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Applying to the summer program Admissions requirements Undergraduate students at the University of Dallas are encouraged to apply, as well as undergraduate students at other institutions. The university reserves the opportunity to participate in the Rome program for students who are most likely both to succeed academically through the curriculum of liberal arts study and to behave responsibly in the environment of the close-knit Rome campus community and during their individual travels in Europe. Students demonstrate their qualifications for acceptance with a good academic and discipline record. Application Procedure Application deadline for priority consideration is January 15, 2013. A $500 program deposit must accompany an application. UD students who have paid the $500 deposit and $2,000 first payment by February 1, 2013, will receive a $500 discount off the program fees. UD students may apply for Summer 2013 instead of or in addition to a semester Rome program. Those who have not applied for the regular Rome semester 2012-2013 (including those who applied for earlier years of the Rome semester) should submit a Rome application at udallas.edu/rome/ prospectiveromers/romeapp.html and select Summer 2013 in the Semester Requested field. The following are necessary for an application to be eligible for review: A passport valid at least through November 2013. APPLY NOW. Passports can take up to six weeks to process. For information on how to apply for or renew a passport, visit: travel.state.gov/passport • Fulfillment of minimum academic requirements including: 30 credit hours, and a 2.5 cumulative grade point average and good academic standing. Students who are not matriculated at the University of Dallas must have a minimum 3.0 grade point average at their home institution. • Good health and maturity: it is also important that students be prepared for two months overseas in an intense program that is physically, socially and academically challenging. Health and student life histories are reviewed in light of these concerns. A complete application for Summer 2013 Rome includes: • Online application • Health form • Release & Indemnity form • Required Signature Sheet • Photocopy of information page of passport valid until November 2013 • Students from other universities must also complete a University of Dallas Special Student Application.
The Courses The Summer Program consists of two courses not presently offered in the fall and spring Rome semesters (6 total credits), taught by university faculty. It will be possible for students planning to attend the regular spring 2013 Rome semester to extend their stay in Italy by participating in the summer session. All students must register for both courses. Theology 4V57: Faith and Culture, Ron Rombs, Ph.D. The perceived opposition between faith and reason in our contemporary culture as well as the opposition between faith and culture have been called a crisis—a crisis of faith, of religion, of culture. It is arguably the theological crisis of our time. “Faith and Culture” introduces and examines the ways in which the Catholic tradition has understood the relationship between faith and reason, and between faith and culture. A special focus is given to the city of Rome itself: the course emphasizes patristic perspectives in Rome (Justin Martyr and St. Leo the Great, for example) and the thought of the two most recent popes, Blessed Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. The course will also include excursions to relevant sites, including the Christian catacombs and the Sistine Chapel, to complement and give greater depth and dimension to readings and classroom discussion. ENG 3375: The Catholic Imagination: Truth and Beauty in Art, Literature, and Music, Gregory Roper, Ph.D. If the companion course in our summer program studies the crisis of faith and reason, we might say this course studies the crisis of faith, truth, and beauty. Beauty itself, as modernism dawned at the beginning of the 20th century, began to seem an outmoded term in the face of the mechanization, the rapid pace, the industrialization and the harsh discontinuities of modern life. Then World War I seemed to destroy all semblance of order, and the horrors of the Holocaust, atomic destruction and totalitarianism seemed to raise the question of whether beauty was an irrelevant notion. Relativistic theories of man questioned the purposes of art at its roots. Today, secularism seems to pose the greatest threat to an art which can encompass the whole of human experience. Yet in response to this, the 20th century produced a stunning array of artists of faith who fight through these difficulties—facing them head-on rather than ignoring them—to try to articulate how and why beauty, art and truth can be re-connected in the face of the modern world’s horrors. Catholic novelists, poets and musicians found a way into the darkness but emerged on the other side with a sharpened, transcendent view of art that could encounter the worst of human nature and find a sacramental basis for art, truth, beauty. The 20th century came to a close with a world-figure Pope who was himself an actor, dramatist, and poet, and the twentyfirst century dawned with a new Pope who is a brilliant classical pianist. Clearly it is worth our time to explore how the Catholic imagination can respond to our times in ways that shape and move our deepest longings.
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