UCI Summer Session 2010

july 19  – august 21  

Each summer, Accademia dell’Arte hosts the University of California, Irvine Summer Session in Italy. Students must enroll directly through UCI for this program.  For more information and application, please visit the UCI website at: www.summer.uci.edu/travelstudy/italy.

You can also view the UCI Brochure for this program in our Downloads Section.

The UCI summer session offers students the opportunity to explore physical theatre as well as humanities and the arts through participation in a Commedia dell’Arte intensive training, art history, Italian language or creative drawing courses.  

The unique setting of the Accademia and total commitment to honing artistic skills with outstanding faculty provides a rare and stimulating opportunity to combine technical mastery with creative inspiration. The program includes several excursions to surrounding areas.

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Courses:

·      Intermediate Acting - Commedia dell’Arte I and II (Intensive)

·      Art History

·      Creative Drawing

·      Italian Language

Course Descriptions:

      - Intermediate Acting -
  • Commedia dell'Arte I - Drama 130A (4 units, 50+ contact hours)
  • Commedia dell'Arte II - Drama 130B (4 units, 50+ contact hours)
Study advanced drama techniques through Commedia dell´Arte, a style drawn from the Italian theatre that demands an intensive physical engagament and presence from the performer.These courses are highly intensive programs for students who have a concentration in acting and are looking for conservatory-style training in physical theatre, including the use of mask, mime techniques, clowning, improvisation, and ensemble theatre techniques.

Instructor: Michele Bottini
see bio under guest faculty

      - History of Western Art: Medieval & Renaissance
Art History 40B (4 units) (Fulfills UCI Breadth Requirements IV and VII-B or UCI GE
Requirements IV and VII)

Students will discover the roots of the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance work, with a special emphasis on the art of Tuscany. The setting of Arezzo provides the perfect environment to gain first-hand experience of the ancient origins and modern developments of the art produced during these eras. Students will have first-hand encounters with Renaissance palaces, frescoes, and will visit the home of the artist, architect and writer, Giorgio Vasari, a native of Arezzo, who is widely considered to be one of the first art historians. Students will also travel to the city of Florence and visit the Uffizi Gallery, the Accademia, the Duomo, Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella and San Lorenzo and the Medici Chapels.

Instructor:  Deborah Cibelli
 

      - Creative Drawing
Studio Art 20 (4 units) (Fulfills UCI GE Requirement IX)

In this course, fundamental drawing practices will be explored using various media. Students will learn how to analyse works of art so as to be able to differentiate between, and single out, different styles. The goal of this course is to master the grammar of visual representation, and to use this as a structure for exploring all visual expectations and experiences: imagination, memory, identities, social connection and alienation, senses of beauty and ugliness - anything that can be described visually.

Instructor:  Giovanni Caselli

Text: Art History - John T. Paoletti & Gary M. Radke 'Art in Renaissance Italy' third edition - Laurence King Publishing

     - Fundamentals of Italian
Italian 1A (4 units)
This course introduces students to basic Italian in such a way that, from the beginning, he or she will be able to understand simple, everyday Italian, both spoken and written. Readings and exercises will reinforce the grammar studied in each lesson and the textbook will provide a point of departure for conversation - which will be an essential component of each class.

Instructor: Monica Capacci
see bio under core faculty

Text: Italian - Italian Espresso: Italian Course for English Speakers by Paolo Bultrini, Filippo Graziani, and Nicoletta Magnani - Alma edizioni
             In addition, students can photocopy the pages of the related workbook (purchasing a printing card at OSL).  


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