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Summary of the Program's 2000 Activities
Thirty students from the University
of Texas at Austin and one from the University of Washington
enrolled in the program of Summer 2000.
Courses
ITL 312K: Second-Year
Italian -- three
credit hours, taught by Antonella Olson.
ITC 349: Rome, Eternal City: Myths and Realities
-- three credit hours, taught by Douglas Biow.
ITL 365: Contemporary Italian Culture -- three
credit hours, taught by Douglas Biow and Antonella Olson.
School
The Centro Studi Americani
(CSA) is one of the major Italian libraries of American Studies
and is situated in the majestic Palazzo Antici-Mattei, a seventeenth-century
palace. Its rooms are frescoed by Tuscan and Flemish painters
of the early 1600s. The CSA provided, and will provide again
next year, a spacious, elegant and distinctive environment for
our students. The Director, Professor Daniele Fiorentino, and
the staff were most kind to the program's participants.
Field-trips
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The following were the field trips included
in the program's cost:
- 1) Two orientation sessions
in Rome;
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- 2) a guided visit and admission
to the Museum Galleria Borghese where the majority of Bernini's
masterpieces are found;
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- 3) a guided visit to the Vatican
museums and the Sistine Chapel (admission not included);
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- 4) a visit to an Italian high-school;
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- 5) a visit to Tivoli, a town
near Rome, and admission to its villas, Hadrian Villa and Villa
d'Este;
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- 6) two guided visits to the
Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill (admission not included);
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a guided visit and admission to the studios of Cinecittà,
the Italian Hollywood.
The following were the optional field
trips organized and attended by the director and the assistant.
All guides were paid by the
program. Most of the students participated in these trips:
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A weekend in Umbria; we spent two relaxing days in the countryside
in a very unique place
called Libera Università di Alcatraz, where we took some
classes on Theatre and T'ai chi offered by Jacopo Fo--son of
1997's Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and the actress and playwright
Franca Rame--and his colleagues. The third day was spent in Assisi,
where a guide took us around the city and showed us the Basilica
of San Francis.
2) A three-day visit to Liguria, where the students were taken
on a tour of the city of Genoa by a very lively and enthusiastic
guide who showed us the port, the architectural works of Renzo
Piano, the downtown area, the churches of San Matteo and San
Lorenzo--with its well-known treasure--and the Palazzo Ducale.
We stayed in Nervi, a pleasant suburb of Genoa, and from there,
took a tour of the Cinque Terre, visiting two of the five towns.
3) A three days trip to the Amalfi Coast with a guided tour of
Naples, where we visited the Museo Archeologico, various cathedrals
and churches, and we admired the amazing sculpture of Cristo
Velato in the private Chapel of Sansevero in the center of the
city. We spent a day on the beach in Positano, and drove on our
bus along the Amalfi Coast. A long guided visit to Pompeii concluded
this field trip.
4) The last weekend of the program, many students participated
in a two-day visit to Circeo (Lido d'Ulisse), a pleasant residential
area on the Mar Tirreno.
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Guests
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Dacia Maraini. Having already visited the U.T. campus in November
1999, where she lectured and sat in on several Italian upper-division
classes, Dacia Maraini met and talked with the young American
students with whom she has grown so fond.
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| Pina Del Fattore came as a guest speaker in ITL 365
to talk about Italy and Italians in the postwar period. |
| PHOTO
ALBUM SUMMER 2000 |
FOTO RICORDO
DELLE GITE E DEI MOMENTI LIBERI
del ROME STUDY PROGRAM
dal 1996 al 2000
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