Academics and Admissions

You can spend one month in "the Eternal City" living and studying in Rome. This summer, you can take one class that counts as a major elective for marketing, management, and international business majors as well as one online Summer Semester course offered by the College.

INB199R Business of Italian Tourism – Prof. Cary LeBlanc.
Tourism in Italy is big business. In 2015, it accounted for approximately 195 billion Euros, or 11% of Italian GDP. Travel and tourism are estimated to account for the employment of 2.3 million people in Italy. Clearly, tourism in this country is economically and culturally very significant. Coming to know this significant Italian industry as viewed through the lens of business will provide the opportunity to understand tourism as an industry. In developing a better understanding of the tourism industry in Italy you will also examine the connections between tourism and how goods and services are marketed. The course includes a weekend excursion to Florence and its architectural and artistic wonders, as well as local excursions in Rome. All of these will serve to inform your understanding of a significant industry in one of the most visited cities and countries in the world.

The following courses are scheduled to be offered during the fall 2019 semester:

• ARH 224 Baroque Art and Architecture (D. Borghese)
• THE 100 Introduction to Theology (A.J. Boyd)
• PHI 100 Socrates and the Search for Truth (P. Corrigan)
• EDU 399 Special Topics: Administrative Leadership in Higher Education (C. WoodBrooks)
• ROM 200 Encounters with Rome (C. WoodBrooks)
• ITA 101+ Italian at placement level (Italiaidea)

ARH 224 BAROQUE ART AND ARCHITECTURE
This course examines the emergence of Baroque art in the late Cinquecento and early Seicento (16th and 17th centuries) and follows the development of the Baroque style in sculpture, painting and architecture. During the class students study artists including Caravaggio, Bernini and Borromini. Much of the course is taught on-site in Rome, the ‘cradle’ of the Baroque

THE 100 INTRODUCTION TO THEOLOGY
This course introduces students to the intellectual challenge posed by the academic study of Catholic theology. Through the study of selected classic and 200 contemporary texts, the course familiarizes students with the nature, foundations, history, methods, and ends of Catholic theology. Students will become familiar with some of the distinctive movements and thinkers of the Catholic theological tradition, as well as the dialogue between Catholicism and other theological traditions. Each section of this course examines a book from the Old and a book from the New Testament, St. Augustine’s Confessions, the thought of a medieval and the thought of a modern Catholic theologian, and the thought of a non-Catholic theologian.

PHI 100 SOCRATES AND THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
This course introduces students to the activity of philosophy, understood in the Socratic sense of living an examined life. Philosophy begins by questioning ordinary experience and the opinions one already holds, and it becomes a comprehensive, fundamental, and self-reflective search for the truth about the nature of human beings and the good life, the world, and God. Readings include Plato’s Apology of Socrates and the Allegory of the Cave, as well as at least one medieval and one modern text. This course also introduces elementary principles of logical reasoning and basic distinctions of philosophic importance. It serves as the first half of a core seminar, and each section includes some direct link with the content pursued in each of the intermediate core courses in philosophy. 

ROM 200 ENCOUNTERS WITH ROME
Counts as a free elective. Gives students in Rome a sixth-course option. The course takes study abroad in Rome its topic and asks students to pair a text and a location under a thematic heading. This allows faculty from across the curriculum to fill the course meaningfully. Examples include:

• Classical Rome: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, and the Forum and Colosseum
• Catholic Rome: John Paul II, “Homily on the Sistine Chapel,” and the Sistine Chapel and Bernini’s Teresa in Ecstasy
• Tourist Rome: H. James, Daisy Miller, and traveling on bus/metro and shops in centro
• European Rome: Current media presentations of immigrants from Africa, and either Termini or neighborhood around the Villino Dufault, or Treaty of Rome [1957] & Museo Capitolini: Palazzo dei Conservatori , where it was signed.
• Renaissance Rome: Pico della Mirandola, Dignity of Man, and Piazza Navona
• Risorgimento Rome: Puccini’s Tosca, and Vittorio Emanuele II monument or Janiculum monuments

The following courses are scheduled to be offered during the fall 2019 semester:

• ARH 223 Renaissance Art & Architecture (D. Borghese)
• THE 151 Faith and Reason (A.J. Boyd)
• HIS 150 Civilization in Rome (L. Lazar)
• ROM 200 Encounters with Rome (B. Knowlton)
• CLT 205 Literary Foundations of the West (B. Knowlton)
• ITA 101+ Italian at placement level (Italiaidea)

ARH 223 RENAISSANCE ART AND ARCHITECTURE
This course looks at one of the most celebrated eras of art history, the Renaissance. Focusing on Italy and Northern Europe, the course will look at art made from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. Major themes will include urban development, economic change, the black plague, and the political and religious forces of culture. Material covered will include painting, sculpture, architecture, and fresco, from the devotional works of the Franciscans to the courtly art made for the Duke of Urbino, and works made for women as well as men. Looking critically at primary source material, such as the writings of Alberti and Vasari, the course will also consider the role of the artist and what is often seen as his rise in status, through examples like Botticelli, Michelangelo, Giotto and Dürer. For classes prior to 2020, this course satisfies the Core requirement in Art, Music & Theatre. For the class of 2020 and subsequent classes, this course fulfills the Core requirement for a fine art in Culture and Expression.

