From Staff Reports
Professors Vincenzo Piazza and Chris Whitaker are leading the latest Study Abroad opportunity in a May 15-24 tour of Rome, Italy. Daytona State students are encouraged to enroll in an educational trip that will include a course, Introduction to Humanities, worth 3 credit hours.
While there, students will visit the eternal city’s most renown locations, as well as cites that are not on the typical tourist “bucket list.” The visit includes also one day in the mythical Pompeii to experience the lifestyle of the ancient Romans, together with their arts, along with a halfa day in another Roman city, Ostia Antica, 16 miles west of Rome, a port-harbor city on the Tyrrhenian Sea built by emperor Claudius in 56 CE.
They say, “When in Rome,” and students will get a rare local view of the city and country from native Italian Piazza.
Among the locations to be visited will be a full day on the Palatine Hil,l which includes the Coliseum, the Roman Forum, Palatine Museum, Circus Maximus, and Trajan’s Forum. Students will experience the Pantheon, still quite intact, the Altar of Peace and Mausoleum of emperor Augustus, as well as the location where Caesar was assassinated.
Important museums are also scheduled such as the Capitoline on the Campidoglio, overseeing Rome, and the Vatican Museum, which culminates with Raphael’s Rooms and Michelangelo’s vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican experience will include a visit to the Basilica of St. Peter’s.
Cost for the trip is just under $2,600, which includes round-trip flight, hotel accommodations (located adjacent to the University of Rome), breakfast, and wi-fi, RomaPass card for three days of cost-free public transportation and two museum visits, entrance to the Vatican and Borghese Museum, as well as the Coliseum and Forum, travel insurance and private shuttle to and from Airport and Pompeii.
Not included is the cost for the humanities course and meals and some site/location entrances. For further information or to enroll you can log into www.daytonastate.edu/studyabroad, or contact Prof. Piazza at piazzav@daytonastate.edu / or call him at 386-785-2079, or Prof. Christopher Whitaker at Whitakc@daytonastate.edu / 386-785-2049.
In addition to this opportunity, four more Study Abroad programs are scheduled for spring and summer, 2019.
May 28 to June 7, theater professor Samantha Stern and arts professor Trent Berning will lead another trip to Italy, starting in Pisa and Lucca, with extended stays in Florence and Venice and day trips to Sienna and San Gimignano. Credits in theater or arts appreciation will be awarded to participants or interested parties can audit the course for no credit. An application and downpayment must be made to Stern and a minimu of 10 people must be signed up for trip planning to proceed.
In addition, the nursing department is hosting a visit to London (May 9-16), there is a Teaching Beyond Borders opportunity in Nicaragua (June 6-16) and the bachelor’s program in Supervision and Management is sponsoring a capstone project for students in Ireland (April 11-19).
Information, deadlines, costs, itineraries and testimonials for all trips are posted online at http://www.daytonastate.edu/studyabroad/
Study Abroad Programs are coordinated by the Office of Planning and Professional Development. For general questions please contact John Brady at john.brady@DaytonaState.edu or by phone at 386-506-3837.