Art History CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will explore artistic movements from medieval art up to the 20th century.
Art is best enjoyed in person, and for this reason our course includes many visits to the most famous Florentine museums, where you can view in the flesh the works of the greatest masters of art.
Get to know, or deepen your knowledge of art, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, through a first-hand study of the Florentine school, from Giotto to Masaccio, from Leonardo to Michelangelo and Raffaello, and up to Fattori and Signorini, peers of the French Impressionists.
This is a Basic level course, includes the issuing of a Certificate, and is available in both Italian and English.
Program
The course includes a journey through the painting, sculpture and architecture of the Florentine Renaissance. The different trends, works and figures of the artists will be studied through 3 aspects:
1. The artistic techniques
2. The relationship between the artist and society
3. The philosophical background of the artist and the client
Lessons per week: 4 (55 minutes per lesson)
Standard English CourseGeneral
Florence
Video Production ProfessionalEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
With the Professional Video course you’ll be able to coordinate small productions, and conceive and implement your own ideas, as well as take part in a work group.
You’ll learn how to use a videocamera correctly, and to frame quickly and safely; to manage light and audio sources; to shoot by hand, and fixed or stabilized mobile supports. You’ll also learn to manage filming, and multimedia resources; to choose the shots, to cut them at the right point, and to put them together in editing. You’ll use titling and graphic optimization tools to animate opening and closing credits, captions, subtitles and text panels, logos, graphic elements and photographs.
Acquire all the necessary skills to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to learn to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you intend to work in this field, and are looking for professional training, this is the course for you. It’s also suitable for journalists, bloggers, and people from other areas of communication, who want to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Program:
Analysis of audiovisual language
Short history of cinema through important examples
Television and other forms of video production through important examples: television formats, advertising, musical video clips, TV series and Video Art.
Realize the production of a video.
Pre-production
Production
Post-production
Distribution
Prepare yourself for the job market
The course provides for the development of one or more collective and/or individual themed projects, that will conclude with a final exhibition of the works. Themes and expressive forms will be chosen in the classroom, based on the level of knowledge of the students in the class.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Multimedia Photography ProfessionalEnglish & Photography course
Florence
The full duration of this course is 9 months which will cover 9 different models.Learn every aspect of photographic practice, in its many facets, thanks to the Professional Photography course. Acquire all the technical skills, from shooting to post-production, to get yourself inside the market with a high level of professionalism, or even just to deepen this passion at an enhanced level.
Master the solid practical and theoretical foundations of both Digital and Analogue photography, and move towards the world of professionalism with this Professional Photography course !
You’ll use both digital and analogue cameras, you’ll get to learn the History of Photography,
artistic composition, films, development, the pre-visualization of the image, and at the end of the course you’ll create your group-theme project, culminating in a final exhibition of the works produced during the academic year.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Fine Art Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Learn every aspect of photographic practice, in its many facets, thanks to the Professional Photography course. Acquire all the technical skills, from shooting to post-production, to get yourself inside the market with a high level of professionalism, or even just to deepen this passion at an enhanced level.
Master the solid practical and theoretical foundations of both Digital and Analogue photography, and move towards the world of professionalism with this Professional Photography course !
You’ll use both digital and analogue cameras, you’ll get to learn the History of Photography,
artistic composition, films, development, the pre-visualization of the image, and at the end of the course you’ll create your group-theme project, culminating in a final exhibition of the works produced during the academic year.
From October 21, 2024 to July 26 2025.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Creative Writing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.With the help of writers, journalists an expert copywriters, you’ll learn to develop your own stylistic and narrative identity, practicing writing in all its diverse aspects. You’ll learn the techniques and methodologies to carry out the narrator’s complex profession – whether it be journalism, fiction, copywriting or non-fiction.
Creativity and writing skills can be learned, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one’s skills to the maximum, but there are techniques and methods, which, with the help of writing professionals, can evolve quickly and successfully.
