UC Davis Summer Abroad Summer Rome- Art, Culture, History in the Eternal City Syllabus & Course Information Italian 107S: Survey of Italian Culture and History Instructor: Jay Grossi, lecturer in Italian, UC Davis Summer 2017 June 20-July 17 It beats everything: it leaves the Rome of your fancy-your education-nowhere. I went reeling and moaning through the streets in a fever of enjoyment, the effect is something indescribable. Henry James Italian Hours Italian 107S will introduce students to Italian culture and history over a period of almost three millennia, with a special emphasis on the contributions made by the eternal city of Rome. In particular, they will learn how Carthaginians, Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans and contributed to development of Italy. Through walking tours and in class, students will review the Iron Age and the thousand-year plus reign of the Romans, and discuss the invasions of Vandals, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Lombards, Franks, Muslims, and Normans through the Middle Ages. The course will also cover the High Renaissance and Baroque periods culminating with Neoclassicism, the Risorgimento, Fascism, and present-day Italy (no longer a country of emigration, but a country of immigration with many immigrants from Africa, Eastern Europe, China, etc.). Five days a week, the city of Rome, the Roman port of Ostia Antica, the Etruscan city of Tarquinia, Pompeii, and the Greek city of Naples will serve as our cityscape in the morning; each afternoon, we will discuss the sites and artifacts in a classroom setting. Visits may not always be in a chronological order: for example, the course will deal with Romans of first century while examine 1930s Fascism next or another moment, students will admire the exquisite art of the High Renaissance and Baroque (Michelangelo s The Last Judgment and Bernini s David respectively) and the next moment encounter the hustle and bustle of modern Rome with its congestion and grafittied walls. This approach will challenge students into making sense of the historical and cultural mishmash of a country called Italy, which although was united culturally for centuries, it was only united politically in a monarchy in 1861 and a republic in 1948. In particular, this will encourage them to challenge stereotypes; foster cultural understanding; enable students stepping out of their American comfort zone and into gaining an understanding of Italy s vast cultural history with its culmination in the modern state of Italy; and finally strengthening their ability to analyze, criticize and discuss, both orally and in writing, these topics. Students will be required to read such assigned texts, such as Speak the Culture: Italy and a reader with selected readings dealing Italian art, culture, and history. 1
Class outcomes: At the end of the student s stay in Rome, he/she should have a general knowledge of and be able to critically discuss the following topics with a special emphasis on the contributions made by the Eternal City: 1. Italian history since the Carthaginian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman periods until the period of the Risorgimento in 1800s and up until present day Italy. 2. Important historical characters and events and how they contributed to the building of an united Italian state and an Italian identity. 3. Campanilismo or regionalisim and how although modern Italy is a united, it is still has many deep cultural divides based on regionalism. 4. Italy s many intellectual and cultural contributions to Western Civilization. 5. Modern Italy, no longer a country of immigration, but nowadays a country of emigration, and how these new emigrants are greatly changing cultural fabric of modern Italy. 6. Rome, a city, rich in history and culture, but also a chaotic, multicultural modern western European city of more than three million inhabitants with its congestion and grafittied walls. Required texts: 1 Speak the Culture: Italy ISBN: 1-854186-28-0 2. Lonely Planet Rome (supplied by program) 3. Reader with selected readings. 1. If you do not actively participate on these tours (or you fail to show up), you will not receive the full 11 points of credit! If I do not think you are in shape to participate on a walking tour on a particular day, I will tell you to remain at the school, and you will not receive your participation points for that day. 2. You will be often walking up to FOUR hours a day during our tours of Rome, Tarquinia, Naples and Pompeii; you will need to be in shape to keep up with the walking pace of our guides and me. Proper walking shoes and a good night s sleep are highly recommended! Italian 107S Survey of Italian Culture and Institutions (subject to change) Participation: 4 units From Monday to Friday 7:30/9:00 12:30 we will have a group visit to a historical site in Rome (two days on the Amalfi coast). You are required to participate on these field trips not only to earn credit toward your Italian 107S grade, but also to able to write your journal for the Italian 198 course. This is a very substantial part of your 107S grade since each walking tour is worth 11 points of credit! 2
