Courses and Description

Overview

Number of courses is dependent on term of program.

Summer I or II students choose 1-2 courses. Summer III students choose 2-4 courses.
Semester students choose 4-6 courses, of which one is required to be an Italian course (all levels available).

All courses are 3 credits (45 contact hours) unless otherwise noted.

Apart from Italian Language and Literature courses, all courses are taught in English.

Please check with your home institution about your school’s transfer credit process. You are likely to need your courses approved prior to program participation. For more questions on this process, please contact Sant’Anna Academic Director Marco Marino. For application, contact Sant’Anna Assistant Program Coordinator Serena Vacca.

Sant’Anna Institute is proud to use the experiential learning model where students engage with their professors via site visits. For example, Volcanology students spend a day at Mount Vesuvius. Archaeology students spend a day at Pompeii. Business students have site visits at local businesses. Please click on the course name for more information and sample syllabi.

All courses are subject to demand and adequate enrollment, so it is important to get additional alternate courses approved.

All of Sant’Anna Institute’s academic courses are offered through Jacksonville University (Florida). Jacksonville University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate, masters, and doctorate degrees. Contact the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Jacksonville University.

Non-Jacksonville University students can apply to transfer course credits to their home institution by requesting a Jacksonville University transcript.

Italian Studies

Faculty: Buonocore, Del Santo, Palumbo, Travaglione, Viola

WL 101 Elementary Italian Language

45 hrs, 3 credits

ELEMENTARY (A1)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

Demonstrate a basic understanding of Italian spelling and pronunciation (assessment: homework, oral participation in class, oral comprehension quizzes and tests, dictations)
Demonstrate a basic understanding of part of the Italian grammar and syntax (assessment: homework–workbook, computer assignments, essay, quizzes and tests)
Participate in simple conversations on topics on everyday situations such as work, education, food, time, weather etc. (reinforced through in-class group activities)
Demonstrate basic reading comprehension skills (in-class or homework reading assignments from textbook or websites, quizzes and tests)
Demonstrate some knowledge of Italian geography, history, culture and daily life.

WL 102 Pre-Intermediate Italian Language

PRE-INTERMEDIATE (A 2)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Italian 102 will establish the foundations of conversation and grammar. Students will work on basic grammar and speaking skills through conversation, dialogues, exercises and drills, develop vocabulary through reading, discussing and writing, and learn more about Italian culture through reading, video and presentations.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

carry on basic conversations
read articles and short stories
write short compositions in Italian.

WL 201 Intermediate Italian Language

45 hrs, 3 credits

INTERMEDIATE (B 1)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed for students who wish to develop the skills necessary to interact in the language and learn about Italian contemporary culture and society as well as Italy’s history. Students will continue to refine their speaking skills by completing tasks with their classmates in pairs and small groups and by following models of native speakers presented on video.

Students will develop reading and writing skills by reading increasingly more elaborate authentic texts and writing related, reaction essays, and their listening skills will be cultivated by completing on-line listening activities, viewing and analyzing short clips from Italian movies, and listening to short lectures on topics in Italian culture, society, and history, such as Pompeii, the contemporary demographic profile of Italy, the history of the language, and of the unification of Italy.

WL 325 Advanced Italian Language

45 hrs, 3 credits

ADVANCED (C 1)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

demonstrate advancement in spoken and written language
communicate with advanced grammatical structures, idiomatic expressions, and refined vocabulary
communicate personal opinions in group discussions on a variety of topics, articles, events, and personal stories.

WL 325 Special Topics: Post-Advanced Italian

45 hrs, 3 credits

POST-ADVANCED (C 2)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Italian 106 aims to guide students to become aware of their personal learning style and strategies, and to support them in their independence. Students need to have completed 5 semesters of Italian language. The language acquisition process takes place and is reinforced through daily contact with the language and through an interactive computer component. The grammatical revision of the language emerges from the linguistic encounters in class, where language teaching is embedded in the socio-cultural context of contemporary Italy. The multimedia component reinforces, tests and contextualises language learning done in the classroom and is regarded as an essential part of this course.

