Salve! Mi chiamo Caitlin Campbell and I am a junior Elementary Education and Special Education major at Elon. As I prepare to ring in the New Year, I am also preparing for our course in Italy, and I wanted to take the time to introduce myself and share my thoughts on the adventure ahead. I am getting so excited for this journey and cannot believe that we leave in merely two days! Like so many of my classmates, I have been busily packing (and unpacking... and packing again) to prepare for our time abroad. It is amazing to think that in just a few days, we will be walking the streets of Rome and learning about its vast history in person. I hope that you will continue to follow us and learn with us on our journey. We are incredibly lucky to be able to start 2012 in Italy and we wish everyone a very Happy New Year!
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011
A presto!
Ciao tutti! Lynn and I are meeting to go over our course itinerary and schedule, gather maps and first aid supplies, and do all things associated with getting ready to go to Italy! We hope you are getting excited too and that you'll start checking the blog for course updates and sending the link to family and friends who want to follow us while we are in Italy. We've been getting great questions about the brochures, keep those coming, and we are excited to see you all in a few days.
A presto...
A presto...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Italy's Heritage: Past is Present
From the Roman Colosseum to the Olympic Futbol stadium; from the ancient catacombs to the Contemporary Art Museum; Italy and the Italians have contributed so much to the world’s history—and over such a long period of time—that it can be extremely difficult to see how all of these disparate pieces fit together. The goal of this course is twofold: to make Italy’s extraordinarily rich cultural heritage more meaningful by placing familiar traditions, landmarks, and people in their proper historical contexts; and to articulate the ways in which Italy’s past is relevant and essential to its present. To this end, we will explore the theme of Italy’s Heritage: Past is Present paying special attention to what Italian culture has borrowed, incorporated, rejected and recycled.
This is a General Studies course in the truest sense, as we will engage Italy through a number of interpretive lenses: The social and political functions of religious practices and theological beliefs; the ways that visual imagery and art shape and reflect cultural assumptions; the organizing of society through gender categories, physical bodies, and sexual norms. An art historian, Professor Gatti studies medieval art and ritual, has excavated an Etruscan farm and has lived and studied in Italy numerous times. Professor Huber, from Religious Studies, brings to the course her knowledge of early Christianity, gender and sexuality in the Roman world. Most important is the classroom, which, we can project with some confidence, will be the best that either instructors or students ever experience.
This is a General Studies course in the truest sense, as we will engage Italy through a number of interpretive lenses: The social and political functions of religious practices and theological beliefs; the ways that visual imagery and art shape and reflect cultural assumptions; the organizing of society through gender categories, physical bodies, and sexual norms. An art historian, Professor Gatti studies medieval art and ritual, has excavated an Etruscan farm and has lived and studied in Italy numerous times. Professor Huber, from Religious Studies, brings to the course her knowledge of early Christianity, gender and sexuality in the Roman world. Most important is the classroom, which, we can project with some confidence, will be the best that either instructors or students ever experience.
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