Engl 298: Dante and Our Journeys 3 credits (Dr. Permenter) Open to all majors! The course will focus on The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri and its importance to the Italian Renaissance, the arc of Western thought, and transatlantic democracy. Most importantly, I will highlight how this relates...
It's difficult to describe the feelings that go along with your #1 dream coming true, but I'll try. From the time I was 12 years old I have wanted to go to Italy, and the reason I got into Italy in the first place was...
After a lot of waiting, sketchy airplane food, not sleeping, and three on flight movies, we finally arrived in Rome. Upon arrival everything was extremely overwhelming. Appearing in a city in which you do not know how to navigate through, and do...
Until you go through the process of traveling to a foreign country for the first time, you do not know how chaotic it can be. Getting on the plane to Rome was definitely an interesting and crazy experience, but it was well worth...
Anybody who goes on a study abroad trip always talk about how it changed them as a person, or how they found themselves. As this trip comes to an end, I find myself asking the same question. What has changed within me? While...
If you look at a map you can see that Venice is surrounded by water and there are many streams and canels running through the city. What you might not realize is that Venice was built on top of the water. There are...
View from the Duomo Venice from the train station I promise this is a fence Trapped by rain in a dark tunnel with 30 schoolchildren. Loud, screaming children that beat each other up with their umbrellas. The face that Night leans on...
Upon arriving at the coliseum I was taken back from the beauty of such a magnificent structure. I have seen many pictures, as most of us have, but nothing compares to seeing and touching something as well known as the coliseum in person....