WL 325 Medieval Italian Literature I – Dante

45 hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Dante Alighieri is the most important Italian poet, the father of Italian language and the principle figure of Medieval Literature in Europe.

This course will examine Dante’s Divine Comedy and some other minor works of his (i.e.“Vita Nuova” and “Convivio”). The course aim is to allow students to examine his internationally renowned literary texts in their original language.

Students will read excerpts from these works and engage in ahistorical, literary and rhetorical analysis of texts while determining techniques of poetic composition. Students are expected to actively participate and contribute to class discussion. They are also expected to do all the exercises assigned daily.

*Students must have earned at least 12 credits of Italian language as the course will be instructed in Italian.

WL 325 Medieval Italian Literature II

45 hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students will study Italian literature from the 14th to the 16th century.

Students will critically analyze the internationally renowned literary texts in their original language. Authors include Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, Machiavelli, and others. Students will read excerpts from these works and engage in a historical, literary and rhetorical analysis of texts while determining techniques of poetic composition.

Students will also learn about the lives of authors and the historical context and how these affected the masterpieces studied. Students are expected to actively participate and contribute to class discussion. They are also expected to do all the exercises assigned daily.

*Students must have earned at least 12 credits of Italian language as the course will be instructed in Italian.

WL 325 Modern Italian Literature

45 hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students will study Italian literature from the 17th to 19th century. Students will critically analyze the internationally renowned literary texts in their original language. Authors include G. Leopardi, U. Foscolo, A. Manzoni and others. Students will read excerpts from these works and engage in a historical, literary, and rhetorical analysis of texts while determining techniques of poetic composition. Students will also learn about the lives of authors and the historical context and how these affected the masterpieces studied. Students are expected to actively participate and contribute to class discussion. They are also expected to do all the exercises assigned daily.

*Students must have earned at least 12 credits of Italian language as the course will be instructed in Italian.

WL 325 Contemporary Italian Literature

45 hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students will study Italian literature of the twentieth century. Students will critically analyze the internationally renowned literary texts in their original language. Authors include Pirandello, Quasimodo, Ungaretti, Montale, and others. Students will read excerpts from these works and engage in a historical, literary, and rhetorical analysis of texts while determining techniques of poetic composition. Students will also learn about the lives of authors and the historical context and how these affected the masterpieces studied. Students are expected to actively participate and contribute to class discussion. They are also expected to do all the exercises assigned daily.

*Students must have earned at least 12 credits of Italian language as the course will be instructed in Italian.

Classical Studies

Faculty: Brancaccio

WL 101 Elementary Latin

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Elementary Latin I provides students with a proficiency-oriented immersion in beginning Latin which is geared primarily toward reading comprehension. Emphasis is on the thorough study of the fundamentals of grammar (morphology and syntax) and vocabulary.

Students study basic grammar and learn the essential elements of Latin pronunciation in order to be able to read simple passages in Latin. They read aloud Latin passages that have been modified for comprehension. The relationship between English and Latin is emphasized in vocabulary building, word derivation, and meanings of prefixes and suffixes.

Essential vocabulary and language structures are presented to students within the context of the themes and topics.

WL 102 Pre-Intermediate Latin

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Elementary Latin II provides students with a proficiency-oriented immersion in beginning Latin which is geared primarily toward reading comprehension.

Emphasis is on the thorough study of the fundamentals of grammar (morphology and syntax) and vocabulary. During this class students will gain a mastery of the first principles of Latin grammar that they have studied in Elementary Latin I. Students will also study the Latin syntax in order to be able to read quite complex sentences in Latin. The relationship between English and Latin is emphasized in vocabulary building, word derivation, and meanings of prefixes and suffixes.

More advanced vocabulary and language structures are presented to students within the context of the themes and topics.

WL 101 Introductory Ancient Greek

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Introductory Ancient Greek is the introductory course in which you will learn the simplest grammatical concepts and proceed step by step to the more difficult.