THE 151 FAITH AND REASON
Catholic theology both presupposes the compatibility of faith and reason and argues in defense of this compatibility. This course introduces students to Catholic theology’s traditional understanding of: 1) the nature of faith and reason; 2) their basic relation to each other; and 3) some of the various ways that theologians have historically approached the question of faith and reason. The course also introduces students to some contemporary debates involving the question of faith and reason. Each section of this course includes some readings taken from Augustine’s The City of God. Prerequisite: THE 100. This course fulfills the second theology requirement in the core curriculum program.

ROM 200 ENCOUNTERS WITH ROME
Counts as a free elective. Gives students in Rome a sixth course option. The course takes study abroad in Rome its topic, and asks students to pair a text and a location under a thematic heading. This allows faculty from across the curriculum to fill the course meaningfully. Examples include:

• Classical Rome: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, and the Forum and Colosseum
• Catholic Rome: John Paul II, “Homily on the Sistine Chapel,” and the Sistine Chapel and Bernini’s Teresa in Ecstasy
• Tourist Rome: H. James, Daisy Miller, and travelling on bus/metro and shops in centro
• European Rome: Current media presentations of immigrants from Africa, and either Termini or neighborhood around the Villino Dufault, or Treaty of Rome [1957] & Museo Capitolini: Palazzo dei Conservatori , where it was signed.
• Renaissance Rome: Pico della Mirandola, Dignity of Man, and Piazza Navona
• Risorgimento Rome: Puccini’s Tosca, and Vittorio Emanuele II monument or Janiculum monuments

CLT 205 LITERARY FOUNDATIONS OF THE WEST
This course considers some of the great themes of the West as they are played out in literature. The Fall semester’s work (CLT 205) concentrates on questions raised by the texts about the role of heroes and their relationship with their communities, about honor, authority, obedience, rebellion, and the place of the gods or God in the lives of human beings. This course satisfies the Humanities requirement in the Core curriculum.

Join professors Cary LeBlanc and Patrick Corrigan for the 2019 summer semester in Rome. Located in a safe residential neighborhood next to one of the largest parks in Rome, housing is at the College’s Rome campus, a short twenty-minute walk from Vatican City. Experience authentic Italian cuisine prepared on site by a Roman chef. Housing is in double rooms with private bath. Wifi is available throughout the fully updated building, which includes a state-of-the-art classroom, in-house laundry facilities, and lounge.

Program Dates

Deadline to apply: March 15, 2019 (see details below)
Depart Boston Logan Sunday, July 14th; Arrive Rome Monday, July 15th (early morning)
Depart Rome Thursday, August 15th; Arrive Logan Airport (same day)

Courses

• INB199R Business of Italian Tourism – counts as a major elective for marketing, management, and international business majors. Taught by Prof. Cary LeBlanc. Tourism in Italy is big business. In 2015, it accounted for approximately 195 billion Euros, or 11% of Italian GDP. Travel and tourism are estimated to account for the employment of 2.3 million people in Italy. Clearly, tourism in this country is economically and culturally very significant. Coming to know this significant Italian industry as viewed through the lens of business will provide the opportunity to understand tourism as an industry. In developing a better understanding of the tourism industry in Italy you will also examine the connections between tourism and how goods and services are marketed. The course includes a weekend excursion to Florence and its architectural and artistic wonders, as well as local excursions in Rome. All of these will serve to inform your understanding of a significant industry in one of the most visited cities and countries in the world.
• Your choice of one 3-credit Summer Semester I online course from the Assumption offering.

Program Cost

$4,450 in two non-refundable payments of $2,225 due March 22 and May 1. Includes tuition for 2 courses (6 credits), books, housing in Villino Dufault or apartment close by, breakfast and dinner, transport to/from airport in Rome, pass for unlimited public transport (bus/metro) in Rome; weekend excursion to Florence, day trip to Orvieto, and guided tour of Colosseum and Forum. Not included: round trip flight, lunches, personal spending and travel money.

Applications are available from the Office of the Dean of Studies, 202 La Maison Hall, or you may download an application. Questions?  E-mail Dean Knowlton, or Professor Corrigan.