Academics
Students at the School in Italy take a combination of Middlebury Program courses and courses at Middlebury’s host universities in both sites.
Florence
Florence offers students three different tracks based on their level of Italian:
Students are placed in a track based on their course history. Requests for a track other than the initial placement require approval from the program director. Students who change tracks are responsible for communicating with their home institutions about possible repetitions in coursework and earning credit for a language or content course taken more than once.
Students earn a total of four Middlebury credits for the semester. The structure of the program varies by track.
Students have the option of enrolling in courses at the Middlebury Sede, the Università degli Studi di Firenze, either the Accademia d’Arte Firenze (Beginner Track students) or the Accademia di Belle Arti (Intermediate or Advanced Track students; academic year or spring semester only), and/or of participating in an internship for credit.
Rome
Rome is available to students studying abroad during the spring semester only.
Middlebury’s host institution, the Università di Roma-La Sapienza, was founded in 1303 and enrolls approximately 145,000 students.
Curriculum
Middlebury’s Advanced Track in Rome is designed for students with high levels of written and spoken Italian. The emphasis is on language skills and intellectual development through content-driven language and cultural study exclusively in Italian.
A full course load includes one language/literature course (offered through the Middlebury program) and two direct enrollment courses at the university. An academic internship may take the place of one university course.
Sample Middlebury Program Course
La Roma dei poeti e degli scrittori del Novecento (Pirandello, Gadda, Pasolini)
Quando si parla della città di Roma si descrive usando la frase caput mundi. Roma è considerata la culla della cultura occidentale e nei secoli. Di questa città, tuttavia, così particolare dal punto di vista storico, esistono molteplici identità, che nel corso dei secoli si sono andate stratificandosi senza che l’una abbia finito con l’annullare l’altra. Di ciascuna di queste stratificazioni storico-culturali, ogni autore ha lasciato un suo ritratto, o ha saputo coglierne degli aspetti. In quanto simbolo, allegoria, luogo storico-geografico, abbiamo scelto, tra i tanti scrittori e poeti che hanno parlato nella loro opera di Roma, coloro che meglio sono riusciti a incarnare l’“anima” di questa città. Perciò, dopo un’introduzione di carattere storico, si analizzano autori, quali Luigi Pirandello [Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904)], o Carlo Emilio Gadda [Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (1957)], e un poeta come Pier Paolo Pasolini [Le ceneri di Gramsci (1957)], in quanto hanno saputo narrare e raccontare in maniera rappresentativa l’humus di questa città.
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