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Course Name: ARCH 30101 3rd Year Design Studio I

Description: The focus of the architecture program is the design studio. Studio projects take full advantage of the pervasive wealth of historically significant art and architecture. The scale of these projects ranges from elemental façade studies and interiors to the larger concerns of urban design.

Credit Hours: 5

Course Name: ARCH 30112 Third Year Design Studio II

Description: The focus of the architecture program is the design studio. Studio projects take full advantage of the pervasive wealth of historically significant art and architecture. The scale of these projects ranges from elemental façade studies and interiors to the larger concerns of urban design.

Credit Hours: 5

Course Name: ARCH 46995 Reading Cities Field Trips

Description: Lecture and exercises in the visual analysis of urban form. Various media are taught and encouraged: sketching, watercolor, photographs, video, etc. The course is focused on a series of field trips to cities of architectural and urban significance. These include Rome, Verona, Venice, Milan. The tours cover historical architecture and urban fabrics, as well as Modern and contemporary intervention that bear significant importance in the transformation of the existing context.

Credit Hours: 3

Course Name: ID 30352 Interior Design Studio V

Description:  A studio course focusing on the investigation of contexts of interior space. Topics will include studies of architectural and historical contexts, including adaptive reuse, urban contexts, and social and cultural contexts in a globalizing world. Emphasis will also be placed on the development of design strategies, and expressions of strategy across scales.

Prerequisite: .

Credit Hours: 5

Course Name: ID 44527 Study Tours

Description: A combined lecture and seminar that provides a theoretical foundation for studio exploration. Topics include the history of urban evolution and figure ground studies.

Credit Hours: 3

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Course Name: ARCH 46995 Video, Media, and Architecture

Description: The course investigates the increasingly intertwined issues that link contemporary architectural research to the world of communication, to such an extent that the media are today very much part of the design activity itself. Class lectures will interpret architectural activity in the 20th century by exploring the relationships between the project and the press, cinema, television, and the Internet. Particular attention will be given to the investigation of the experiences related to the use of video and to the new media.

Credit Hours: 3

Course Name: ARCH 46995 Sketching and Drawing

Description: The design professions increasingly, with the widespread use of digital technologies, require sketching and drawing abilities. This course is meant to help students develop such skills with in-studio instructions and demonstrations, but especially through on-site exercises. Understanding, representing, and effectively communicating the physical environment, as ultimately one's own design ideas, is the core experience of the course.

Credit Hours: 3

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Course Name: ITAL 15204 Basic Conversational Italian

Description: Exposure to basic grammar and to current Italian useful to travelers. Not applicable to fulfillment of foreign language requirement.

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisite: Accepted into the ARCH or ID Cohort

Course Name: ARTH 42045 Italian Art From Giotto to Bernini (1300-1600)

Description: This course will explore the development of art and architecture in Italy from the late Middle Ages to the Roman Baroque period.  Through an in- depth analysis of the art and history of these periods, we shall develop an understanding of Italy’s role in the overall development of Western civilization.  Particular emphasis will be given to Florentine Art.  Florence exhibits to this day a particularly well-integrated conception of painting, sculpture, and architecture.  Taking advantage of this, we will use the city as our classroom in order to examine the development of Florentine art and architecture in context.  In addition to “on-site” lectures, classroom lectures will focus on the art produced in other major Italian cities.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Course Name: BSCI 10001 Human Biology

Description: The lecture portion of this course will study the scientific method and life's properties, emphasizing human biology. Topics include energy, genetics, reproduction, development disease, nutrition and physical fitness in humans. This course may not be used to fulfill major or minor requirements in the following programs: BA Biology, BS Biology, BS Botany, BS Environmental and Conservation Biology, BS Medical Technology, BS Biotechnology, BS Zoology, and the Biological Sciences minor.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

*Kent Core - Basic Sciences, Basic Sciences Lab, LER-Basic Sciences 

Course Name: BSCI 10003 Human Biology Lab

Description: The lab is an introductory college-level laboratory in biology for non-majors. This course may not be used to fulfill major or minor requirements in the following programs: BA Biology, BS Biology, BS Botany, BS Environmental and Conservation Biology, BS Medical Technology, BS Biotechnology, BS Zoology, and the Biological Sciences minor.

