45 hours, 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.

Recommended Materials and Supplies:
• 1 blank sketchbook, approximate size 5×8 in., hardcover, paper weight min. 100 lb.
• 1 watercolor block, approximate size 9×12 in., paper weight min. 170 lb.
• 1 watercolor box with 8/10 colors (tubes or pans). If you buy tubes you need a palette or a box to mix them. Selected colors: Ivory Black, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Cadmium Yellow Pale, Cadmium Red Deep, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Alizarine Crimson (+ Payne’s Grey, Cerulean Blue).
• 1 waterbrush, large size; 1 flat brush n.10 to16, 1 round brush n.10 to16.
• Waterproof pen or fountain pen. Water soluble pen or fountain pen.
• Pure graphite pencils 6B/9B. Normal pencil HB/2B. Sharpener and soft rubber eraser.

45 hours, 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 ancient Greece and 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

4 credits

Course Description
In this course, you will be introduced to the fundamental skills for effectively recording travel, home, and work experiences. Using digital photography as a tool, you will be encouraged to become a more careful observer of the people, the landscape, the art, the architecture, and the culture that you encounter in your daily life.

This course concentrates on technical lectures and lab/studio time regarding the basic operation of a digital camera and the processing of images. You will 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, you will 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:

• Digital camera (SLR or mirrorless)
• USB flash drive

Suggested Supplies:

• Camera film 35 MM
• Instant camera (Fuji Instax Wide or Fuji Mini Polaroid Camera or Polaroid Zync)
• 50 MM Lens F 1.4/F 1.8 /F 2.8

45 hours, 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.

45 hours, 3 credits

Course Description
ENGL 103 focuses on the development of skills necessary for reading analytically and writing clear, accurate, and 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 school. 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.

45 hours, 3 credits

Course Description
In this course, you will read Italian and European literary texts of the 20th century by both male and female writers from a feminist perspective. The definition of a “feminist reader” is a reader who assumes that there is no innocent or neutral approach to literature and that all interpretation is political. Feminist readers do not necessarily read to praise or blame, to judge or censor. More commonly, they set out to assess how the text invites its readers, as members of a specific culture, to understand what it means to be a woman or a man and encourages them to reaffirm or to challenge existing cultural norms. You, as a feminist reader, in this course might ask how the text represents men and women, what it says about gender relations, and how it defines sexual difference.

45 hours, 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, but a multitude of others say that we are developing new skills and capacities, adapting to digital media in ways that are redefining our relationship with 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. 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.