Topics: Rome

3 units

A multidisciplinary course taught in Italian that focuses on a significant aspect of Italian culture. The topic will differ from semester to semester and may draw on art, film, history, gender studies, literature, music, philosophy, politics, and science. This course will explore a variety of texts in which Rome features as the protagonist. A historic center of Western civilization and authority, of Christianity, cultural resplendence and degeneration, the city of Rome is a palimpsest of history, myth, and symbolic meaning. We will examine the myriad ways in which the capital city has been conceived across the centuries.