The following courses are scheduled to be offered during the spring 2020 semester:

• ARH 223 Renaissance Art & Architecture (Counts in the Core as Fine Art)
• THE 151 Faith and Reason (Counts in the Core as a second Theology seminar)
• HIS 150 Civilization in Rome (Counts in Core as second History in Person & Society, pairs with any other core history)
• ROM 200 Encounters with Rome (Counts as free elective credits toward graduation)
• CLT 205: Literary Foundation of the West (Counts in the Core as a second literature in Great Conversations)
• ITA 101+ Italian at placement level (Italiaidea, 9 credit, Italian option available) (Counts in the Core in Culture & Expression)

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.

HIS 150 CIVILIZATION IN ROME
This course exploits the unsurpassed opportunity afforded by the city of Rome to consider developments in Western Civilization over the past three millennia. No urban environment can better illustrate the remarkable overlay of cultures that have influenced and reflected the world, first as a capital city for the ancient Republic and Empire, then for Western Christianity, then as the unifying center of the Kingdom of Italy, and lastly for the post-War republic. This course is offered only in Rome, and counts in the Core as the second History option in Person and Society.

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

This course counts as a free elective credit towards graduation requirements.

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.
 

The following courses are scheduled to be offered during the spring 2020 semester by Professors James Hauri and Richard Bonanno:

• CHE105R: Everyday Chemistry in Rome (Hauri, 3 credits, counts as science in “Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning”)
• CLT 295R Special Topics: Reading the Culture, Ecology, and Environment of Italy (Bonanno, 3 credits, counts in the core in “Great Conversation” and also toward the Italian Studies Minor or special Major in Italian Studies)
• ITA at placement level – Italiaidea (staff, 3 credits, counting in core or toward ITA Minor or special Major depending on placement.)

CHE105R: EVERYDAY CHEMISTRY in ROME
Even though chemistry has a constant and ubiquitous impact on our lives, most people are unable to leverage the science when cooking, buying products, or evaluating environmental/health news.  This summer course for non-science majors will emphasize Italian specific examples to understand how people use chemistry in their everyday lives to produce food, art, and consumer products.  We will explore how different cultural norms and European regulations affect such things as the taste of coffee at the local café, the types of sunscreens that you can purchase at the local shops, or the colors available for Renaissance painters.  We will also use local trips to study the environmental chemistry underlying climate change, water pollution, and recycling.  CHE105R is offered in tandem with CLT295R during Summer Study in Italy 2020 on the Assumption College Rome Campus, and students enrolled in each course will participate in shared co-curricular activities and excursions designed to foster interdisciplinary dialogue. 

CLT 295R SPECIAL TOPICS: READING THE CULTURE, ECOLOGY, AND ENVIRONMENT OF ITALY
This course introduces students to a broad range of Italian texts dealing with the environment and, more specifically, the ways in which human beings have shaped—and been shaped by—the natural world, in particular within the Italian peninsula. Through the ecocritical lens of Italian authors, filmmakers, and artists, students will explore a number of topics in the social and political sphere, such as immigration, mafia, and racism, with particular focus on their interconnectedness with issues concerning sustainability, environmental policy and activism, and the global climate crisis. All readings offered in English translation. Italian Studies Minors and Majors are encouraged to carry out readings in Italian. CLT 295R is offered in tandem with CHE 105R during Summer Study in Italy 2020 on the Assumption College Rome Campus, and students enrolled in each course will participate in shared co-curricular activities and excursions designed to foster interdisciplinary dialogue.

ITA at placement level – Italiaidea (staff, 3 credits, counting in core or toward ITA Minor or special Major depending on placement.)

The following courses are scheduled to be offered during the fall 2020 semester:

• ARH 224 Baroque Art and Architecture (D. Borghese) (Counts in the Core as Fine Art)
• THE 100 Introduction to Theology (A.J. Boyd) (Counts in the Core as the first Theology Core seminar)
• HIS 150 Civilization in Rome (L. Lazar) (Counts in Core as second History in Person and Society)
• ROM 200 Encounters with Rome (M. Graveline) (Counts as an Elective)
• MUS 122 History of Music 1 (M. Graveline) (Counts in the Core as Fine Art)
• ITA 101+ Italian at placement level. Beginning is fine.(Italiaidea) Intensive Italian 9-credit option available (Counts in the Core in Culture and Expression)

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.

HIS 150 CIVILIZATION IN ROME
This course exploits the unsurpassed opportunity afforded by the city of Rome to consider developments in Western Civilization over the past three millennia. No urban environment can better illustrate the remarkable overlay of cultures that have influenced and reflected the world, first as a capital city for the ancient Republic and Empire, then for Western Christianity, then as the unifying center of the Kingdom of Italy, and lastly for the post-War republic. This course is offered only in Rome, and counts in the Core as the second History option in Person and Society.

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

MUS 122 History of Music I
Following a brief study of the vocabulary and basic materials of music, this course will cover the historical development of music in the West from the Middle Ages to the Classical period. Major composers and their works will be studied and connections among history, culture, and musical language will be explored. The course will focus on the enhancement of active listening skills and musical understanding. Counts in the Core Requirements. 
 

The following courses are scheduled to be offered during the spring 2021 semester:

• ARH 223 Renaissance Art & Architecture (D. Borghese) (Counts in the Core as Fine Art)
• THE 151 Faith and Reason (A.J. Boyd) (Counts in the Core as a second Theology seminar)
• HIS 150 Civilization in Rome (L. Lazar) (Counts in Core as second History in Person and Society)
• ROM 200 Encounters with Rome (B. Knowlton) (Counts as a free elective credit towards graduation)
• CLT 205 Literary Foundations of the West (B. Knowlton) (Counts in the Core as a second literature in Great Conversations)
• ITA 101+ Italian at placement level. Beginning is fine. (Italiaidea) Intensive Italian option available (Counts in the Core in Culture Expression)

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.

HIS 150 CIVILIZATION IN ROME
This course exploits the unsurpassed opportunity afforded by the city of Rome to consider developments in Western Civilization over the past three millennia. No urban environment can better illustrate the remarkable overlay of cultures that have influenced and reflected the world, first as a capital city for the ancient Republic and Empire, then for Western Christianity, then as the unifying center of the Kingdom of Italy, and lastly for the post-War republic. This course is offered only in Rome, and counts in the Core as the second History option in Person and Society.

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

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.