History, Media, and Cultural Heritage

Program Description

Introducing a new semester abroad program in Rome, Italy called "History, Media, and Cultural Heritage". The major topics will range from social media and film to languages, history, and art history.

This program will allow students to analyze and interact with the city's complex sustainability through lectures and visits, travel, and hands-on activities. Students will be able to tackle real projects and issues. As a direct result of the program, students can pick up new skill sets and insights into Rome's history and its current relevance in the world, as well as unique Italian society.

This program is ideal for students of archaeology, art history, classics, communications, environmental sciences/studies, film, journalism, history, media, museum studies, social media, sustainability, and urban studies.

Basic Courses

Rome: Layers of History

Discovering Italy

Elementary Italian

Highlights

Signature Courses (All Program Participants Enrolled)

* Rome: Layers of History

This course explores the social, religious, political, urban, and artistic development of the city from the 8th century BC to today. Course work is often carried out on-site at various points throughout Rome by AIRC faculty and expert guest lecturers. Emerging topics such as digital archaeology and site conservation are cornerstones of this course, as well as the unparalleled highlight of the course which brings students to work directly in a hands-on excavation at one of AIRC's current archaeological projects.

* Discovering Italy

Students will gain priceless direct experience in a variety of important locations throughout Italy, as a means for exploring topics such as sustainability, urban planning, art history, antiquities, culture, food and foodways, cultural heritage preservation, and ancient life. This is an intensive travel-based course that meets for day trips or weekend excursions in order to complete on-site course work. Locations covered may include: Lazio, Campania, Tuscany, Ravenna, as well as a variety of other locations relevant to the course content.

* Elementary Italian

Students gain a more in-depth understanding of Italian life and culture and enrich their time in Rome by studying the basics of the Italian language in an interactive, situational-based course. The language elements of daily activities that students will encounter are taught in a conversational approach, with a solid foundation of basic Italian grammar.

What`s Included

Course tuition and all fees for course excursions (meals, guides, transport, lodging) and site visit entry fees, housing with unlimited wifi access and kitchen, dedicated student services staff, 24 hour emergency service, arrival and departure meals, pre-departure orientation materials and on-site arrival orientation, computer lab facilities