The Greek course is designed to help you develop proficiency in writing and especially reading Ancient Greek. Such a goal means that you will acquire certain linguistic knowledge and skills (e.g. pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology and syntax), but it also means that you need to understand the culture that produced texts in Greek and used it on a daily basis.

Third, it means that you will learn not only to observe, abstract, and analyze linguistic and cultural information, but also to synthesize it and to put it into the historical context. No prior knowledge of grammar or any other language except English is required. All technical terms will be explained and illustrated when they first appear.

HUM 311 Ancient Cultures

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is an introductory survey of ancient Greece and Rome. We will focus primarily on political, social and military history, but we will not ignore art, architecture and literature. By the end of the term you should have a good sense of how Greek and Roman political ideas and institutions developed and operated, the kinds of social problems each era and culture faced, as well as an understanding of broader cultural trends and ideas which originated in antiquity and are still with us today. The core values of these two cultures, along with their achievements and failings, have been and remain deeply influential on our own world.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

a. Critically describe some of the political, social or economic systems, historical, cultural or spiritual traditions, and/or technological innovations around the world;
b. Demonstrate an awareness of the diversity of people or traditions in our world in ways that promote effective engagement, both locally and globally;
c. Use political, social, economic, historical, cultural, spiritual or technological knowledge to evaluate contemporary issues.

HIST 350 - Greek Influence in Southern Italy: Colonization & Culture

Starting from Spring 2020

3 credits

The course offers a historical framework to understand the Greek presence in western Europe: the sites colonized starting from the 8th century B.C., and the dynamics that caused the foundation of poleis in specific areas of the Italian peninsula.
Magna Graecia is the collec’ve name for the Greek cities of Southern Italy. A worth premise is that Greek civilization and identity crystallized not when Greeks were close together but when they came to be far apart. It emerged during the Archaic period when Greeks founded coastal city states and trading stations in ever-widening horizons from the Ukraine to Spain. No center directed their diffusion: mother ci’es were numerous and the new settlements (“colonies”) would open engender more settlements. The “Greek center” was at sea; it was formed through back-ripple effects of cultural convergence, following the physical divergence of independent se3lements. The course focuses on the history of the Mediterranean as seen from a variety of perspectives,
including Phoenician, Greek and Roman.
Students will be also introduced to the methodology of ancient history and the critical analysis of a wide variety of historical and literary source material, including inscriptions and coins as well as the interpretation of classical texts. Archaeological evidence, including art and architecture will also be examined. Attention will also be given to the organization of the urban space in relation to politics, religion and social life. Field trips to historical sites and museums will be used to reanimate the ancient sources.

Humanities and Arts

Faculty: Quadraro, Tartaglia, Travaglione, Brancaccio, Marino, Capecchi, Incarnato

ENGL 103 Introductory Writing

45 hrs, 3 credits

Course Description

ENGL 103 focuses on the development of skills necessary for reading analytically and writing clear, accurate, coherent expository prose. It also introduces students to basic research skills, library resources, and documentation systems.

Course Objectives

This student-centered, inquiry-based writing course is designed to help students throughout their college careers and as they enter communities beyond the college. Inquiry-based writing is designed to engage the student in both problem posing and problem solving.

Drawing on the rhetorical situation—specifically, audience, purpose, and context—instruction emphasizes the social nature of inquiry and how writers test ideas to discover the reasons behind and for discursive choices. Students practice recursive writing processes, such as peer review, in order to help them adapt to changing demands of writing within the college and their lives.

ENG 306 WI Creative Writing

45 hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

With a particular focus on the connection between narrative and identity formation, this course is an introduction to the interrelated techniques of the creative process.

Exploring the symbiotic relationship between reading and writing, students are encouraged to read as writers, as they investigate and develop a voice of their own while they engage in dialogue with representative texts from various genres and time periods. As a way to foster further critical engagement, academic theory from the fields of postmodernism, post-colonialism and psychoanalysis will accompany literary works in English.

Class time will be spent discussing the writer’s craft, assigned readings and student submissions. Through selected literature and assignments, students are, above all, encouraged to be analytical readers and thoughtful writers who interact with the experience of living and breathing a culture that is different from their own.

