Youth Culture/Contemporary Youth: The Making of a New Italy
University of Washington Honors Program and the College of Education
15 credits (I&S and VLPA), Winter 2011, Rome, Italy (w/ excursion to Naples)
Honors 230 (10), Honors 391 (5) or EDUC 300
January 4-March 10, 2011 (check out of apartments on March 11)
Class location: Rome Center and, more often, on-site at various locations in Rome
Manka Varghese, Education, and Julie Villegas, Honors Program
mankav@uw.edu, Rome mobile phone: 338 438 6084 (Dec. 30-Feb.4)
villegas@uw.edu, Rome mobile phone: 331 2610 708 (Feb 1-March 12)
Assistant: Stephanie Love, Education, and UW Rome intern
svlove@uw.edu, Rome mobile phone: 331 736 1863 (whole program)
Office hours: Mondays, after 5 p.m.: Barnum Cafe
Program Blog: http://uwhonorswinterrome2011.blogspot.com/
The 2011 Winter in Rome Program addresses youth identity and, more broadly, the identity of a country that is navigating extreme demographic changes. This program will engage deeply with the complex interplay of the younger population in Italy and the influence of the nation state and its investment in maintaining the illusion of one cohesive "Italian Identity". While in Rome we will work together and with our onsite partners to learn about youth identity and national identity through a combination of on-site classroom instruction, excursions to schools, community ethnic and arts centers, and nonprofit social organizations, and also direct interaction with youth groups in Italy.
Our partners and guest lectures will include teachers in the Italian public school system, political organizations that directly work with Italy's youth, and other nonprofit and educational institutions that directly influence decisions as to the services and programs provided to Italy's youth. We will also work with local scholars engaged in research regarding youth, immigration, and education policy.
A unique component of this study abroad program is participants' involvement in service projects. Students will work with schools and community and social welfare organizations, as well as nonprofit artists collectives. The research project/topic that students will choose for their final assignment will align with student’s service projects. The service and research projects are supported by course readings, writing assignments (both in journals and blogs), and experts from the local community.
Throughout the program, students will be asked to reflect on how youths' lives and how the intersection with institutions can be compared to what is happening in the United States, especially in Seattle.
The course will also include excursions to main historical sites of the city with instruction in both ancient and contemporary art in Rome and the surrounding area as well as a weekend trip to Naples. A sampling of excursions may include: the Pantheon, Vatican City, the Colosseum, Contemporary Art Museum, the Forum, and Ostia Antica.
Credits
• 2 credits independent research projects related to Service Learning
Students are graded based on the following components and credits (more details forthcoming of breakdown and rubrics):
Service Learning
Communicating in Italian
Students will be encouraged to use the Italian language while in Rome. Students will attend Italian classes that will familiarize them with idiomatic expressions, the basic rules of grammar and proper pronunciation and enable them to navigate Rome and engage in the themes of the course, and the associated research and Service Learning, with more confidence. Our language instructor, Aurora Santoro, is a teacher in the Italian school system and also has extensive experience teaching international students.
Course Format:
The structure of the course will be a combination of classroom instruction, guest speakers, excursions, reading, discussion, interview assignments, and writing assignments. Your writing assignments will be a combination of postings to your blog and writing in your reflective journals.
Course Goals:
• Identify key social issues pertaining to youth, education, immigration, and culture
• Introduce the service sites and overview of nonprofit organizations; engage thoughtfully
and respectfully in your service project
• Guide students in the development of project topics related to their service projects
• Introduce students to a variety of social science and humanities methods
• Develop team process
• Introduction to Roman history, art, culture, cultural studies, and politics
Student Objectives:
Required Texts (U Bookstore textbooks):
Lakhous, Amara. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
Orton & Parati. Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy
Selections from the following (on blog as PDF and/or course packet or UW course reserve):
Course reserve site: http://eres.lib.washington.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=7808
Forgacs, David, ed. Italian Cultural Studies: an introduction
Hanley, Ruble, and Garland, eds. Immigration and Integration in Urban Communities
Cahill, Susan, ed. The Smiles of Rome: a literary companion for readers & travelers
Jeffrey, Craig and Dyson, Jane, eds. Telling young lives: Portraits in global youth (Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 2008).
