Siena Italian Studies Program

  Italy

• All Other Areas in Italy: 
Siena

Term: Academic Year, Fall, Spring, Summer 
Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 3-6 months and 7-12 months
Typical Duration of Program: 9-12 weeks
Dates: Fall Semester, Spring Semester and Summer Terms

Description: Participants are immersed in Italian Language and culture during semester, academic year and summer programs. Courses include: Anthropology, Art History, Cinema, Medieval History, Sociolinguistics, History of Italian Cooking, Business, Creative Arts. Students live with local host families while making a difference in the local community through Service-Learning Opportunities. Students also participate in a series of activities and excursions during the semester or summer term. Some of these include: cooking classes, grape harvest, hikes in the countryside, museum visits, day trip to Florence, overnight excursion to the Alps, Tuscan coast, or other destinations of interest.

Highlights: The SIS experience allows students to be truly involved in the local community, to learn Italian through the FICCS language teaching method (unique to SIS), as well as participate in a series of unique activities and excursions alongside local Italian students and community members.

Qualifications: SIS accepts motivated students who would like to experience contemporary Italian society from the inside through full-immersion programs in Italian language and culture as well as service-learning programs that integrate students into the local community.

Cost in US$: please inquire for price information

* Airfare NOT included.

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: Typically our volunteer students are university age students (from 19-22 yrs old) but we also accept and have had gap year students as well as older non-traditional students participation.

Age Range: SIS accepts students from 18 years old and there is no maximum age limitation

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Italy Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently Or in Groups of This varies, usually small groups (3-5 people)

Scholarships are Available. - Some partial scholarships are available. Please inquire for more details.

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Transcript
• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Alumni Network

Siena Italian Studies Program's Mission Statement: Siena Italian Studies seeks to provide students with a unique and unforgettable "gentle full-immersion" study abroad experience for a semester or academic year. Our goal is to encourage the highest degree of cultural exchange between our participants and the Sienese people and to promote the diffusion Italian culture and language. The students' homestays, participation in the various semester excursions and activities and service learning opportunities all serve to offer participants a truly unique experience abroad.

Year Founded: 2003