Summer 2022 Faculty-Led Information Session | Italy: Exploring Art & Culture in Rome
Event Date:
September 21, 2021 – 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Location:
Virtual via Zoom
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
-Giotto di Bondone, Renaissance painter
Program Overview
Learning from this city, students will engage with one of the most resonant cultural environments in the world. Unprecedented in its continuity and duration, Rome’s historic center affords students a densely layered urban laboratory, while the contemporary city offers up myriad lessons toward understanding global forces now shaping major metropolitan centers throughout the industrialized world.
Living in this city, walking its streets to and from our classroom, shopping for dinner, becoming increasingly attuned to its rhythms – its peculiarities, its quotidian routines – students become enmeshed by the living culture of Rome, one in which art, and history, in its myriad manifestations, enjoys a central significance and ubiquitous visibility. Living within such a culture comes as something of a revelation, and can provide a lifetime’s worth of inspiration.
Join the information session on Tuesday, September 21 at 6:00 PM via Zoom! Register through this Google Form to get more information, and follow @UNCC.Art.Abroad on Instagram for a glimpse of past programs!
How to Apply
Applications for this program will open in late September/early October. Please refer to the steps below for more information.
- Complete Study Abroad 101 (required for all UNC Charlotte students)
- Request an application once program launches
- Complete program application by February 1, 2022
- Confirm your spot on the program by February 8, 2022
- Confirmation steps are signing the Education Abroad Participant Agreement and paying the program deposit
Program Academics
5 courses offered, earn up to 9 credits!
Students will explore the multilayered qualities of Rome through various vantage points presented within 5 unique classes. Five courses will be offered during the program with students able to take up to three. When in Rome… students can choose to immerse themselves through the study of Italian Language and Culture, explore renowned Italian film and filmmaking, examine the dense layers of Roman Art History, investigate the living heart beat of the city through Street Photography, and/or generate their own creative publication on Rome via the class Mapping Rome through experimental mixed media. The program is designed for ALL majors and specifically to maximize your summer experience and course credits earned.
Contacts
Lauren Stikeleather
Coordinator for Faculty-Led Programs
Office of Education Abroad
Aspen Hochhalter
COURSE: PHOTOGRAPHING THE STREETS OF ROME
Associate Professor of Art, Photography Area Coordinator
Department of Art & Art History
Daniela Dal Pra
COURSE: ITALIAN LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND THE CITY
Teaching Professor in Italian, Assistant to the Director of Film Studies
Department of Languages and Culture Studies
Dr. Jim Frakes
COURSE: ROME: CITY AS HISTORY, CITY AS MEMORY
Associate Professor of Art History
Department of Art & Art History
Will Davis
COURSE: FILMMAKING: PERSONAL & CULTURAL EXPLORATIONS
Lecturer in Film Studies, Director of Video Production Certificate
Department of Languages and Culture Studies
Anna Kenar & Erik Waterkotte
COURSE: MAPPING ROME: ROME AS CITY & CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Lecturer in Foundations, Printmaker
Associate Professor of Art, Print Media/Mixed Media Area Coordinator
Department of Art & Art History