ENGL 203 World Literature

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

Course Description

This course acquaints students with significant figures and works of world literature.
We live in a world of fast and fleeting connections. Whether online or offline, we are flooded by images, texts, sounds, videos, status updates, Instagram photos, and other streams of information. Some believe that we are losing the capacity to focus and concentrate, a multitude of others that we are developing new skills and capacities, adapting to digital media in ways that are redefining out relationship to the creation of meaning.

How can “world literature” help to us navigate the predicament of the postmodern present? What can it do for our understanding of where we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going? What does “world literature” actually mean? Are we talking about a specific canon of texts, or simply a perspective, a methodology, a way of reading literature that transcends national boundaries and opens new networks and modes of understanding? In this course, we’ll tackle these questions by engaging with a number of different texts and genres not just from the Western- European tradition, but also from other cultural and historical traditions across the globe as well. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course explores a vast range of expression (from inscriptions on ancient tablets to poetry, cinema, and theater), while paying particular attention to the role of genre, media, and narrative in shaping humanity and the human condition.

Class requirements include regular participation, a reading journal, a midterm, a poetry illustration project, and a final exam.

ARH 376 Special Topics: History of Art from Ancient Greece to Italian Renaissance

45 hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Art is the highest expression of a culture. Political, historical and social changes lie at the heart of art. Works of art are the reflection of the ages in which they are produced and are often used as a “tool” to carry messages. During our classes we will focus on the study of the development of art during the centuries and how it affects today’s artists. We will have a brief review of the main artistic movements starting from the ancient Greek reaching Italy’s Baroque period.

Student Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

Interpret a work of art with understanding of its historical and social background;
Demonstrate written and oral communication skills in analyzing a piece of art.

HUM 399 Special Topics: Archaeology Field Study

45 hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Archaeology studies past cultures and societies through their material remains. This course provides a basic introduction to the discipline, focusing on the study of some major Roman cities destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The program combines the archaeological study with the analysis of the historical, economic and social aspects of the Roman culture of the era. Students participate in several site visits to examine the remains and reconstruction of the ancient cities.

Student Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

know the history of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD and its consequences;
understand the characteristic features of Latin civilization (i.e. economy and society) of the second century;
analyze the importance of the archaeological heritage of cities such as Pompeii and Herculaneum.

GEOG 200 World Geography

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

Course Description

This course is designed to accommodate students who are majoring in Geography but also in other fields and are interested in obtaining a basic familiarization with places throughout the world and geographic concepts.

This course considers how the key concepts of place and space can be used to understand the special character and interactions of history, culture, economics, and the environment in major regions of the world including North America, Europe, Russia, Pacific Rim countries, South Asia, Southwest Asia and North Africa, and Latin America.

Student Learning Objectives/Outcomes

Upon completing this class students will be able to:

Understand the basic methods of regional geographic research;
Practice the methods of regional geography by describing the human and physical geography of 8 world regions;
Analyze aspects of relative geographical position, physical geographic characteristics such as landforms, climate and weather, resources of world regions through class presentations, individual research, and discussions;
Interpret human geographic characteristics such as demographics, political organizations, economic conditions, language and religion through class presentations, individual research and discussions.

PHIL 101 Introduction to Philosophy

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

Course Description

As an introduction to the discipline of philosophy, this course will cover a representative selection of texts and problems in the history of philosophy. The course will address the nature of philosophical inquiry and the methods it employs.

Topics to be discussed include the foundations of ethics, the sources and limits of knowledge and historical approaches to metaphysical speculation. Philosophy is not like other subjects you’ve taken in school. You will not be asked to memorize facts.

There are no fundamental principles that all philosophers accept that you must learn and apply, though you will learn principles that particular philosophers have suggested and be asked to think about how(and whether) they apply.

The order in which you learn philosophy doesn’t matter that much, though the more philosophy you know, the better you will be at any part of it. The skill of asking questions is much more important than the answers found. Philosophy is analytical and critical, speculative and creative.

Philosophy is an activity more than a collection of knowledge, a way life more than an academic subject. The goal of philosophy is combining the creative adventure of ideas with the rigorous analysis of them; it is a serious play with thought.

