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ABOUT the UNH Italy Study Abroad Program 
Participants in all programs are housed in comfortable apartments located within the historic center of Program fees for each program are listed under "Expenses."
Academic Year, Fall Semester, Spring Semester Programs
Participants enroll at the UNH-in-Italy Ascoli Piceno Center where they take a wide variety of courses.
Language courses are offered at all levels. In addition, there are drawing, painting, art history, history,
literature, and political science courses. There also exists the possibility of pursuing a variety of internships
sponsored by government agencies, businesses, schools, social institutions, and cultural institutions. The courses
offered at the UNH-in-Italy Ascoli Piceno Center are official UNH courses.
Summer 2008: Programs in Painting, the Italian Renaissance, and Explorations in Culture and Nutrition
Painting Italy in Context - Professors Jennifer Moses and Mara Witzling
This course is an intensive 4-credit, 5 week team-taught painting-art history course, taught under the Arts 695 Special Problems in Visual Arts designation. It will offer an integrated experience in which students gain a deep knowledge and understanding of the environs of Ascoli Piceno and selected sites within Italy, that they put into practice through painting. The course will consist of two ongoing threads: the layering of time and space in Italy and in Italian art, and narrative painting as expressed in cycles of the life of Christ, the Virgin, and the lives of saints. The course will include trips to Venice, Florence, Rome and other selected sites in Italy.
The art history component will involve exploration of the art historical layers of Ascoli: Roman, Medieval, Renaissance-Baroque; the experience of architecture in Ascoli and other selected venues as it unfolds from the interior to the exterior; painted lives of the saints in Ascoli and at other sites. Students will be expected to keep a guided journal and write critical analyses of site visits.
The painting component will focus on observational painting that includes the layering and compositing of time, linking the contemporary Italian landscape and its life with its ancient substructure. There will be a major final project that demonstrates familiarity with how Italian narrative painting has been constructed over the years.
Can be used for credit to fulfill a 600-level painting or 600-level art history course requirement for studio majors or as the 2nd studio course or 600-level in any area requirement for art history majors.
Prerequisites – Arts 532 Intro Drawing, Arts 546 Intro Painting, and an introductory level art history class; or permission of instructors.
Italian Renaissance Program
Spend 5 weeks in Ascoli Piceno while studying Italian and exploring the literature of the Italian
Renaissance. Course offerings for Summer 2007 include The Italian Renaissance
(ITAL 500), Elementary Italian (ITAL 401/402), Intermediate
Italian (ITAL 503/504), Advanced Conversation and Composition Italian ( ITAL 631). Students will enroll in ITAL 500 and one other course for a total of 8 UNH credits.
Successful participation in ITAL 503, 504 or 631 satisfies the UNH's General Education Group 5 Foreign Culture requirement.
The Renaissance
in Italy was a time of great creative ferment, especially in literature and the arts. But it was also a time of
crisis and of profound transformation in the economic, social, and political life. In this course we will
encounter the most important personalities that characterize the spirit of the age--Petrarch, Boccaccio,
Machiavelli, Leonardo, Ariosto, and Michelangelo. Selections from their works will be analyzed and discussed,
and several films will be shown. There will also be excursions, including museum visits, in Ascoli and
surrounding towns, and field trips to Florence and Rome. The program is taught in English.
Explorations in Culture and Nutrition
Spend 5 weeks in Ascoli Piceno while enjoying this vibrant and unique medieval city off the Adriatic coast. Course offerings for Summer 2007 include Interdisciplinary Field Seminar in Italian Culture (ITAL 681, UNH Gen. Ed Group 4 or 8), The Mediterranean Diet and Culture (NUTR 595), Introductory (ITAL 401/402), Intermediate Italian (ITAL 503/504), Advanced Conversation and Composition (ITAL 631). Students will enroll in two courses for a total of 8 UNH credits. Successful participation in NUTR 595 and ITAL 681 satisfies the UNH's General Education Group 5 Foreign Culture requirement. ITAL 503, 504, or 631 will also satisfy Group 5.
On-Site Faculty/Staff Members
Prof.Cristian Muscelli – Administrative Director
Prof. Piero Garofalo - Resident Director (Fall 2007 and Spring 2008)
Prof. Jennifer Moses - Co-director, Painting Italy in Context (Summer 2008)
Prof. Mara Witzling - Co-director, Painting Italy in Context (Summer 2008)
Prof. Piero Garofalo - Co-director, Nutrition & Culture Program (Summer 2008)
Prof. Jesse Morrell - Co-director, Nutrition & Culture Program (Summer 2008)
Prof. Piero Garofalo - Director, Renaissance Program (Summer 2008)
Prof. Julia Rodriguez - Resident Director (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)
UNH-in-Italy
University of New Hampshire in Italy, Via Vidacilio, 16 - 63100 Ascoli Piceno Italy - Phone and Fax:0736.263503