Discover and develop your poetic side, and narrative skills, learning how to use and modulate writing in all its many areas – from fiction to journalism, and from copywriting to informational.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Online Group CourseOnline course
Rimini
**The online group course is planned upon request.Keep your Italian updated with Online Italian Course, through a Zoom, Skype, or Google Meet account, you can easily start. This group course is organised according to student demand. Formulate your request based on your schedules and take advantage of these affordable prices.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Basic Painting and Drawing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn to interpret the forms of still-life and figurative drawings using live models and various materials.
This course runs as 2 days of 3 hours of lessons per week or as 3 days of 2 hours of lessons per week.
Few people would not like to know how to draw and paint: two art forms, thanks to which you can develop your creativity, relax, have fun, and why not, get results which can also be useful professionally.
With our course you’ll learn these crafts from the ground up, eventually being able to fully develop your latent potential, and finding the style that suits you best.
From charcoal to sanguine (red chalk), then egg tempera, oils and acrylics: with this Drawing and Painting course you will end up with a complete overview of the most important artistic techniques, while being patiently instructed by our art masters.
Program
During the Drawing course the student will be introduced to the use of various materials, such as charcoal, sanguine, and graphite pencil.
With regards to the Painting course, various mediums will be studied, including egg tempera, oil and acrylic paints.
You’ll get acquainted with various materials, through interpreting the forms of Still Life and the Human Figure, using a live model. You can also work on developing your own artistic language, or copying a work of art.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Basic Sculpture Course English & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn about a wide variety of techniques and media, including clay modelling, marble sculpture, plaster and wood-cut.
This course runs as 2 days of 3 hours of lessons per week or as 3 days of 2 hours of lessons per week. With our Sculpture course you’ll learn the fascinating technique of this art, experience the pleasure of modeling, and bringing an object to life with your own hands – all monitored by expert art masters in their highly equipped “atelier”.
You’ll discover the beauty of this ancient technique, under the watchful and attentive eye of our teachers, who will guide you inside this complex and passionate discipline.
From clay modeling, to marble sculpture, to wood carving; all introduced by drawing, a necessary departure for any realization. Depending on your level and type of course, you can also decide whether to concentrate on one or more specific techniques.
Program:
Within this course there is a wide choice of techniques, from clay modeling to marble sculpture, to wood carving.
Depending on the student’s level, and the type of course chosen, it’ll be possible to focus on one technique, or to choose to work on multiple materials.
At the beginning of the course, there will be an introduction to drawing, based on sculpture, but common to a variety of techniques.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Basic Fashion Design CourseEnglish for Fashion course
Florence
Students will learn about the practical ability of fashion design, the creation of figurines and everything that is fashionable.
This course runs as 2 days of 3 hours of lessons per week or as 3 days of 2 hours of lessons per week.
Create your own original fashion line, in a journey that from Fashion Design will take you from the study and analysis of fashion, to the practical realization of your line, through the design of beautiful sketches, giving life to everything that is fashion.
If you believe that fashion is for you, with us you’ll develop a specific and multifaceted sensitivity regarding everything that makes up fashion, including new trends, technical-stylistic elements of the garments, influences from the history of costume, and first theoretical approaches to working methodology and planning of collections. Enter the fashion world as a professional, and become a designer and stylist!
From anatomy to color, passing through the study of fabric and the history of fashion, and depending on your specific interests and chosen themes, it’ll be possible to concentrate on specific topics, and go deeper into what most interests you: you can analyze the history of costume, study a specific stylist in depth, concentrate on the preparation of a presentation “book”, or dedicate yourself to the design of accessories, bags and shoes.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Digital Photography MonthlyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Learn to look at and manage everyday reality through a camera viewfinder: this Digital Photography course will provide you with all the skills necessary to successfully explore and practice the world of Digital Photography, in the time of pixel images.
If you’re driven by a creative impetus, but starved of technique and composition skills, you can learn to perfect your images with the right level of post-production. With the guidance of our professionals, you’ll analyse in depth all the various shooting techniques, in order to better master your camera.
From shooting to various digital technologies, from different models of cameras to post production and file export: we’ll guide you from image capture, through to editing and printing onto fine art paper.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Editing and Storytelling MonthlyEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
If you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Follow with us an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers.
