STUDENT PAGES
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION
This page serves as a one-stop source for content for each course including syllabi, course readings and a chart showing each student’s attendance and performance (encrypted by secret code for each student). From here you can also access the calendar, travel form, and a page dedicated to suggested free-time activities.
OCL_200 SUSTAINABLE ROME
SYLLABUS: download
GREATER ROME RECON MISSION (GRRM)
COURSE READINGS AND OTHER MEDIA:
These will be available on UofI One Drive and at the links below.
Week One: Heiken, The Tiber Delta
Week Two: K.B. Jones, Uncertain Tiberscape
Week Three: Video: Carolyn Steel: How Food Shapes our Cities
Week Four: no reading
Week Five: Mario Cucinella on Design and Nature
Week Six: Heiken, Ch.6 “Debris”
Week Seven: Video: Borgo Abruzzo Summer School
Week 8 No Readings
Additional Readings
- hibbert_2.pdf
- claridge_via sacra.pdf
- Heiken_Tiber.pdf
- Hibbert_4.pdf
- Hughes.pdf
- Insolera.pdf
- jane_jacobs_the_death_and_life_of_great_american.pdf
- Owen GREEN METROPOLIS.pdf
- ratti_city of tomorrow.pdf
- Safdie.pdf
INT_101 ACADEMIC INTERNSHIP
SYLLABUS: download
ITA_101 ITALIAN LANGUAGE
SYLLABUS: download
Benvenuti! Welcome to Italian 101!
Please check the Google Calendar daily for updated meeting times and places; remember that most (but not all) Wednesday afternoons we will be out and about in the city, immersing ourselves in the sounds and sights of Rome
All readings and homework will be posted on our course website on McGraw-Hill Connect, which you should also check daily: https://connect.mheducation.com/
Your grades for Italian will be available in the online grade book, also on Connect.
LINKS:
A good Italian-English dictionary is available at https://www.garzantilinguistica.it
The best way to learn Italian is to start speaking Italian! Stefano has a great Youtube video with 25 essential Italian words and phrases that will be very useful in your everyday life here in Rome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jg07eylrT0
Check out Learn Italian with Lucia’s short video, with links to Italian films with English subtitles you can watch for free on Youtube, which is fantastic for developing your listening comprehension skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5u-zv0y8J4
Art lovers will want to keep an eye on Turismo Roma’s calendar of current art exhibitions in the city: https://www.turismoroma.it/en/tipo-evento/exhibitions Most exhibitions have labels in Italian and English. Challenge yourself by trying to understand as much as you can in Italian!
On the subject of art, you can use your MIC card for free admission to the museums in the Roma Capitale network, in addition to 25 archeological and historic sites in the city: https://www.museiincomuneroma.it/en/infopage/mic-card. Although you will visit some of these museums and sites during various classes, you are encouraged to check out the places that interest you on your own. I highly recommend the Musei Capitolini.