Dr. Robert Weddle, Dr. Saundra Weddle
Courses offered:
Prerequisite: ARCH 303. This studio emphasizes the role of architectural design in structuring sites with complex formal, historical, and cultural contexts. The required international architecture program experience will provide the basis for analytical and architectural-design projects in international contexts. Students will build upon content from previous studios, and will be introduced to the roles of contextual analysis and design in responding to complex urban and regional sites and issues. Offered spring semester.
3 credit hours
An examination of the history of museums as institutions that collect and preserve works of art and other cultural artifacts. The course emphasizes the ways in which museums and collectors influence how art is made, presented and received.
3 credit hours
In this internationally based course, specific study-abroad locations will be examined through disciplined observation, recording, and analysis of the diversity of practices, customs, histories, spatial organizations, and artistic production apparent in the particular study-abroad location. Students will employ written, graphic, and/or artistic methods appropriate to their major field(s) of study in order to observe and present responds to a given location and culture.
3 credit hours
In this internationally based course, students will develop foundational knowledge and understanding of how specific study-abroad locations are shaped by significant social, cultural, and historical forces and events. Particular emphasis will be given to examining how contemporary place-based qualities connect to broader historical contexts and cultural customs.
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: FUSE 320, FUSE 350, GREE 101; or FUSE 320, FUSE 350, FREN 101; or SOCI 360, FUSE 320, FUSE 350; or, PHIL 316, HIST 205, ENGL 212; or HIST 273, PLSC 312, RELG 202; or HIST 223, FREN 102, FREN 201. This course will allow students to engage their study-abroad experience and coursework to respond to focused issues relevant to the study-abroad location and culture. Students will devise project-based responses expressed through written and/or creative projects.
Program Dates: March 8 – May 17, 2025
Program fee: $9,811
Includes: program-related ground transportation (bus/metro pass), accommodation in shared student apartment (twin or triple room), most museum entrance and activity fees, group meals, field trip(s), health insurance, $100 refundable housing security deposit, administrative fees and faculty expenses.
Estimated Tuition and Fees: your usual tuition and fee charges for a semester
Estimated Personal Expenses: $6,455
Includes: $1200 for round-trip airfare, $50/day meals & incidentals and $1450 for additional personal expenses such as non-program travel, shipping, souvenirs, gifts, entertainment, phone, passports, etc. Personal expenses vary according to personal lifestyles.
Program Fee Only Payment Deadlines:
April 1, 2024: a non-refundable/non-transferable deposit of $400 must be paid to Drury University in the HSA office by this date by check or cash. For check payments: check made out to Drury University (please add “Venice, Spring 2025” on memo line) and pay in the Business office in Burnham 100.
October 1, 2024: a non-refundable/non-transferable Program Fee balance payment of $9,411 must be paid to Drury University by this date. Pay by credit card online using the link on the Drury Study-Abroad website describing the Venice 2025 trip. Credit card payments must be for balance payment ($9,411) only. A 2.85% fee will be added to credit card payments.
Enrollment in the program is limited and is based on good academic standing with the Dean of Students and the Provost’s office.
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Robert Weddle
Professor, Architecture
rweddle@drury.edu
(417) 873-7450
Dr. Saundra Weddle
Professor, Architecture
sweddle@drury.edu
(417) 873-7437