1. If you do not actively participate on these tours (or you fail to show up), you will not receive the full 11 points of credit! If I do not think you are in shape to participate on a walking tour on a particular day, I will tell you to remain at the school, and you will not receive your participation points for that day. 2. You will be often walking up to FOUR hours a day during our tours of Rome, Tarquinia, Vesuvius, Pompeii and Naples; you will need to be in shape to keep up with the walking pace of our guides and me. Proper walking shoes and a good night s sleep are highly recommended! Exams Exam 1 (100 points) Taken at home before arriving in Rome!!!!!!!!! You will use Speak the Culture Italy and Lonely Planet Rome to complete this exam on the geography of Italy. Exam 2 (80 points) Taken at the study center in Rome. This exam will deal with survival Italian and the history of the Italian language. You will use the aforementioned texts and class notes to complete this exam. Exam 3 (120 points) Taken at the study center in Rome. This exam will deal with Italian history. You will use the aforementioned texts and class notes to complete this exam. Exam 4 (100 points): Taken at the study center in Rome. This exam will deal with Italian culture, such as Italian art, architecture and food. You will use the aforementioned texts and class notes to complete this exam. Presentations Each student will be required to give presentation of two-two and half pages (typed page length [double spaced] even if hand written) on one of the following topics. You will have the following sources at your disposition: Lonely Planet Rome, Speak the Culture Italy, the reader, and all pertinent articles found on-line. You will need to turn in to me after a hard copy of your presentation. 1. Spanish Steps and this neighborhood during the Grand Tour and today: 2. The Trevi fountain and famous movies filmed there: 3. The Pantheon and the famous Italians buried there: 4. Church of St. Mary above Minerva and the Pulcino statue: 5. Piazza Navona and the Fountain of the Four Rivers: 3
6. Santa Maria in Trastevere and the history of the Trastevere district: 7. Il Tempietto, San Pietro in Montorio and Janiculum Hill: 8. The Tiber River and Isola Tiberina (Tiber Island): their relationship to the founding of Rome and the river s famous floods: 9. Fosse Ardeatine (Ardeatine Caves): World War II in Rome and 1944 Via Rasella Massacre: 10. Bread and Circuses: Circus Maximus and the chariot races: 11. The Servian and Aurelian walls of Rome: 12. The Ancient Aqueducts of and baths (such as the Baths of Caracalla) of Rome: 13. Ara Pacis and Castel Sant Angelo: 14. Pope Francis I: 15. Victor Emmanuel Monument and Victor Emmanuel II first king of a United Italy: 16. The seven ancient hills of Rome, and the Eternal City s foundation: 17. Democratic Rome: the end of World War II to the present; how has Rome changed? 18. History of Rome through its 13 obelisks, especially the two most important ones: the Vaticano and the Lateranense: Pop quizzes Three days a week after the walking tour there will be an UNANNOUNCED pop quiz worth 15 points. It will be based on the information from that day s walking tour. Grading for Italian 107S 1. 400 points (four exams) 2. 220 points (20 walking tours X 11 points for each tour) Each student will receive 5 points for just showing up on time and walking the duration of that day s walking tour; and he/she will receive 6 points for paying attention to the instructor/tour guide (not wondering off during the tour, talking while the instructor/guide is explaining something, sitting or lying down on the floors in the museums and churches, etc.) and also making an effort to actively participate in all group discussions and activities which will take place throughout our walk of the city. No student should have any problems earning these 11 points each day. 3. 200 points (one oral presentation/paper) 4. 180 points (3 pop quizzes per week x 15 points per quiz X 4 weeks) Total points: 1000 4
Italian 198 Directed Study Group: 4 units You will be required to write daily about your stay in Italy. Before leaving for Rome, you need to purchase lined notebook paper for your journal entries (you will turn in the individual pages, not the whole notebook two-three times per week). Each day (five days per week) after your walking tour and/or visit to a specific monument, you will need to write four-five paragraphs about your experience. You will need to write a brief (a couple of paragraphs) summary of weekend activities. If you do not turn in your journal for me to read when requested, you will receive no credit for those journal entries, and this could ultimately cause you not to receive a pass grade in the course! The following information must be part of the journal entry: 1. The date and time of the visit. 2. The location, such as street name and neighborhood name 3. The historical period of site 4. The historical importance of site 5. The physical description of site 6. Your personal impressions of the site 7. At least one-two quotes from the guide on the guided tours 8. At least one-two quotes from the Lonely Planet Rome or from one of the readings in your reader. You may leave space in each journal entry to add pictures, designs, etc. of your experience. Consult resources on the proper way to write an academic journal. Grading: 100% Written assignment; pass/no pass will be assigned. Nota bene: Remember many students ask me for a letter of recommendation after the program ends; I am not inclined to write these letters of recommendation for those students who write the bare minimum for C- grade; therefore please keep that in mind when you complete your journal entries! Italian 199 course (for Semester students): 1 unit For this one unit of credit you will have to write daily (Monday-Friday) an additional two-three paragraph commentary on any topic of choice: you can write more in-depth about one of the monuments you encountered on your daily walking tours; you can talk about an historical event or character; you can talk about a cultural event; you can talk about a politics, etc. At the end of your stay in Rome, you will have written the equivalent of a five-six typed page paper. You will use notebook paper for these entries, and you will turn in these pages when you turn in your daily journal. 5
