AGI- Rome: Refugee Service Management

Rome coliseum

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AGI in Rome group in front of Saint Peter’s Cathedral getting ready to explore the Vatican City Museums.

 

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Geoff Johnson, Karla Diaz, Mercedes Reed and Prof. Tavanti display Don’s spirit while waiting eagerly for Pope Francis at the Papal Audience. the AGI in Rome group got to “see the Pope" and receive the Papal Blessing.

 

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Eric Beasly taking in the grandeur of the Colosseum during their visit that centered around migration and slavery in ancient Rome.

 

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2018 AGI Group at the Doctors without borders office in downtown Rome. 

 

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Mercedes Reed, Masters of non profit administration ’18, standing in front of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Roman Forum. Students of the Academic Global Immersion in Rome visited the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, and had a lesson on migration and slavery in ancient Rome on site.

 

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2018 AGI Rome Group enjoying dinner at a traditional Italian Trattoria. 

 

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Program Info.

  • Instrutor: Marco Tavanti (mtavanti@usfca.edu)
  • Course Name: Refugee Service Management
  • Date: January 9-15, 2023
  • Syllabus
  • Cost: program fee TBD + flight
  • Units: 2
  • Application deadline: Oct 8th

Apply here!

Program Description.

The Intersession 2022 AGI program in Rome, Italy, is an intensive week of lectures by immigration experts and visits to the offices of the UNHCR-Italy office, Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS-International), Centro Astalli (JRS-Italy), Doctors without Borders (MSF), Save the Children, etc. During the program, participants learn to compare the roots, best practices, and policy challenges of migration and integration in Europe.

Selected participants have to budget airfare and other expenses for a week in Rome, Italy. 

The application process is now open, please contact Marco Tavanti (mtavanti@usfca.edu) for questions.

The Rome Immersion is part of the Arrupe for Justice Immersions, these immersion programs educate for solidarity within a globalized world and to experience the "nitty-gritty reality of that world" by combining academic, experiential, and reflective experiences that are based on the Jesuit ideal of observing, reflecting, analyzing, and acting (The Circle of Praxis).  

Read more about the Student's experience in Rome Immersion Blog (SOM perspective).