Postcard from Italy
December 06, 2010
The teaching team of Elisabeth Aiken,
English instructor, and Karen Bryant, fine arts instructor, guided
these Saint Leo University students through Florence and Rome on a
Thanksgiving study tour. The students were introduced directly to
the visual arts and cultural settings they have been studying in an
intensive three-credit course, International Influences in Arts and
Humanities in the Western World (IDS 340). Stops naturally included
Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain and the first permanent amphitheater
of the city, the Colosseum, built around the year 75 A.D. (both
pictured above). This highly successful undergraduate course has
become a showpiece of Saint Leo’s innovative teaching style by
offering students an accessible, lower-cost way to study art and
literature abroad for a brief period. The venues for the
interdisciplinary course rotate among three destinations: Italy,
Paris, and multiple cities in the United Kingdom. Interested
students should contact their advisors to see what years the course
is offered and which destination is planned at what time. Alumni
are also invited to come along on the tours.
