SUMMER II COURSE OFFERINGS - 2009
Program Dates: July 1 - August 8, 2009
Courses numbered 100-299 are freshman, sophomore, or other introductory level courses. Courses numbered 300-399 are junior or senior level courses, requiring background in the material. Courses numbered 400-499 are senior level courses. Students should ensure that they have completed the prerequisites listed at the end of many course descriptions.
Course offerings are subject to change. The University reserves the right to cancel courses with insufficient enrollment, and the curriculum is subject to change as a result of ongoing curricular revisions and program development.
Unless otherwise indicated, all courses carry 3 semester hours of credit (45 contact hours).
Most courses taught at JCU require the use of personal computers. While PCs are available in the computer labs, students are strongly urged to bring a laptop with them in order to facilitate their course work.
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*COURSES SUBJECT TO CHANGE
ART HISTORY & STUDIO ART
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
HISTORY & HUMANITIES
ITALIAN LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES
ART HISTORY & STUDIO ART
AH 181 Politics and Power in Roman Architecture - Augustus to Mussolini
Rome City Series - This on-site survey investigates the history of Rome primarily through its monuments-its architecture and urban form. This course will provide the student with a clear grasp of how the city of Rome has changed over the course of two thousand years from a modest Iron Age settlement on the Palatine Hill to a thriving modern metropolis of the twentieth century. The student will become intimately acquainted with the topography, urban makeup and history of the city and its monuments; and will acquire the theoretical tools needed to examine, evaluate and critically assess city form, design and architecture.
AH 190 Cities, Towns & Villas: Rome, Ostia, Pompeii
This on-site course examines Roman visual culture in Italy from c. 800 BC to c. 400 AD by focusing on the most important surviving sites in Rome and its environs as well as the areas hit by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. A focus throughout the course is the development of Roman cities and towns, their plans and topography, their public monuments and their political, economic, social, and religious institutions. We will also study private architecture: from the aristocratic city-house to the country villa to middle class homes. In addition to formal descriptions of the structures, there is a strong emphasis on the role of the monument in ancient society. The course will be conducted entirely on site.
There is a mandatory field trip to Pompeii and Herculaneum (equivalent to two class meetings).
AH 290 Ancient Rome and its Monuments
Rome City Series - This on-site course considers the art and architecture of ancient Rome through visits to museums and archaeological sites. The course covers the visual culture and architecture of Rome beginning with the late Bronze Age and ending with the time of Constantine. A broad variety of issues are raised, including patronage, style and iconography, artistic and architectural techniques, Roman religion, business and entertainment.
AH 294 Renaissance Rome and its Monuments
Rome City Series - This on-site course will study the monuments of Renaissance Rome: painting, sculpture and architecture produced by such masters as Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, all attracted to the lucrative service of popes, cardinals and nobles of the Roman court. On-site classes will investigate examples of palace and villa architecture, chapel decoration that encompasses altarpieces and funerary sculpture, as well as urbanistic projects where the city itself was considered as a work of art. In-class lectures will introduce historical context and theory allowing the student to understand artworks studied conceptually and place commissions of painting and sculpture within a socio-historic framework.
AS 110 Drawing - Rome Sketchbook
This course makes use of the unparalleled resource that is the city of Rome itself; each class meets at a different site around the city. Students work in sketchbook form, creating over the course of the term a diary of visual encounters. Instruction, apart from brief discussions of the sites themselves, focuses on efficient visual note-taking: the quick description of form, awareness of light and the development of volume in space.
