This course engages students with particularities of Italian social life and cultural identity through selected readings, self-guided explorations, interactive encounters, creative responses and current events reports, and through group activities such as place-as-text observations and analyses of the thriving cultural spaces and distinctive neighborhoods of Rome and Florence.
Explore the art of travel writing against the backdrop of the timeless beauty of Greece as you capture your own unique tour through mythic landscapes, ancient wonders, and contemporary Greek culture. Immerse yourself in a curated reading list to discern narrative/prose styles and strategies for writing effective travel texts and study persuasive, descriptive, and informative…
Embark on a transformative study abroad experience as you delve into the profound literary legacy of Greece. Encounter timeless works and consider issues of voicelessness in these texts. Engage with modern retellings, critical analyses, and popular culture references to and depictions of voicelessness and disenfranchisement in ancient Greece and today. This journey extends beyond the…
No stories contain greater richness and depth, and none have been more influential, than those we call “Greek myths.” Students learn to read the manifestations of myth in sculpture and vases as well as selections from ancient texts. We visit the Athenian Acropolis, Eleusis, Delos, Argos, and Mycenae, the very settings in which the mythological…
No stories contain greater richness and depth, and none have been more influential than those we call “Greek myths.” Students learn to read the manifestations of myth in sculpture and vases as well as selections from ancient texts. We visit the Athenian Acropolis, Eleusis, Delos, Argos, and Mycenae, the very settings in which the mythological…
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