You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Video Production MonthlyEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
With the Video Production course, you’ll learn how to use a videocamera correctly, and to frame quickly and safely; to manage light and audio sources; to shoot by hand, and fixed or stabilized mobile supports. You’ll also learn to manage filming, and multimedia resources; to choose the shots, to cut them at the right point, and to put them together in editing.
Acquire the basic skills to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to learn to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you intend to work in this field, and are looking for professional training, this is the course for you. It’s also suitable for journalists, bloggers, and people from other areas of communication, who want to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Program:
Pre-production
Production
Post-production
The course provides for the development of one or more collective and/or individual themed projects. Themes and expressive forms will be chosen in the classroom, based on the level of knowledge of the students in the class.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Video Editing MonthlyEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
With the Editing course you’ll learn one of the most important techniques of video production: Editing. If you are intending to work in the sector, and you’re looking for professional training, this is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers, and people working in other fields of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
For editing you’ll use Adobe Premier Pro, the main and most used software on the market, and you’ll be shown the correct use of all the basic features. The course also involves the development of one or more collective and/or themed projects. We’ll choose together the ideas and expressive forms on which to work, for some real and authentic video editing.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Video Titles and Graphics MonthlyEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
With the Graphic Titling course, you’ll learn to use titling tools, to optimize the graphics and photos for video, and to animate everything: opening and closing titles, captions, sub-titles and text-panels, logos, graphics and photographs, key frames.
The style of a graphic, or the choice of a font can change the look of a film. They provide a different visual aesthetic, but can also change their use. In fact, titles and graphics also work to transmit useful information in a clear and direct way.
The course will use Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Photoshop, and you’ll be taught the basic features, to use this software correctly.
The course is aimed at anyone who wishes to improve their knowledge of video editing, using basic notions of animated graphics, and titling; but also at journalists, bloggers and people in other fields of communication, who want to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background. Finally, to photographers who wish to create an animated video portfolio.
Program:
Titling tools in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Writing titles, sub-titles and credits in a video.
The use of Adobe Photoshop to optimize graphic and photographic elements for video.
The use of Key Frames for animating graphic and photographic elements.
Inserting a custom graphic into a video.
Creation of animated photo galleries.
Writing captions and text panels with animated graphic elements.
Video export in multiple formats.
The course provides for the development of one or more collective and / or individual projects. Topics and forms of expression will be chosen in the classroom, based on the level of knowledge of the students in the class.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Analogue Photography MonthlyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
In Analogue Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Enter the fascinating world of Analogue Photography, and learn what the various chemical processes are to obtain high quality images, without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Through this course you’ll learn the difference between various types of film cameras, you’ll study the problems related to correct exposure, and the theory and practice of developing negatives, ultimately arriving at printing fine art
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Online Preparatory Course for University - Medicine (English)Pathway Academic Preparation course
Milan
This online course is designed to help students achieve the language and academic requirements to study at an Italian university. You may opt to follow online university preparatory courses focusing exclusively on the scientific subjects. The preparatory courses are for the students planning to study medicine in English at an Italian University. You are required to have at least a B1 level of English to successfully attend this course.
This course is suitable for all students who are still at school in the 4th year or students who have completed High School studies and are unable to travel to Italy. You will study at a suitable pace which can be combined with your school or study engagements.
The aim of the online preparatory course is to review all the subjects as required by the admissions tests, make you familiarise with the test and train with test questions and give you the tools to study for it. You will also have time for self-study and revision.
You will have an overview of the areas of knowledge required for the admissions tests. You will also see how the test questions are structured. Admission tests focus partly on skills and knowledge that learners are expected to have already and that are part or have been part of your curriculum of studies at High School. Your teachers are experienced and online classes will be interactive and lively. Lessons will be recorded, uploaded, and stored in a cloud system to which you will have exclusive access until the exam date. They also can be a very useful tool for studies and review.
Lessons per week: 12 (45 minutes per lesson)
Specific programmes available:
- Medicine
Course Content:
100% | Degree specific lessons |
Online Preparatory Course for University - Architecture and Engineering (English)Pathway Academic Preparation course
Milan
You may opt to follow online university preparatory courses focusing exclusively on the scientific subjects. The preparatory courses are for the students planning to study architecture in English at an Italian University. You are required to have at least a B1 level of English to successfully attend this course.
