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Our study abroad sardinia Program

A solitary nuraghe in a field outside Santu Lussurgiu

The Institute for Italian & Sardinian Studies' Study Abroad Sardinia Program is designed to meet the needs of colleges and universities who want a faculty lead, small, initimate, cross cultural study abroad experience for their students in a rural Italian setting. Study abroad in a rural location enables students to really focus on their courses while discovering Italian culture at an interpersonal level.

 

Benefits to cooperating colleges and universities. IFISS...

  • Provides schools with an established infrastructure and experienced location based personnel.
  • Handle/Assists in providing transportation in Italy (airport/Cagliari/Alghero).
  • Handle/Assist in locating needed housing.
  • Handle/Assists with Visas and the Permesso di Soggiorno (Permission to Stay) documents.
  • Handle/Assists with purchase of Italian health insurance.
  • Able provides excursions, cultural events, orientation and more.
  • Available services include library access, a student lounge, faculty room, and Internet availability.
  • Projection devices available include a digital video projector, DVD player, overhead projector, slide projector, TV/VCR.
  • IFISS has cooperative agreements with academic departments at both the University of Sassari and the University of Cagliari, the two most important Italian universities in Sardinia. Professors from these departments are networked with faculty coming from with students and can be available for lectures or presentations to students as needed.


IFISS/SAS Advisory Council

The Institute for Italian & Sardinian Studies' Advisory Council provides guidance to the Study Abroad Sardinia program regarding the operation of its study abroad program and related educational issues. The Advisory council is made up of individual educators from many disciplines.

Present Advisory Council members are listed below:

Allen Vogt, Ph.D., M.S.W., Council President, Dept. of Social Work, Carthage College
Dott.ssa Mariagrazia Enardu, Council VP, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Firenze
Lenore J. Gallin, Ph.D., Dept. of Social Science, Diablo Valley College
Daniel Graves, Academic Director, Florence Academy of Art
Prof. Susan Madocks Lister, Art Historian, Firenze, Italia
Prof. Giampaolo Mele, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Sassari
Mark Messersmith, M.F.A., Dept. of Art, Florida State University
Robert Tykot, Ph.D., Dept. of Anthropology, University of South Florida

 

If you and/or your institution are interested in working with IFISS, or would like more information, please contact IFISS Executive Director, Dr. William Woolf.