SIE
School for International Education

Summer intensive Italian courses

Summer intensive courses of Italian language and culture

Ca’ Foscari School for International Education (also known as CFSIE) will be offering intensive Italian language and culture courses in Summer 2023 to provide an effective and consolidated manner to start or keep on learning Italian. The intensive course calendar will allow students to complete in over just a few weeks a learning process of Italian language embracing both linguistic and cultural features. Erasmus and international students enrolled in Ca’ Foscari, members of partner universities, but also those who are lovers of the Italian language and culture, as well as of Venice, will find these online courses an invaluable instrument for a communicative approach to Italian language learning.

Intensive summer classes will be offered:

  • online

    • live streaming classes using the Zoom platform;
    • distance learning activities, supervised by the class’ language expert, on the Moodle platform

  • on-campus

    • live classes in one of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice locations
    • cultural activities in Venice

Course features

Duration and enrolment

The intensive summer courses 2022 are scheduled in 4 weeks, from July 10th until August 4th 2023. Classes will be held on a daily basis, from Monday to Friday.

Enrolment is open from May 19th to June 16th 2023.

Levels

The courses cover all levels - from A1 to B2 - of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
Attention! The summer intensive courses are not credit awarding and cannot replace the Italian courses for Exchange students.

Organization

  • Levels A1 and A2, 50 hrs of online Italian language classes
  • Levels B1, B2, 70 hrs of online Italian language classes
  • Final test
  • Final certificate of attendance and grade according to the CEFR framework.

Each course includes an Italian Culture class to be held on Fridays.

Accommodation

Accommodation is available at special prices at two University student residences in Venice's city centre on request. For more information on policies and how to reserve rooms, please contact the residences directly by email specifying you will be a student of our Italian intensive courses at our University.

Contact:  info.venezia@dovevivo.com (please ensure you specify you are enrolled in the on-campus Italian summer intensive courses)
See website DoveVivo San Giobbe

 

 

Contact:  venezia@camplus.it (please ensure you specify you are enrolled in the on-campus summer intensive Italian courses)
See website Camplus Santa Marta

IMPORTANT!
Classes will only be activated if a minimum number of applications is received.

Dates: July, 10th - August, 4th 2023
Day and time: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 to 11:30 CEST
Classroom: online classes
Instructor: to be defined
Final test: to be defined
Office hours: to be defined
Textbook: Orlandino E., Naddeo C.M., Dieci A1, Alma Edizioni, textbook and e-book EAN: 9788861826762 

Dates: July, 10th - August, 4th 2023
Day and time: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 to 11:30 CEST
Classroom: to be defined
Instructor: to be defined
Final test: to be defined
Office hours: to be defined
Textbook: Orlandino E., Naddeo C.M., Dieci A1, Alma Edizioni, textbook and e-book EAN: 9788861826762 

Dates: July, 10th - August, 4th 2023
Day and time: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 to 11:30 CEST
Classroom: online
Instructor: to be defined
Final test: to be defined
Office hours: to be defined
Textbook: Orlandino E., Naddeo C.M., Dieci A2, Alma Edizioni, textbook and e-book EAN:  9788861826823 

Dates: July, 10th - August, 4th 2023
Day and time: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 to 11:30 CEST
Classroom: to be defined
Instructor: to be defined
Final test: to be defined
Office hours: to be defined
Textbook: Orlandino E., Naddeo C.M., Dieci A2, Alma Edizioni, textbook and e-book EAN:  9788861826823 

Dates: July, 10th - August, 4th
Day and time: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 to 12:30 CEST
Classroom: online classes
Instructor: to be defined
Final test: to be defined
Office hours: to be defined
Textbook: R. Bozzone Costa, C. Ghezzi, M. Piantoni, Nuovo Contatto volume B1, Loescher, ISBN:9788858308653 or e-book version:ISBN 9788857719399 

