Study Tour to Italy
HIST - 455/550
Science, Art and Superstition in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy
June 29 - July 21, 2009

Bridgewater State College’s Office of Study Abroad invites you to earn academic credit on a faculty-led study tour to Lucca, Italy!

This course explores the history and culture of Italy roughly from the millennium through the fourteenth century focusing selectively on the communes and countryside of north and central Italy. It was an era not only of castle and fortification building but also of road and bridge construction designed to assist movement for trade, war, and pilgrimage. Many names of its figures, such as St. Francis of Assisi and Dante Alighieri, remain among the most prominent in shaping Italian national history and culture.

  Highlights

• Visit the Duomo and Baptistry
• Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Visit to Grotta del Vento
• Overnight trip to Venice

Faculty Leader: Dr. Luci Fortunato
Dr. Luci Fortunato, professor of History at Bridgewater State College, received her doctorate in European History from Boston College in 1989.  Her areas of scholarly research and interest focus on Italian social, cultural, religious, and women's history and literature from the Renaissance through the Risorgimento.

3 credits: HIST 455 or  HIST 550 Students in all majors and classes are encouraged to participate. All BSC Students will Receive a Scholarship!!! Package Cost: TBA For more information contact the Office of Study Abroad Maxwell Library Room 100B, Bridgewater State College www.bridgew.edu/international