All courses are 3 credits, with the exception of ITAL 101, ITAL 103, and ITAL 197.
CLAS 318R / CLAS 518R Art & Architecture of Ancient Rome
Fulfills the Explorations in Fine Arts requirement.
This course offers students an introduction to Roman art that is topographic, architectural, and historical in nature. In our study of Rome, we focus on developments in architecture, painting, sculpture, and urban growth in the city. While our survey is limited to antiquity, it is understood that Rome’s modern urban fabric is profoundly affected by the events of the ancient period, so this course also intends to facilitate your understanding of the modern city.
Instructor: Crispin Corrado
ENG 378 Italy in American and British Literature
Fulfills the Explorations in Literature requirement.
The course brings students closer to the study of literature through reading major works by American and British writers. The journey to Italy is at the center of the novels and poems that are analyzed during the course. On the one hand we will concentrate on the discovery and transformation of the characters as narrated through their encounters with a different culture and social context. On the other, we will investigate changes in the attitudes and perspectives of the authors themselves due to their own journeys to Italy. We will begin with the reading of poetry from the 19th century, followed by the reading of four complete novels by three well known American and British writers: Henry James, Tennessee Williams and Edward Morgan Forster.
Instructor: Milena Locatelli
ENT 391R Entrepreneurship in the Catholic Tradition
An analysis of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship emphasizing intertwined aspects of value creation, entrepreneurial spirit, and application in the Church context. Topics include: the fundamentals of entrepreneurship in the Catholic tradition, private initiative in the social teaching of the Church, the revolution of Centesimus Annus, the place of entrepreneurship in Church operations, the role of venture capital, and entrepreneurship as a driving force behind societal changes.
Instructor: Alexia Massacand
HSTR 204 The Church in Dialogue with Contemporary Culture
The fourth course in the HSTR honors track organized around the theme of “Tradition and Renewal in Contemporary Catholicism,” and rooted in the four constitutions of the Second Vatican Council. This course is structured around the concerns of the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes. It examines how the Catholic Church engages the modern world with respect to issues such as marriage and the family, the role of religion in public life, economic justice, and religious diversity. A number of media, including films and novels, are investigated as sites of dialogue between Christianity and the broader culture.
Instructor: William Barbieri
ITAL 219 The Promise of Eternity: Rome and its Image throughout the Centuries
Fulfills the Explorations in Fine Arts requirement.
This course proposes a stimulating survey of the history and culture of Rome, to enrich students’ experience of the city in which they are spending a semester abroad. Through an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates history, literature, cinema, art and music, students will consider the evolution of the Eternal City, observing the complex layers of history which remain visible within the fabric of contemporary Rome. Following the footsteps of the most representative characters, cultural movements, and historical events century by century, we will conclude with a discussion of the city’s contemporary social and political identity within Italy and as a world capital. This variety of perspectives will enhance students’ ability to discuss and compare the different epochs of Italian history, with particular attention to the representation and the idealization of Rome across the centuries.
Instructor: Milena Locatelli
MGT 250 Business Communications
This course focuses on the principles, strategies, and techniques of effective written, oral, and digital business communication. The course addresses critical business communication skills with an emphasis on organization, preparation, grammar, and mechanics as students create successful oral and written messages including e-mails, memos, letters, presentations, reports, and other business documents.
Instructor: Kathy Weber
MKT 422 Consultative Professional Sales
This course provides an in-depth examination of the fundamentals of professional selling and sales management. The course covers the techniques of selling products and services in the retail, business-to-consumer, and business-to-business marketplace. Course topics include the development of selling as a discipline, selling philosophies, sales relationship strategies, product strategies, customer strategies, competitive strategies, sales presentations, sales management, account management, sales force automation and theories of various selling techniques.
Instructor: Mark Weber
MKT 435 Leadership
This course addresses how to plan, organize, lead and control a sales team and the selling process to accomplish business goals. The role and function of the sales manager will be examined including sales force size and organization, hiring, training, compensating and evaluating salespeople. Emphasis will be on the challenges of leadership in general and issues unique to leading a sales force. Sales ethics and leading and selling with integrity will be discussed.
Instructor: Mark Weber
PHIL 310 Philosophy of Art
Fulfills the Philosophy Area I requirement.
Philosophical treatment of a range of art forms that focuses on the nature of creativity, beauty, and representation. Major arts are compared and contrasted.
Instructor: Michael Severance
POL 478 Politics of Global Environmental Problems
An introduction to the politics of global environmental problems, with special emphasis on climate change. The three dimensions of global environmental problems are addressed (science, economy and policy) and connected to relevant topics such as: success and failure of international cooperation, the role of state and non-state actors (business, NGOs) and of international institutions (e.g. UN, World Bank), biodiversity loss, and deforestation. The course is interdisciplinary and taught in a non-technical style
Instructor: Alexia Massacand
TRS 202B The Church and the Human Person
Fulfills the Theology Elective requirement.
This course introduces students to the nature of the Church and the Human person through the examination of scriptural, historical, and contemporary treatments of the questions. The course will explore the images used in Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium to express the nature of the Church (People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Spirit, etc.) and her origin, structure and mission; the four properties or "notes" of the Church and Christ, her head, reflects on Christian Anthropology in the light of the modern and contemporary context. Here, everything from the nature of man to Catholic Social Doctrine in the economic sphere of our contemporary world will be considered.
Instructor: Father Francesco Giordano
TRS 338A Religion and Ethics on Film - Italian Style
This course explores film as a medium for addressing the ethical and religious concerns of contemporary society. We examine how the political/ideological, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of moving pictures shape the representation and critique of religious and moral subjects in film. This version of the course highlights the work of renowned Italian directors including Antonioni (Blow-Up), Fellini (8½), Benigni (Life Is Beautiful), De Sica (Two Women), Rossellini (Rome, Open City), Zeffirelli (Jesus of Nazareth), Pasolini (The Gospel According to St. Matthew), Crialese (Terraferma) and Bertolucci (Little Buddha).
Instructor: William Barbieri
TRS 345 Liturgical Art and Architecture
Fulfills the Theology Elective requirement.
This course leads students in examining the art and architecture of Christian churches. Salient primary texts regarding worship and the arts are studied in conjunction with various monuments. Using a historical approach, students will come to an understanding of the various theologies expressed in the matrix of Christian liturgical art, architecture, music and worship spaces from the early Church to the present. The course will incorporate churches throughout Rome in its study of the ways that human beings construct meaning in their places of worship and how images, sculpture, architecture and music are a theological reflection upon faith.
Instructor: Flavia De Nicola
ARPL 401: Architectural Design IV
This studio has students choose from among several projects developed by different critics that cover different issues. In all cases, however, projects build upon the formal and tectonic body of knowledge explored in 200 and 300 level studios, though of increased scale and programmatic complexity. They require students to take project development to a greater level with emphasis on design across a range of scales including that of the region, the city, the building, the interiors, the furniture, and/or the detail. Since students with the best projects earn places in our foreign studies program, competition between them raises the bar for verbal and visual communication.
Instructor: Lavinia Fici Pasquina
ARPL 601: Graduate Studio I
These courses explore advanced ideas in design as related to any of the several graduate concentrations operating within our program. These concentrations ask students to go beyond Each concentration studio focuses on the design of a project related to that concentration, with the three studies within a given concentration varying by theme rather than by educational level. For more specific information, see the supplemental course description for a particular concentration.
Instructor: Lavinia Fici Pasquina
Italian Language Classes
**All students must take one Italian language class**
ITAL 101 Elementary Italian I
Designed for students with little or no prior experience with Italian. Introduction to the basic principles of language necessary for written and oral communication.
ITAL 103 Intermediate Italian I
Students build on what they have learned during the first two semesters of Italian. They improve their communication skills by discussing and writing about various topics drawn from readings and film focused on Italian culture. This course includes review and expansion of grammar and vocabulary.
ITAL 197 Basic Conversational Italian
An intensive Italian language course for beginners, designed to meet the needs of students requiring short term language study. Students will achieve the basic language skills and cultural competence necessary to successfully communicate in every-day situations.