This course is suitable for all students who are still at school in the 4th year or students who have completed High School studies and are unable to travel to Italy. You will study at a suitable pace which can be combined with your school or study engagements.
The aim of the online preparatory course is to review all the subjects as required by the admissions tests, make you familiarise with the test and train with test questions and give you the tools to study for it. You will also have time for self-study and revision.
You will have an overview of the areas of knowledge required for the admissions tests. You will also see how the test questions are structured. Admission tests focus partly on skills and knowledge that learners are expected to have already and that are part or have been part of your curriculum of studies at High School. Your teachers are experienced and online classes will be interactive and lively. Lessons will be recorded, uploaded, and stored in a cloud system to which you will have exclusive access until the exam date. They also can be a very useful tool for studies and review.
Lessons per week: 12 (45 minutes per lesson)
Specific programmes available:
- Art & Design
- Engineering
Type of Academic Preparation:Universal program to prepare for bachelor and master
Course Content:
100% | Degree specific lessons |
One-to-One Creative Writing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week.
With the private Creative Writing course you’ll discover and develop your poetic side, and narrative skills, learning how to use and modulate writing in all its many areas – from fiction to journalism, from copywriting to informational, based on your own personal attitudes and needs.
Creativity and writing skills can be learned, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one’s skills to the maximum, but there are techniques and methods, which, with the help of writing professionals, can evolve quickly and successfully.
With the help of writers, journalists and expert copywriters, you’ll learn to develop your own stylistic and narrative identity, deepening your writing with a program tailored to your personal style, your aims, and your own unique creative identity.
Program:
Methodologies, bibliography, the birth and development of an idea, creative thinking, styles, narrative structures; everything that you need to pursue a career in journalism, fiction, non-fiction or copywriting, totally based on you. Contact our teachers to find out what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Food Storytelling MonthlyEnglish & Culture course
Florence
With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through classroom lectures and external lessons, this course offers you the opportunity to learn the linguistic codes, the method, and the platforms to build stories that don’t just talk about food and its protagonists, but rather, TELL it. At the end of the course you’ll present your own personal and original project, linked to a chosen theme ( a tradition, a dish, or a typical Tuscan product )
Lessons per week: 50 (55 minutes per lesson)
Semi-Intensive Sculpture CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn about a wide variety of techniques and media, including clay modelling, marble sculpture, plaster and wood-cut.
With our Sculpture course you’ll learn the fascinating technique of this art, experience the pleasure of modeling, and bringing an object to life with your own hands – all monitored by expert art masters in their highly equipped “atelier”.
You’ll discover the beauty of this ancient technique, under the watchful and attentive eye of our teachers, who will guide you inside this complex and passionate discipline.
From clay modeling, to marble sculpture, to wood carving; all introduced by drawing, a necessary departure for any realization. Depending on your level and type of course, you can also decide whether to concentrate on one or more specific techniques.
Program:
Within this course there is a wide choice of techniques, from clay modeling to marble sculpture, to wood carving.
Depending on the student’s level, and the type of course chosen, it’ll be possible to focus on one technique, or to choose to work on multiple materials.
At the beginning of the course, there will be an introduction to drawing, based on sculpture, but common to a variety of techniques.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Semi-Intensive Painting and Drawing Course English & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn to interpret the forms of still-life and figurative drawings using live models and various materials.
Few people would not like to know how to draw and paint: two arts through which you can develop your creativity, relax, have fun, and why not, get useful results professionally as well.
With our course you will learn these techniques from their basics, coming to fully develop your latent potential to find the technique that suits you best.
From charcoal to sanguine, moving on to tempera, oil color and acrylic: with the drawing and painting course you will have a complete overview of the main artistic techniques, patiently followed by our art masters.
Program:
During the course you will introduce the student to the use of various materials such as charcoal, sanguine and graphite (lapis), as far as drawing is concerned.
As for painting, tempera, oil color and acrylic color will be studied.
