Global Journeys - Student Educational Travel

Your program fee includes:

- Round Trip from Toronto
- Airport and City Transfers

- Accommodation in 3 or 4 star

air conditioned centrally

located hotels
- Breakfast and Dinner daily
- Academic Instruction

- Course materials

- City Tours

- Global Journeys Backpack

While in Venice:

- Visit Beaches

- Piazza San Marco & Basilica

- Campanile (Tower)

- Palazzo Ducale

- Academy Museum

- Santa Maria della Salute on

Grand Canal

- Bridge of Sighs

- Scala del Bovolo

While in Florence:

- Uffizi Gallery

- Duomo Cathedral

- Campanile di Giotto

While in Sorrento Region:

- Visit Pompeii

- Tour of Amalfi Coast / Positano

While in Rome:

- Trevi Fountain & Gelato

- Spanish Steps

- Via Veneto

- Piazza Navona

- Piazza del Popolo

- Piazza Colonna & Pantheon

- Picnic/Villa Borghese Gardens

- Colosseum

- Roman Forum

- Palatine Hill

- Capitoline Hill

- Piazza Venezia/Victor-

Emmanuel Building

- Vatican & St. Peter's Square

PHILOSOPHY: QUESTIONS AND THEORIES, GRADE 12,
UNIVERSITY PREPARATION HZT4U

(Prerequisite: Any university, or university/college prep course in Social Sciences and Humanities, English or Canadian and World Studies)
This course addresses some of the main areas of philosophy: metaphysics, logic, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and aesthetics. Experiencing the birthplaces of philosophical thought in Italy will provide an enhancement that sets the stage for inspiring learning. Students will learn critical-thinking skills, the main ideas expressed by philosophers from a variety of the world's traditions, how to develop and explain their own philosophical ideas, and how to apply those ideas to contemporary social issues and personal experiences. The course will also help students refine skills used in researching and investigating topics in philosophy.

ENGLISH, GRADE 12, UNIVERSITY PREPARATION ENG4U

(Prerequisite: Grade 11 English)

This senior level English course is a compulsory requirement for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma. The course emphasizes the consolidation of literacy, critical thinking, and communication skills. Students will analyze a range of challenging literary works and they will write analytical and argumentative essays and a major paper for an independent literary research project. They will apply key concepts to analyze media works. An important focus will be on understanding academic language and using it coherently and confidently in discussion and argument.

STUDIES IN LITERATURE, GRADE 12, UNIVERSITY PREPARATION ETS4U

(Prerequisite: Grade 11 English)

Italy’s history, beauty and philosophy have inspired English and American writers for centuries. From the plays that Shakespeare set there to “the lost generation” of the early 20^th century, which included such notables as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hart Crane and Gertrude Stein, artists and writers have long looked to Italy for a sense of “otherness”, or for relief from the ultra-conservative social norms of Britain and North America. This course explores both the positive and negative reactions that Italy has inspired. From John Ruskin’s hugely influential The Stones of Venice, which influenced the Pre-Raphaelite movement, to such 19^th century poets as Byron, Keats and Shelly, many sensitive writers have been drawn to Italy’s creativity and exoticism. A particular focus will be placed on the post WWI generation of rebellious men and women who flocked to Italy, to the sites they had experienced in wartime, for a new and different kind of inspiration. Fueled by their disillusionment, these expatriate nomads took the literary world by storm, challenging the conservative social conventions of previous generations. One such “infamous” writer was James Joyce. Even other European writers, such as Thomas Mann, were deeply moved by Italy, in such works as Death in Venice. Within this course you will be investigating how a wide selection of writers reacted, either realistically or romantically, to life in Italy. You will analyze a range of forms and stylistic elements of literary texts and respond personally, critically, and creatively to them. You will also assess critical interpretations, write analytical essays, and complete an independent study project.

Italian: Introductory & Intermediate Course

This course is designed to enable students to begin to communicate with native speakers of the Italian language. Students will use simple language and read age- and language-appropriate passages for various purposes. They will explore aspects of the culture of Italy, including social customs and the arts, and will engage in everyday opportunities to hear, speak, and read the Italian language amongst Italian people.

Students will:

Identify sounds and demonstrate understanding of basic vocabulary and language structures by responding to statements, questions, and commands; communicate orally in different situations and for different purposes, using basic vocabulary and language structures.

Use standard Italian pronunciation; use basic vocabulary and language structures to ask and answer questions, and to make statements; apply knowledge of the cultural aspects of the international language by using oral language conventions appropriately (e.g., forms of greeting).

Read aloud with expression to develop standard pronunciation; write complete but simple sentences using basic vocabulary and language structures (e.g., describe family members, school routines).