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Curriculum

Our mission

To immerse you in the legacy of great civilizations
and prepare you to lead in the modern world

The Rome Campus offers a broad liberal-arts curriculum with courses for majors in art history, classics, economics, English, history, Italian,  and political science. Whatever your major, you will come to know Italy's treasures, thanks to the availability of courses at your level in art history and Italian, as well as academic excursions to Venice, Florence, and Naples/Pompeii/Capri for all students. Field seminars and engaging internships foster quality immersion. All courses are rooted in Rome. An innovative component is Art across the Curriculum - an interdisciplinary array of courses on art. There are also clusters in Public Affairs and in Ancient Culture. The Campus on the Aventine is your idyll. Rome, the Eternal City, is your classroom and laboratory.

Courses by semester

• Courses in Fall 2008
• Courses in Spring 2009

Note: For summer courses, please see Summer section of website.

Courses by field

• Fine Arts
• Italian
• Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Internship Program

Art across the Curriculum

• Art across the Curriculum - Courses in art history, art conservation, studio arts, economics of art, and cinema. A flexible, modular, interdisciplinary approach to the arts, suitable for a variety of majors in the arts, humanities, and social-sciences.

Field Seminars - Individual Research Topics

• Global Problems
• Splendors of Early Christian and Medieval Roman Art - Art History majors may enroll in and integrate a research component for additional credit.

Public Affairs

• Public Affairs - A set of courses in economics, modern history, and political science, to equip you for the challenges of public affairs in the modern world.

Ancient Culture

• Ancient Culture - Closely complementary courses in ancient art and Classics in translation and tutorials in Latin and Greek at any level, all amply immersed in the Eternal City.

Computer Science

• Computer Science - two courses to pique your interest in the field.  One course focuses on cryptography and the other on the humanitarian applications of some major world wide projects around free and open source software.

Trinity College reserves the right to make changes in course offerings at any time without prior notice. As noted in the course descriptions, some courses are offered only during one semester. Courses are taught by professors and adjunct faculty of Trinity College and are approved as a regular part of Trinity’s undergraduate curriculum. They are conducted in English except for those in Italian language and literature. Art history courses (and some others) take weekly instructional walking tours to museums and monuments to supplement classroom lectures. Courses feature city connections—curricular supplements designed to facilitate immersion in Rome. Courses conducted in English may be supplemented by Italian tutorials.