Program:
The
focus of this class will be on the society & culture of Medieval
& Renaissance Florence & Rome. In both Rome and Florence,
we will examine how people exercised political and social power, and
among other things we will focus on the relationships between men
and women, both inside and outside of families. We will also spend
time studying tangible manifestations of power, in the form of architecture,
and what messages monuments such as palaces, churches, city walls,
fountains, city squares, monumental streets and arches were meant
to convey.
Finally, we will use the art of Medieval and Renaissance Florence and Rome to gain an understanding of the mentality and values of the period, and to explore the religious beliefs and practices of the time. Cultural and social values as portrayed in the art of these two cities will also provide us with another means of examining how political and social power was structured and expressed in the everyday lives of the men, women, and children of this period, from the popes and nobles in Rome to the orphans and prostitutes of Florence.
Program fee: $ 1360
Program
fee includes:
• Lodging
• All program travel on trains
• Welcome Dinner and Last Supper
• Museum admissions
• Lectures
• Miscellaneous tour expenses
• All gratuities
• International Student ID Card
• Health insurance
Program fee does not include:
• Round-trip international airfare
• EMU tuition and fees
• Other meals and beverages
• Personal expenses
• Independent travel
Scholarship for Honors Students
Founder’s Award for EMU Honors College Students
The EMU Honors College Founder's Award is given annually, usually in the amount of $500 to support Honors student travel abroad for academic programs. It was established by the founder of the University Honors Program, Dr. Bob Holkeboer.
Gene Helms Award
Supports study abroad in Florence and Rome,
$800 with two awards each winter term.
Passport
In
the event you have not yet applied for your passport, please do
so immediately. Passports can take up to ten weeks to process. Applications can be obtained at any County Court
House, Passport Agency or designated post office. For complete passport
information, including printable application forms, see the State
Department Passport Website at: http://travel.state.gov/.
If you currently have a passport, please check and make sure that
it is valid for six months after the end of the program.
For More Information Contact :
Professor Ron Delph
701 Pray-Harrold
487-1018
E-mail:
rdelph@emich.edu
Ron Delph teaches medieval and Renaissance European history in the Department of History and Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University. He has a deep interest in the culture and society of Renaissance Italy, and in particular in the history of Rome and Florence in the late middle ages and Renaissance eras. His scholarship focuses primarily upon the city and culture of Rome in the Renaissance, and he has published rather widely on the topic.
Delph has spent much of his life working and playing in some of the most spectacular and some of the more obscure towns and cities in Italy. Rome, Florence, and Venice are among his favorites, but he has also done time in Gubbio, Cortona, San Sepolcro, Urbino, Arezzo, and numerous others as well. Breaking away from the hill top towns and cities of central Italy, he also has spent too many hours on the lovely beaches at Ostia, in the gorgeous summer sun.
He loves good Italian food, and one of the tremendous perks of teaching in Florence and Rome every year is the opportunity it offers him to discover new restaurants, and revisit old favorites. He thinks that Botticelli is the most lyrical painter to have ever picked up a paintbrush, and that the works of Sodoma are haunting and full of exquisite passion.
For more information contact:
- Academic Programs Abroad
- 103 Boone Hall
- Eastern Michigan University
- Ypsilanti, MI 48197
- Telephone: 734.487.2424 or 800.777.3541
- fax: 734.487.4377
- E-mail:Programs Abroad