One will become acquainted with various materials by interpreting the forms of still life and the figure of the live model. You will also be able to work on developing your own language or copying a work.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Semi-Intensive Fashion Design CourseEnglish for Fashion course
Florence
Students will learn about the practical ability of fashion design, the creation of figurines and everything that is fashionable.
Create your own original fashion line, in a journey that from Fashion Design will take you from the study and analysis of fashion, to the practical realization of your line, through the design of beautiful sketches, giving life to everything that is fashion.
If you believe that fashion is for you, with us you’ll develop a specific and multifaceted sensitivity regarding everything that makes up fashion, including new trends, technical-stylistic elements of the garments, influences from the history of costume, and first theoretical approaches to working methodology and planning of collections. Enter the fashion world as a professional, and become a designer and stylist!
From anatomy to color, passing through the study of fabric and the history of fashion, and depending on your specific interests and chosen themes, it’ll be possible to concentrate on specific topics, and go deeper into what most interests you: you can analyze the history of costume, study a specific stylist in depth, concentrate on the preparation of a presentation “book”, or dedicate yourself to the design of accessories, bags and shoes.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Jewelry Design Intensive Course (3 months)Super Intensive (+35h) course
Florence
Registration deadline: 29 Dec.For you, the elegant and rich art of Jewelry design will no longer hold any secrets, thanks to this course, entrusted to the Florentine Goldsmith Arts Laboratory (LAO).
You’ll learn to use watercolors to render beautiful jewelry, and you’ll become a goldsmith designer, taken in hand by this course, which starts from basic concepts, within anyone’s reach. You’ll be shown a refined technique, requiring both time and patience, but which ensures wonderful results, and offers future designers the opportunity to show their customers a realistic preview of how the final jewelry-piece will look.
At the same time, you’ll examine in detail the technical characteristics required for the design of various types of jewelry, including rings, bracelets, earrings, and necklaces, both with and without stones. During the last phase, with the help of our instructors, you’ll realize some design ideas for the creation of coordinated sets of jewelry.
from January 08 until March 30, 2024
(registration deadline: Dec/29/23)
The exact days and times will be communicated 1 week before the beginning of the course.
Lessons per week: 5 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Video ShootingEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Video ProductionEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Digital PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. Learn to look at and manage everyday reality through a camera viewfinder: this Private Digital Photography course was created to provide you with, or deepen all the skills necessary to successfully explore and practice the world of Digital Photography, in the time of pixel images. Learn all the necessary skills, from shooting to post-production, for those who practice digital photography!
From shooting to various digital technologies, from different models of cameras to post production and file export: we’ll guide you from image capture, through to editing and printing onto fine art paper, planning everything together with you, according to your needs and professional requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Video EditingEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
With the Private Editing course you’ll be able to perfect your editing skills, or carry through a project with the help and support of professionals in the sector. If you are intending to work in the field of video, editing is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers and people working in other areas of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
Adobe Premiere, file acquisition, sound effects, titles, volume, fades, post-production…..editing has many aspects and techniques, which you can deepen or learn with us, to enter a working context, or to carry out your own projects.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Editing and Storytelling PrivateEnglish & Culture course
Florence
If you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Embark on an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers. You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Individual Course 5: Foreign LanguageOne-to-One course
Orbetello
5 private lessons per week in your chosen language. The school can also provide private classes for Latin.This course is tailored to the specific requirements of the student, who is able to learn very intensively also for specialized topics in a relaxed atmosphere and therefore make fast progress. It includes 5 individual lessons per week. Course dates and times can be scheduled to the personal needs of the student.
On three afternoons per week, students can participate in the cultural program that is included in the course price and contains meetings about Italian literature, art, history and archaeology as well as excursions.
Lessons per week: 5 (60 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Creative Writing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the private creative writing course you will discover and develop your poetics and your narrative skills, to learn how to use and modulate writing in all its many fields - from fiction to journalism, passing through copywriting and dissemination, according to your personal attitudes and needs.
Creativity and writing ability can be trained, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one's skills to the fullest, but there are techniques and methods which, with the help of writing professionals, they can evolve quickly and successfully.
