ATS2881 · Monash Arts Prato: Discovering Europe

Overview

Drawing from the wide range of disciplines offered by the Faculty of Arts, the Arts Italy Intensive offers you the opportunity to learn and experience the culture, history, language, society and landscape of one of the most influential world civilisations. Based at our Prato campus in Tuscany, Italy, on the doorstep of Florence, the home of the Italian Renaissance, you will learn at Monash’s Palazzo Vaj, in the heart of one of the best-preserved traditional cultures of Tuscany. You will undertake a rich and varied programme of interactive, classroom-based activities at Palazzo Vaj and excursions to museums, galleries, historic sites and cultural experiences. Through these activities you will draw on history, archaeology, philosophy, literature and music to discover the depth and breadth of the impact of Italy on European and Western culture and the experiences, over time, of humanity’s challenges such as public health, war, religious belief, ideologies, politics and nation-building, race and migration.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. recognise and discuss diverse ways that philosophers, artists and historians have understood what it means to be human;
2. analyse and explain the relationship between the human, non-human and more-than-human aspects of social life;
3. link ideas about being human across time and cultures;
4. formulate arguments about the value of human-centred approaches to contemporary socio-political issues;
5. relate real-world experiences to abstract concepts through place-based learning.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.