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FST300.1 Culinary Crossings: Exploring Mediterranean Food Systems (Signature Seminar; Spring 2026)

FST300.1 Culinary Crossings: Exploring Mediterranean Food Systems (Signature Seminar; Spring 2026)

LIMITED ENROLLMENTThis traveling seminar offers a first-hand exploration of the social and cultural exchanges that have been shaping the Mediterranean (and societies beyond) for centuries. It analyzes these issues from a food-systems perspective that investigates how meaning is conveyed through food. Throughout the seminar, we will analyze how food practices express local and regional identities in Sicily.

The 3 credits earned for this seminar will be included in the maximum 19 credits that you are permitted to take during your semester abroad. You must enroll in a minimum of 12 other credits for the semester, not including this seminar.

This Signature Seminar is optional and travel destinations are subject to change. Seminar takes place after the semester concludes.

PSC380.4 Human Rights and Armed Conflicts (at the U. of Florence) (Fall)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Florence Center & University of Florence (courses taught in English).

Taught in English by the University of Florence and open to Syracuse University students. Fundamental principles in the field of international and national protection of human rights. Main instruments of human rights protection at universal and regional level. In-depth analysis of the following selected areas of protection: right to life and death penalty, prohibition of torture. Introduction to international humanitarian law of the armed conflicts and to international criminal justice.

Syracuse University Students: you may not earn credit for both this course and PSC 354

ARI333 Drawing II: Representation to Conceptualization (Fall, Spring) NOT OFFERED FALL 2026

This class builds on skills developed and explored in Drawing I: Observation. Course problems will work from observation of volume and space and extend that into drawing invented forms and space. Form, structure, and expression in drawing. Drawing problems in a variety of media.

Students must bring with them or purchase specialty drawing papers and tools suited to individual project(s).

Repeatable 2 time(s), 9 credits maximum

Limited enrollment, with preference given to students admitted to Studio Art Program.

Prereq: ARI 231 (Drawing I: Observation: Florentine Sketchbook) or equivalent

This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.

ARI231 Drawing I: Observation (Fall, Spring)

Limited enrollment, with preference given to students admitted to Studio Art Program. The focus of this course is to learn to see and allow the experience to develop into drawing. Students are introduced to the fundamental principles and elements of drawing as well as major techniques and media. These include: gesture, measurement and proportion, perspective, tone, contour, composition mark-making and texture, with media being pencil, charcoal, and ink.

Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum

This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.

ARI400.1 Advanced Painting (Fall, Spring) NOT OFFERED FALL 2026

For centuries artists, writers and intellectuals have been coming to Florence to learn from its rich artistic heritage as well as explore the city’s evolving and stimulating present. Studying in Florence today links you with this great tradition, raising questions and issues about art and creativity that can be both inspiring and challenging. This course asks the student to reflect upon this experience while learning to work through these questions as part of an artistic practice. We will look at the canon of painting and the process of representation from critical, formal and technical points of view, working with various traditional and experimental approaches as integral elements of the painting process. After a series of structured technical and conceptual exercises, students will develop a long term project that may take the form of painting or mixed media. Creative thinking and decision making will be stressed as well as an awareness of the contemporary dialogue in painting.

Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum

Limited enrollment, with preference given to students admitted to Studio Art Program.

Prereq: ARI 361 (Painting Studio II) or equivalent

This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.

ARI361 Painting Studio II (Fall, Spring) NOT OFFERED FALL 2026

For centuries artists, writers and intellectuals have been coming to Florence to learn from its rich artistic heritage as well as explore the city’s evolving and stimulating present. Studying in Florence today links you with this great tradition, raising questions and issues about art and creativity that can be both inspiring and challenging. This course asks the student to reflect upon this experience while learning to work through these questions as part of an artistic practice. We will look at the canon of painting and the process of representation from critical, formal and technical points of view, working with various traditional and experimental approaches as integral elements of the painting process. After a series of structured technical and conceptual exercises, students will develop a long term project that may take the form of painting or mixed media. Creative thinking and decision making will be stressed as well as an awareness of the contemporary dialogue in painting.

Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum

Limited enrollment, with preference given to students admitted to Studio Art Program.

Prereq: ARI 261 (Painting Studio I) or equivalent

This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.

PSC408 Politics of Immigration in Europe (Fall, Spring)

Analyze immigration policy in the European Union and its individual member states with attention to its residual socioeconomic and political implications. Special focus on gender, ethnic, and religious identities as they relate to immigration policy. In a globalized world, immigration transforms the fabric of our societies and poses new challenges to democratic politics. All over Europe, the migratory phenomenon has triggered new forms of identity conflict, which are shaping the political life of every country. In 2015, at least one million people sought refuge on European shores. The refugee crisis throws new light on European politics, revamping the urgency of a series of deep-set problems: conceptions and practices of citizenship, identity, multiculturalism, and secularization. Xenophobia is now a major component of public discourses in many European countries. These issues not only dominate domestic political debates in many countries but also seem to jeopardize the very future of the European Union, as clearly indicated by the recent history of Brexit. For this reason, the course will focus on Europe: however, it will adopt a comparative perspective, taking into consideration the U.S. situation as well as other relevant examples.

This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.

DES322 Made in Italy: Business, Craftsmanship, and Branding Success (Spring)

Developments and marketing trends in the Italian design industry and the production of luxury accessories. Special attention devoted to different aspects of traditional artisanship and specific marketing strategies to achieve success.

Italy provides models of design excellence in various business industries. Made, styled, and designed in Italy has become synonymous with high-quality products and processes. This course will take you on a journey through Italian excellence to examine how Italian products combine beauty and functionality for global commercial success. Through a series of conceptual frameworks, case studies, guest speakers, field study and site visits, you have an opportunity to compare and contrast the Italian business model (“Italian Creative Entrepreneurial Craftsmanship”) with prevalent models in the U.S., Europe and Asia. You will then integrate and critically evaluate these different approaches in case analysis and marketing projects.

Meets with INB322.

This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.