Are you interested in studying abroad in Italy? Come learn more about GLAM 181: Rome Through the Ages with faculty leader Professor Eric Orlin. 

This course centers on an intensive two week sojourn in the Eternal City, Rome. Students will use the urban topography, ancient ruins, modern reconstructions, and museums to immerse themselves in the lived experience of the city of Rome. Students learn architectural building techniques, systems of dating based on types of stone and brickwork, problems in identifying surviving buildings, the iconography of Roman political sculpture, and issues of Roman copying and reuse of original Greek art. Students will also confront the incorporation of Roman monuments into subsequent architecture, including Mussolini’s political (re)use of archaeology, as well as problems of conservation in the context of the modern city. Visits to the excavated cities of Pompeii and Ostia will make visible the daily lives and activities of those individuals lost in the literary record, including women and slaves.