Writing In and About Italy

Instructor: Sharon Schuman Location: Macerata Term: Fall Semester 2014 only Language: English Contact Hours: 45 Course Description This class explores Italy mainly through writing. Each student will develop a body of essays, interviews, and other work, all rooted in the experience of living and traveling in Italy. Class discussion will …

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Painting: The Italian Experience

Instructor: Prof. Teresa Marasca Location: Macerata Term: Fall Semester, Spring semester Language: English Contact Hours: 50 Course Description A studio course to strengthen skills in painting techniques. It will focus on the technical pictorial research and the poetics of the image. Particular attention will be devoted to critical analysis of …

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Modern Italy: History and Culture of the Italian People

Instructor: Prof. Antonio Zampa Location: Macerata Term: Fall Semester, Spring semester Language: English Contact Hours: 45 Course Description This course serves as a thorough introduction to life and culture in modern Italy. Beginning with the geography of the boot, emphasizing the vast geographical, economic and cultural diversity of the area, …

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Italian Language Levels 1 through 4

Instructor: Language Instructors alternate each term Location: Macerata Term: Fall Semester, Spring semester Language: Italian Contact Hours: 80 Course Description The Italian Language courses include four courses corresponding to the different levels: Beginning, Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced. The courses include the development of the four linguistic skills (listening, speaking, reading …

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Imagining Italy in Anglo-American Literature

Instructor: Peter Goodrich Location: Macerata Term: Spring semester 2014 only Language: English Contact Hours: 45 Course Description The Mediterranean peninsula and islands of Italy have always served the imaginations of English and American writers as an exotic geography— a near-oriental space of coasts and mountains, ancient cities and towns, mystery, …

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Dante’s Inferno

Instructor: Sharon Schuman Location: Macerata Term: Fall Semester 2014 only Language: English Contact Hours: 45 Course Description Dante’s Inferno is a masterpiece of Italian literature. We will read it in two different translations, one of which presents the Italian text and English translation on facing pages, so that whatever your …

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Cross-Cultural Communication/Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Instructor: Prof. Angélica Bonilla Location: Macerata Term: Fall Semester, Spring semester Language: English Contact Hours: 20 Course Description This course will take the cultural integration of the Macerata program one step further, and at the same time it will extend the discussions of the pre-departure orientation, the post-departure orientation and …

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