UMBR PPIT 390 - The Perugia Practicum

Institution:

Arcadia University

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Description:

The Practicum is designed as a practical, hands-on course. It is intended to educate the student about the city in which he or she spends the better part of the semester and to generate interaction between the student and the city, its history through its monuments, its institutions and its people. It aspires to make the student more sensitive to how one Italian city evolved, its history, how it was formed, how it bears the imprint of the past, and how it functions and adapts in the modern world. The course can stand alone, but it also serves to support the work of students in Umbra courses dealing with Contemporary Italian Society and Modern Italian History by grounding the student in Perugia itself so that what is learned in other courses can be made more relevant to Perugia itself. This will be done in five basic ways: lectures, field trips, projects, journals and research. In all of these enterprises a basic functioning knowledge of Italian will be important in that one of the expectations is for students to be involved with the people and the institutions of the city. Topics and how Perugia is dealing with them include but are not exclusive to immigration and the ex- pat community, education, religious diversity, governmental autonomy, social services, economic development, and the environment and urban planning. (Perugia, Italy, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/itUmbraInstitute)

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.arcadia.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 572-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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