This is a 4 week, 6-credit program directed by Dr. Anna Celenza (Georgetown University) that enables students to focus on the visual and performing arts and their connection to Italy. Students will study the ways in which Italy has been a source of inspiration and community for creators of music, theater, the visual arts and literature during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Students will enroll in MUSC 329: Italy as a Creative Force in Music,
Art & Literature, an academic course that explores Italy's role as a
Mecca during the era of the "Grand Tour" and MUSC 162: Creative Writing
and the Performing Arts, an intensive writing course that explores all
aspects of creative writing associated with music, theater and dance.
The program provides an
historical context in which to view the arts and will include field
trips to relevant sites, as well as live performances in Florence and
throughout Italy.
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Join Fr. Charles Gonzalez, S.J. (Georgetown University) on a 3-credit spiritual journey to Italy (THEO-129). This program will provide students with the opportunity to explore and reflect on the history of the Society of Jesus while gaining an understanding - both theoretical and practical - of Ignatian spirituality.
Enrollment is limited to approximately fifteen students who live and study together in a small, closely-knit community at Villa Le Balze and participate in several site-visits and activities as a group.
As a class, students visit some of Italy's better known Jesuit sites as well as some of the major monuments and museums of the region. A unique component of this summer program is a field trip to Rome to visit some of the primary sites of St. Ignatius Loyola's final years during the period in which the Society of Jesus was founded. The program will also visit other historical and artistic sites in Rome.
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