Active learning through hands-on courses and activities is ever-present at the CEA GlobalCampus: Florence. Italy in the Words of British and American Writers is a course that recently allowed CEA students some well-deserved publicity in an Italian online newspaper. Through this unique course students are afforded the unrepeatable opportunity to actively research and retrace the exact steps of such famed American writers as Lord Byron, E.M. Forster, Henry James, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway in order to explore at first hand the places and events, both real and imagined, that influenced them so greatly as evidenced through their now internationally revered words. The course gets even more “hands-on” as students the 'English' monumental cemetery (where the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walter Savage Landor and Arthur Hugh Clough are buried), experience a visit to the Casa Guidi (home to the Brownings), participate in a special backstage tour of the libraries and archives of the British Institute of Florence (founded in 1917) led by its archivist and are invited to go behind closed doors to visit the libraries, collections and gardens of Villa I Tatti, once home to the American connoisseur and writer Bernard Berenson. But perhaps last semester’s most impressive output of this course was the publication an article on the poetry of Henry Longfellow written by CEA study abroad student Erika Enggren. Read the article that led her to her 15 minutes of fame by a showcase of her words and thoughts in a popular Italian online news publication.
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