Renaissance and Italian Studies, an English program in Florence offering eight to nine semester credit hours in a six to seven week timeframe in the summer. The program offerings include courses in Art History, Cinema, European Literature, and Journalistic Feature Writing. University instructors and guest speakers lead the courses. The program is open to all university students. Classes meet in Florence, spend some days in Venice, and students travel independently in their free time. Enrollment is approximately 40-50 students for the term. Future plans include a basic level Italian language course in this Florence-based program. Co-directed by Professors William Hardesty and Mark Bernheim, Department of English.

The Miami University Summer Language Institute in Urbino has been offered annually for over 35 years. Courses offered include accelerated Italian at the first, second, third level. Meeting for eight weeks, in the summer, three hours a day, offering eight university semester credit hours. The method of all courses is interactive and requires the active aural-oral participation from all students. All courses conducted in Italian and taught by three native Italian instructors. Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome. The program director is Dr. Sante Matteo.
www.units.muohio.edu/frenchitalian/wrkshopUrbino.htm

Mobile Italy is a workshop intended to allow students to actively participate in documenting a culture of design in northern and central Italy. During the course of the term digital and analogue documents, still and motion media, and collected cultural artifacts are combined to study the Italian design culture as evidenced through its people, arts, architecture, history, and culture. Students considering this offering must have completed two design studios in art or architecture, and have the ability to walk or hike four miles with small pack. This workshop is led by John Humphries, Department of Architecture.

Viticulture in Italy. The summer of 2010 will introduce a new offering from Miami University, led by Jack Keegan, Department of Botany. This study tour of Italy will cover the viticulture and enology of Italy, as well as the various horticultural techniques used in wine-making. Educational wine tastings throughout central Italy. The program will be offered for university credit, and for audit without credit.