Grillo, Ralph and Pratt, Jeff, eds. The Politics of Recognizing Difference: Multiculturalism Italian Style (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002)
Hamilton, K. 2002 and Jachimowicz, M. 2003. Migration Information Source/Migration Policy Institute. http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=121
Wong, Aliza S. Race and the Nation in Liberal Italy. Palgrave: New York, NY. 2006.
For website resources & readings go to program blog http://uwhonorswinterrome2011.blogspot.com/
Other Resources:
• University of Washington Rome Center -- http://depts.washington.edu/roma/
• Rome Visitor's Guide -- http://www.mercuriusrelocations.com/guide/id32.html
• What's Happening in Rome "In Rome Now" --
• International Migration Center, Rome -- http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/pid/835
• Immigration, Education & Identity in Italy Exploration Seminar, 2008 --
http://education.washington.edu/areas/ci/students/rome_program.html (see examples of student blogs there too)
Some of our partners:
Caritas: http://www.caritasitaliana.it/
ArciGay: http://www.arcigay.it/
Iqbal Masih: http://www.scuola126.it/
Joel Nafuma Refugee Center -- http://www.stpaulsrome.it/
Popica: http://www.popica.org/
G2: www.secondegenerazioni.it
Attendance and Preparation: Any absences should be excused beforehand. You are expected to complete all assignments prior to class on the assigned date. This includes all readings, assigned writings, blog postings, and group presentations. Please be courteous to instructors, guest speakers, and peers---you must be on time to class.
Materials: Please buy or use a notebook as a journal to carry around for your class
In the event of a schedule change, students will be notified in class and via the class listserv.
revised: January 23, 2011
Week 1: WELCOME TO ROME and UWRC!
Frid, 1/7 4:00 p.m. ArciGay (gay rights group) speakers (Class).
bring your journals
Sat 1/8 Free day. Settle in to your apartment. Catch up on sleep! Explore area.
Week 2: MYTHS OF ROME (Roman Youth: Antiquity to Present)
Tues 1/11 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Service component - introduction to
Wed 1/12 10:00-12:00: Language class
Thur 1/13 10.00-12.00: Language class
Fri 1/14 10:00-12:30 Weekly Check ins (with Stephanie, today)
Weekend free
Week 3: YOUTH AND IMMIGRATION
Mon, 1/17 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Introduction to Italian Immigration Issues with Manka
Readings: “Law, Immigration and Exclusion in Italy and Spain”
“ Age of Migration”
Optional: Other immigration and race articles/chapters on course reserve
Dinner & ice cream
bring your journals
Thurs 1/20 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
Service Learning p.m.
Fri 1/21 9 a.m.- 11: Guest artist and director: Mirela Pribac, Romanian Artist
bring your journals
Weekend read:
Sat 1/22 5-7 pm.: G2: Second generation youth presentation and discussion
Week 4: YOUTH AND EDUCATION
Mon1/24 9 a.m.-12/1p.m.: Italian youth and education (class) & Check-ins (service learning and research component)
Blog #2 & #3 due
Readings: “ Children crossing borders”
“Current research into education and schooling in Italy”
“Social, cultural and material conditions”
Optional: Other education articles/chapters in course reserve
6 - 8 p.m.: Clash of Civilizations movie (if you haven’t seen it yet)
bring your journals
Tues 1/25 a.m. Service Learning
4 -6 p.m.: Guest speakers from Italian Education System
bring your journals
Wed 1/26 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
Thur 1/27 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
p.m. Service Learning
Week 5: IDENTITY POLITICS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN ITALY
Mon 1/31 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.: School visits
bring your journals
Wed 2/ 2 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
Thurs 2/3- Leave for Naples in a.m. (9:30 a.m. train, arrive Naples 11:45)
Manka returns to Rome on Saturday a.m. You may choose to return to Rome with Manka or Saturday and Sunday are your Free Days in Naples and/or region. Please note, you will be responsible for your lodging on Saturday and Sunday nights. You must be back in Rome by classtime when it begins at 10 a.m. on Monday.
Week 8 Contemporary Arts-Written, Spoken, Performance with Workshops
bring your journals
Tues 2/22 a.m. Service Learning
2-5 p.m. Tiber Island excursion with Margaret Brucia, art historian
6 p.m.: Dean Ed Taylor, Lecture at UW Rome Center
Wed 2/23 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
1:00-4:00 p.m. Mirela Pribac and Cristiano Pintaldi (artist’s studio talk and
bring your journals
Thur 2/24 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
p.m. Service Learning
Fri 2/25 11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.
