Florence, Italy - Spring 2010
BCC Programs
WCCCSA Programs
Tuscany is renowned throughout the world for its art, history and beautiful landscape. Florence lies like a jewel in the heart of Tuscany, compact and teeming with piazzas, palaces, churches, museums and markets. Here, in the center of Italy, you will walk in the footsteps of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, Botticelli, Brunelleschi, Petrarch and Dante. As you walk the narrow and hand-hewn streets, absorb the magnificence of the medieval and renaissance architecture and the beauty of the sculptures that adorn walls and stand in the loggias of their grand piazzas.
Learn the way of Italian living from the lively and intellectual Florentines as you rub elbows with them in small "caffe" bars while enjoying the local cappuccino and panini. Your Italian ‘Life and Culture’ instructor will help set the stage and serve as your ‘cultural informant’.
"Changed my perceptions,
my expectations and my life!"
-AIFS student
Site
Classrooms
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Two fully equipped seminar rooms
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Each has a television, OHP, slide projectors, multi-media projectors, US format VCR and DVD player, CD player, easels for art classes and white boards
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Flexible format including lecture, studio and seminar style
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Classes are well-lit and quiet
Computer lounge with internet access wireless capability mailboxes for all students
.Library
Membership with borrowing rights to the British Institute Library, the largest collection of English - language books in Italy.
Courses
Florence offers students a selection of courses primarily in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Students choose 10 credits from typical course offerings such as Art, Art History, Literature, Philosophy, Western Civilization, etc.
Excursions/Activities
Sienna
One of Italy's most enchanting cities, Sienna is home of the exciting festival and race, the Palio. Spend a full day exploring the narrow streets and the wealth of artwork contained in its museums and churches. Includes guided tour with an English-speaking guide and roundtrip transportation by private motor coach.
Independent Travel
Use free weekends to travel in Italy and to Europe's great cities. AIFS's local staff will assist you in choosing your destination and transportation.
Cultural Activities Program
All students may participate in a specially designed cultural activities program that will include visits to many of Florence's famous sites and cultural venues including such activities as walking tours, cooking classes, wine tasting lectures, ballet, soccor matches, concerts , and film nights.
Housing
Students live in furnished apartments with cooking facilities in the Historical Center of Florence within 30 minutes walking radius of the Study Cenetr. Each apartment will have 4 students with two students per bedroom. A change of linen will be provided along with a regular cleaning service. Adequate utlilities will be provided up to a normal consumption for the duration of the program.
$6,450. with 25-29 students
- Housing in 2 bedroom apartments, linens , cleaning, and utilities
- Museum pass for each student for the duration of the program with unlimited entry to the Uffizi Gallery, Accademia, Bargello, Pitti Palace, San Marco Museum and Medici Chapel
- Free wireless Internet access in the Study Center Monday-Friday during class hours plus a card to use at a chain of Internet centers in Florence.
- Membership to the British Institute Library.
- Day trips to Sienna and San Gimignano with guide
- Welcome dinner, walking tour, orientation to Florence
- Support staff in Florence with 24-hour emergency duty phone service.
- Weekly cultural activities
- I talian language and culture course
- optional airfare $995
- Bcc tuition and books (15 credits)
- food
- $250 refundable damage deposit
Not Included
Dates
March 17-May 28, 2010
Deadline for payment January 26, 2009.
Orientation: February