Course Name: BSCI 40195 Scientific Inquiry and Observation of the Natural World

Description: New discoveries are made using the scientific method to explore, document and understand the natural world. The Renaissance city of Florence, with its plethora of museums, gardens, and other sites, provides an ideal setting to study how discoveries are made and how observation of the natural world leads to new insights.  Students will experience and learn first hand through field trips, museum visits and walking tours.

Course Name: BSCI 40389 Ecology and Natural History of Mediterranean Ecosystems

Course Name: ENG 41292 TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Practicum

Description: Through the TEFL practicum, students will get hands-on experience teaching learners of English as a foreign language. Students will observe and assist local teachers in Florence as well as plan and teach their own classes. Students will gain experience teaching learners in a variety of contexts and age groups, from children to adults.   

Course Name: POL 30520 European Politics 

Description: This course examines major European national political systems (British, French, German, Russian and Scandinavian) relations between the European states, the institutions of the European Union and prospects and problems of European integration.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: POL 10004

Course Name: CCI 40089: Branding and Social Media Strategies for Italian Lifestyle

Course Name: CCI 40189: Italian Pop Culture

Course Name: ITAL 15204 Basic Conversational Italian (CCI)

Description: Exposure to basic grammar and to current Italian useful to travelers. Not applicable to fulfillment of foreign language requirement.

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisite: Accepted into the CCI Florence cohort