Weekend to work on Rione reseach/presentations
WEEK 9 Excursions and also RIONE PRESENTATIONS
Mon 2/28 a.m. Paolo Tamburella Studio with Shara Wasserman
Tues 3/1 Service Learning ends today/final
2-4 p.m. discuss presentation details (service/research)
6 p.m.: Julie Villegas: Mixed race identity politics through an arts/literature perspective
Wed 3/2 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
1.00-5:00 p.m.: Rione presentations
UWRC Film night
Thurs 3/3 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
1.00- 5:00 p.m.: Rione presentations
Fri 3/4 10:00-12:30 Weekly Check ins (service and research components) blog #8 due
Weekend free to work on final presentations
WEEK 10 FINAL PRESENTATIONS, REFLECTIONS AND WRAP UP
Wed 3/9 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class wrap-up
Thurs 3/10 LAST DAY OF PROGRAM. FINAL NIGHT IN APARTMENT. GOODBYES.
Friday, 3/11—Arrivederci ma non Addio!
University of Washington Honors Program and the College of Education
15 credits (I&S and VLPA), Winter 2011, Rome, Italy (w/ excursion to Naples)
Honors 230 (10), Honors 391 (5) or EDUC 300
January 4-March 10, 2011 (check out of apartments on March 11)
Class location: Rome Center and, more often, on-site at various locations in Rome
Manka Varghese, Education, and Julie Villegas, Honors Program
mankav@uw.edu, Rome mobile phone: 338 438 6084 (Dec. 30-Feb.4)
villegas@uw.edu, Rome mobile phone: 331 2610 708 (Feb 1-March 12)
Assistant: Stephanie Love, Education, and UW Rome intern
svlove@uw.edu, Rome mobile phone: 331 736 1863 (whole program)
Office hours: Mondays, after 5 p.m.: Barnum Cafe
Program Blog: http://uwhonorswinterrome2011.blogspot.com/
The 2011 Winter in Rome Program addresses youth identity and, more broadly, the identity of a country that is navigating extreme demographic changes. This program will engage deeply with the complex interplay of the younger population in Italy and the influence of the nation state and its investment in maintaining the illusion of one cohesive "Italian Identity". While in Rome we will work together and with our onsite partners to learn about youth identity and national identity through a combination of on-site classroom instruction, excursions to schools, community ethnic and arts centers, and nonprofit social organizations, and also direct interaction with youth groups in Italy.
Our partners and guest lectures will include teachers in the Italian public school system, political organizations that directly work with Italy's youth, and other nonprofit and educational institutions that directly influence decisions as to the services and programs provided to Italy's youth. We will also work with local scholars engaged in research regarding youth, immigration, and education policy.
A unique component of this study abroad program is participants' involvement in service projects. Students will work with schools and community and social welfare organizations, as well as nonprofit artists collectives. The research project/topic that students will choose for their final assignment will align with student’s service projects. The service and research projects are supported by course readings, writing assignments (both in journals and blogs), and experts from the local community.
Throughout the program, students will be asked to reflect on how youths' lives and how the intersection with institutions can be compared to what is happening in the United States, especially in Seattle.
The course will also include excursions to main historical sites of the city with instruction in both ancient and contemporary art in Rome and the surrounding area as well as a weekend trip to Naples. A sampling of excursions may include: the Pantheon, Vatican City, the Colosseum, Contemporary Art Museum, the Forum, and Ostia Antica.
Credits
• 10 credits include background in immigration and education policy in Italy and preparation for service learning placement. Students will have class at the Rome Center, but more often onsite guided experiences in the city itself.
• 3 credits language instruction• 2 credits independent research projects related to Service Learning
Students are graded based on the following components and credits (more details forthcoming of breakdown and rubrics):
- Class participation and preparation/ Interview assignments/Rione assignments/ Service learning attendance and participation/ Weekly Writing Assignments & Check-ins (weekly blogs assignments and continuous reflective journaling)/Vlogs: 10 credits
- Language class: participation and final exam (verbal plus written components): 3 credits
- Final research preparation and presentations: 2 credits
Service Learning
- Iqbal Masih (Tuesday mornings, 9-12 or 10-12; Thursday afternoons, 1.30-4.20 or 2-4) Except 02/15, Tuesday, afternoon time & no Thursday service learning on 02/03. Last day on 03/01
- St. Paul’s (Tuesday mornings, 9.30-12.30; Thursday afternoons, 12.30-3.30)
- ArciGay (flexible but plan on working on the projects for them Tuesday mornings and Thursday afternoons)
- GIGA (Tuesday mornings, 10-12.30; Thursday afternoons, 12.30-3.30)
Communicating in Italian
Students will be encouraged to use the Italian language while in Rome. Students will attend Italian classes that will familiarize them with idiomatic expressions, the basic rules of grammar and proper pronunciation and enable them to navigate Rome and engage in the themes of the course, and the associated research and Service Learning, with more confidence. Our language instructor, Aurora Santoro, is a teacher in the Italian school system and also has extensive experience teaching international students.
