Annual Report of Program Activities

The University of Texas at Austin - Department of French and Italian ROME STUDY PROGRAM Summer 2017

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Name: ______Sex M___ F___ UT EID #:______Address - In Austin: ______- Permanent address: ______Phone # In Austin:______-______Permanent phone #: (_____)______-______

PLEASE TYPE CLEARLY e-mail Do you check your e-mail regularly?______. How often?______

College ______Major(s) ______Minor ______

Current UT status: Freshman___ Sophomore___ Junior___ Senior____

GPA ______If freshman, indicate the name of a professor for recommendation: ______

Fall 2016: Italian class/classes you are currently taking: ______

Name of your Italian instructor/s (past and current)

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Please check one: ______I am extremely interested in the program ______I am somewhat interested in the program ______I would like to participate, but….. ______I am just curious

Would you prefer to travel to Italy in a group or to fly on your own? _____ in a group _____ on my own (Please continue on back) The Rome Study Program (RSP) offers the opportunity to earn three or six credit hours at UT. Please indicate which class/classes you will take: ______- ITL 328 – Composition and Conversation (Elisa Valentini, AI, PhD Candidate) Prerequisite: ITL 611 C This course is taught in Italian. The goals of this upper-division course are to improve students’ skills in writing and speaking in Italian, as well as to increase their level of comprehension, both reading and listening. Furthermore, we aim at expanding the students’ knowledge of Italian culture through a lively interaction with Italians. ______- ITC 349 – Evolution of the Italian Narrative & Contemporary Storytelling (Antonella D. Olson, Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Program Director) Prerequisite: None This course is taught in English. The course will concentrate on theater, documentary-films, and works of imaginative prose, poetry, and art, in order to offer an overview of modern and contemporary Italian history from the 60’s to the present with a focus specifically on Rome and its social and cultural significance. Writers, artists, and filmmakers examined include: for theater, Dario Fo, Franca Rame, Dacia Maraini, Marco Baliani; for prose and poetry, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Dacia Maraini; for documentary films, Alina Marazzi, Luca Ragazzi, Gustav Hofer and Fred Kuwornu. A number of the classes will be enriched by the visits of some of the writers and filmmaker whose works we will be studying, and we will visit two important museums of modern/contemporary art in Rome.

Suggested sequence of courses in Italian in relation to the Rome Study Program (RSP): Fall ‘16 Spring ‘17 Summer ‘17 in Rome - First Summer Session ITL 601 C ITL 611 C ITL 328 and ITC 349 ITL 601 C ITC 349 All upper-division courses ITL 328 (if not already taken) and ITC 349

For Students on Financial Aid: Please be aware that it is required that you take SIX credit hours in the summer in order to be eligible for financial aid. If students can only take THREE credit hours in Rome, they should take the remaining THREE credit hours in the second summer session at UT.

Please write a brief paragraph in which you specify the reason/s for going and comment on your ability to adapt to foreign ways of living (i.e. a host family) and to immerse yourself in a new cultural environment: ______

Students are encouraged to apply as early as possible. Application deadline is February 1, 2017 PLEASE RETURN THIS APPLICATION to: Antonella Del Fattore-Olson, Program Director, [email protected] HRH # 2.106 B | Fall semester office hours: Mon 1:00-2:00, Wed. 3:00-4:30, and by app. You can also leave your application in the Director’s mail-box Del Fattore-Olson in the Undergraduate Office, HRH 2.114, #471-5531/ 471-5706