Week 1 Syllabus Review, Friday January 8

Meet in classroom, 1st floor of UW Rome Center:

1. Go over syllabus and independent research projects. Weekly writing assignments. Vlog schedule.
2. Also, as time allows: Intro to EU and Borders. Overview of border studies with comparative look at Bordered cities and Borderscapes
3. Discuss borders in Rome & different ways of seeing the city
Read:
1.http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
2.http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/default_en.htm
3.http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/justice_freedom_security/free_movement_of_persons_asylum_immigration/l33020_en.htm
4. "Borders in a Borderless World"
--We will begin discussion of the readings above and continue next week.

Assign writing #1 –seeing borders in Rome (for inspiration read “Roman Hours” in The Smiles of Rome)

Again, we will start our discussion of the readings on Friday and then continue discussion on Tuesday, 1/12