WFU VIRTUAL STUDY ABROAD FAIR
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Elective Courses
ART 269 Venetian Renaissance Art (3h) (D)
A survey of the art of the Venetian Renaissance, with slide lectures and museum visits.
HST 119 Venice and the World (3h) (CD, D)
Traces the role of Venice as an important cultural, military, and economic power from its founding in the 8th century to today.
Satisfies the Division I requirement or can be taken for History major credit.
ECN 271 The Political Economy of Italy (3h) (D)
Traces the role of Venice as an important cultural, military, and economic power from its founding in the 8th century to today.
Satisfies the Division IV requirement.
Required Standard Courses
Italian Language (3h or 4h)
Beginning, Intermediate, or Advanced. (Prior study of Italian is not required.)
HMN 160 Venice Today (1.5h) (p/f)
Using Venice as the classroom, students will examine the history of the city, through its buildings, urban planning, arts, and artifacts.
ART 269 Venetian Renaissance Art (3h) (D)
A survey of the art of the Venetian Renaissance, with slide lectures and museum visits.
HST 119 Venice and the World (3h) (CD, D)
Traces the role of Venice as an important cultural, military, and economic power from its founding in the 8th century to today.
Satisfies the Division I requirement or can be taken for History major credit.
ECN 271 The Political Economy of Italy (3h) (D)
Traces the role of Venice as an important cultural, military, and economic power from its founding in the 8th century to today.
Satisfies the Division IV requirement.
Required Standard Courses
Italian Language (3h or 4h)
Beginning, Intermediate, or Advanced. (Prior study of Italian is not required.)
HMN 160 Venice Today (1.5h) (p/f)
Using Venice as the classroom, students will examine the history of the city, through its buildings, urban planning, arts, and artifacts.
Spring 2022 with Dr. Andrius Galisanka, Politcs & International Affairs
POL 115/269: Political Theory: Italian Political Thought (3h) (D)
Political theory asks: What is a good political community? We will explore and assess answers to this question by reading key texts of Italian political thought. Doing so, we will explore political traditions, including liberalism, realism, and socialism/Marxism. We will ask: According to these traditions, what is human nature and how is it relevant for politics? What reasons do we have for obeying the law? How should we understand liberty? And what kind and degree of equality should we strive for? Thinkers studied will include Niccolò Machiavelli, Antonio Negri, Antonio Gramsci, and Giorgio Agamben.
POL 281: Environmental Political Thought (3h)
Why should we preserve the wilderness, create national parks, concern ourselves with pollution? Answers to these questions depend on how we conceive the human relationship with the wider natural world. Do non-human entities have value in themselves, independent of human beings? Or are they valuable only because they are useful for human beings? Having considered these questions, we will turn to specific issues, in particular those related to Venice, such as sustainable development, consumerism, tourism, social justice, and climate change, asking how we should respond through social and individual action.
POL 115/269: Political Theory: Italian Political Thought (3h) (D)
Political theory asks: What is a good political community? We will explore and assess answers to this question by reading key texts of Italian political thought. Doing so, we will explore political traditions, including liberalism, realism, and socialism/Marxism. We will ask: According to these traditions, what is human nature and how is it relevant for politics? What reasons do we have for obeying the law? How should we understand liberty? And what kind and degree of equality should we strive for? Thinkers studied will include Niccolò Machiavelli, Antonio Negri, Antonio Gramsci, and Giorgio Agamben.
POL 281: Environmental Political Thought (3h)
Why should we preserve the wilderness, create national parks, concern ourselves with pollution? Answers to these questions depend on how we conceive the human relationship with the wider natural world. Do non-human entities have value in themselves, independent of human beings? Or are they valuable only because they are useful for human beings? Having considered these questions, we will turn to specific issues, in particular those related to Venice, such as sustainable development, consumerism, tourism, social justice, and climate change, asking how we should respond through social and individual action.
Office Hours:
Dr. Galisanka is holding office hours during fair week. If you are interested in meeting with him sign up through the link below
Various times available at: galisanka.youcanbook.me
Dr. Galisanka is holding office hours during fair week. If you are interested in meeting with him sign up through the link below
Various times available at: galisanka.youcanbook.me
Fall 2022 with Dr. Jennifer Greiman, English & Dr. Barry Trachtenberg, History
ENG 175 Studies in American Literature (3h) (D)
America in Italy: Art, Revolution, Modernity
For Nathaniel Hawthorne’s American artists in The Marble Faun, Italy promised a world of exquisite objects which seemed to stare back at their living viewers from the ancient past. For Margaret Fuller, the Italy of the Risorgimento promised a revolutionary future of radical equality and liberty unseen anywhere else in the 19th century. And for American writers of the early and high eras of Modernism, Italy promised privileged access to both the past and the future at once. In this course, we will read the works of American expatriate writers and travelers, to trace the stories of Americans who come to Italy searching for a particular experience of time –the ancient and Renaissance past, the modern future, an estrangement from the present.
While our readings will examine the central role that Italy played in the 19th- and 20th-century American literary imagination, our proximity to the destinations of these writers and characters will enable us to follow in their footsteps, examining the Italy of 19th-century travel guides alongside both the literary versions of these sites and their contemporary settings. Traveling to Rome’s Capitoline Museum to see the Dying Gaul just as Hawthorne’s American artists did, and touring Florence’s Uffizi Gallery along with Henry James’s Isabel Archer, we will consider the ways in which museums and guide books shape the experience of time and place for the tourist – even the tourist who (like Fuller, Melville, and Pound) went to Italy in search of the radically new. Requirements for this course will include reading, engaged participation, and about 20-25 pages of writing, including both literary analysis and an experiment in travel writing.
