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This course provides students with history and background information on Florence and surrounding areas, such as Pisa and Sienna, which contributes to the city’s status [...]

Incorporating the theory of Multiple Intelligences and developmentally appropriate practices, this course prepares students to develop and implement meaningful, integrated experiential learning experiences that focus [...]

This course will explore the history of the primary form of organized crime in Sicily, the Cosa Nostra. The Sicilian mafia gave birth to the [...]

The aim of this course is to impart some key ideas in regard to the skills of acting and directing. The course will be structured [...]

This course is an introduction to the genres of Italian literature of the 20th and 21st centuries and its various movements. We begin with an [...]

Fashion to most of us is conceived as a vague and ever-changing concept, but nevertheless, societies, from the past to the present, view fashion as [...]

This course will look at improvisation in various performative and cultural contexts, including Pure Form Improvisation (SoundPainting, sound art), Stock Character/Scenario driven Improvisation (Commedia Dell’Arte), [...]

This course will focus on the major movements and themes of Italian theater from the 16th century to the 20th century. With critical reading and [...]

This course aims to provide students with an in-depth knowledge of key cultural, social, and gender issues related to women’s lives and literary output in [...]

Florence, the birthplace of perspective, will be our outdoor studio for this site drawing course. On daily field trips, students will render on site Florence’s [...]