Thanks to expert writers, journalists and copywriters, you will learn to develop your stylistic and narrative identity, deepening your writing with a program tailored to your style, your requests and your creative footprint.
Program:
Methodologies, bibliography, the birth and development of an idea, creative thinking, styles, narrative structures; everything you need to embark on a career in journalism, fiction, non-fiction or copywriting, according to your needs and requests. Contact our teachers to find out what's right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Stone Setting Intensive Course (3 months) English & Arts & Literature course
Florence
This course covers stone setting techniques related to the great classics and contemporary Florentine style. Registration deadline for the course starting between 08 Jan to 31 Mar: 29 Dec.
Registration deadline for the course starting 07 Oct to 20 Dec: 15 Sep.With the Stone Setting course you’ll learn a complex technique necessary to carry out the daily work of a goldsmith, whether you are a young apprentice or an expert craftsperson.
Enter a well-equipped goldsmith’s workshop, and learn the art of setting gems, through demonstrations and exercises that will cover all the stages of metal setting, using semi-finished silver, and synthetic stones, predominantly high-quality cubic zirconia, offering a perfect imitation of actual precious stones.
The techniques taught are related to the great Florentine style, both classic and contemporary. Starting with relatively simple embedding techniques, such as bezels and claws, you’ll soon advance to more complex work, such as pavé.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Creative Writing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the private Creative Writing course you’ll discover and develop your poetic side, and narrative skills, learning how to use and modulate writing in all its many areas – from fiction to journalism, from copywriting to informational, based on your own personal attitudes and needs.
Creativity and writing skills can be learned, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one’s skills to the maximum, but there are techniques and methods, which, with the help of writing professionals, can evolve quickly and successfully.
With the help of writers, journalists and expert copywriters, you’ll learn to develop your own stylistic and narrative identity, deepening your writing with a program tailored to your personal style, your aims, and your own unique creative identity.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Editing and Storytelling PrivateEnglish & Culture course
Florence
If you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Follow with us an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers. You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Video ShootingEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have 6 lessons 3 hours a day.With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Digital PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have 6 lessons 3 hours a day. Learn to look at and manage everyday reality through a camera viewfinder: this Private Digital Photography course was created to provide you with, or deepen all the skills necessary to successfully explore and practice the world of Digital Photography, in the time of pixel images. Learn all the necessary skills, from shooting to post-production, for those who practice digital photography!
From shooting to various digital technologies, from different models of cameras to post production and file export: we’ll guide you from image capture, through to editing and printing onto fine art paper, planning everything together with you, according to your needs and professional requirements.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Video ProductionEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Video EditingEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have 6 lessons 3 hours a day.With the Private Editing course you’ll be able to perfect your editing skills, or carry through a project with the help and support of professionals in the sector. If you are intending to work in the field of video, editing is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers and people working in other areas of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
Adobe Premiere, file acquisition, sound effects, titles, volume, fades, post-production…..editing has many aspects and techniques, which you can deepen or learn with us, to enter a working context, or to carry out your own projects.
Program:
Being a Private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, according to your professional needs. Adobe Premiere, video acquisition and export, clip selection and assembly, volume, sound effects, post-production……contact our instructors to develop a program tailored to your specific requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Creative Writing Course English & Arts & Literature course
Florence
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the private Creative Writing course you’ll discover and develop your poetic side, and narrative skills, learning how to use and modulate writing in all its many areas – from fiction to journalism, from copywriting to informational, based on your own personal attitudes and needs.
Creativity and writing skills can be learned, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one’s skills to the maximum, but there are techniques and methods, which, with the help of writing professionals, can evolve quickly and successfully.
With the help of writers, journalists and expert copywriters, you’ll learn to develop your own stylistic and narrative identity, deepening your writing with a program tailored to your personal style, your aims, and your own unique creative identity.
Program:
Methodologies, bibliography, the birth and development of an idea, creative thinking, styles, narrative structures; everything that you need to pursue a career in journalism, fiction, non-fiction or copywriting, totally based on you. Contact our teachers to find out what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Trompe l’oeil CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn about the historical background and introduction to the technique of depth by focusing on drawing and painting exercises to render an effective perspective and the 3D look of a distant subject.
