14-Day Course

"From Ancient to Christian Rome"

Program Overview

Eternal City Education’s 14 day study abroad course program “From Ancient to Christian Rome” is designed for students 14 to 16 years of age. Through a complex of immersion and experience based learning students will learn about the most important transformation of human history and its relevance to today’s world. Beyond trips to 8 cities in the Italian peninsula students have supplementary Language, Art and Culinary lessons that broaden their experiential pallette disposing them to permanent learning.     


This 14 day European study abroad course program will include:

    

  • Trips to 8 Italian Cities
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  • 10 Hours of Art and design classes
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  • 10 Hours of Language
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  • 2 Culinary Lessons
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  • 35 Hours of On Site instruction
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  • 2 Expert Lectures
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Cities to be Visited


The beautiful Italian cities to be visited include:
    
    
     
  1. Rome (Base)
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  2. Florence
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  3. Milan
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  4. Maranello
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  5. Venice
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  6. Tivoli
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  7. Castel Gandolfo
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  8. Anzio
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Best Price

The price for this course program is:
      
Course Fee : $2900 USD

      
Includes: Instruction, Supervision (Chaperons), room and board, educational supplies and materials, travel expenses, museum and archaeological entrance fees and insurance. 

    

  • All expenses included minus the flight to and from Rome.
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  • Accreditation requirements vary based on the students home educational institution. Full curriculum, sample examinations, learning materials, learning methodology and course program itinerary are available to institutions for their review and auto accreditation.
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Calendar of 14 day study abroad course ”From Ancient to Christian Rome”: Curriculum, Content and Dates


Each study abroad course begins on the first Tuesday of June, July and August.


The Monday prior to the programs start is set aside for early arrival to allow students with flexibility in booking flights. The day window prior is recommended so as to help students adjust to time differences. Pickup of students to and from the airport is included in the program fee.

Daily Itinerary 





	
	
		

			Time
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			8:00am
			Breakfast
		


		

			9:00am - 10:30am
			Language Class
		


		

			10:45am - 12:15pm
			Art Class
		


		

			12:15pm - 1:45pm
			Lunch
		


		

			1:45pm - 2:15pm
			Daily Quiz
		


		

			2:15pm - 4:45pm
			Daily Lecture (lecture times vary based on subject matter)
		


		

			4:30pm - 7:00pm
			Free Time
		


		

			7:00pm
			Dinner
		


	
	





Travel day itineraries (see calendar)


Start Dates


2016 June 7, July 5, August 2 


2017 June 6, July 4, August 1 


Day:



    

  1. Arrival Day and Campus Orientation:
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    • Safety and Rules.
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    • Room assignment
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    • Campus tour
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  2. City Orientation:
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    • Safety and Rules.
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  3. Lecture - General history of the Greco Roman World
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    • Aventine Hill
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  4. Lecture : Early Rome:  Ties to the ancients, Roman Law and Founding myths
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    • Palatine Hill
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  5. Lecture : Economics and the corruption of the Roman Republic
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    • The Circus Maximus
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  6. Lecture : ‘The Imperial Age of Rome’
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    • Area Sacra
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    • Capitoline Hill and Capitoline museum
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    • Tarpean Rock
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    • Forum Boarium
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    • Circus Flaminius
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    • Trajan’s Forum
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    • Caesar’s Forum
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    • Nerva’s Forum
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    • Domus Aurea
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    • Colosseum
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    • Ludus Magnus
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    • Caelian hill
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  7. Travel Day - Lecture : Daily life in Ancient Rome
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    7amBreakfast
    

    8am-9amBus and Daily Quiz
    

    9am-12pmLecture and Visit of Archaeological site Ostia Antica
    

    12pm-12:30pmBus to Beach
    

    12:30pm-6:30pmPizza Lunch and free time at Beach
    

    6:30pm-7:15pmBus back to campus
    

    7:15pmDinner
    

    

    

  8. Travel Day - Lecture : The Birth of Archaeology 1
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    7amBreakfast on Bus to Naples
    

    8am-8:30amDaily Quiz on Bus
    

    9am-12pmLecture and Visit of Naples’s National Museum
    

    12pm-12:45pmBus to Vesuvius 
    

    12:45pm-3pmHike and Lunch Pick nick on Mount Vesuvius
    

    3pm-4pmBack to Bus
    

    4pm-7pmLecture and Visit of Archaeological site of Pompeii 
    

    7pm-8pmBack to Bus 
    

    8pmCheck-in at Beata Solitudine Hostel Agerola (San Lazzero) & Dinner
    

    

    

  9. Travel Day - Lecture : The Birth of Archaeology 2
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    8amBreakfast
    

    8:45am-9amDaily Quiz
    

    9am-1pmBus or Trail Hike (Sentiero degli Dei) from Agerola to Positano
    

    1pm-2:15pmLunch TBA
    

    2:15pm-4:30pmFree Time at Beach
    

    4:30pm-5:15pmBoat Ferry to Amalfi
    

    6:30pm-9pmBus back to campus 
    

    9pmLate Dinner
    

    

    

  10. Lecture - From Judaism to early Christianity.
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    • The University of St. Thomas Aquinas
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  11. Lecture:  Life after the Roman Empire: The Christianization of Europe
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    • Janiculum Hill
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  12. Lecture:  Underground Christianity to Constantine’s Edict: The End of Pagan Rome and the Beginning of Imperial Christian Rome
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    • Arch of Constantine
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    • San Clemente
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    • The church of Quatro Coronatti
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    • Basilica of St .Paul’s Outside the Walls 
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    • San Giovanni
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    • Holy steps
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    • Santa Croce in Jerusalem
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  13. Travel Day – Lecture: Life in the Medieval World
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    7amBreakfast
    

    8am-10:30amBus to Orvieto
    

    10:30am-12:30pmLecture and Visit of Orvieto and Cathedral
    

    12:30pm-1:15pmPicnic in Alborboz Fortress
    

    1:15pm-2:15pmBus to Assisi
    

    4:30pm-6:30pmFree Time
    

    6:30pm-8:pmBus back to Campus
    

    8:30pm-9:30pmFinal Exam
    

    9pmDinner Party
    

    

    

  14. Departure Day
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    • Campus Pick-Up
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    • Airport Drop-Off at departure gate
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  • All Latin and Italian material for exercises and tests to be given during the above lectures
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  • Language and art hours can be exchanged for those seeking greater emphasis on language or art.
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  • Each study abroad course program is followed by the allowance of two days for departure. Students drop off and escort to terminal and gate of departure are included in cost of program as with student pickup.
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