Photo: past students on the Italian Discoveries program, Venice Italy (click the photo for more)

“Italian Discoveries” combines two, 3-credit HONR courses, “Da Vinci’s Renaissance” and “Our Postmodern Present” into a seamless whole. The 3-week program also brings together the best of Italy, from the rich countryside of northern Italy’s Veneto region to the sun-drenched hills of Tuscany—from famous cities to small villages known only to locals. Any Purdue student with a GPA over 3.0 may apply.

The class is completely interdisciplinary (as was da Vinci's career) so the program will be of interest to STEM students as much as to students in the humanities.

We begin in Paderno del Grappa, a small town in the Veneto, where we will spend a week in the country learning how to make pizza, pasta and tiramisù, feasting our minds on the works of the Italian Renaissance, and feasting everything else at local family tables and an agristurismo (restaurant at a working farm). We then move to Florence, the epicenter of Renaissance art and science, from which we will enjoy a day trip to the most perfectly preserved medieval jewel of Italy, San Gimignano. We will spend our last week in Venice, living and studying on the small, exclusive island of San Servolo, the home of Venice International University. With the watery city as our text book, we will discover why this unforgettable city is unique in all the world.

We will be working with WorldStrides for this program. You can find more information by going to:

https://worldstrides.com/custom/purdue-university-italian-discoveries/

Enter the password Italia2019.  

Feel free to contact the program leader for more information: felluga@purdue.edu.