The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (ICCS) is an overseas study center located in Rome , Italy for undergraduate students in fields related to Classical Studies. It was first established in 1965 by ten American colleges and universities; by 2007 the number of member institutions had grown to 113. It is sometimes called the Centro , the Italian word for center.
19-531: ICCS stands for: Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies , Italy International Catholic Conference of Scouting International Coin Certification Service , Canada International Commission of Control and Supervision , United Nations International Commission on Civil Status , Europe International Council for Canadian Studies International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes ,
38-498: A crime classification standard; see National Crime Records Bureau Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title ICCS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ICCS&oldid=1025100171 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
57-757: A graduate student assistant, the 'Resident Instructor' (RI). The Professor in Charge is chosen by the Managing Committee and the remaining faculty are hired competitively at the annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies in January. Faculty duties vary in accordance with the organizational plans of the PIC, but the course load is nominally two courses per semester except for
76-564: A weekly lecture Wednesday afternoons and a field trip Friday mornings, normally to a museum or church. Instruction in Italian is provided by Dr. Barbara Castaldo. All students live in a small four-story building that previously served as a convent, located at Via Alessandro Algardi 19, in the Monteverde Vecchio section of Rome, having moved here from Via Ulisse Seni 2. Breakfast, dinner, and most lunches are eaten together on all weekdays;
95-506: A wider public (outreach), and of the Goodwin Award of Merit, which recognizes a recently published book. At every meeting, an Outreach Division conducts two events that are open to the general public. One is a special panel that is of interest to non-specialists. Topics have included the movie Troy , Classics and Contemporary Fiction and the HBO series Rome and Classics and Comics. The second
114-498: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies Each member institution furnishes a "faculty representative" to the Centro ; from these, four are elected by the institutional representatives to sit on a governing board called the Managing Committee, with a fifth member provided by Duke University, which provides administrative services to
133-1331: Is the staged reading of a classical or classically themed play, by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance. The productions have been: The Invention of Love ( Tom Stoppard , directed by Mary-Kay Gamel, produced by Judith Hallett ), The Heavensgate Deposition (based on Apocolocyntosis by Seneca the Younger , adapted by Douglass Parker, directed by Amy R. Cohen, produced by Thomas Jenkins), The Golden Age (by Thomas Heywood , directed by C. W. Marshall), Iran Man (based on Persa by Plautus , directed by Mary-Kay Gamel), Thespis (by W. S. Gilbert and A. S. Sullivan , with new music by Alan Riley Jones, directed by John Starks, produced by John Given), The Birds (by Aristophanes , directed by Thomas Talboy), Cyclops (by Euripides , directed by Laura Lippman and Mike Lippman), Thersites (perhaps by Nicholas Udall , directed by C. W. Marshall), Thesmophoriazusae (by Aristophanes , directed by Bella Vivante), The Jurymen (by Katherine Janson, directed by Amy R. Cohen) and Alcestis (by Euripides , translated by Mary-Kay Gamel, directed by Gamel and Mark Damen). Through its divisions of Research, Education, Publications, Professional Matters, and Program,
152-639: The American Philological Association ( APA ), is a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization founded in 1869. It is the preeminent association in the field and publishes a journal, Transactions of the American Philological Association (TAPA). The SCS is currently based at New York University . The APA was inaugurated by William D. Whitney , of Yale , at Poughkeepsie, New York , in 1869 as an outgrowth of
171-461: The Archaeological Institute of America . About 400 scholarly papers are delivered at the Society's meeting, which is also the site for interviewing for college and university positions and for the meetings of the many committees and affiliated groups. It is also the occasion for the presentation of Society awards for teaching at both pre-collegiate and collegiate level, for projects that bring classics to
190-529: The David and Lucille Packard Foundation , its consortium of colleges and universities, former students, and friends. One of its founders was the American Classicist Brooks Otis , in whose memory the center's library is named. Normally there are four faculty members at ICCS Rome: a senior 'Professor in Charge' (PIC), two junior professors (often an associate professor and an assistant professor), and
209-450: The APA came to be concerned with classical antiquity and fields closely related to the study of antiquity, while the definition of "philology" broadened to include many approaches to understanding the ancient world. In 2013, the American Philological Association elected to change its name to the Society for Classical Studies. The Society holds its annual convention in January, meeting jointly with
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#1732849062667228-771: The Ancient City, Greek or Latin literature, Italian language, or (Renaissance and Baroque) Art History. A group of normally 36 undergraduate students are competitively selected as Centristi each semester. The Centro has received financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation , the Corning Incorporated Foundation, the Danforth Foundation , the Old Dominion Foundation,
247-667: The Classical Section of the Oriental Society . Of the 151 inaugural members, just 8 were women, including Alice Robinson Boise Wood , the first woman to study (informally) at the University of Michigan and to graduate with a B.A. from the Old University of Chicago . Originally its members studied a great variety of texts and languages, but as disciplines such as linguistics and modern languages have created their own societies,
266-566: The ICCS. The Managing Committee elects its chair for a five-year term; the current chair is Professor Jeremy Hartnett of Wabash College . Until 1992, administrative services were provided by Stanford University . The Managing Committee hires a Professor in Charge (PIC) for each year, and three subordinate faculty members, who are responsible for instruction and are usually drawn from American colleges and universities. The Centro offers competitive admission to North American undergraduate students to study
285-499: The RI, who teaches a 1-1 load with additional resident supervisorial duties. The professors live in ICCS-rented apartments in the neighborhood, while the RI lives on the premises of the ICCS. The main component of the curriculum at the ICCS is the so-called "Ancient City" course. Worth two credits and demanding an exceptional amount of time, this course teaches the history and archaeology of
304-598: The Society conducts a variety of activities to support and disseminate knowledge of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. For example, it operates a Placement Service, gathers statistical information about the demographics of classicists, hears complaints of violations of professional ethics, provides advice and funding for major research projects (such as the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World ), and publishes monographs, textbooks and software. The Outreach Division produces
323-593: The ancient city course students must take two additional courses (some choose to take a third). One class must be in either the Greek or the Latin language. Currently Centro provides three electives, Elementary Italian , Renaissance and Baroque Italian art history and a course in Conservation Management. Paul Tegmeyer, a faculty member of John Cabot University , teaches the art history course. The class consists of
342-557: The bedrooms are small; the long and frequent field trips for the Ancient City course mean that class time is heavily weighted. In 2012 a program of resident scholars was announced, funded by Suzanne Deal Booth . Booth Residents spend one week at the Centro during each academic year. 41°53′7″N 12°27′28″E / 41.88528°N 12.45778°E / 41.88528; 12.45778 American Philological Association The Society for Classical Studies ( SCS ), formerly known as
361-422: The city of Rome with a focus on its topography, ancient and modern. Although they are supplemented by a weekly lecture, field trips provide the core of the class, with two excursions per week, one a full day, and one a half day. While pedagogies vary with each PIC, students are generally expected to give one or more on-site presentations, which help further emphasize the physicality of the field. In addition to
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