Italian Track 2007 
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Way back in 1990 Professor Fausto Paoluzzi came from USC to Urbania, to the Centro Studi Italiani, with a group of 25 students, to attend an Italian course which was part of the MIBS program (which it was called then) organized by the University of South Carolina. When they returned to Columbia, all the students took a test to assess their level of Italian. The results were excellent because from this test all the students who had attended the course in Urbania got higher grades compared with those who had attended other international programs organized by the University. Such good results can be explained not only by the high level of professionalism of our teachers and by the teaching methods exclusive to our school, but also by the characteristics of Urbania itself. From 2007 we have decided to offer a new location for our courses that will still make it possible to maintain our high standards which have made Urbania so successful but at the same time will offer all the advantages and modern facilitiesl of a place like Varese-Milano. |
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The course is organized in a college in Varese, known as the "garden city" of Lombardy. The campus is in the middle of a beautiful park and has excellent sports facilities. Students are all housed in single rooms with private bathroom. Varese is near Milan and is just a few miles from Malpensa airport. There are two railroads with frequent trains to Milan (approx 30 min journey). Students can get special rate season tickets. Milan is the greqt metropolis of Northern Italy, the business capital and at the same time rich in art, culture and fashion.
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The course offered by the Centro Studi
Italiani in 2007 will be for 2-3 months (8-12
weeks), and will be organized as follows:
25 hours per week, 15 h Italian language and
conversation; a 2 hour tutorial on Saturday mornings. (by
tutorial we mean assistance to students with special linguistic needs).
A further 2 hours 4 afternoons per week: 3 afternoons of commercial
Italian or Italian for Business and 1 afternoon of Italian
economics, regional economics and economic geography of Italy.
There will be special practise in Italian for
business, studied especially for students to acquire the
special economic terminology and all the other practical knowledge necesssary
to live and work in Italy today. Students will learn the economic language,
divided into its various components, by reading articles from economic
newspapers, writing specialized texts (commercial correspondence, a
biography, work applications, etc). Meetings
will also be organized with, for example, a bank manager, an entrepreneur,
a firm that specialises in business administration, a local real estate
agent.
Furthermore, Italy is the perfect choice for your international part
of the IMBA program because it is one of the
six founder members of the European Union and is still today one of
the union's most important member states (together with France, Germany
and Great Britain) and serves as a natural bridge between east and west,
north and south and between developed and developing countries.
The course (25 hrs per week of Italian language, conversation and lessons
in Italian and regional economics) costs Euro
1,299 for 8 weeks and Euro 1,889
for 12 weeks.
Housing is on campus in single rooms with bathroom: Euro
890 for bed, breakfast and dinner and Euro
1,130 for bed, breakfast, lunch and dinner. These are current
prices for 4 weeks.
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