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Spring Recess Course in Italy


Dear Colleagues:  You are invited to take advantage of this rich educational experience and please tell your students about it.  Thanks!

MCC SPRING RECESS COURSE IN ITALY:
Rome, Capri, Palermo, Sicily & More
April 14-23, 2005
English 106-LO1: The Roman Epic, “The Aeneid” On-Location & Other Connections to Ancient Greece

Literature or Humanities Elective: 3 Credits or Audit
Taught by Professor Stasia J. Callan: Office: 5-520
Phone: (585) 292-3370
E-mail: "mailto:scallan@monroecc.edu" scallan@monroecc.edu
Ten-Day Trip
Total for Students $2,064; for Adult Students (over 25) $2,414, if paid 99 days before the departure; $ 95 late registration will be added to both prices after January 5, 2005. Price includes the following: roundtrip airfare from Rochester, hotel with private bathrooms, continental breakfast and dinner daily; 6 tours led by licensed local guides, 7 visits to special attractions, and more.

Highlights: Isle of Capri Cruise; Taormina Greek Theater; Pompeii  Roman Ruins, Sistine Chapel; St. Peter’s Basilica; Colosseum, Forum Romanum; Spanish Steps.

$95  deposit  to EF Educational Tours due as soon as possible; total payment due by January 5, 2005. For Application Booklet see  Professor Callan. You may register at EF Educational Tours online: eftours.com: Tour # 231358; or by phone: 1-800-665-5364. The EF Educational Tours consultant for this trip is Mari Sullivan.

To earn 3 credits, or to audit, register at MCC for English 106-LO1 as soon as possible. Every person on the trip has to be registered at MCC.

The course work for 3 credits consists of the following: reading Virgil’s The Aeneid and Ely’s The Gods of Ancient Greece and Rome and writing interpretive journal entries before the trip; seven classes before the trip to discuss the readings; on-location, site-specific journal writing checked by the professor during the trip; one formal research paper (5-6  typewritten  double-spaced pages documented in MLA Style) due after the trip. Two additional meetings after the trip to hear oral presentations based on research papers and on-location learning.

MCC Travel  Course  Assessment  form due after all course requirements are met.

FOR AUDIT, ONLY COURSE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED BUT NO COURSE WORK.

Stasia Callan
English/Philosophy Department
10/04/2004