Programs & Academics
At the CEA GlobalCampus in Florence, you will learn by exploring this celebrated Renaissance city and its thriving history, art, culture, fashion, and business. Unique and engaging courses, taught by an outstanding team of professors, along with immersion in the powerful setting of Florence help you experience the historical roots and global context of contemporary issues as they transpire.
For example, active learning provides you the opportunity to:
- Reconstruct some of Leonardo da Vinci’s machines in an interactive workshop focusing on the Great Master’s theories of optics and perspective
- Learn about the historical evolution of Italian food by tasting wine and olive oil in the heart of the Chianti countryside
- See experts at work repairing famous artworks from the Galleria degli Uffizi in one of Florence’s restoration laboratories
CEA GlobalCampus Programs
Modern Italian Perspectives
Experience Italy’s historic and contemporary culture through field visits and lectures, giving students a rich, firsthand understanding of the visual arts, cultural traditions, and international influence of Italy’s past and present. Courses Include:
- The Politics of European Integration: an Italian Perspective
- International Business
- Fashion Marketing & Merchandising
Italian Language & Culture
Improve your language skills through traditional language instruction and a special language tutorial that explores real-life expressions of Italian culture and society. Courses Include:
- Living Italy
- The Early Renaissance in Florence from Giotto to Michelangelo
- The Culture of Food and Wine in Italy
Inside the Florentine Renaissance
Explore the Italian Renaissance in the city where it all began. Gain an understanding of the historic and contemporary significance of issues such as artistic expression, cultural preservation, cross-cultural dynamics, and the lasting effects of the Italian Renaissance on our own times. Courses Include:
- The Great Masters: Michelangelo
- Italian Renaissance Architecture
- Travelers' Tales: Italy in the Words of British and American Writers