Credit Hours: 1

Prerequisites: None

*Kent Core - Basic Sciences, Basic Sciences Lab, LER-Basic Sciences

Course Name: BSCI 30156 Elements of Genetics

Description: Principles of organic mechanisms for expression and transmission of traits as studied in molecules, cells, organisms and populations. 

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: BSCI 10110 and 10120, and MATH 10772 or MATH 10775 or MATH11009 or MATH 11010 or MATH 12001 or MATH 12002 or MATH 12021

Course Name: BSCI 30157 Elements of Genetics Lab

Description: Consists of of hands-on experiments with modern computational and molecular biology experimental approaches.  

Credit Hours: 1

Prerequisites: BSCI 10110 and 10120, and MATH 10772 or MATH 10775 or MATH11009 or MATH 11010 or MATH 12001 or MATH 12002 or MATH 12021

Course Name: BSCI 40195 Scientific Inquiry and Observation of the Natural World

Description: New discoveries are made using the scientific method to explore, document and understand the natural world. The Renaissance city of Florence, with its plethora of museums, gardens, and other sites, provides an ideal setting to study how discoveries are made and how observation of the natural world leads to new insights.  Students will experience and learn first hand through field trips, museum visits and walking tours.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Course Name: BSCI 40389 Ecology and Natural History of Mediterranean Ecosystems

Description:  The Mediterranean basin is a hotspot of diversity made of plant and animal species adapted to survive to hot dry summers and cool wet winters. The origin and drivers of the today’s Mediterranean diversity will be examined through this course, and the ecology of this biome will be investigated through textbooks, videos and up-to-date research papers. Impacts of climate change and of human-practices will be considered both on terrestrial and marine ecosystems to give a wide view of the ongoing processes in the considered habitats and conservation strategies will be critically analyzed through discussion.

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: .

Course Name: CLAS 21405 The Roman Achievement

Description: This course is an introduction to the history and culture of the Roman world, from the origins of Rome through its ascent to domination of the Mediterranean world, the troubled changes from Republic to Empire, and the flourishing of the city and its provinces during the Imperial period until its crisis and consequent fall during the 4th-5th centuries AD. Political and military organizations, religious beliefs towards life and death, social identity, entertainment, private life, familial relationships, sexuality and the changes of these assets and values throughout time are examined in this course by means of the most recent archaeological and historical approaches and debates. As we search together to unravel the historical, cultural and social significance of the Roman achievement, primary sources in translation will be used to provide a fresh look of how some political events were perceived, how Roman urban life and its agents were captured by the satirical descriptions of Juvenal and Martial, and how such a catastrophic event such as the eruption of the Vesuvius affected writers such as Pliny and Seneca.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Kent Core Humanities & Global Diversity 

Open to all students.

Course Name: ENG 25001 Literature in English I

Description: British literature written before 1800 studied within a broad historical context. Comprehensive introduction to knowledge and skills that serve as a foundation for further study in literature.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: ACT English score of 26 or higher; or SAT Evidence based Reading and Writing score of 600 or higher; or , , or .

Course Name:  Shakespeare in Italy

Description: Study of plays representing Shakespeare's entire career, including Henry IV parts I and II, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Othello and The Tempest.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites:  or .

Course Name: ENG 41292 TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Practicum

Description: Through the TEFL practicum, students will get hands-on experience teaching learners of English as a foreign language. Students will observe and assist local teachers in Florence as well as plan and teach their own classes. Students will gain experience teaching learners in a variety of contexts and age groups, from children to adults.   

Prerequisites: 

Credit Hours: 3-6 

Course Name:  GEOG 31080 Geography of Wine

Description: Learn about the physical environment of viticulture, including climate, soil and farm practices; the cultural tradition of wine making, consumption and trade; and regional production styles of Tuscany.

