Information Rome 2025
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All courses will be taught at La SapienzaĚýby Â鶹AV professors.ĚýLocal faculty will be invited to give guest lectures, and weekly interactive workshop/activities will take place, allowingĚýstudents to engage with local communities and institutions.Ěý
Location: La Sapienza University (LSU) Campus in Rome, Italy
Duration: Forty hours in 4 weeks
Dates: June 1st to June 30th, 2025
Course Fee: $3,600 (approx)
Info sessions:
December 5th, 2024, in SH 680 Roome 1041 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm
January 21st, 2025, Room TBA, from 4:35pm to 5:55pm
February 17th 2025, Room TBA from 16:35 - 5:55
Minimum CGPA: Students must have a minimum CGPA of 3.0 to be considered for the program.
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Courses descriptions Rome 2025
ITAL 309 – PERSPECTIVE ON ITALY: WOMEN OF ROME
This course explores women's lives, struggles, and societal impact during the cultural, historical, and political transformations of 20th-century Rome through the lens of influential Italian women. Focusing on literature, cinema, and feminist activism, the course examines how women across different social classes and societal roles organized, resisted, and reshaped their identities and rights during a period of social change. Students will engage with diverse materials, including literary texts, films, and critical essays, to reflect on women's evolving roles and representations from the Fascist era to contemporary Rome. Instructor: TBA; taught in Italian
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CLAS 350 - LIFE IN ANCIENT ROME
What was ancient Rome like? From its legendary past to its imperial rule, the "eternal city" was the inevitable hub for ancient historians, politicians, poets, and travelers alike. Through political, social, literary, and architectural lenses, this course will explore the many ways ancient authors and thinkers have viewed, experienced, described, and imagined life in Rome between the 3rd century BCE and the 1st c. CE. By reading a selection of Greek and Roman texts, we will investigate Rome's urbanitas, from the Romans’ (inside) and the Greeks’ (outside) perspective.
Instructor: Dr. Martin Sirois; taught in English
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ENGL 382 - INTERNATIONAL CINEMA: HOLLYWOOD'S ROME
This course surveys a range of films produced by Hollywood studios that are set (and were shot) in Rome for some or all of their running time. Starting with the wave of Hollywood movies made after World War II via “runaway production” and concluding with a few recent 21st century films, we will focus on films in which an American (or group of Americans) travel(s) to Rome, and ask how Rome is depicted as an “other” to social, political, and even emotional life in the U.S. In doing so, we will explore the different forms of gender, race, class, and sexual agency that are made available (and/or are constrained) by the characters’ experiences in Rome. Films will include Roman Holiday, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Eat Pray Love, and others.
Instructor: Dr. Derek Nystrom; taught in English