Course Format:
The structure of the course will be a combination of classroom instruction, guest speakers, excursions, reading, discussion, interview assignments, and writing assignments. Your writing assignments will be a combination of postings to your blog and writing in your reflective journals.
Course Goals:
• Identify key social issues pertaining to youth, education, immigration, and culture
• Introduce the service sites and overview of nonprofit organizations; engage thoughtfully
and respectfully in your service project
• Guide students in the development of project topics related to their service projects
• Facilitate viewing city as art as related to course topics/identity politics (i.e. seeing as a writer and artist--looking at metaphor and utilizing metaphors in the creative process.).
• Introduce students to topics relevant to the larger theme of the program• Introduce students to a variety of social science and humanities methods
• Develop team process
• Introduction to Roman history, art, culture, cultural studies, and politics
Student Objectives:
• Examine contemporary educational and youth related social and cultural issues in the urban context of Rome and Naples
• Explore the city through a creative lens where openness and flexibility are key for success
• Discover and engage in service based projects and learn to work collaboratively and successfully in small groups
• Complete reading and writing assignments on a weekly basis (blog and reflective journaling)
• Understand how an interdisciplinary approach and service based engagement works in the context of study abroadRequired Texts (U Bookstore textbooks):
Lakhous, Amara. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
Orton & Parati. Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy
Selections from the following (on blog as PDF and/or course packet or UW course reserve):
Course reserve site: http://eres.lib.washington.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=7808
Forgacs, David, ed. Italian Cultural Studies: an introduction
Hanley, Ruble, and Garland, eds. Immigration and Integration in Urban Communities
Cahill, Susan, ed. The Smiles of Rome: a literary companion for readers & travelers
Jeffrey, Craig and Dyson, Jane, eds. Telling young lives: Portraits in global youth (Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 2008).
Grillo, Ralph and Pratt, Jeff, eds. The Politics of Recognizing Difference: Multiculturalism Italian Style (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002)
Hamilton, K. 2002 and Jachimowicz, M. 2003. Migration Information Source/Migration Policy Institute. http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=121
Wong, Aliza S. Race and the Nation in Liberal Italy. Palgrave: New York, NY. 2006.
For website resources & readings go to program blog http://uwhonorswinterrome2011.blogspot.com/
Other Resources:
• University of Washington Rome Center -- http://depts.washington.edu/roma/
• Rome Visitor's Guide -- http://www.mercuriusrelocations.com/guide/id32.html
• What's Happening in Rome "In Rome Now" --
• International Migration Center, Rome -- http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/pid/835
• Immigration, Education & Identity in Italy Exploration Seminar, 2008 --
http://education.washington.edu/areas/ci/students/rome_program.html (see examples of student blogs there too)
Some of our partners:
Caritas: http://www.caritasitaliana.it/
ArciGay: http://www.arcigay.it/
Iqbal Masih: http://www.scuola126.it/
Joel Nafuma Refugee Center -- http://www.stpaulsrome.it/
Popica: http://www.popica.org/
G2: www.secondegenerazioni.it
Attendance and Preparation: Any absences should be excused beforehand. You are expected to complete all assignments prior to class on the assigned date. This includes all readings, assigned writings, blog postings, and group presentations. Please be courteous to instructors, guest speakers, and peers---you must be on time to class.
Materials: Please buy or use a notebook as a journal to carry around for your class
In the event of a schedule change, students will be notified in class and via the class listserv.
revised: January 23, 2011
Week 1: WELCOME TO ROME and UWRC!
Wed, 1/5 10:00 a.m. Meet in front of the Rome Center Building- main building doors for Orientations (UWRC and following, neighborhood) with coffee break. Sheryl Brandalik followed by Stephanie Love.