*This course has an additional course fee of $100 per student. Optional wine tastings are included in the course only for students who are 21 years or older.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Course Name:  GEOG 41066 Global Climate Change

Description: Examine the evidence and causes of climate change and how these data are assessed. Explore the past, present and future impacts of climate change and variability, and how that shapes policy.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Course Name:  GEOG 41073 Conservation of Natural Resources

Description: Look at  past and current problems associated with the management of natural resources and the environments associated with their utilization.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Course Name: GEOG 46060 Food Security and Sustainability 

Description: This course explores the concept of food security from the standpoint of agrarian change, food regimes, agroecology, and development. In the process, we examine the various frameworks that have grounded academic and popular understandings of famine and food security, including Malthusian, environmental determinism, Food Availability Decline (FAD), entitlements, and historical materialism.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: Junior Standing

Course Name:  HIST 31034 Murder, Mystery and Mayhem:  The Medici Dynasty in Florence

Description: This course explores the dynastic control that the infamous Medici family exerted over every aspect of Florentine life. It explores their rise to power, from the revolutionary and cunning tactics of Cosimo de’ Medici, to the rich vision of Lorenzo “Il Magnifico”, to Anna Maria Luisa’s efforts to establish the Medici legacy forever in the city of Florence. Learn about the extraordinary cast of characters ushered into fame by the Medici, including Michelangelo, Galileo, Botticelli, Machiavelli and many more. Through an examination of this influential family, their methods of persuasion and power are revealed, which extended far beyond the boundaries of Florence to the papacy and into all corners of Europe. This is your chance not simply to learn about the Medici but to explore the sites where their history and that of the Florentine Renaissance unfolded: the palaces, churches, villas and their art collections, forming together a uniquely complete surviving legacy of their achievements. Illustrated class discussions and site visits to selected museums and galleries will also help you to unravel the cultural interests of the family’s most important figures and their relationship with landmark artists.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Course Name:  HIST 37001 Florence The Myth of a City

Description: Florence is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance and the cradle of modern Western Civilization because, among the many Italian city-states, it experienced a cultural development that had no precedent in European history. Florentine republicanism is a political paradigm through which we, still today, trace the origins of the values of democracy, freedom, rational thought, individualism, the scientific method and the capacity for critical reflection. This course covers and analyzes different historical eras of Florence from its founding, during the Roman era, up until today. Special attention is given to periods of intensive development in Florence: the re-birth of the Middle Ages, the splendor of the Renaissance, and the crucial role of the Risorgimento, when the city was the capital of the new Kingdom of Italy (1865-1871) and became a center of culture and modern civilization. This course will be offered only in Florence.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: Sophomore Standing

Course Name: ITAL 15201 Elementary Italian I

Description: An introduction to the Italian language in the context of Italian culture.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites: None

Open to all students.

Course Name: ITAL 15202 Elementary Italian II

Description: A continuation of the introduction to the Italian language in the context of Italian culture. 

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites: Italian 15201 or equivalent

Open to all students prerequisite.

Course Name: ITAL 25201 Intermediate Italian I

Description: Continued development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills using a variety of cultural materials.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: Italian 15202 or equivalent

Open to all students prerequisite.

Course Name: ITAL 25202 Intermediate Italian II

Description: Continuation of ITAL 25201 and speaking, listening, reading and writing skills using a variety of cultural materials.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: Italian 25201 or permission

Open to all students prerequisite.

Course Name: ITAL 35211 Italian Conversation & Composition I

Description: Study and practice of written and oral Italian with emphasis on acquisition of written and oral proficiency in the language.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: Italian 25202 or permission

Open to all students prerequisite.

Course Name: ITAL 35213 Conversation & Composition II

Description: Advanced practice in speaking and writing the Italian language.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: Italian 35211 

Open to all students prerequisite.

Course Name: ITAL 35597 Colloquium: Recent Italian Literature in Translation

Description: This course will focus on the close reading and analysis of selected authors of the modern Italian literary tradition, moving from Camilo Boito's Senso (1882) to Marissa Madieri's Verde acqua (1987).  The goal is to examine attempts by Italian authors to exlpre the self through literature.  Alongside the struggle to gain self-consciousness, we will also trace the shifts in techniques used by these authors as we move from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.  To help us understand such changes, our class will explore mediums, such as art and cinema, including visits to museums in Florence.  We will also consider the diverse geographic and regionla linguistic contexts out of whcih these novels emerged, with attention to the place and role of women and gendered roles in these works.  Students will read Camilo Boiti's Senso (1883), Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), Italo Svevo's La coscienza di Zeno (1923), Luigi Pirandello's So It Is (If You Think So) (1917), One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (1925), Anna Banti's Artemisia (1947), Italo Calvino's The Cloven Viscount (1951) and Cosmicomics (1965), and Marisa Madieri's Acqua Green (1987).  For most texts, selections are chose to allow for close analysis of the text, although studnets will select a complete work as the basis for the final written assignment.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Open to all students.