FVA 276 History of Italian Cinema

45 hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course introduces the student to the world of Italian Cinema. In the first part the class will be analyzing Neorealism, a cinematic phenomenon that deeply influenced the ideological and aesthetic rules of film art.

In the second part we will concentrate on the films that mark the decline of Neorealism and the talent of “new” auteurs such as Fellini and Visconti. The last part of the course will be devoted to the cinema from 1970’s to the present in order to pay attention to the latest developments of the Italian industry.

The course is a general analysis of post-war cinema and a parallel social history of this period using films as “decoded historical evidence”. Together with masterpieces such as “Open City” and “The Bicycle Thief” the screenings will include films of the Italian directors of the “cinema d’autore” including “The Conformist”, “Life is Beautiful”, “Le conseguenze dell’amore”.

ART 376 Special Topics: Drawing on Location

45 hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Lectures and field sketching sessions are centered on drawing on location as the best way we have to increase our capacity to observe and to understand reality. An object, a tree, a person, cities or landscapes: during everyday life or while traveling, journaling and sketching from reality is a profound and lasting experience. While drawing, we learn to see and we can select information and highlight details better than we could with a camera.

Students will discover Sorrento and its region of Campania, visiting Naples and surrounding archaeological sites, recording their observations through images and words in a travel sketchbook.

Freehand drawing and location drawing as basic and complementary skills are recommended; not only among architects, visual artists, animators and graphic designers, but also in disciplines such as archaeology, history, zoology, botany, and geology.

Classic drawing exercises, as suggested by authors such as Kimon Nicolaides or Betty Edwards, will also help beginners to break the ice with life drawing and get the most out of the experience.

ART 205 Introduction to digital photography

60 hrs, 4 credits

Course Description

Introduction to Digital Photography gives students fundamental skills for effectively recording travel, home, and work experiences. Using digital photography as a tool, students are encouraged to become more careful observers of the people, the landscape, the art, the architecture, and the culture that they encounter in their daily lives.

The course concentrates on technical lectures and lab/studio time regarding the basic operation of a digital camera and the processing of images. Students develop an understanding of the elements that combine to create powerful visual images: subject matter, composition, color, and light. Through selected readings, assignments, lab/studio time, and critiques, students produce a written and visual final project for the course.

Students are responsible for providing their own cameras, supplies, and image editing software.

Required supplies:
You can find below the material that the photography professor will require for the course:

CAMERA FILM 35 MM
DIGITAL CAMERA SLR
INSTANT CAMERA (FUJI INSTAX WIDE or FUJI INSTAX MINI POLAROID CAMERA or POLAROID ZYNC)
Also suggested: 50 MM LENS F 1.4/F 1.8 /F 2.8

Business Studies

Faculty: Daniele

INB 303 Competing in the Global Environment

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is intended to provide the student with a comprehensive introduction to business in the European Union. The course describes how economic, political and social factors interrelate, and influence business in Europe. Students will use a framework to research sustainable business practices from different European Union member state’s perspective. Guest lecturers and field trips are planned for students enrolled in the study abroad program.

Student Learning Objectives

At the end of the course the student will be able to do the following:

1. Analyze the origins of the EU, its history and development to the point of enlargement.
2. Identify important steps in EU integration, name EU institutions and understand how they interact with one another
3. Analyze the impact of the social and cultural influences brought about by the enlargement of the EU.
4. Determine how business and trade are conducted both internally and externally by the organizations of the EU.
5. Conduct a sustainable business analysis (SWOTS) for a specific industry sector operating in Italy.
6. Analyze how companies should react and position themselves strategically and operationally responding to key issues in Europe’s evolving sustainable business environment.

Global Business: Italy and Tourism

3 credits

Course Description

The course presents concepts of tourism relating to food and geography, using Italy as its example. The course is relevant to students of all backgrounds, but was designed specifically for students of hospitality, business, and culinary arts. Students will study international organizations operating in tourism (i.e. WTO) and the different types of tourism, with particular attention paid to sustainable tourism.

