Program Brochure - University of Dallas

The University of Dallas (UD) will again
offer its Summer Rome Program in 2013 for
undergraduate students with at least 30 credit
hours. The program is designed both for UD
students and for students of other universities.
For UD students, the program serves as an
alternative and/or supplement to the regular fall
and spring semester in Rome. For students from
other universities, the Summer Rome Program
provides the extraordinary opportunity to study
in Rome as a part of an intellectually rigorous and
passionately Catholic university. The program is
offered on the Eugene Constantin Rome Campus
at Due Santi.
The Program
The Summer Rome Program builds upon the two great pillars of UD:
commitment to the liberal arts and to our Catholic identity. Students take
two courses, one in theology and the other in English (the specific course
descriptions are given below); together with UD faculty, students encounter
and reflect upon some of the most profound texts, ideas, and art of the
Church and Western culture. Classes are held on the Rome campus and on
site at numerous locations, including the monasteries of Subiaco and St.
Scholastica, the basilicas of Rome, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and the
catacombs in Rome.
The Faculty
Gregory Roper, chair and associate professor of English, specializes in Middle
English Literature (esp. Chaucer and the Gawain-poet), writing, and rhetoric
(his book, “The Writer’s Workshop”, is published by ISI Books), but teaches
works from the “Iliad” to Shakespeare to postmodern fiction. He is in the early
stages of a biography of St. Philip Neri.
Ron Rombs, associate professor of theology, specializes in patristics (the
Fathers of the Church) and fundamental theology (apologetics). He is
particularly interested in the theology of St. Augustine and Pope Benedict XVI.