Summer Study Abroad in Venice

Venice: the Endangered Fantasy
Summer UW Study Abroad program
Info Session Weds 12/9 at 1:30
Padelford Hall C-101

The Comparative History of Ideas program invites students from all areas of study to apply for this 12-15 credit summer program.  All instruction is in English.   Participants can apply their Federal Financial Aid or apply for additional scholarships.  Strong applicants will demonstrate an interest in interdisciplinary learning, European political or intellectual history, geography or cultural studies.

 Students will consider numerous aspects of Venice’s cultural legacy through its particular artistic style, architecture, religious institutions such as the lay confraternities, and its representations in the literary imagination. In addition, the program will consider the problems of maintaining an urban community at a site now almost entirely devoted to tourism. And, the program will consider the ecological challenges involved in maintaining the site of Venice through scientific efforts to overcome the subsidence of the islands and to regulate the water level in the lagoons. This is intended to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the study of a singular urban site with a rich history but a fragile future in terms of its core community and its threatened ecostructure.

For applications and more information see our website: http://depts.washington.edu/chid/showprogram.php?id=96
Contact: chidint@uw.edu