Course Name: POL 42189 Wicked Problems: Tackling Global Issues in the 21st Century

Description: Provides an overview and analysis of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, as well as strategies that can be used for achieving them. Emphasis is placed on problems of collective action, evidence-based public policies, and interdisciplinary approaches to addressing global issues. 

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Open to all students.

Course Name: POL 43289 Wealth, Consumption, Poverty and Hunger: The Politics of Inequality

Description: Introduces students to national and transnational politics and policies that produce wealth, poverty, and inequality. Issues discussed include the elimination of poverty and hunger, access to quality education, decent work, reduced inequalities, and responsible consumption and production.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Open to all students.

Course Name: POL 40995 Peace, Justice, and Good Government

Description: Focuses on the development of policies and institutions that are necessary for justice and good government. Students will develop an understanding of the importance of effective political, civil, and international institutions for establishing peace, prosperity, and well-being.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Open to all students.

Course Name: PSYC 11762 General Psychology

Description: This course will provide students with a general overview of the field of General Psychology. In particular, the course will familiarize students with the basic terms and theories, as well as with some classic and recent research in fields such as learning, language development, intelligence etc. A particular emphasis will be put on the convergence of neuropsychological (e.g. patient case studies) and experimental evidence as a crucial aspect of the study of higher mental functions.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Open to all students.

Course Name: BUS 30234 International Business

Description: This course provides an introduction to different environments, theories and practices of international business. This course is designed for all students interested in international business, regardless of their principal academic discipline. Topics covered include globalization; international companies; sustainability; the impact and importance of culture; economic, financial, social, political environments; global strategies and structures; international marketing and entry modes. In order to facilitate these goals, students are expected to prepare, present their views, and actively participate in classroom discussions. The course provides a broad survey of the theoretical and practical aspects of management practice in Europe, introducing you the major financial, economic and socio – economic, physical, socio – cultural political, labor, competitive and distributive forces that characterize business in Europe. The course will help you to develop an increased awareness of the differences between European and North American business practices, and a better grasp of the impact of differences in business practices on the conduct of business internationally. The emphasis in this course is both on understanding and applying one’s knowledge of different management practices, using national cultures as an aid to understanding the evolution of various management practices.
We begin by analyzing the international business environment that connects the phenomenon of globalization with the national and cultural differences that characterize the countries in this economy. Next we will analyze, how to first define a strategy to enter foreign markets, select then a global company structure, and define a global marketing and pricing strategies. We will delve into some strategic and functional issues that characterize the management of organizations in the global marketplace.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites:  or 

Open to all students with prerequisites.

Course Name: ENTR 37195 International Entrepreneurship – The Italian Perspective

Description: Entrepreneurship has become a guiding principle in most successful organizations. Entrepreneurship means more than small business management; it means identifying market opportunities and then marshaling the resources and designing the strategy and organization to capitalize on these opportunities. This definition cuts across types of organizations and industries. The course will focus also on the positive elements and possible threats of the “Creative entrepreneurial business model” (relevant in Italy and other Mediterranean cultures) as opposed to other international business models. One of the key issues of the course is represented by the possibility offered to students to compare different Entrepreneurial business models business model (through a series of conceptual frameworks, cases, guest speakers, field trips and site visits) with the prevalent business models present in the U.S. and have the possibility to integrate the two approaches. Approaching business issues from different perspectives is a key element of success in the current global economic scenario, where integration and blend of different approaches is crucial. The approach in the classroom is based on active learning. This means that what you will learn will be closely connected with its concrete applications. While you will prepare for each class by reading the relevant materials, I will highlight the major points and discuss any areas that seem unclear to you. Your responsibility will be to participate in class discussions, in the group exercises and in the projects. My responsibility is to ensure that you are exposed to the knowledge underlying made in Italy excellence, entrepreneurship, and understand how to use it. I believe that this material can be exciting, lively, and fun. the class will be a combination of lecture/discussion, in-class exercises, out-of-class exercises, case analyses, site visits, presentations and personal reflections. This will provide you with multiple ways to learn about entrepreneurial concepts related to International business excellence, and to demonstrate your capabilities.

