Study Abroad in Sorrento, Italy

This course will examine the culture of Italy in a summer program in Sorrento, Southern Italy. Through academic and first-hand field experiences, students will search out the values and characteristics perhaps unique to the Italians, make comparisons and contrasts with their own culture, and thereby increase their own intercultural competency. Learning will involve class discussions, lectures, and a final research project. More specifically, field experiences will help students gain an understanding and personal appreciation for the diversity of the Italian culture; the final research project will be a reflection paper pointing out how their own culture compares with the Italian one.

This course focuses on the importance of all communication in the workplace. Students will assess their own career goals, strengths, and weaknesses by exploring principles of effective professional communication with assignments on business style writing and by delivering presentations. This section of BUS COMM has emphasis on cultural communication with this travel component to Italy.

The estimated cost is $5,900.

Cost Includes:

• Two courses/six credits
• Airline tickets
• Transfer transportation from/to Naples Airport & Sorrento, as well as transportation to amazing places like the Caserta Royal Palace, Pompeii Ruins, and Villa Rufolo, with private guided tours and tastings at small businesses for gelato, coffee, olive oil, and cheeses as well as an authentic Italian cooking class!
• Welcome lunch and farewell dinner, as well as two meals a day for three weeks (breakfast and dinner at Sorrento restaurants).
• Apartment or dorm housing for three weeks in Sorrento in double or triple rooms with fully equipped kitchen, bathroom, washing machine, wifi, air conditioning, bedding and towels, and weekly cleaning. Walking distance to school and Sorrento City Tax.
• Spectacular site visits to: Naples (first trip-jetfoil, second-private bus) Amalfi, Positano, Ravello, Capri
• All administration fees for WNE and SAI

Space is limited. For more information, contact: Professor Brenda Garton-Sjoberg at bgarton@wne.edu or Professor Jason Seacat at jason.seacat@wne.edu. 

Excursions in Sorrento include:

• Amalfi Coast
• Naples and Sorrento
• Olive Oil Factory tour
• Gelato Laboratory
• Pompeii ruins
• Villa Rufolo
• Capri
• Ravello
• Positano
• Caserta Royal Palace
• Italian Cooking class

Students must be in good academic standing to participate in study abroad opportunities. Students participating in year-long or semester-long study abroad programs must satisfy the specific grade point average required by the foreign university they will be attending.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Josie Brown, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Study Abroad Program
Phone: 413-782-1444
Email: jbrown@wne.edu