WHAT STUDENTS EXPERIENTIAL ARE SAYING LEARNING ROME TRAVEL STUDY: ROMAN HISTORY ZEHRA ABBAS History and Gender Studies & CLASSICS “As a history major, it was essential to do this study abroad trip, because it contextualized the things I had learned in my classes. It's di$erent to read about the Colosseum, but it's even better to actualy visualize the Colosseum.” GARRETT KAHRE Mechanical Engineering “My favorite part of this program is how the history seems to jump out at you. I remember one day towards the beginning of the program where! we literaly ran into the Pantheon. I mean how do you accidentaly run into one of the most famous Explore the city of Rome and History can quiet the polarizing subject. architectural buildings in the world!” learn about its ancient history and It’s one thing to read of centuries past in a monuments this summer.! textbook, an another to live among the ! city where it all took place.! FRANKLIN Study the politics and culture of SPENCER Rome from its earliest foundations African American on the Palatine hill to the triumph Studies INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE of the new religion of Christianity, “I joined the Rome Study program because I plan on being FROM A STUDENT’S and the subsequent collapse of an PERSPECTIVE? a professor, and what a better way to get experience than empire almost 1200 years later.! Visit RomeTravelStudy.blogspot.com seeing the ancient ruins for yourself! This way I could explain a history lecture fom my own perspective.” for more information and tips! COURSE CREDITS PROGRAM FEATURES In this program, Rome is your actual classroom. Daily walking excursions to the major archaeological and cultural sites of the Eternal City, include ancient ruins, museums, churches, piazzas, columns, and Egyptian obelisks. Excursions to Pompeii and Tivoli are also planned. POMPEII: Spend a weekend (one night, optional two or three This course is a 24 day trip which provides nights) stay at the well-preserved archaeological site insight to Rome's eras (Late Antique, of Roman Pompeii, an ancient city whose material Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Papal and culture was frozen in time by the eruption of Mount secular, Fascist, and modern Rome of the Vesuvius at the very height of the Pax Romana. 21st-century) by way of major monuments and sites. The city itself proves itself as an interactive classroom. ! TIVOLI: Students will take a one-day trip to picturesque Course credit can be received as:! Tivoli to see Hadrian's legendary villa and the History 112C: The Ancient sumptuous Villa d’Este. Between many ancient ruins, this beautiful villa will bring the luxury of Ancient Mediterranean World - Rome Rome to life. History 112E: The Monuments of Rome in Historical Context ANCIENT ROMAN SITES: or! The Colosseum, the Roman and Imperial Fora, Seven Hills of Rome, Tiber Island, Pantheon, Classics M114A: The Monuments of Augustan Altar of Peace, Baths of Caracalla, Column Rome in Historical Context of Marcus Aurelius, Villa Giulia, Museum of Etruscan Art, Palazzo Massimo, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican Classics M114B: The Ancient Museums, and countless more. Let the history of Mediterranean World - Rome Rome blow you away..