Credit hours: 3

Prerequisites: None (open to all majors)

Course Name: FIN 36053 Business Finance

Description: Introductory finance course analyzing the basic financial decisions of corporations and the interface of the firm with capital markets. Students discuss stocks, bonds, the time value of money, risk versus return and the essentials of capital budgeting.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites:  or ; and  or HONR 21197; and ; and minimum 2.250 overall GPA.

Open to all students with prerequisites.

Course Name: MKTG 45060  International Marketing

Description: The course provides a comprehensive overview of international marketing issues characterizing international companies in foreign markets. It will introduce students to the international markets and the principles underlying the development and implementation of marketing strategies across and within foreign countries. Topics include: political, cultural, and legal environmental changes as new competitive challenges for companies involved in international businesses, international marketing strategies (domestic market expansion, multi-domestic marketing, and global marketing), multicultural marketing researches, international segmentation and competitive positioning, and international marketing mix in terms of product, distribution, communication and price decisions. During lessons the students are expected to prepare, present their views, and actively participate in classroom. In order to facilitate their participation, lessons include discussions of cases and the viewing of videos on international marketing experiences. The course is designed to stimulate curiosity about international marketing practices of companies, which seek global market opportunities and to raise the student's consciousness about the importance of an international marketing perspective in the international business management.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites:  or  or 

Open to all students with prerequisites.

Course Name: CCI 40489 Multimedia Experiential Learning

Description: The Multimedia Experiential Learning course is designed to allow students a deeper understanding of their study abroad experience in Florence by projecting, developing and editing multimedia products (mainly articles, but also blog entries, pictures and videos) about their academic and extra academic experiences while living in Florence. Students will practice an activity of processing information related to their everyday life experiences, visits of exhibitions and museums and meetings with professionals by regularly developing content/stories about these experiences as well as about events taking place in Florence. The in-class meetings will help students to better focus on the different fieldtrips that will take place during the semester by providing background information about the Italian context. In-class activities are meant to support students editing their stories that will be published online on different platforms. At the same time, students will develop a direct collaboration with the editors in chief of  one of the main destination for their multimedia productions.

The course is mandatory for all the CCI students enrolled in the Florence Semester program.

Credit Hours: 1

Prerequisites: Accepted in the CCI Florence Cohort

Course Name: CCI 40089: Branding and Social Media Strategies for Italian Lifestyle

Description: The course will analyze the phenomenon of ‘made in Italy’ with a focus on fashion, food and design from a communication perspective. Students will have the chance to better understand the branding strategies effectively operating behind some of the most important Italian brands that make Italy and Italian productions fascinating and attracting for the foreign consumers and markets. The course will focus on PR, social media and advertising strategies that are central for contemporary brands and it will investigate the main strategic areas of ‘made in Italy’ and how they are communicated and promoted. Specific case studies will be presented and discussed in class.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Open to all students

Course Name: CCI 40289 Italian Cinema

Description: The course introduces the student to the world of Italian Cinema. In the first part the class will be analyzing Neorealism, a cinematic phenomenon that deeply influenced the ideological and aesthetic rules of film art. In the second part we will concentrate on the films that mark the decline of Neorealism and the talent of ‘new’ auteurs such as Fellini and Antonioni. The last part of the course will be devoted to the cinema from 1970s to the present in order to pay attention to the latest developments of the Italian industry. The course is a general analysis of post-war cinema and a parallel social history of this period using films as ‘decoded historical evidence’. Together with masterpieces such as Open City the screenings will include films of the Italian directors of  the ‘cinema d’autore’ such as Life is Beautiful and the 2004 candidate for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, I Am Not Scared. The class will also analyze the different aspects of filmmaking both in Italian and the U.S. industry where I had the pleasure to work for many years in the editing department on films such as Dead Poets Society and The Godfather: Part III. The films in DVD format are dubbed in English or sub-titled.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Open to all students.