Students will be asked to investigate the tourism geography of Italy, becoming familiar with the most important tourist sites in Italy and Campania (through several excursions). The third module of the course will bededicated to a very important kind of tourism in Italy and of the Campania: Food and Wine Tourism.

SUST 335 Sustainability

45 hrs, 3 credits

Course Description

The course aims to analyse the relationship between sustainability, economy, quality and globalization. It will also focus on the European Union and sustainable development. Other included topics will be: the food industry in Italy (focusing on the Campania region), organic farming in Italy, “local food, local market, local business” and food & wine tourism in Italy.

In particular, students will build different business model to answer the following questions:

The choice of environmental sustainability is compatible with the consumption habits and the impact on prices?
How local production can change consumer habits?
Which may be the effect on local producers?
What is the “minimum” threshold of sustainability adequately significant, but acceptable for customers both culturally and economically?

ENT 481 Entrepreneurship and the New Economy

45 hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The focus is the study of the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial start-up process. Areas of concentration include the search for new venture opportunities, evaluation of the viability and attractiveness of the new venture; determining the resources required and the sources of those resources and the development of a business plan appropriate for presentation to funding sources.

COURSE AND PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to demonstrate the following:

Identify the role of the entrepreneur in a market economy;
Through a written report and presentation, demonstrate understanding of various components of entrepreneurial activity in practice;
Apply economic reasoning as it relates to policies impacting entrepreneurship;
Explain the impact of various institutions on entrepreneurial activity in the short run and long run;
Evaluate various public policies for their effect on entrepreneurial activity.

MKG 301 Principles of Marketing

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

Course Description

This course provides an introduction to basic marketing concepts. Topics include the marketing mix, new product development, consumer behavior, customer relationship management, strategic planning and e-commerce. Students will develop a comprehensive marketing plan and apply course concepts to real or imaginary products.

Learning Goals
The content of this course addresses the following goals:

Professional competency and professional identity
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Diverse and global perspectives
Commitment to ethical practices and service

Sciences and Natural Sciences

Faculty: Sgambati, TBA

JU 330 Introduction to Geology

45 hrs, 3 credits

Course Description

The course aims to give an introduction to the science of geology. In particular, the main types of rocks are analyzed with an emphasis on genetic processes and in relationship to plate tectonics theory.

This basic knowledge will provide a background to understand and study the main geological risks, such as volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, and landslides. Specific examples from the Apennines mountain chain and Campanian plain will be examined to contextualize these topics in the Italian environment. In addition, a significant aim of this course is for students to gain a conscious relationship with the environment. The Campania region is an ideal place for experiential learning via site visits, with the opportunity for students to witness a wide range ofgeological features.

The evaluation for the course will include mid-term and final written exams, a presentation and graphical exercises.

JU 330 Introduction to Volcanology

45 hrs, 3 credits

Course Description

The course is an introduction to the main elements of geological sciences including stratigraphy laws, the maintypes of rocks, and an understanding of faults and folds. These elements will be used to understand Plate Tectonics theory.

Using this theory, different kinds of volcanoes will be analyzed, examining different magmatic compositions, igneous and pyroclastic rocks, and their geodynamic environments. The role of geologic and geomorphologic processes will be analyzed in reference to volcanic risk.

This course will also study landslides in volcanic soils (the case of Sarno mountains) and groundwater flow in volcanic aquifers and exploitation of thermal waters (the case of Ischia).

MSC 113 Introduction to Marine Biology

Course Description

This course focuses on the biology of organisms residing in the sea, from the diversity of planktonic communities to marine megafauna, taking into consideration the ecological principles that govern marine life.The course aims to provide a solid educational background in basic and applied marine biology. Emphasis will be placed on marine environment issues and the adaptive and evolutionary mechanisms of organisms that allow them to occupy marine habitats. In particular, the Mediterranean Sea will play a central role in the course subjects, profiting from the availability of unique ecosystems and a nearby renowned marine research institute to conduct thematic field trips and practical tutorials.

REQUIREMENTS: bring a mask and a snorkle for Marine Bio field trips.

