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Curriculum
Our mission
To immerse you in the legacy of great civilizationsand 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 2009
- Courses in Spring 2010
Note: For summer courses, please see Summer section of website.
Courses by field
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.
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.

Professor Livio Pestilli lectures on-site at Pompeii. All art history courses include
frequent field trips to museums, monuments and churches.