credits

Prerequisite: An Introductory Drawing class

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Art History

Through this course students will acquire a broad grasp of the roles and aims of drawing as both an analytical and an expressive tool of artistic and communicative inquiry. Rome is at the center of the drawing process, which aims at exploring and communicating in a visual way the most peculiar sites of the city, from the Tiber River to the numerous Roman churches, galleries and museums. The course is organized in both indoor and outdoor sessions. The production of a sketchbook is an essential part of the course and it helps the students to record the city, create ideas, and show how drawing is an open and mobile tool for exploring reality.

HIST 310: The Rise, Fall and Legacy of the Roman Empire                             3 Credits

Prerequisite:  Intro to Western Civilization plus intermediate Rome history course, or advisor approval (or equivalent)

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level History

This course explores the entire history of Rome, from its legendary founding by Romulus and Remus, to the Republic period leading to the expansion of Rome throughout Italy and Europe, finally establishing the most powerful Empire of ancient times, and eventually becoming Christian. From the rise of the roman civilization to its transformation and subsequent dissolution, the fall of the Roman Empire under the arrival of the Germans will be discussed with its opening towards the dark ages of the early medieval periods. Major archaeological sites in Rome will be visited and will host lectures and discussions. The course will cover topics such as the evolution of Rome and its architectural as well as political structures, the causes of the rise and fall of the Republic, Augustus as the first Roman emperor, the conquests of the Romans and the peculiarities of Roman civilization, religion in Rome, the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire and the cultural and material legacy of Rome.

HIST 311: Templars, Crusades, and Military Orders                          3 Credits

Prerequisite: Intro to history, plus intermediate European or Medieval history, or advisor approval (or equivalent)

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level History

The course aims at providing students with a deep knowledge and understanding of the military orders phenomenon in the Medieval times, with a focus on the Knights Templar with the mystery of their rise to unprecedented economic and political power up to their fall amidst the flames of stakes. All other major military-religious orders emerging in the context of the Crusades will be discussed, especially the Knights Hospitallers, rivals and then heirs to the Templars themselves. All this will be analyzed against its own historical, social, and religious background as well as in the context of the Crusading movement, with the emergence of knighthood as a military and cultural force, the monastic experience, the construction of military and religious edifices in Rome, Europe, and the Holy Land, as well as the deployment of pilgrimages routes between the East and the West: all together contributing to connect domains as different as the historical, the spiritual, the religious, the political, the cultural as well as the geographical in reconstructing the picture of a changing Medieval world. 

HIST 340: History of Western Medicine                3 Credits

Prerequisite: Intro to history, plus intermediate history or medical science course, or advisor approval (or equivalent)

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level History

This course explores the developments of medical science and thought in the West from its beginning to the 19^th century. The evolution of medicine will be analyzed and discussed from the times of the ancient civilizations, such as the Egyptians, the Babylonians, as well as the Greeks and the Romans, through the medieval times and the Renaissance period, to the Scientific Revolution and the modern age. Through a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, based on the history and philosophy of science, sociology, art, and literature, students will familiarize with figures of scientists/philosophers, such as Hippocrates and Paracelsus, with their discoveries of diseases and the advances in approaching and curing them, with the outbreak of pandemics, such as plague or the Black Death in the medieval times, discussing what have made medicine one of the most fascinating and fast-growing fields in science, one that can put together tradition and innovation. 

HIST/POLI 331: Politics of Genocide                        1 Credit

Prerequisite: Introductory history course, plus intermediate European history or political science course, or advisor approval (or equivalent) 

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level History

The class is taught in Rome and Krakow.  The first part consists of introductory lectures and audiovisual materials analyzed in the classroom, with reports presented.  The second part consists of a three day field trip based in Kraków, the capital city of a region that witnessed some of the greatest atrocities in European history.  The visit explores the diversity of national identities (Polish, Jewish, German, Ukrainian, “Gypsy”, “Galicjan”) and analyzes the intricacies of ethnic, religious, and cultural factors.  Students are introduced to historical, political, and social aspects of the genocidal policies suffered under both Nazi and Communist regimes.  Special attention is dedicated to the importance of memory.  Students are guided into the discovery of a tragic, mysterious, and uniquely fascinating European land. The course is a dynamic education experience, accompanied by group discussion. A unique academic and life experience. “Experience Education” taught at the highest academic levels and designed for students “hands on” principle of knowledge transferring and experiencing.  

HIST/POLI/SOCI 330: Italian Mafias: History and Evolution                          3 Credits

Prerequisite: Introductory history course, plus intermediate Italian studies course, or advisor approval (or equivalent)

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level History

This course examines the multifaceted world of the Italian Mafias from the historical, social, cultural, criminological and political points of view, between the period of the Italian unification and today. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the relationships between the Italian and the American Mafias, the connections between Mafia and politics in Italy, personal relationships in the context of the mafious organizations.

HIST/RSLT 312: History of the Popes and the Catholic Church                     3 Credits

Prerequisite: Introductory Western Civilization course, plus intermediate European history course, or advisor approval (or equivalent) 

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Religious Studies

This course analyses and discusses the entire history of the Catholic Church through the most prominent figures of its popes, from the origin of the Christian experience in Palestine, to the construction of the Church as an institution and its developments and crisis through the antique, medieval and modern periods, to the challenges of the present day. Lectures and visits to places of interest in the city of Rome such as catacombs, basilicas, and old Roman Christian houses, will both contribute to shape in the students the awareness concerning the rich and varied tenets in the historical development of the Church as well as of its countless ties with local and international domains linking together religious, cultural, social, and political evolutions.

MKTG 311: International Marketing                       3 Credits

Prerequisite: Introductory Marketing and an intermediate-level Marketing course or equivalent, or advisor approval

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Marketing

The course deals with market strategy and the threats and opportunities companies need to handle in nowadays global markets. Various aspects related to the marketing management actions companies need to take in order to compete will be covered during the course, ranging from market analysis, costs, competition in a global market, distribution channels. Contextualization, standardization, and adaptation strategies are evaluated with regard to international marketing.

POLI 310: Globalization and Europe                        3 Credits

Prerequisite: Introductory political science course, plus intermediate political science or European studies course, or advisor approval (or equivalent) 

School of Record Articulation: Intermediate Level Politics

This is a course on globalization which is studied in an interdisciplinary way from a specific European perspective, analyzing its social, economic, political and cultural aspects. Key issues of globalization will be discussed ranging from nationalism and inequalities to convergence, and the analysis of global institutions and agents.