| Description | Experience interdisciplinary arts and earn UW credits in Rome this summer! Join Joe Milutis, Associate Professor in IAS, to learn about the upcoming study abroad program: Arts Workshop: Rome, Signs and Symbols during Summer B Term. The month-long, 12-credit programoffers an interdisciplinary, hands-on immersion into the language, culture and art of Rome, Italy! Through arts exercises, museum research, city tours, film screening and language learning our focus will be twofold: on the one hand, we will learn to "interpret" this city and its art, full of the signs and symbols of millennia. On the other hand, from the standpoint of the weird collisions and culture clashes that this city offers, we will make art that is based on a heightened perception of Rome as collage, remix, and appropriation. We often talk about Rome as the "origin" of Western Culture, even though there is nothing "original" about it. Greek, African, Middle Eastern influences mix with the Christian, Pagan, and Modern in ways that are dizzying, profound and surreal. A masterclass in #darkacademia, our lab will be the "eternal city" and our textbooks some of the most compelling museums in the world. Students will be housed in apartments within walking distance to the UW Rome Center (cost included in the $4,900 program fee). Register to join via Zoom. The program application page will be live soon on the UW Study Abroad website , as well as the featured programs page of UWB-affiliated programs. The priority application deadline is January 31, 2022. |
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