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JOHN FELICE ROME CENTER Digging in to Italy
From archaeological digs to wine tasting, students get a true experience of Italian history and culture • BY ALEXANDRA JONKER (’17)
Studying at the Rome Center is al- ready an immersive and eye-open- ing experience for students—so how can it be taken a step further? That’s the question that Jennifer Engel, executive director at the Office for International Programs, and Alexander Evers, associate dean
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for academic affairs and professor of classical studies and ancient his- tory at the JFRC, sought the answer to last summer. “We were talking about different things that we could be doing during our summer ses- sion to update the curriculum and invigorate it,” says Engel. “Then we
came up with the idea of what we labeled the Fusion Experiences.” The Fusion Experience pairs
two different, but complementary, courses into a single, well-rounded study-abroad adventure. Students spend their first two weeks in Rome and their final two weeks traveling
to a specific region in Italy, doing different activities outside of the typical classroom setting. By meld- ing two distinctive areas, Engel says that learning is no longer “siloed” into different subjects. “Students are learning about
the content in an interrelated way, versus the traditional way of learn- ing about history in one class and learning about art in another,” she says. “This then makes learning all the more impactful when you can actually learn about something in the classroom and then go out and see it and get your hands dirty.”
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