Course Name: CCI 40189: Italian Pop Culture

Description:  This course is aimed at investigating Italian contemporary pop culture with a focus on celebrity culture, television and music in Italy. While investigating media, format, genres and imageries of contemporary Italian pop culture, students will be able to immerse themselves deeper into aspects of the Italian cultural identity that inform and shape pop culture narratives such as mafia, the Catholic/religious imagery etc. The course will investigate new practices of production and consumption of media content and it will take into consideration key concepts and practices that are central to the cultural industries such as genres, format, celebrity and adaptation by presenting and discussing different media products. While focusing on the Italian case, comparisons will be made with The U.S.A. and other European countries.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Open to all students

Course Name:  NUTR 23511 Science of Human Nutrition

Description:  The Science of Human Nutrition class will cover basic concepts and principles in the science of human nutrition, energy balance, weight control, individual nutrient needs, diet selection, nutrition related metabolism and physiological functions, nutritional diseases and how to prevent these diseases, and current nutrition related controversies.  In addition to the biological and physiological components of nutrition, the class will also cover behavioral and cultural nutrition:  How do food choices, food availability, and food perceptions vary across cultures and countries.

Credit Hours:  3

Prerequisites:  None.

Course Name: FDM 35070 The Luxury Market

Description: Purpose is to learn, understand, and perceive the luxury market and its parameters. Students gain an understanding of the marketing power of luxury brands and the organization of a luxury products company.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Only open to Fashion Cohort Students

Course Name: FDM 35589 Italian Fashion and Culture

Description: Evolution of the fashion industry in post World War II Italy. Study of the creators, design and production processes creating one of the most successful unions of commercial product and cultural expression world-wide.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites:

Attributes: Diversity Global, Experiential Learning Requirement

Only pre-approved Fashion students may register for this course

Course Name: FDM 45589 Field Experience European Fashion Study Tour for Florence Students (ELR)

Description: (Repeatable for credit)Visit to European fashion markets including design and fabric houses or showrooms, retail stores, buying offices and other areas of the fashion industry.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: Fashion design or fashion merchandising major.

Only pre-approved Fashion students may register for this course

Course Name: FDM 30262 Fashion Merchandise Planning and Buying

Description: Study of market sources, fashion buying techniques, assortment planning and allocation and quantitative calculations needed in the fashion industry.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: ; and or or or ; and fashion merchandising major.

Course Name: FDM 30260 Product Development in the Fashion Industry

Description: Researching, planning, developing and presenting a fashion product line for an identified target market with regard to prices, styling and timing.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: ; and fashion merchandising major.

Course Name: FDM 30189 Florence Fashion Design Studio

Description: This is an advanced level design course for students who already have a basic knowledge of fashion design, in which design and tailoring techniques are very closely connected.
The most important aspect of this course will be to find the perfect connection of the design phase with the finished garment elements including construction technique, testing and fit, product development, finishing and details. Particular attention will be given to learning and improving the fast sketching of croquis and flats for an appropriate development of the garments made directly on the dress form, discovering new volumes and exploring contemporary shapes for an strong personal style.
Attention will also be given to learning different ways of style research used for new collections and during this course an important emphasis will be on personal creativity, architectural concepts, sewing technique ( alternative seams), and exploring contrasting shapes and volumes. The importance of accessories will be explored. Different kind of projects will be required during the semester and students (divided into groups) must be able to create collections based on a chosen themes and research.
At the end of the course students will be able to express design ideas based on research and creativity, translated through the tailoring technique to realize the appropriate silhouette in terms of shapes, details and fit.

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisites: or or .

