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Literature/Art/Cinema/Archaeology/Cities of art

Duration: min. 1 week, 24 lessons per week
Levels: intermediate and advanced
Lessons per day:  6 twice a week, 4 three times a week.
Morning session: 4 group lessons a day, from Monday to Friday
Afternoon session: 2 individual lessons a day, twice a week
Class size: morning session min. 5 – max. 15. One-on-one in the afternoon. 
Books: course books, ebooks and access to interactive self-study activities on Moodle

Please select one of the following themes, your afternoon lessons will focus on the theme chosen:

ITALIAN LITERATURE

It is particularly suitable for students who wish to learn Italian through  literature. In the one-to-one lessons students are welcome to select the authors they prefer and work on the specific topics needed for their academic or professional purposes.

Textbooks included:
In addition to the Italiano in. Il corso method and authentic literary texts, also included are textbooks developed with two aims: to improve student’s understanding of literary texts and to help them to appreciate their stylistic value:
– Ritratti 
– Ambienti
– Incontri (sample pdf)

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CINEMA

Learn and practice Italian while learning more about Italian cinematography. We will see excerpts from masterpieces of Italian filmography, with special reference to Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini.
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ART

We will study Italian through the great periods of Italian art and through the Greek and Roman art traditions. We will discuss in Italian the masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, the Renaissance and the Baroque.
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ARCHAEOLOGY

We will deepen the Italian language by studying the most important sites of Italian archaeology: Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, Selinunte, the Villa Adriana.
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CITIES OF ART

Each afternoon module will enable you to put emphasis on conversation and fluency while getting started for your journey in Italy (how to get to the city you wish to visit, what to visit, typical food, typical products, festivals, legends, curiosities and anecdotes). In the one-to-one lessons students are welcome to suggest the cities of art they are mostly interested in.
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COURSE STARTING DATES
2024*
September 9th, September 23rd, October 7th, November 4th, November 18th, December 2nd
2025*
January 20th, February 17th, March 10th, April 28th, May 12th, June 9th, June 30th, July 14th, August 4th, August 25th, September 8th, September 22nd, October 6th, November 3rd, November 17th, December 1st

* To start your course on a Monday not listed above, please contact us ([email protected]).

Fees

For payments made by the 10th of the month preceding the beginning of the course, there is a discount voucher of 100 € (valid once only on courses of 4 weeks or more). No registration fee, no hidden fees, books included.

The course fee includes:

•  online placement test and interview 
•  20 weekly group lessons of Italian language and culture:
  – general Italian
  – lessons outside the classroom: conversation, guided tours and contemporary Italy
  – workshops: discover Italian design and handicraft
  – pronunciation lessons
• 4 one-on-one lessons per week on the chosen topic
• course books 
• certificate of attendance and evaluation
• CILS, PLIDA and ROMA TRE CERTIT exams training
• student card
  – discounts in some restaurants and some stores
  – free entrance in 4 museums in Assisi
• free wifi

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