MSC 430 Marine Conservation

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will focus on the key principles of marine conservation biology, analyzing the main threats for the organisms and ecosystems that inhabit the world oceans, from the marine pollution and bio-invasions to the serious problem of fisheries and ocean over-exploitation.

In the second part of the course, students will study the most important conservation approaches (fishery management, species and habitat conservation measures, etc.) and the Marine Protected Area strategies to maintain and restore the natural equilibrium.

Conservation biology emerged as a recognized field of mission-oriented scholarship about a half century ago when many terrestrial ecologists, genecists and systemacists were horrified by the gathering momentum of a great planetary extinction event. After 50 years many conservation strategies reported good data in recovering population and restoring ecosystem.

MSC 189 Marine Biology of the Mediterranean

60 contact hrs, 4 credits

Course Description

Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory per week modified for Sant’Anna Summer II term with Dr. Quinton White. Introductory level with no prerequisites required. Students should be able to swim and snorkel. Discover the marine biology of the Mediterranean while focusing on the Bay of Naples and Sorrento at the Sant’ Anna Institute while using multimedia techniques of underwater photography and videography for multimedia.

ONLY OFFERED IN SUMMER II

Communication

Faculty:

COMM 452 International Multimedia Journalism: Communication, Culture, and the Amalfi Coast - Only offered in Summer I 2019

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

Course Description

Students can chose to enroll in the course as COMM or IS credits (not both). This course International Multimedia Journalism: Communication, Culture, and the Amalfi Coast will use multimedia journalism and storytelling (including video, online media, social media, traditional articles, blogs and photography) while living in Sorrento, to study experience, and understand the culture, history, and society of southern Italy, the Campania Region, and the Amalfi Coast.

ONLY OFFERED IN SUMMER I

COMM 217 Introduction to Multimedia Journalism in the Mediterranean - Only offered in Summer II

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

Course Description

Three-hour course with Dr. Annmarie Kent-Willette. Introductory level with no prerequisites required. Students should be able to swim and snorkel. In this course you’ll gain first-hand experience while cultivating multi-media journalism skills through the study and application of the fundamentals of basic multimedia journalism. Project work and subject matter will focus on life in the Sorrentine Peninsula and the Amalfi Coast.

ONLY OFFERED IN SUMMER II

Health Sciences

Faculty: Paladino, Spano, Di Giacomo

BIOL 221 Human Nutrition

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students will examine evidenced-based relationships between nutrition and the promotion of long-term health and well-being. They will become familiar with food-related policy and recommendations, including Dietary Guidelines, Food Labels, and evidence-based nutrition programs, and gain practical skills to make healthful dietary choices. Moreover, students will learn health promotion strategies to help influence other people’s food choices and apply these strategies to a specific modifiable chronic disease such as diabetes and heart disease.

KIN 427 Nutrition for Physical Activity & Health

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to introduce students to the study of sports nutrition, diet analysis, biochemical processes in energy metabolism, nutrition and health problems, and how it can be used to optimize performance. Emphasis will be on nutritional concepts related to the daily
training, diet, energy utilization in exercise and recovery, body composition, use of nutrient and herbal supplements and ergogenic aids as well as the special needs of athletes. The substances that are most abused in athletics will also be examined.

Learning Objectives

This course will provide students with the opportunity to:

Understand the relationship between physical activity, nutrition, metabolism and sport performance
Gain an awareness of the dietary challenges that athletes and other active people face.
Investigate specialized areas of sports nutrition.
Obtain practical knowledge related to sport nutrition counseling.

BIOL 199 Introduction to Health Professions

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

Course Description

An overview of roles of various members of the health care system, education requirements, and issues affecting the delivery of health care.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

Identify roles of various health care professionals
Describe legal and ethical issues affecting the practice of health care professionals in Europe
Give examples of professionalism
Define the rights and responsibilities of health care professionals
Discuss payer sources
Describe various documentation and ordering systems in health care (with a focus on the Italian/European system)

BIOL 199 Introduction to Scientific Research

45 contact hrs, 4 credits

Course Description

This class is designed to teach undergraduate students to 1) gather published and unpublished sources of information and bring them to bear on scientific questions, 2) critically read scientific writing, 3) access electronic sources of information, including but not limited to internet searches, library databases, and public information and data, 4) learn the structure and functions of different components of scientific papers to effectively communicate scientific findings, 5) learn techniques for effective communication of scientific information in oral and poster presentations, 6) understand the ethical boundaries associated with scientific communication.