Dates: July, 10th - August, 4th
Day and time: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 to 12:30 CEST
Classroom: to be defined
Instructor: to be defined
Final test: to be defined
Office hours: to be defined
Textbook: R. Bozzone Costa, C. Ghezzi, M. Piantoni, Nuovo Contatto volume B1, Loescher, ISBN:9788858308653 or e-book version:ISBN 9788857719399 

Dates: July, 4th - August, 4th 2022
Day and time: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:30 to 12:30 CEST
Classroom: online classes
Instructor: Silvia Scolaro
Final test: to be defined
Office hours: to be defined
Textbook: R.Bozzone Costa, C.Ghezzi, M.Piantoni - Nuovo Contatto Volume B2- Loescher EAN: 9788858308660  ISBN: 8858308662X

Dates: July, 10th - August, 4th
Day and time: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 to 12:30 CEST
Classroom: to be defined
Instructor: to be defined
Final test: to be defined
Office hours: to be defined
Textbook: R. Bozzone Costa, C. Ghezzi, M. Piantoni, Nuovo Contatto volume B2, Loescher, ISBN:9788858308660 or e-book version: ISBN 9788857719405 

If you wish to sign up for one of our Italian courses please fill out this form and read carefully the requested information. It is very important to indicate your correct residency address, including street name and number, zip code and country of residency.

If you are a first time SIE user, please upload your ID (identity document) and a passport-sized picture of yours.

You are also requested to indicate your status (student, PhD student, professor, etc) so we can determine the right fee. It is also necessary to upload a document certifying that what you have declared is true.

If you think your level is over A1, please upload an internationally recognized certificate providing evidence of the Italian skills you have acquired so far. The certificate must be one of these: CILS, PLIDA, CELI or ROMA TRE, otherwise you will have to take a placement test with instructions that will be forwarded at a second stage.

Applications for the summer intensive courses are open from May 19th to June 16th 2023.

Fee structure - 2022/2023 Academic Year

  • A1 (50 hours): full rate € 400 / partially reduced rate* € 200 / reduced rate** € 130
  • A2 (50 hours): full rate € 400 / partially reduced rate* € 200 / reduced rate** € 130
  • B1 (70 hours): full rate € 560 / partially reduced rate* € 280 / reduced rate** € 180
  • B2 (70 hours): full rate € 560 / partially reduced rate* € 280 / reduced rate** € 180

Full rate:
external applicants and all users not falling into the below mentioned categories (including Ca' Foscari students graduated more than 6 months before)

*Partially reduced rate:

  • Other partner Italian or international University students (e.g. IUAV, Accademia, visiting students, etc)
  • Teachers, researchers, visiting staff from other partner Universities
  • Returning CFSIE or CLA students (for who has previously taken classes at the CFSIE or the CLA)
  • Ca' Foscari students graduated no more than 6 months before
  • High school students from the age of 16

 **Fully reduced rate:

  • All students enrolled at Ca’ Foscari who are up to date with their University fees
  • Ca’ Foscari scholarship and research fellows, professors, administrative personnel, CEL at Ca' Foscari (Registration fees for these users will be covered by Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
  • Students from foreign institutions enrolled in exchange programmes with Ca’ Foscari (Erasmus, Overseas, Double/Joint Degree, Erasmus Mundus)

People from Ukraine are allowed to attend for free under specific circumstances. For more information please contact us at  cfsie@unive.it

Refunds

Refunds are granted only in case the course has not been provided or in the event of objective and documented impossibility for the applicants to participate. In this case the paperwork must be sent within the first week from the beginning of classes.

How to pay

Please arrange for the payment of the course fee only once you have received our confirmation email and do so by clicking on a specific link we will send you via email. Kindly email a copy of the payment receipt to the following address  cfsie@unive.it    

At the end of the course all participants will receive an attendance certificate, including the test grade.
Please consider that only participants who have not exceeded 30% of absences will be allowed to take the final test.

Last update: 26/05/2023