Italy (August)

CRI389Y0 Current Issues in International Criminology 

This course is designed to introduce students to current issues in international criminology. Students will be exposed to recent research and policy debates that are relevant in both Europe and North America. The course will explore the following topics: 1) Cross-national crime trends and patterns; 2) The mafia and the growth of international organized crime; 3) Immigration and crime; 4) Youth radicalization, street gangs and “homegrown” terrorism; 5) Human trafficking and the refugee crisis; 6) Drug prohibition; 7) Hate crime and Right Wing nationalism; 8) Corporate crime within the global economy; 9) Violence against women in the global context; and 10) International trends in crime prevention and punishment. The teaching format will consist of lectures, seminar discussions, films, student presentations, debates and field trips.  

Prerequisite = None
Breadth Requirement  = Society and Its Institutions (category 3)

Preliminary Syllabus

Instructor

Dr. Scot Wortley is one of Canada’s leading criminologists.  He has been a Professor at the Centre of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto since 1996.  His academic career began in 1993 as a researcher with the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System.  Over the past twenty-five years Professor Wortley has conducted numerous studies on various issues including youth violence and victimization, street gangs, drug trafficking and substance use, crime and violence within the Caribbean, public perceptions of the police and criminal courts, police in schools, police use of force, and racial bias within the Canadian criminal justice system.  In 2007, he was appointed by Metropolis to the position of National Priority Leader for research on Immigration, Justice, Policing and Security.  Professor Wortley has also served as Research Director for several government commissions including the Ontario Government’s Roots of Youth Violence Inquiry. In 2017 Professor Wortley worked with Ontario’s Anti-Racism Directorate to develop standards and guidelines for the collection and dissemination of race-based data within the public sector.  Professor Wortley is currently leading three major investigations into possible racial bias within policing for the Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia Human Rights Commissions.  He is also leading an inquiries into bias within the Toronto Transit Commission’s enforcement unit.  Professor Wortley has published in a wide variety of academic journals and edited volumes and has produced numerous report for all levels of government.  He has presented his work at conferences and workshops across the globe.  In 2015, Professor Wortley taught the first criminology course ever delivered as part of the Sienna Summer Abroad program.  

FAH394Y0 Studies Abroad in Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture - Italy in International Modernism: 1909 to the present

This course follows Italian art within the history of European and international modernism, from the First Futurist Manifesto of 1909 rejecting the “eternal and futile worship of the past,” through the problematic modernity of Italian Fascism, the witty work of Arte Povera, the postmodern “transavantgarde” painters of the 1980’s who wanted to put together “a past removed from the rhetoric of the great traditions,” up to the controversial and parodic art of Maurizio Cattelan (whose installation of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold in November 2024 for $6.2 million). All of these artists and movements work with, and sometimes play with, expectations created by the weight of Classical Antiquity and Italy’s Renaissance past. In this course you will be given the opportunity to think about what it’s like to be cutting-edge contemporary while living in a museum. The assignments give you the opportunity to work on your own critical writing skills, allowing you to approach the material as if you were a professional curator, critic, and creative writer.

Prerequisites: 1.0 FAH credit
Recommended Preparation:  FAH245H1/ FAH246H1/ FAH287H5/ FAH288H5/ VPHB58H3
Breadth Requirement = Creative and Cultural Representations (category 1)
 

Preliminary Syllabus

Field Trips

Visit the spectacular collections of Italian and international modern and contemporary art in Rome, Venice, and in the hill towns of Tuscany. These offer a rich context for this exploration of the dynamic Italy of the past hundred years.

Instructor

Professor Elizabeth Legge specializes in the art of twentieth century avant-gardes - Cubism, Dada and Surrealism – and onward into the present. She has written and taught on topics including the shocking art of the “young British artists” of the 1990s, artists’ responses to the horrors of the Holocaust, the internationally famous films made by the Canadian artist Michael Snow, boredom in art, the cuteness of Jeff Koons balloon dog. She has taught courses in Siena a number of times, capitalizing on Italy’s spectacular role in modern and contemporary art.

ITA395Y0 Special Topics in Italian Studies

Course description coming soon. 

Prerequisites: tba
Breadth Requirement = tba

Field Trips

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Instructor

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