Florence, Italy

COURSES

Students must register for a minimum of 8 points or a maximum of 10 points.

LANGUAGE COURSES

Intensive Elementary Italian
ITAL-UA 9010 - Staff - 6 points - Sample Syllabus
Open to students with no previous training in Italian. Conducted in Italian.
An intensive, highly motivating audiovisual course for beginners. Introduces students to a wide range of communication patterns and real-life situations. The beginner acquires a solid comprehension of the language and is prepared to interact in daily life, taking advantage of the city of Florence in organized outings.
Note: This is a 6-point course. This course meets for 3 hours and 45 minutes a day, 4 days a week, for 6 weeks. It is equivalent to ITAL-UA 1 and ITAL-UA 2 combined, or ITAL-UA 10.

Intensive Intermediate Italian
ITAL-UA 9020 - Staff - 6 points - Sample Syllabus
Prerequisite for NYU students: ITAL-UA 2, or ITAL-UA 10, or assignment by placement test. Conducted in Italian.
An orally oriented course taught in Italian, aiming to promote proficiency in reading and writing. Instructors emphasize conversation and interaction with the city. Students should acquire oral proficiency and master all basic grammatical principles. The course is designed to prepare students for advanced composition and conversation classes. Note: This is a 6-point course. This course meets for 3 hours and 45 minutes a day, 4 days a week, for 6 weeks. It is equivalent to ITAL-UA 11 and ITAL-UA 12 combined, or ITAL-UA 20.

Advanced Review of Modern Italian
ITAL-UA 9030 - Staff - 4 points - Sample Syllabus
Prerequisite for NYU students: ITAL-UA 12 or ITAL-UA 20 or assignment by placement test. Conducted in Italian. Students entering the course should have mastered the fundamental principles of Italian grammar.
This course is a prerequisite for other advanced courses in language, literature, and culture and society. It systematizes and reinforces the language skills presented in earlier-level courses through an intensive review of grammar and composition, lexical enrichment, improvement of speaking ability, and selected readings from contemporary Italian literature.

Conversations in Italian
ITAL-UA.9101 - Staff - 4 points - Sample Syllabus
Prerequisite for NYU students: ITAL-UA 30 or assignment by placement test. Conducted in Italian. Students entering the course should have mastered the fundamental principles of Italian grammar.
This course is designed to help students gain confidence and to increase their effectiveness in speaking colloquial Italian. Through discussions, oral reports, and readings, students develop vocabulary in a variety of topics, improve pronunciation, and learn an extensive range of idiomatic expressions.

COURSES CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH

Topics in Italian Culture: Italian Opera
ITAL-UA 9170 – Scarcella-Perino – 4 points - Sample Syllabus
Note: This course carries a registration fee of $100.
Italy is the country where opera was born. This course offers students the unique chance to study the history of Italian lyric opera with a professional composer and musician and to experience it at some of the major Italian opera seasons: the Arena of Verona season and the Giardino di Boboli season. During the course, students are introduced to the most prominent Italian opera composers (Monteverdi, Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, etc.), as well as to the authors of the "libretto" of several of the most significant operas. They will be also introduced to some basic musical knowledge and practice.

Italian Cinema and Literature
ITAL-UA 9282 – Cipani– 4 points - Sample Syllabus
This course focuses on the development of Italian cinema in the postwar period, emphasizing the relationship between literature and film as distinct but dependent modes of communication. The films and books will offer a unique opportunity to analyze a variety of narrative strategies across different media while discussing crucial issues related to the cultural evolution of Italy during the last century. Readings include novels by such authors as Vitaliano Brancati, Dino Buzzati, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Film screenings include works by Visconti, Lattuada, Bolognini and Pasolini.

Masters and Monuments: Florentine Art and Architecture of the Renaissance
ARTH-UA 9650.001 – Giorgi– 4 points - Sample Syllabus
Note: This course carries a registration fee of $100.
An introduction to the works of painting, sculpture, and architecture that defined the Renaissance in Florence, studied in the context of the city and its culture. The course concentrates on major masters of Florentine art in the 15th and 16th centuries. It begins with the emergence, against the background of the late Middle Ages, of the great founders of the art of the Renaissance—Donatello in sculpture, Masaccio in painting, and Brunelleschi in architecture. It moves on to artists in the second generation and later: Fra Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Domenico Veneziano, Andrea del Castagno, Pollaiuolo, Verrocchio, and Botticelli, ending with Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Andrea del Sarto, and others. Themes such as humanism, interpretations of antiquity, patronage, urbanism, and Florentine civic ideals form a framework for understanding the works of art beyond style and iconography.

Gardens and Landscapes
V43.9650.002 – Piussi– 4 points - Sample Syllabus
Note: This course carries a registration fee of $100.
The very name “Florence” is linked to flowers, as the city was known for the wealth of its gardens. Renaissance palaces and villas cultivate fine gardens, designed to display collections of exotic plants alongside precious antiques and to foster intellectual activity. Gardens are central to literature, religious and secular iconography, and theatrical celebrations. The Renaissance garden, a dialogue between art and science, cultivation and nature, developed through the Baroque period and beyond, and remains the model of formal gardens worldwide. Villa La Pietra, with its 57 acres of rolling hills, Renaissance-style gardens and productive olive groves, is a perfect starting point for this interdisciplinary course, which is based on extensive field trips within Florence and its surroundings. We will consider monastic gardens of prayer, ostentatious noble gardens, botanical collections with scientific value, and esoteric private gardens. Assignments and readings are designed to build knowledge of historical gardens and provide analytical tools as well as personal perspective. No previous art experience is necessary.

COSTS

8 points are required for undergraduate students to participate in this program.

Undergraduate Tuition
$6744 (8 points)
$8430 (10 points)

Program & Activities Fee
$700

International Health Insurance
approximately $70

Housing
$3870 Single Room
$3185 Double Room
$2910 Triple Room
$2814 Quadruple Room

PLEASE NOTE: All students participating in the program are required to live in NYU-provided housing. Students are billed a standard housing rate in the spring. Housing charges will be adjusted at the end of the program based on actual housing assignments, which may result in an additional charge or credit issued in the late summer.

There is an additional registration and services fee of:
$250 for students registered at NYU for spring 2012
$276 for students not registered at NYU for spring 2012