Thurs, 1/6 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Syllabus and readings overview: meet in 1st floor seminar room (our regular class location)
Frid, 1/7 4:00 p.m. ArciGay (gay rights group) speakers (Class).
bring your journals
Weekend reading: Lakhous book (due 1/26) & reading for Monday
Weekend homework: Set up blog page/account
Do Blog assignment # 1
Sat 1/8 Free day. Settle in to your apartment. Catch up on sleep! Explore area.
Sun 1/9 8 a.m.: Porta Portese Flea Market, meet in front of main doors, Rome Center. Evening—6:00 Welcome Dinner at Grappolo D’Oro
Week 2: MYTHS OF ROME (Roman Youth: Antiquity to Present)
Mon 1/10 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.: Introduction to class & Overview of Assignments (Class)
Readings: Jeffrey/Dyson chapters & “Youth in Southern Europe see bleak future”
Due: Blog # 1: What are your general impressions of youth in Rome and Italy? How would you compare this to your impressions of youth in Seattle and the United States?
5:00 pm: Language class introduction w/ Aurora Santoro and Stephanie Love (Class)
Tues 1/11 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Service component - introduction to
Readings: “To Hell With Good Intentions”
Wed 1/12 10:00-12:00: Language class
1:30-3:30: Myths and Rome/Italy and connections to immigration (Class)
Readings: Grillo & Pratt first 2 chapters; Wong chapters
6.30: Student mixer in Rome center
UWRC Film Night
Thur 1/13 10.00-12.00: Language class
2-4.30 p.m.: Isabella Clough, American University “Roma Youth”
Readings: “Between surveillance and exile” bring your journals
Fri 1/14 10:00-12:30 Weekly Check ins (with Stephanie, today)
Weekend free
Week 3: YOUTH AND IMMIGRATION
Mon, 1/17 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Introduction to Italian Immigration Issues with Manka
Readings: “Law, Immigration and Exclusion in Italy and Spain”
“ Age of Migration”
Optional: Other immigration and race articles/chapters on course reserve
Tues 1/18 9:00-1:00 p.m.: Myths of Rome: religion and mythology with Margaret Brucia (meet in class and then excursion to Forum)
bring your journals
p.m. Service learning - first official day introduction
Wed 1/19 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
2 p.m. - Excursion to Piazza Vittorio area and Esquilino market. Interview assignment # 1
Readings: “Immigrants forced to margins of society/ Racism on the rise”: websites
“Italy’s Racial Cauldron”
“Color blindness or total blindness”
Dinner & ice cream
bring your journals
6 p.m. (required) UWRC Film Night: Orchestra Piazza Vittorio
Thurs 1/20 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
Service Learning p.m.
Fri 1/21 9 a.m.- 11: Guest artist and director: Mirela Pribac, Romanian Artist
She will discuss “Gypsy”, Roma and Romanian identity and myths. Also, she will show her 2005 photo documentary “Campo Nomadi”
Reading: “Integration or Marginalization? The failures of social policy for the Roma in Rome”
bring your journals
Weekend read:
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
Sat 1/22 5-7 pm.: G2: Second generation youth presentation and discussion
Week 4: YOUTH AND EDUCATION
Mon1/24 9 a.m.-12/1p.m.: Italian youth and education (class) & Check-ins (service learning and research component)
Blog #2 & #3 due
Readings: “ Children crossing borders”
“Current research into education and schooling in Italy”
“Social, cultural and material conditions”
Optional: Other education articles/chapters in course reserve
6 - 8 p.m.: Clash of Civilizations movie (if you haven’t seen it yet)
bring your journals
Tues 1/25 a.m. Service Learning
4 -6 p.m.: Guest speakers from Italian Education System
bring your journals
Wed 1/26 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
4:00 p.m. Amara Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations author guest speaker
bring your journals
Thur 1/27 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
p.m. Service Learning
Frid 1/28 9:00-1p.m Margaret Brucia, art history, Piazza Navona, Pantheon, and Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
bring your journals
2-4p.m.: Weekly Check ins (service and research components)
Blog #4 due
Week 5: IDENTITY POLITICS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN ITALY
Mon 1/31 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.: School visits
bring your journals
Tue 2/1 a.m. Service Learning
1.00-3.30: p.m. Julie and Manka—
Passing the baton & Negotiations of North/South Identity: myths and
realities and the inbetween
bring your journals
Reading: "Italy's Southern Exposure” http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=121)
6 p.m.: Manka Varghese & Stephanie Love: “The Construction and Contestation of Italian identity: Language, race, and education ”
Wed 2/ 2 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
1.00-3.30: Julie and Manka with Alex Valentino: Overview of Naples: history, urban culture, demographics, migration trends, and related economic/political, art, and literature. Comparative look at the Roma in Italy (Rome, Naples, North South differences, etc.)
