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Destinations
SF State Extended Learning will offer the following summer programs. These programs offer students the opportunity to immerse themselves in aspects of another culture—the language, literature, history, art, and archaeology, as well as have the experience of living and traveling abroad. These programs are distinguished by offering both the pure delight of travel and the joy of learning in order to achieve that special understanding of the destinations you visit.
Summer 2010
French Language, Culture, & Civilization (4 units)
French Conversation & Culture (2 units)
Paris, France, July 1-31, 2010
A month of studies living in the heart of Paris can be yours this summer through our Summer Study in Paris program. While staying with a family or living near the Odeon in a comfortable dorm with private bath, spend this July growing your Parisian roots, taking a civilization course with the City of Light as your textbook, and improving your French-all while you earn credit. We plan a three-day weekend in Brittany with visits to Mont-St-Michel, Normandy and D-Day museums and charming Breton villages plus daytrips to Versailles, Rouen, Monet’s home at Giverny and Fontainebleau. In Paris, activities range from theater and opera to guided visits to the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay.
Two study options are offered: a full French language (4 units) and Civilization course, or a Civilization course and survival French language course (2 units).
Art, Music & Culture in Florence, Italy (3-4 units)
Florence, Italy, July 1-30, 2010
During this month-long visit to Michelangelo’s hometown of Florence, Italy, you will be able to explore the greatest Renaissance city of the world.
During this month-long visit to Michelangelo’s hometown of Florence, Italy, you will be able to explore the greatest Renaissance city of the world. Our resident art historian will lead you in on-site lectures to works of the great masters of painting, fresco, sculpture, and architecture. You will see the sculpture of Michelangelo in his own home, the frescos of Fra Angelico in the monastery where he lived, the paintings of Botticelli in the palace of the Medici family, and the engineering apparatus of the 15th century architect Brunelleschi.
Led by our music historian you will learn how Renaissance Florence created the madrigal, the ballet, the symphony, and the opera. See the Medici collection of Stradivari violins and the first piano, visit Italy’s first orphanage, experience the scent of a 16th century pharmacy, and see the original scientific inventions of Galileo. Day excursions are offered by chartered bus to destinations such as Siena, San Gimignano, Lucca, Pisa, Venice, Verona and Rome.
For more information about this class, contact Rona Commins at 916.487.2137 or ronacommins@yahoo.com or Karen Maguire at 415.817.4228 or kjmac@sfsu.edu.
Publication Laboratory (3 units) Section I
Urbino, Italy, July 2010
Join a team of media professionals creating a web documentary on the town of Urbino, Italy, and get a taste of being a foreign correspondent.
During this four-week program, you’ll learn:
- How to write for the web
- How to take great digital photos
- How to shoot and edit quality video
- How to design sharp web pages
- The ins and outs of intercultural communication
- How to work as part of a production team
We’ll also provide basic language classes and interpreters for field work. You’ll work in assigned production teams, using computers, digital cameras, and video cameras that we provide. Our classroom and lab set up will be in the College Tridente. You’ll be housed in single rooms with shared bathrooms. Three meals a day are included in your program price, and the cafeteria is adjacent to the residence. Interpreters will be provided while doing field work. There are plenty of extracurricular activities: swimming, hiking, biking, etc. Three-day weekends for independent travel are built into the program; the daily public bus service can take you to nearby cities, the train station, and the Adriatic beaches.
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