Course Name: FDM 30289 Florence Fashion Design Studio II

Description: This is an advanced level design course for students who already have a basic knowledge of fashion design, in which design and tailoring techniques are very closely connected.
The most important aspect of this course will be to find the perfect connection of the design phase with the finished garment elements including construction technique, testing and fit, product development, finishing and details. Particular attention will be given to learning and improving the fast sketching of croquis and flats for an appropriate development of the garments made directly on the dress form, discovering new volumes and exploring contemporary shapes for an strong personal style.
Attention will also be given to learning different ways of style research used for new collections and during this course an important emphasis will be on personal creativity, architectural concepts, sewing technique ( alternative seams), and exploring contrasting shapes and volumes. The importance of accessories will be explored. Different kind of projects will be required during the semester and students (divided into groups) must be able to create collections based on a chosen themes and research.
At the end of the course students will be able to express design ideas based on research and creativity, translated through the tailoring technique to realize the appropriate silhouette in terms of shapes, details and fit.

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisites: or or ; and fashion design majors.

Course Name: ITAL 15204 Basic Conversational Italian (Fashion)

Description: Exposure to basic grammar and to current Italian useful to travelers. Not applicable to fulfillment of foreign language requirement.

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisite: Accepted into the Fashion Design & Merchandising Cohort

Course Name: ARTH 42045 Italian Art From Giotto to Bernini (1300-1600)

Description: This course will explore the development of art and architecture in Italy from the late Middle Ages to the Roman Baroque period.  Through an in- depth analysis of the art and history of these periods, we shall develop an understanding of Italy’s role in the overall development of Western civilization.  Particular emphasis will be given to Florentine Art.  Florence exhibits to this day a particularly well-integrated conception of painting, sculpture, and architecture.  Taking advantage of this, we will use the city as our classroom in order to examine the development of Florentine art and architecture in context.  In addition to “on-site” lectures, classroom lectures will focus on the art produced in other major Italian cities.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

Open to all students.

Course Name: BUS 30234 International Business

Description: This course provides an introduction to different environments, theories and practices of international business. This course is designed for all students interested in international business, regardless of their principal academic discipline. Topics covered include globalization; international companies; sustainability; the impact and importance of culture; economic, financial, social, political environments; global strategies and structures; international marketing and entry modes. In order to facilitate these goals, students are expected to prepare, present their views, and actively participate in classroom discussions. The course provides a broad survey of the theoretical and practical aspects of management practice in Europe, introducing you the major financial, economic and socio – economic, physical, socio – cultural political, labor, competitive and distributive forces that characterize business in Europe. The course will help you to develop an increased awareness of the differences between European and North American business practices, and a better grasp of the impact of differences in business practices on the conduct of business internationally. The emphasis in this course is both on understanding and applying one’s knowledge of different management practices, using national cultures as an aid to understanding the evolution of various management practices.
We begin by analyzing the international business environment that connects the phenomenon of globalization with the national and cultural differences that characterize the countries in this economy. Next we will analyze, how to first define a strategy to enter foreign markets, select then a global company structure, and define a global marketing and pricing strategies. We will delve into some strategic and functional issues that characterize the management of organizations in the global marketplace.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites:  or 

Open to all students with prerequisites.

Course Name: ITAL 35597 Colloquium: Recent Italian Literature in Translation (Honors)

Description: This course will focus on the close reading and analysis of selected authors of the modern Italian literary tradition, moving from Camilo Boito's Senso (1882) to Marissa Madieri's Verde acqua (1987).  The goal is to examine attempts by Italian authors to exlpre the self through literature.  Alongside the struggle to gain self-consciousness, we will also trace the shifts in techniques used by these authors as we move from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.  To help us understand such changes, our class will explore mediums, such as art and cinema, including visits to museums in Florence.  We will also consider the diverse geographic and regionla linguistic contexts out of whcih these novels emerged, with attention to the place and role of women and gendered roles in these works.  Students will read Camilo Boiti's Senso (1883), Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), Italo Svevo's La coscienza di Zeno (1923), Luigi Pirandello's So It Is (If You Think So) (1917), One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (1925), Anna Banti's Artemisia (1947), Italo Calvino's The Cloven Viscount (1951) and Cosmicomics (1965), and Marisa Madieri's Acqua Green (1987).  For most texts, selections are chose to allow for close analysis of the text, although studnets will select a complete work as the basis for the final written assignment.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

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