With the Trompe l’oeil course you’ll learn this ancient and fascinating technique of illusionist art, to create beautiful decorations, or to amaze others and yourself with these wonderful visual illusions.
Learn how to transform an anonymous wall or window into a beautiful decoration or landscape, change the look of the material thanks to incredible optical techniques, and decorate in the best way even small and characterless spaces.
The course includes drawing and painting exercises of various materials (wood, fabric, glass) to produce particular visual effects such as the effect of softness, roughness and wetness.
Program:
Design of a trompe l’oeil.
Enlarging the design using the squaring technique.
Execution of a trompe l’oeil on canvas or board.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Editing and Storytelling PrivateEnglish & Culture course
Florence
If you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Follow with us an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers. You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Video ShootingEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Video ProductionEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Miniatures English & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn how to produce a miniature on parchment paper or onboard following the Italian tradition.With the Miniatures course you’ll have the privilege of learning and trying, with our artisans, an ancient and precious art, that of the Miniature, that even now, few know and understand how to practice this meticulous and incomparably elegant technique.
Enter the ancient world of the decoration of codes, live an experience that dates back to the Middle Ages, and retrace the systems and roles of copyist craftsmen! You too will learn how to weave delicate and intricate miniatures on parchment.
From the design to the gold leaf, pigments, parchment and the decorative Capital letters…….our expert craftsmen will patiently guide you in this elaborate technique, until you’re able to produce your own miniatures.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Decoration on Wood CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn about the preparation of the wood and explanation with a practical demonstration for the reproduction of different effects.Learn to transform an anonymous piece of wood, or an old piece of furniture, into a work of art, with our course in Wood Decoration.
You’ll immerse yourself in an ancient and wonderful art, which will result in you developing a new and deeper relationship with this versatile and natural material, to the point where you’ll be able to create your own beautiful decorations.
From the preparation of the wood to working on it, using monochrome for bas-relief, “Shabby” style, Craquelè, Arte Povera and the Venetian style… the possibilities offered by this art are many, and you’ll be able to fully explore them together with our master craftsmen.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Marbled PaperEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn about the production of decorated paper sheets using the Florentine marbling technique.During the Marbled Paper course, you’ll be shown how to actually produce it, and then use it to amaze all your friends, young and old, creating gift paper, packaging, original coverings and decorations. In our course you’ll learn all the secrets of this ancient craft.
It’s an elegant way of working, highly visual, and at the same time very relaxing to do, producing impressive aesthetic results: Paper Marbling.
In marbled paper the different colors drip onto a very particular liquid, made gelatinous by a seaweed extract. The colors thus remain on the surface, without blending into each other, and thanks to the use of combs, rods and other tools, the spots take on more symmetrical forms, such as the well-known “peacock tail”, or designs similar to actual marble veins, which give their name to this technique.
Program:
° Theory on the preparation of the glue, and colors.
° Explanation of the necessary tools to create the paper sheets.
° Creation of decorated paper sheets using the Florentine marbling technique.
° Using these sheets to cover cardboard objects, and making a folder to hold the sheets produced during the course.
The course is held with a minimum of 1 participant, and a maximum of 4 participants.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Pyrography on WoodEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn about the reproduction of the chosen design on wooden board using different techniques to create depth.Learn the fascinating technique of “writing with fire” (“pyrography” in ancient Greek), an art that is based on a technique of hot engraving on wood. Using a special kind of pen, you can mark your designs on wood, and develop your creativity.
The results are very effective and beautiful, and even though the technique is complex, it’s within anyone’s reach: become a Fire Artist with our Pyrography course!
You’ll choose a design that will then be reproduced on a wooden support by burning, creating delicate “chiaroscuro” (light and dark) effects.
Program:
Choice of design
Reproduction and tracing
Burning onto wood using Pyrography
Chiaroscuro effects to create depth
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Digital PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have 6 lessons, 3 hours a day. In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Egg Tempera Painting CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn about painting with egg tempera and pouncing technique.