Guest: Alex Valentino, Architect and co-founder of Laboratorio Architettura Nomade
Discuss Naples Itinerary and logistics. Handout itinerary.
Readings: “Imagined Italies” and “Images of the South” from Italian Cultural Studies
-selections from In the Shadow of Vesuvius and La Bella Figura: An Insider’s Guide to the Italian Mind and selections from The New Italians (see “Naples” folder on course reserve site)
bring your journals
Thurs 2/3- Leave for Naples in a.m. (9:30 a.m. train, arrive Naples 11:45)
bring your journal
Thursday and Friday-Guided Instruction in Naples (detailed Naples itinerary separate handout 2/2)
Manka returns to Rome on Saturday a.m. You may choose to return to Rome with Manka or Saturday and Sunday are your Free Days in Naples and/or region. Please note, you will be responsible for your lodging on Saturday and Sunday nights. You must be back in Rome by classtime when it begins at 10 a.m. on Monday.
Week 6: YOUTH AND FAMILY, COMMUNITY, and RELIGION
Mon 2/7 (Brittany blog)
10:00-12:00 --In class discussion
1. Week 6 overview and discuss optional excursions for rest of quarter (soccer, cat sanctuary, protestant cemetery, Piazza Farnese)
2. Introduce Rione Project (see assignments handout on blog)
3. Vlog Instructions and sign up sheet (related to Rione)
4. Naples debrief and in class writing assignment (also reimbursements)
5. Introduce week’s theme and concept of Border Studies and cultural studies, including youth, family and religion focus (powerpoint). Introduce close reading, i.e.
6. Review research questions (Weds check ins and sign up for Wed check ins).
In class discussion, go over concepts in:
-“The Lines that Continue to Separate Us: Borders in our ‘borderless’ World”
-“Immigration and Social Identities” chapter from Italian Cultural Studies
-Introduce “close reading” concept: “Introduction” & “Salvation” from Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy). Next week!
12:00-1:15 Lunch break
1:15 meet in front of UWRC to begin Art History Excursion “|Palimpsest Rome” with Lila Yawn (dress appropriately. No shorts or short skirts)
Take bus #87 (from Torre Argentina) to Arch of Constantine. After Arch of Constantine, walk to San Clemente church, 3:00 p.m. entrance.
Class ends 5 p.m.
Tues 2/8 (Kelsey blog)
a.m.: Service Learning
12:30 meet in front of UWRC for walk to Vatican to begin tour
1:00-5:00 Vatican City and Museums Excursion with Jeffrey Blanchard, Art Historian. Meet Jeffrey in front of Vatican Museums.
Read: “ Catholic Culture” and “Two Images of Catholicism” from Italian Cultural Studies”
bring your journals
Wed 2/9 (Luis blog)
Note: No language class in a.m. (instead Italian class-dinner)
Excursion to mosque & synagogue and “Jewish Ghetto”—bring journals
Leave at 8 a.m. sharp (in front of Rome Center). Travel by bus and metro to Mosque.
9-11.30: Mosque tour.
On-site writing assignment and discussion of reading.
12:00-1:00 Lunch break on your own, travel back to UWRC
Meet at Rome Center 1:00 p.m. Walk to Jewish Ghetto. Tour of Synagogue, Museum, Ghetto begins. On-site writing assignments and discussion of reading.
Reading: “Narrative Over the Ghetto in Rome” From Jewish Social Studies Journal (introduction, first section)
“ Spatial and Symbolic Patterns of Migrant Settlement: the case of Muslim Diasporas in Europe” from Immigration and Integration in Urban Communities
3:30-5:30 pm weekly check-ins then free until dinner.
8 p.m. Italian language/group dinner (Luigi’s). You will order and converse in ITALIAN! (meet in front of UWRC at 7:45)
Thurs 2/10 (Brenda blog)
10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
p.m.: Service Learning
Writing assignment Blog # 5 due (Naples)
3 day weekend Fri 2/11 (Laura blog), Sat. 2/12 (Sha blog), Sun 2/13 (Souvonnah blog)--3 day weekend
Please let me know where you are traveling by sending me an email with itinerary (when leaving, where, and when returning).
