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STUDENTS ABROAD
Italian language schools and
culture in Tuscany:
Florence university organizes Italian language courses
throughout the academic year. The courses are free of charge for students with
international study grants and also for the following applicants if they will
be at Florence University for at least a year: Ph. D. students, post-doctorate
students and visiting professors. To attend a course, these students should:
complete the appropriate form and forward it to the Socrates office in Florence
at least one and a half months before the course interview. The interview aims
to advise the student on the course s/he has chosen and is obligatory; complete
a self-evaluation form that can be downloaded via the Internet. The form must
be brought to the course interview. The Italian Language school form is
downloadable from the Socrates/Erasmus webpages or can be requested from the
Socrates office in Florence or from university Central International Offices in
the student’s country. Forms are sent here if there are bilateral agreements.
Course interview dates and self-evaluation forms can be found at the following
address: http://www.cla.unifi.it/italiano.html. Courses last five weeks, for a
total of fifty hours plus a further two hours where teachers are available for
individual tutoring. Course attendance is obligatory. There are four levels:
Pre-intermediate (A2), Intermediate 1 (B1), Intermediate 2 (B2) and Advanced
(C1). The Language center of Florence University also organizes special courses
in Italian for Academic Purposes for students who wish to improve specific
study skills in Italian. These courses are available only for students enrolled
in Florence University, for students with international study grants and for
Socrates students and students with similar grants. To enrol in these courses,
students should contact the Segretaria dei Corsi, Rotonda Brunelleschi. These
courses last five weeks (intensive) or ten weeks (extensive), for a total of
forty hours. Attendance is obligatory. The following modules are available:
Language/Reading Skills (Level 1 and Level 2); Grammar Revision (Level 1 and
Level 2).” (by University of Florence website: for detailed info www.unifi.it )
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