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
- 10 Hours of Art and design classes
- 10 Hours of Language
- 2 Culinary Lessons
- 35 Hours of On Site instruction
- 2 Expert Lectures
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.
- 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.
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 |
Activity |
| 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:
- Arrival Day and Campus Orientation:
- Safety and Rules.
- Room assignment
- Campus tour
- City Orientation:
- Lecture - General history of the Greco Roman World
- Lecture : Early Rome: Ties to the ancients, Roman Law and Founding myths
- Lecture : Economics and the corruption of the Roman Republic
- Lecture : ‘The Imperial Age of Rome’
- Area Sacra
- Capitoline Hill and Capitoline museum
- Tarpean Rock
- Forum Boarium
- Circus Flaminius
- Trajan’s Forum
- Caesar’s Forum
- Nerva’s Forum
- Domus Aurea
- Colosseum
- Ludus Magnus
- Caelian hill
- Travel Day - Lecture : Daily life in Ancient Rome
| Time |
Activity |
| 7am | Breakfast |
| 8am-9am | Bus and Daily Quiz |
| 9am-12pm | Lecture and Visit of Archaeological site Ostia Antica |
| 12pm-12:30pm | Bus to Beach |
| 12:30pm-6:30pm | Pizza Lunch and free time at Beach |
| 6:30pm-7:15pm | Bus back to campus |
| 7:15pm | Dinner |
- Travel Day - Lecture : The Birth of Archaeology 1
| Time |
Activity |
| 7am | Breakfast on Bus to Naples |
| 8am-8:30am | Daily Quiz on Bus |
| 9am-12pm | Lecture and Visit of Naples’s National Museum |
| 12pm-12:45pm | Bus to Vesuvius |
| 12:45pm-3pm | Hike and Lunch Pick nick on Mount Vesuvius |
| 3pm-4pm | Back to Bus |
| 4pm-7pm | Lecture and Visit of Archaeological site of Pompeii |
| 7pm-8pm | Back to Bus |
| 8pm | Check-in at Beata Solitudine Hostel Agerola (San Lazzero) & Dinner |
- Travel Day - Lecture : The Birth of Archaeology 2
| Time |
Activity |
| 8am | Breakfast |
| 8:45am-9am | Daily Quiz |
| 9am-1pm | Bus or Trail Hike (Sentiero degli Dei) from Agerola to Positano |
| 1pm-2:15pm | Lunch TBA |
| 2:15pm-4:30pm | Free Time at Beach |
| 4:30pm-5:15pm | Boat Ferry to Amalfi |
| 6:30pm-9pm | Bus back to campus |
| 9pm | Late Dinner |
- Lecture - From Judaism to early Christianity.
- The University of St. Thomas Aquinas
- Lecture: Life after the Roman Empire: The Christianization of Europe
- Lecture: Underground Christianity to Constantine’s Edict: The End of Pagan Rome and the Beginning of Imperial Christian Rome
- Arch of Constantine
- San Clemente
- The church of Quatro Coronatti
- Basilica of St .Paul’s Outside the Walls
- San Giovanni
- Holy steps
- Santa Croce in Jerusalem
- Travel Day – Lecture: Life in the Medieval World
| Time |
Activity |
| 7am | Breakfast |
| 8am-10:30am | Bus to Orvieto |
| 10:30am-12:30pm | Lecture and Visit of Orvieto and Cathedral |
| 12:30pm-1:15pm | Picnic in Alborboz Fortress |
| 1:15pm-2:15pm | Bus to Assisi |
| 4:30pm-6:30pm | Free Time |
| 6:30pm-8:pm | Bus back to Campus |
| 8:30pm-9:30pm | Final Exam |
| 9pm | Dinner Party |
- Departure Day
- Campus Pick-Up
- Airport Drop-Off at departure gate
- All Latin and Italian material for exercises and tests to be given during the above lectures
- Language and art hours can be exchanged for those seeking greater emphasis on language or art.
- 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.
