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University of Northern Iowa - Preparation for Southern Italy Capstone

Exploring Southern Italy and Sicily

Week 1 - Feb. 6 - Intro. to S. Italy Capstone

Week 2 - Feb. 13 - Rome

Week 3 - Feb. 20 - Western Sicily

No prep classes in March

Week 4 - April 3 How you will be graded

Week 5 - April 17 - odds and ends before we leave

Week 6 - April 24 - TBD

Pre-Departure Learning -

1. Wicked problems (reading) AND worksheet (not to be turned in)

2. Xavier Le Pinchon ‘Fragility and the Evolution of Humanity’ Podcast

3. Jared Diamond - Video LInk AND Handout (coming soon)

4. Geoarchaeology of western Sicily, Please read Geoarchaeology of the Chuddia River Valley Western Sicily and fill out Worksheet (not to be turned in)

5. Climate Change Convincing , Science Friday Podcast January 6, 2017

Daily Activity Sheets

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

 

Rick Steves Podcasts : Italy - Italian Cuisine 1 (audio), Italian Cuisine 2 (audio), Pasta 101 (audio) , Rome - Colosseum (audio AND map) , Sistine Chapel (audio AND map) , St. Peters (audio AND map) , Pantheon (audio AND map), Michelangelo in Rome (audio), Rome Beneath the surface (audio)

Getting ready to travel this summer...

Basic packing list and ideas (not complete - Please let me know if you have questions), Electrical adaptor (info) Or the minimum you might need

Handouts for learning Italian numbers and phrases... Page1 , Page 2 , Page 3 , Page 4

Links to explore

Lodging

Rome - Bed and Breakfast Marco and Laura (6 nights)

Trapani - Bed & Breakfast Belveliero , (5 nights)

Catania - Gattoparddo House, (2 nights)

Lipari/Canneto - Baia Unici , (6 nights)

 

Useful Links

Rome

A War Diary Soars Over Rome (National Geographic, April 2015)

BBC Historical Research

Roman Emperors

The British Museum

The Vatican

 

Egadi Islands

La Grotta del Genovese

Favignana

Aeolian Islands

Stromboli #1

Stromboli #2

 

Lipari

 

Further reading...

Italian History

Lonely Planet

Geoarchaeology

Palaeobotany

1968 Earthquake

Erosion post-Roman

Sicily tectonics

The day the Earth shook