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The unique landscape of the Greek islands and the multilayered city of Athens provide the setting for this intensive three-week studio art course. Through a series of lectures, creative work, daily excursions to archaeological sites and museums, contemporary galleries and engagement with land and sea, students will have the opportunity to weave global history and theory into the practice of making art. Our methods will be interdisciplinary and open to various modes of expression, which might include but are not limited to, drawing and painting, text, performance, photography, sound and video.

Italian cinema has a long and glorious tradition from movements like “neorealism” to auteurs like Visconti, Rossellini, and Fellini. This class is structured in the form of a cultural geography of three cities, following the boot from north to south. It offers a deliberate contrast of representation between the classic and the contemporary so we have a better sense of the land and the people through the camera’s capture of history.

Elena Ferrante's "Neapolitan Quartet" is a sequence of four novels set in the southern city of Naples. This narrative of family saga spans six decades between the end of WW2 and the turn of the 21st century. The books follow the two major characters, Elena and Lila, from childhood to love, sex, marriage, adultery, divorce, as well as through their careers and political awakenings. Their paths shall diverge and reunite as dictated by circumstances and personal decisions.

100 level: This course aims to familiarize students with the pronunciation of the Spanish language, with the basic elements of grammar, and with a vocabulary that allows them to develop daily activities. We apply oral and written exercises that promote the development of communicative skills. This type of intensive course is characterized by dynamism and variety of activities in each class.200 level: Students taking this course must achieve skills in the proper use of different verbal tenses.

The present course, Intensive Review Spanish Grammar, aims to recover and systematize students' knowledge about the grammar of Spanish, in order to contribute to the improvement, by advanced students of Spanish as a foreign language, of their communicative competence. Such competence is understood as the dominion and generalized access to a baggage of strategic resources oriented to an effective interaction and communication within the framework of a certain society and its culture.

This course consists of five modules and was designed for students at an elementary / intermediate level (CEFR A2/B1) who need to learn essential Spanish to face everyday situations as tourists in Spanish-speaking countries, especially in Argentina. It focuses on communication rather than grammar, and provides students with basic vocabulary as well as an introduction to the Argentinian culture.  

This course is meant for students with little or no experience with the Spanish language. You will learn basic greetings and sayings to help you better navigate the local Segovia community and Spanish culture during the program.

Leonardo da Vinci was working in a time before the split between art and science, before the split between the humanities and science. As Fritjof Capra writes, Leonardo can be seen as working through an ecological world view, where art and science are informed by each other to understand the complex dynamics by which life is sustained and nurtured.

Umberto Eco (1932-2016) was a world-renowned Italian media theorist and bestselling novelist who loved to explore and interpret how cultures make sense of themselves through language and symbols. From the study of James Bond to Superman to James Joyce and Thomas Aquinas, from the Monasteries in the Middle Ages to California's Hearst Castle, Eco was a cultural detective. He studied how we make meaning in popular culture as well as high art.