HST 102 Europe and the World in Modern Era (3h) (D)
Our current political moment has led many to inquire into the totalitarian societies that dominated much of Europe in the middle decades of the 20th century. With a special focus on the history of modern Italy, this course will investigate the long origins of these totalitarian regimes, whose roots extend at least to the beginning of the 18th century. We will first examine their nationalist origins within Europe and consider how these phenomena were shaped in part by encounters with those considered to be non-Europeans. We will then discuss Europe’s imperial expansion and examine its effects both in Europe and in colonized societies. Finally, we will explore the formation and practices of—as well as resistance to—the various totalitarian states that arose in the early 20th century. While doing so, you will be introduced to—and expected to demonstrate mastery of—the basic skills of historians. These include distinguishing between primary and secondary sources; identifying, analyzing, and forming historical arguments based upon correctly cited evidence; and understanding the interconnectedness of historical events. By the end of the course, you will have gained a sophisticated understanding of totalitarian societies in the twentieth century, their mechanisms of state violence, ethnic division, containment, and genocide, and learn why they failed.
ENG 175 Studies in American Literature (3h) (D)
America in Italy: Art, Revolution, Modernity
For Nathaniel Hawthorne’s American artists in The Marble Faun, Italy promised a world of exquisite objects which seemed to stare back at their living viewers from the ancient past. For Margaret Fuller, the Italy of the Risorgimento promised a revolutionary future of radical equality and liberty unseen anywhere else in the 19th century. And for American writers of the early and high eras of Modernism, Italy promised privileged access to both the past and the future at once. In this course, we will read the works of American expatriate writers and travelers, to trace the stories of Americans who come to Italy searching for a particular experience of time –the ancient and Renaissance past, the modern future, an estrangement from the present.
While our readings will examine the central role that Italy played in the 19th- and 20th-century American literary imagination, our proximity to the destinations of these writers and characters will enable us to follow in their footsteps, examining the Italy of 19th-century travel guides alongside both the literary versions of these sites and their contemporary settings. Traveling to Rome’s Capitoline Museum to see the Dying Gaul just as Hawthorne’s American artists did, and touring Florence’s Uffizi Gallery along with Henry James’s Isabel Archer, we will consider the ways in which museums and guide books shape the experience of time and place for the tourist – even the tourist who (like Fuller, Melville, and Pound) went to Italy in search of the radically new. Requirements for this course will include reading, engaged participation, and about 20-25 pages of writing, including both literary analysis and an experiment in travel writing.
HST 102 Europe and the World in Modern Era (3h) (D)
Our current political moment has led many to inquire into the totalitarian societies that dominated much of Europe in the middle decades of the 20th century. With a special focus on the history of modern Italy, this course will investigate the long origins of these totalitarian regimes, whose roots extend at least to the beginning of the 18th century. We will first examine their nationalist origins within Europe and consider how these phenomena were shaped in part by encounters with those considered to be non-Europeans. We will then discuss Europe’s imperial expansion and examine its effects both in Europe and in colonized societies. Finally, we will explore the formation and practices of—as well as resistance to—the various totalitarian states that arose in the early 20th century. While doing so, you will be introduced to—and expected to demonstrate mastery of—the basic skills of historians. These include distinguishing between primary and secondary sources; identifying, analyzing, and forming historical arguments based upon correctly cited evidence; and understanding the interconnectedness of historical events. By the end of the course, you will have gained a sophisticated understanding of totalitarian societies in the twentieth century, their mechanisms of state violence, ethnic division, containment, and genocide, and learn why they failed.
Spring 2023 with Dr. Alessandra Von Burg, Communication
COM 110 Public Speaking (3h) (D)
Students will learn the basic theories and techniques of public speaking, practicing speaking for various purposes and different contexts. Students will develop speeches on topics related to their time in Venice and the surrounding community. The students will research local topics, talk to residents, and connect to other classes, linking what they will be learning about language, culture, art, and life in Venice, to the public speaking skills from class.
COM 370 Citizenship, Mobility, and Time (3h)
This class will encourage students to go in more depth with the understanding of their presence in Venice and Europe as temporary citizens, as they reside in Venice longer than tourists, but not as long-term citizens and full members of the community. Students will read, reflect, and practice their own mobility, as they discover Venice and travel across the region, possibly beyond Italy, while developing an analytic understanding of their temporary role and the ways in which they relate to others, be they other Wake students, the local faculty and staff, neighbors and other residents, and tourists.
COM 110 Public Speaking (3h) (D)
Students will learn the basic theories and techniques of public speaking, practicing speaking for various purposes and different contexts. Students will develop speeches on topics related to their time in Venice and the surrounding community. The students will research local topics, talk to residents, and connect to other classes, linking what they will be learning about language, culture, art, and life in Venice, to the public speaking skills from class.
COM 370 Citizenship, Mobility, and Time (3h)
This class will encourage students to go in more depth with the understanding of their presence in Venice and Europe as temporary citizens, as they reside in Venice longer than tourists, but not as long-term citizens and full members of the community. Students will read, reflect, and practice their own mobility, as they discover Venice and travel across the region, possibly beyond Italy, while developing an analytic understanding of their temporary role and the ways in which they relate to others, be they other Wake students, the local faculty and staff, neighbors and other residents, and tourists.