Housing Participants in the academic-year program may live in apartments. However, Dickinson strongly encourages students to take advantage of a home-stay opportunity, which pairs them with carefully selected Italian families. Students who stay with families usually share some meals with their hosts. However, all participants also receive a food allowance, and may eat in local trattorie or at the University of Bologna s cafeteria, or shop in the city s open-air markets and try their hand at cooking in one of the world s culinary capitals. All students in the Summer Immersion Program are housed with Bologna families.
Host families provide meals twice a week, and an allowance is provided for other meals.
Additional and incidental costs not covered by the fee include primary health insurance, passport and visa, immunizations, optional travel, personal expenses, meals and housing during vacations, books and supplies.