Rome Summer 2011

dates: July 6, 2011 - August 3, 2011
Cost: $2,300 + $2,800 undergraduate tuition
application deadline: february 15, 2011

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course title: VART 3500 Photography in the documentary tradition
professors: Stephan apicella-hitchcock & Joseph lawton
credits: 4

This intensive class will introduce you to the basic and advanced techniques of image production with a major emphasis on generating documentary projects directly relating to the people, architecture, and culture of Italy. The cosmopolitan city of Rome, rich with artistic history, will serve as the source for our photographic explorations, as well as the catalyst for discussions addressing the historical significance of the documentary impulse. Our studies and production will take us from exhibitions in progressive contemporary art galleries, to the ancient architecture of the Colosseum as we utilize the wealth of visual stimuli as a resource, as well as a backdrop against which to critically discuss the strategies that documentarians utilize in communicating their interests.

For more information, please contact Prof. Apicella-Hitchcock at apicellahit@fordham.edu.

course title: THEA 2750 Performing italian
professors: joseph perricone & matthew maguire
credits: 4

Students will advance their fluency in Italian by learning to act in Italian plays. With Joseph Perricone, the students will explore structure and grammar, and expand their vocabulary by reading, writing, and speaking in a full-immersion mode. The goal of the course is to help students master the fine skills of diction and delivery in a foreign language. Students will be taught using carefully annotated texts with detailed grammatical explanations. Students will also be provided with audio CDs of the texts studied to practice listening and speaking beyond class instructions. The Acting will be taught by Matthew Maguire, Director of Fordham’s Theatre Program, using plays by Alberto Moravia, Dacia Maraini, and the Nobel-prize winning Luigi Pirandello. Acting is an exciting way to learn a language because one's need to master the language is motivated by the desire to inhabit the imaginary circumstances created by great playwrights. The project will be enhanced by trips to sites including Pirandello’s home and Roman theatres and the Opera at The Baths of Caracalla. This course applies to both the Italian core and the Theatre major and minor.

For more information, please contact Prof. Joseph Perricone at perricone@fordham.edu.

course title: ARHI 3316 The art and architecture of rome
professor: susanna mcfadden
credits: 4

Rome once ruled the entire Mediterranean world, and its cultural legacy looms large in Western Civilization. At the heart of this legacy is the city that gave its name to the ancient empire. For almost two thousand years, Rome has been more than a literal place – it is an icon of culture, expressing many different characters depending on the era. In the ancient world the city epitomized the earthly splendor of Roman civilization. In the Medieval period its political importance waned, and the city was reduced to a symbolic, spiritual center - the city's decaying pagan edifices signaling the triumph of Christianity. In the Renaissance, Humanists and the Papacy sought to re-claim the city's Classical past and re-work it into a new vision of the city as both spiritual and temporal "caput mundi," (head of the world). This course will examine the art, architecture and culture of these three epochs of the city's history: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance/Baroque, through the lens of its monuments. Primary sources in translation, slides, video, etc., will assist in our examination, but the primary mode of exploration will be site visits.

For more information, please contact Prof. Susanna McFadden at Sumcfadden@fordham.edu.