Program Schedule for summer 2017 (Nota bene: subject to change at last minute!) Tuesday June 20 8:00-15:30 (3:30 pm): 19:30-21:00: 18:30-19:30: Wednesday, June 21 9:00-12:30: Thursday June 22 : Arrival and check-in; TURN IN FIRST EXAM Dinner Get together in the school s courtyard for COURSE ORIENTATION, and afterwards a short walk on the Aventine for a beautiful walk in that evening of Rome. Ancient, Gothic and Baroque Rome: Visit to the Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Pantheon, church of Santa Minerva, the Spanish Steps and Piazza Navona Ancient Rome: visit to the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatine Hill and Circus Maximus Friday, June 23 : Ancient Rome: Euro museum or Ottocento Rome: Visit to Victor Emmanuel Monument and elevator ride to top for fantastic view of Rome Ancient Rome Saturday, June 24 Sunday, June 25 Monday, June 26 Domus Palazzo Valentini (High Tech visit to ancient Roman and Renaissance Palace) 14:30-16:30 Tuesday, June 27 7:30-16:30 Etruscan Italy: visit to Etruria/Tuscia Wednesday, June 28 : Thursday, June 29 : Ancient Rome: visit to archeological park of Ostia Antica, ancient Roman port Early Christian and Renaissance Rome: Visit to Isola Tiberina, Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Bramante s Tempietto, and Gianicolo Hill Friday, June 30 Ancient Rome:Visit to Castel St Angelo (Hadrian s tomb) and Ara Pacis Saturday, July 1 6
Sunday, July 2 Monday, July 3 Tuesday, July 4 Wednesday, July 5 7:00 am departure Renaissance and Baroque Rome: visit to the Vatican Museums Renaissance and Baroque Rome:Visit to St. Peter s Basilica and Michelangelo s dome. Amalfi Coast trip Departure from school Early Christian/Baroque Italy: possible visit to the Abbey of Monte Cassino Ancient Rome: visit to Archeological Park of Pompeii Spend night at a hotel in Sorrento on the Amalfi Coast Thursday, July 6 8:00-16:30 Greek, Gothic and Baroque Italy: Visit to City of Naples. Spend night at hotel in Sorrento Friday, July 7 Saturday, July 8 Sunday, July 9 Monday, July 10 Tuesday, July 11 14:30-16:30 Wednesday July 12 14:30-16:30 Thursday, July 13 : Friday, July 14 8:00-12:30: Departure for Rome at 8:30 am Baroque Rome, Bernini and Borromini: San Carlo, Sant Andrea, Santa Susanna, and Santa Maria della Vittoria (St. Teresa in Ecstasy) Or Sant Ivo, Sant Ignazio, Il Gesù and Sant Andrea Renaissance and Baroque Rome: Galleria Borghese Jewish Rome: visit to Jewish synagogue and ghetto Early Christian and Baroque Rome: visit to San Clemente and San Giovanni in Laterano Early Christian Rome: visit to Catacombs of San Sebastiano World War II Rome: Visit to the Memorial Tomb of the Ardeatine Caves 7
Saturday, July 15 : Renaissance Rome: visit to Tivoli and Villa d Este or Villa Gregoriana Sunday, July 16 Monday, July 17 Free day to explore Rome, pack and possible last supper Checkout by 8:00 am!! Boarding Rules at St. Stephen s 1. No alcoholic beverages of any kind will be allowed on the premises of the High School where we will be staying this summer. If you are found to be in possession of such beverages at the school, you will be asked to leave the program immediately! 2. No guests on premises of school; if you do so, you will be asked to leave the program immediately! 3. Since we will be staying in dormitory rooms next to one another, each of us will have to be very attentive about respecting one another s privacy and be very careful about not disturbing our neighbors by taking too loud and playing music a very high volume. 4. Each student will share a room with one to two other students. Each person will have the key to his/her own room. However, there will be only ONE main entrance key to the school per room! If you lose the key, you will have to pay for a new one. 5. Please always lock your room when you leave even if it is just to go to the bathroom. It is very possible there will be another group at the school when we are there. They will be staying on another floor, but you never know: somebody from the group could decide to pass through our floor even though he/she is not supposed to. 6. On the last day of the program, I will inspect your room before you can leave to make sure you have left it in proper order! Check out is 8:00 AM. 7. When you return in the evening, please do not slam the main entrance door and your bedroom door since the noise can easily reverberate throughout the school building! 8. Please try to keep the bathrooms clean by not throwing trash on the floor and not leaving personal belongings in there. 9. Each of us will have the right to use the laundry room once a week. Please try to do a full load and move your clothes promptly from the washer to the dryer so everybody can do their laundry. You will have to purchase your own laundry detergent. 10. Please bring a bath towel for the shower; the school does not supply us with them. 11. Please open a Skype account and prepay your account 5-10 dollars: there are no public pay phones on the premises of the school. 8
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