An Academic Year Abroad in the Arts and Humanities Unlock the treasures of a Renaissance program. Whether you are studying sculpture in an artist's studio, modern history at the University of Florence or choral composition in one of Italy's finest conservatories, this program puts Florentine riches at your fingertips. All students are placed in Italian homes and study the language at a level appropriate to them. While fluency in Italian is not required for the yearlong program, a spring program is offered to students who have a minimum of one year college Italian.
Classes are small and combined with private tutorials with Italian professors.
Each student enrolls in a beginning to advanced Italian language class and two other courses chosen from offerings in studio arts, art history, history, sociology, literature, cinema and other disciplines. Students who have language proficiency may elect to take a course in the humanities or social sciences at the University of Florence. The program begins with a five-day orientation in Pescia, a small medieval town west of Florence. Once there, students begin intensive language studies and prepare to tap the immense resources of a Sarah Lawrence year in Florence. You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines.