Study Abroad Programs

temple university rome
Beginning in 1980, the Architecture Department initiated a program that afforded architecture majors in the upper years an opportunity to study for a semester at the Temple University Rome campus. This program had been enormously successful in providing achitecture students with the opportunity to live in a non-American urban environment whose rich architectural heritage blends and layers over two thousand years of construction. In addition, majors have the opportunity to share studio space with art students from many other disciplines and many other colleges.

A maximum of fifteen students from the Architecture Department participate in this Rome Program. Students may participate in either their Third or Fourth Year for one semester, either in the Fall of Spring semesters. The Program also recruits students from other universities by mailing brochures and posters to every major architecture curriculum throughout the country.

The Rome Program has been enormously popular with Temple architectural students; almost one half of each recent graduating class has studied in Rome. Faculty who recruit for the Architecture Department report that the existence of the Rome Program generates a great deal of positive interest among prospective incoming students. Temple Abroad in Rome enrolls approximately 140 to 180 students per semester with programs focusing on architecture, international business, liberal arts majors, normally one third of the total enrollment and with a diversity of interests: anthropology, art history, classics, English, history, Italian, music philosophy and sociology, with topics and courses varying somewhat depending on the resident faculty.

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temple university Japan
Temple University Japan offers a Fall Semester Architecture program, conducted in English, as part of its regular fall semester undergraduate study abroad program. The program is geared towards students majoring in Architecture, Architectural Studies, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design/Studies. The program is comprised of a six-credit studio course and a three-credit seminar; students choose their remaining one or two courses from a broad range of Japanese language and Asian Studies courses. The academic program is enriched by special activities in and around Tokyo, and a weekend course excursion to Kyoto conducted in conjunction with the seminar course.

Tokyo is an ideal site for this program, as it encompasses extremes of old and new, ordered and chaotic, and the spiritual and mundane in modern Japan. Post-modern futuristic buildings jostle with ancient Buddhist temples and traditional wooden houses for the priciest real estate in the world. A unique blend of classic and contemporary artistic sensibilities coexists in this incredible city. The impact of consumerism and new technologies that will probably inform future trends in architecture around the world is already evident in Japan.

The joint Architecture/Urban Design curriculum at Temple University in Japan uses the rich architectural heritage of Japan - ancient, and contemporary - as the broad subject of its theory courses and its studio projects. Well-known Japanese architects and planners will be invited to lecture on aspects of modern and contemporary Japanese architecture to supplement the curriculum. A field trip to Kyoto is part of the Seminar Studio course.

Students enroll for a total of 12-17 credits. In addition to the two architecture courses described below, students may choose from a broad range of Japanese language and Asian Studies courses. These courses make the most of historical and cultural resources of Japan, with particular emphasis on Tokyo. Field trips to historic sites in and around Tokyo are frequent. In-class work is designed to enhance students' understanding of their unique surroundings and to enable them to benefit optimally from their Japanese experience.

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