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University of Washington Honors Program in Rome


2004 Program Calendar
Week Three 3 of 5

Monday, September 6
  Italian Language and Culture
 
Language studies
 
   
  Sociology
 
Institutions and social order: education
 
   
Tuesday, September 7
  Art History
 
Vatican Museums: Pinacoteca, Bellvedere court yard, Raphael’s Stanze, Sistine Chapel

*Discussion topics: Renaissance ideals; Raphael’s work at the Vatican; Julius II and Michelangelo; antiquities and their role in the Renaissance

Presentations: JH, SR, (NS)
 
   
  Sociology
 
Threats to social order: political instability
 
   
Wednesday, September 8
  Art History
 
Villa Farnesina, Piazza Farnese

*Discussion Topics: Raphael’s Loggia di Psyche; palace function and decoration; Palazzo Pio; Giordano Bruno

Presentations: KD, (JE, HW, MB)
 
   
  Sociology
 
Threats to social order: economic instability

 
   
  Evening Events
 
Group Dinner in apartment 422!!
 
   
Thursday, September 9
  Art History
 
The Baroque:
Il Gesu, St. Ignazio

*Discussion topics: The Jesuits; Counter Reformation, church triumphant; Baroque architectural forms.

Presentations: HC, (AC)

 
   
  Italian Language and Culture
 
Language studies
 
   
Friday, September 10
  Art History
 
Museo di Villa Borghese; Group lunch at Piazza Re; Piazza Navona: Four Rivers Fountain and elephant obelisk at S. Maria Sopra Minerva.

*Discussion topics: Bernini; Caravaggio’s private commissions

Presentations: AZ
 
   
  Sociology
 
Guest speaker: Federico Varese, University Lecturer in Criminology, Centre for Criminological Research, Law Faculty, University of Oxford.

Lecture: “Corruption and the Mafias in Italy”
 
   
Saturday, September 11
Sunday, September 12