UW Department of Communication Study Abroad Program in Rome

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Updated:03.12.08

Applications are due by April 21!

UW Department of Communication Study Abroad Program in Rome, Italy Winter Quarter 2009

Applications are invited for the Communication Rome Program during Winter Quarter 2009, which will be based at the UW Rome Center for the sixth consecutive year. Students will earn a total of 15 UW credits, 10 of them in Communication.

Participants will gain significant skills through living in a different culture, speaking a foreign language, and experiencing firsthand the excitement of Rome, wellspring of Western civilization and culture. There will be excursions to relevant sites in Rome and other parts of Italy. Students often make their own travel plans to other parts of Europe over weekends.

Professor Anthony Giffard, the Program Director, will teach a five-credit course (COM 425/EURO 425). This course will examine communications media and information society policy in the context of changing cultural, economic, political and technological developments in the European Union.

Dr. Lisa Coutu will teach a five-credit course (COM 478), in which you will learn key concepts and theories in the field of intercultural communication and improve your intercultural interaction skills to benefit both work and travel.

Dr. Susan Sanders, a Rome-based instructor, will teach the course on Roman Civilization. Her lectures will take place on-site at important museums, art galleries, churches, and architectural and archeological locations. That course, together with lessons in Italian from a language school, Italiaidea, will count for five credits of European Studies (EURO 490) that can be used for distribution requirements.

The UW Rome Center provides a scholarly workplace in the city's historic district, offering outstanding facilities for academic programs from a wide variety of departments. The Center is located in the Palazzo Pio, a 17th Century palace built on the ruins of the ancient Theater of Pompey. It overlooks the lively, colorful Campo dei Fiori, site of Rome's largest daily flower and produce market, and is within easy walking distance of the most important monuments in Rome, such as the Vatican and the Roman Forum. Students have accommodations in completely furnished apartments in the vicinity.

Participants pay their regular UW tuition fees that cover the 10 Communication credits, plus a program fee that pays for the Roman Civilization and the Italian language courses, their accommodations, excursions, and admission to sites we visit. They also pay their own airfare to Rome and back, and their food and entertainment expenses. The program fee likely will be about $4,500, but may change as a result of the dollar/euro exchange rate. (The UW calculates that it costs an undergraduate student a total of about $5,000 a quarter to study on the Seattle campus.)

Any UW student may apply, with Communication majors getting priority.

Information

For more information about the UW Rome center the following Web site: http://depts.washington.edu/roma/about/index.html

Contact

Contact: Prof. Anthony Giffard (giffard@u.washington.edu)
Dr. Lisa Coutu (cout@u.washington.edu)
or Diana Smith, Program Coordinator (monet@u.washington.edu)

Download an MS Word version of the 2009 Rome Program Application...

(Some details on this program are subject to minor changes.)

Photos from Winter Quarter 2006

Jessica Schwimmer, Pam Lenker and Rachel Twenge (Rome Class of 2006) get a great view of the Vatican from the terrace of the Castel Sant'Angelo. The building was constructed by the Emperor Hadrian between 123 and 139AD to serve as his mausoleum.		Carol Insalaco and Sarah Purcell get a kick out of a Swiss Guard keeping watch at St. Peter's Basilica. The girls were participants in the Communication Department's study-abroad program in Rome last winter quarter.
Hoping to return to Rome one day, six participants in the Communication Department's study-abroad program toss coins into the city's spectacular Trevi Fountain. From the left are Jessica Schwimmer, Sarah Purcell, Carol Insalako, Keri Brown, Laura Bates and Kelsey Sikma.		Four students in the Department of Communication's Rome Program get in on the act at the amphitheater in Ostia Antica, ancient Rome's port at the mouth of the River Tiber. From the left are Kelsey Sikma, Jessica Schwimmer, Sarah Purcell and Keri Brown.

All Rome photos: 2004 Images | 2005 Images | 2006 Images