Week 7: YOUTH AND ARTS
NOTE: NAPLES WRITING ASSIGNMENT #5 Due by start of class (extended deadline)
Mon 2/14 -- Anthony Daily blog post
10:00 Meet in front of UWRC. Please be on time.
Street Art-Graffiti in Rome with Maria Teresa Natale
Bus or walk to meet Maria Teresa. bring journals
Readings and short reflective writing assignment:
Read in English or Italian (see upper right hand side of website)
2. “Introduction” (11-27) and “Salvation” (65-75) from Multicultural Literature
3. Post reaction to the above readings (two short paragraphs) plus follow-up questions.
Class ends at 1:00
Afternoon and evening free—catch up on readings, assignments, and/or optional excursion to xxxx
Tues 2/15 Sarah Daily blog post
9:00 a.m.—meet in classroom for talk/discussion with Margaret Brucia. Art History talk and follow-up excursion. Walk to Piazza Navona, Pantheon, Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
Class ends at 1:00 p.m.
p.m. Service Learning
Wed, 2/16 -- Germaine Daily blog post
10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
p.m. Free to work on Rione Assignments and this week’s writing assignment #6 (on your own/with partner)
Writing Assignment #6 (related to rione). Due Thursday!
Read:
UWRC FILM Night
Thur 2/17—Marson daily blog post
10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
p.m. Service Learning
Blog Writing # 6 due
Fri 2/18 Souvonnah daily blog, Sat 2/19 Laura, Sund 2/20 MinJi
3 day weekend!! If you are traveling, please let me know when and where.
Week 8 Contemporary Arts-Written, Spoken, Performance with Workshops
Mon 2/21 10:00-12:00 Class with Julie
“Writing in the City, creating hybrid identities”
1:00 p.m. Guest Shara Wasserman, Temple University faculty.
The Roman art scene and “What is ‘contemporary’ art in Rome?” Current topics in Rome as expressed in art (written, visual, performance, music).
Visit museums: MACRO and MAXXI, and to MACRO Testaccio (or
museum visits on 2/28)
bring your journals
Readings: Selections from Multicultural Literature
Tues 2/22 a.m. Service Learning
2-5 p.m. Tiber Island excursion with Margaret Brucia, art historian
6 p.m.: Dean Ed Taylor, Lecture at UW Rome Center
Wed 2/23 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
1:00-4:00 p.m. Mirela Pribac and Cristiano Pintaldi (artist’s studio talk and
excursion)
bring your journals
Guest: Dean Ed Taylor, UW Seattle, Undergraduate Academic Affairs and the College of Education (round table discussion)
UWRC Film Night
Thur 2/24 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
p.m. Service Learning
Fri 2/25 11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.
CARITAS (presentation by Dottoressa Dinh and tour)
2.00-4.00 p.m.: Weekly Check ins (service and research components) blog #7 due
Weekend to work on Rione reseach/presentations
WEEK 9 Excursions and also RIONE PRESENTATIONS
Mon 2/28 a.m. Paolo Tamburella Studio with Shara Wasserman
Tues 3/1 Service Learning ends today/final
2-4 p.m. discuss presentation details (service/research)
6 p.m.: Julie Villegas: Mixed race identity politics through an arts/literature perspective
Wed 3/2 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
1.00-5:00 p.m.: Rione presentations
UWRC Film night
Thurs 3/3 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class
1.00- 5:00 p.m.: Rione presentations
Fri 3/4 10:00-12:30 Weekly Check ins (service and research components) blog #8 due
Weekend free to work on final presentations
WEEK 10 FINAL PRESENTATIONS, REFLECTIONS AND WRAP UP
Mon 3/7 Work on Presentations and also PRACTICE for presentations. Seminar Room available. Office hours: TBA
Tues 3/8 10 - 2 p.m. (approx)
Presentations and reflective overviews with discussion.
Reception (and/or GROUP Dinner)
Wed 3/9 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Language class wrap-up
Thurs 3/10 LAST DAY OF PROGRAM. FINAL NIGHT IN APARTMENT. GOODBYES.
Friday, 3/11—Arrivederci ma non Addio!
