PROGRAM GOALS AND OUTCOMES LANGUAGES & LITERATURES

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1 Department: Languages and Literatures Course number and Title: ITA 3923 The City of Rome Bulletin description: A study of the development and the culture of the city of Rome from its founding to the present, with emphasis on its contributions to Italian culture; include urban sociology, history, literature, painting, music, theater and architecture. Site visits are an integral part of this course. Prerequisites: None (course taught in English0 PROGRAM GOALS AND OUTCOMES LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Program Goals Outcomes #1 Demonstrate understanding of global perspectives and appreciation of multiculturalism #2 Develop critical thinking through a range of critical approaches Students will identify the various traditions within the target culture and understand them in the wider framework of other cultures. Students will Interpret cultural movements and historical events in the context of the target culture Units of instruction: 1. Myth and Meaning: The Founding of Rome A. Titus Livius and the Romulus and Remus myth B. Virgil s Aneas and the founding of Rome. C. The Geography of Rome and the ancient meaning of the "Foro Romano"

2 Excerpts from Virgil s Aeneid Excerpts from Livy s Speech on the Oppian Law Juvenal s Sixth Satire Pliny s letter Laudatio Turiae 2. Visible Power: Politics and Space in the Rome of the Emperors A. The physical city as political reality: Visits to The Flavian Amphitheater, Roman Forum, The Imperial Forum, The Field of Mars. Cicero s Res Gestae of Augustus Excerpts from Plutarch s Lives of the Noble Romans Excerpts from the writings of Adrianus 3. Burying the Dead: Martyrs, Christians and Catacombs A. St. Peter in Rome/ A visit under St. Peter s B. Visit to the Mausoleum of St. Costanza and the catacombs of St. Priscilla. C. A walk through ancient Trastevere. Excerpts from Tacitus and Pliny with Roman views on Christians and Christianity. Eusebius: The Acts of the Christian Martyrs 4. The Holy City of Christianity: Rome During the Middle Ages A. On the path of the pilgrims, visit to the "seven pilgrimage churches." Excerpts from Showerman s Eternal Rome: the City and its People from the Earliest Time to Present Days. Excerpts from Kessler and Zacharias Rome 1300: On the Path of the Pilgrim. 5. Renaissance and Renewal: The Return of the Papacy A. The Vatican during the Renaissance Excerpts from Michelangelo and Raphael in the Vatican (Vatican City: Vatican Polygot Press) 6. The Reestablishment of Power and Authority: The Rome of the Baroque Popes. A. The Urban Planning of Sixtus V

3 B. The Completion of St. Peter s C. The Villa Borghese Excerpts from Varriano s Literary Companion to Rome 7. Royal Rome: The Unification of Italy A Tour of 19th Century Buildings including: Galleria Sciarra, The Monument to Vitor Emanuele II, Coppede s "Dora" residences Excerpts from Taine s Italy: Rome and Naples. Excerpts from Trevelyan s Garibaldi s Defence of the Rome Republic Excerpts from Gillespie s Rome as seen by a New Yorker in Roma! Roma! Roma!: The Fascist Era A. Tour of EUR Excerpts from Halperin s Mussolini and Italian Fascism 9. The Eternal City: Contemporary Rome A. Tour of Cinecitta` B. Film: Fellini s Rome Excerpts from Pasolini s Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles BIBLIOGRAPHY Atchity, Kenneth John. The Classical Roman Reader: New Encounters with Ancient Rome. New York: Henry Holt, Boardman, Jonathan. Rome: a Cultural and Literary Companion. NY: Interlink Books, Burn, Robert. Roman Literature in Relation to Roman Art. (New York: Macmillan, 1888). Bolton, Glorney. Roman Century, a Portrait of Rome as the Capital of Italy NY: Viking Press, Gillespie,WW.Mitchell. Rome as seen by a New Yorker in NY,London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845

4 Hibbert, Christopher. Rome: The Biography of a City. London: Penguin Books, Halperin, Samuel. Mussolini and Italian Fascism. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, Kessler, Herbert L. and Johanna Zacharias. Rome 1300: On the Path of the Pilgrim. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Krautheimer, Richard. Rome: Profile of a City, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo. Ancient and Modern Rome. NY: Cooper Square Publishers, 1963 Matz David. Daily Life in Ancient Rome. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2002 Meurice, Andrieux. Daily Life in Popular Rome in the 18th Century. NY: MCmillan, Michelangelo and Raphael in the Vatican. Vatican City: Vatican Polygot Press, no date. Nicassio, Susan Vandiver. Tosca s Rome: the Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Nichols, Francis Morgan. The Marvels of Rome (Mirabilia Urbis Romae). New York: Italica Press, O Connor, Daniel William. Peter in Rome: The Literary, Liturgical, and Archeological Evidence. New York: Columbia University Press, Pasolini, Pier Pasolini. Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of Rome, New York: Other Press, Plutarch. Lives of the Noble Romans. Fuller, Edmond, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Press, Rykwert, Joseph. The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Showerman, Grant. Eternal Rome: the City and its People from the Earliest Time to Present Days. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1924

5 Stendhal. A Roman Journal. NY: Orion Press, 1957 Taine Hippolyte. Italy: Rome and Naples. NY: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869 Through Roman Eyes: Roman Civilization in the words of Roman writers. Eds. Roger Nichols and Kenneth McLeish. London N.Y.:Cambridge University Press, 1976 Trevelyan, George M. Garibaldi s Defence of the Rome Republic New Impression. London, NY: Longmans, Gree, Varriano, John. A Literary Companion to Rome. NY: St. Martin s Press, Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam Books, Whittam, John. Fascist Italy. Manchester, UK, NY: Manchester University Press, Martin s Press, Woodward, Christopher. Rome: The Buildings of Europe.Manchester: Manchester University Press, NYSED Requirements: Instruction: 45 hours Reading : 45 hours Papers and assignments: 45 hours