The class will emphasize fundamental principles of communication, presented in lecture format, and reinforced by 1) examination of writing published by professionals, 2) in-class editing of “mock” examples of papers, 3) frequent small assignments, 4) in-class discussions, 5) completion of a paper based on sampling designed and carried out by each student, 5) an oral presentation, and 6) a poster presentation.

Cultural Studies

Faculty: Buffa, Melia

JU 330 Mediterranean Nero

Course Description

Inspired by the work of Paul Gilroy this course will focus on how the culture of the Black Atlantic – deviated and rerouted by sound and ideas– enters into an unsuspected dialogue with the repressed and hidden histories of a largely silenced Black Mediterranean. Using primary historical documents as well as the accounts of historians we will discuss a range of topics such as the Masaniello revolt of 1648 in Naples, the Haitian Revolution of 1799; the international dimension of Black Power; the racialization of urban space and contemporary migration from Africa towards the Mediterranean.

JU 330 New York calls, Naples responds

Course Description

This course will trace a form of call and response between New York City and Naples. It will juxtapose these two cities within wider currents, moving across time and space and tracing multiple histories that connect past, present and futurity, local and global. Topics will include the early slave rebellions in the Americas, the 1648 rebellion of Naples, the U.S. military presence in Naples during World War II and Cold War era, Italian immigration to New York City and the urban crises of Naples and New York in the 1970s and 1980s.
In this course, music, cinema and other cultural expressions are not considered as a background but become central narrative devices. Sustained by the saxophone sound of James Senese, the electro funk of Afrika Bambaataa, the echo chamber effect of Sha-Rock, the poetry of Sandra María Esteves, the blue maps of Bobby Womack and Mario Merola we will study unexpected and critical connections between New York City and Naples.
In addition to music, films, and poems, we will use other primary sources collected at the archives of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library, the Bronx County Historical Society and the National Library of Naples.

Mediterranean Migration

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to provide an introductory overview to Mediterranean migration patterns and trends by examining macroeconomic and geopolitical causes. The course begins with a survey of the historic legacies of Mediterranean migration and moves through the twentieth century with an examination of mass emigration from the Southern Mediterranean to the Americas. By using international economics, demographics and geopolitics as a lens through which to view current Mediterranean migration phenomena, this course prepares the student to analyze effects of mass migration on the stability of the European Union and the Euro zone and propose solutions to ongoing systemic pan-European political and demographic challenges.
Clicca per modificarmi e inserire i tuoi contenuti. Compila questo spazio con il testo che preferisci. Attraverso gli stili grafici puoi dare importanza diversa a parole o frasi che desideri mettere in evidenza.

Internship

Faculty: Hammeren

JU 303 Introduction to Civic Engagement

45 contact hrs, 3 credits

Course Syllabus

Introduction to Civic Engagement, a community-based learning course, is designed to give students a basic understanding of key concepts and the framework of civic engagement. Students will critically examine university-community relationships, power structures and
the concept of privilege. They will be exposed to different types of civic engagement, through direct service opportunities and by researching specific case studies. Throughout all class discussions and assignments, students will be asked to engage in critical reflection.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

Identify Civic Engagement models;
Apply essential aspects of civic engagement (such as observation, reflection, and dialogue);
Identify social issues connected to direct service at a community partner;
Construct a personal vision of a civic pathway;
Recognize the potential for individual civic action to affect change;
Identify examples of power and privilege and be able to explain their impact in everyday life.

Start a new Experience

Fill out the form alongside choosing between our Study abroad programs in which to participate and start your new adventure in Italy.

Frequently asked questions

FAQs

Courses and Description