This is an ancient technique that became very popular and widely spread in the Middle Ages, and in the early Renaissance period. The main reason for this success was probably due to the fact that tempera paintings were particularly long-lasting: painters like Masaccio or Piero della Francesca were aware that using this technique would make the vivid colors of their works eternal. Finally, another no less important peculiarity of tempera is that it dries quickly.
Program
Preparation of the board using Bologna chalk and rabbit-skin glue
Choosing the subject and pouncing technique
Painting the subject using egg tempera
Golf leaf gilding on some parts of the painting
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Fresco Painting Course English & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn about historic notes and ancient recipes as well as Fresco painting with pigments.With the Fresco course you’ll learn one of the oldest pictorial techniques in the world, which from prehistoric times, and up until today, has always characterized the work of man. A fresco consists of painting on fresh plaster, with pigments of mineral origin diluted in water,
until it fixes the work on the wall, thanks to a particular chemical process. In this way it can resist both water and wear.
This oldest artistic tradition meets the modern with new painting techniques, which are often used to embellish and decorate private houses, shops, parks and gardens. Learn how to turn an anonymous wall into a work of art!
From historical background to various painting techniques – curling, dusting and fixing – this technique will no longer be a mystery to you.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Video EditingEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have 6 lessons, 3 hours a day. With the Private Editing course you’ll be able to perfect your editing skills, or carry through a project with the help and support of professionals in the sector. If you are intending to work in the field of video, editing is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers and people working in other areas of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
Adobe Premiere, file acquisition, sound effects, titles, volume, fades, post-production…..editing has many aspects and techniques, which you can deepen or learn with us, to enter a working context, or to carry out your own projects.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One CourseMini Group (max 6 students) course
Rome
Two to One Italian classes offer students tailored programmes created by our qualified teachers, who are all Italian native speakers. Duration, frequency and hours of the course are entirely up to the students.
Training programs are developed according to the student's needs, skills and background. Programs are flexible and can be adapted to different necessities or special requests. Individual classes are also useful for those students who want to deepen specific topics, among which grammar, lexis and other particular aspects of Italian culture.
Private lessons can also be taken as a support to group lessons in order to speed up and improve the quality of the learning process.
Lessons per week: 10 (45 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Creative Writing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the private Creative Writing course you’ll discover and develop your poetic side, and narrative skills, learning how to use and modulate writing in all its many areas – from fiction to journalism, from copywriting to informational, based on your own personal attitudes and needs.
Creativity and writing skills can be learned, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one’s skills to the maximum, but there are techniques and methods, which, with the help of writing professionals, can evolve quickly and successfully.
With the help of writers, journalists and expert copywriters, you’ll learn to develop your own stylistic and narrative identity, deepening your writing with a program tailored to your personal style, your aims, and your own unique creative identity.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Jewelry Design Intensive CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students learn the techniques and concepts relating to jewelry design such as technical drawing, design and rendering.
Registration Deadline: 15th of JuneFor you, the elegant and rich art of Jewelry design will no longer hold any secrets, thanks to this course, entrusted to the Florentine Goldsmith Arts Laboratory (LAO).
You’ll learn to use watercolors to render beautiful jewelry, and you’ll become a goldsmith designer, taken in hand by this course, which starts from basic concepts, within anyone’s reach. You’ll be shown a refined technique, requiring both time and patience, but which ensures wonderful results, and offers future designers the opportunity to show their customers a realistic preview of how the final jewelry-piece will look.
At the same time, you’ll examine in detail the technical characteristics required for the design of various types of jewelry, including rings, bracelets, earrings, and necklaces, both with and without stones. During the last phase, with the help of our instructors, you’ll realize some design ideas for the creation of coordinated sets of jewelry.
Lessons per week: 30 (55 minutes per lesson)
Individual CourseOne-to-One course
Rimini
The individual course is the best solution for those who want to learn quickly together with a teacher who fully understands the student's needs (for example: Italian for the work environment, phonetics). Furthermore, there is maximum flexibility: you decide how many lessons per week and how long!
- Each lesson lasts 60 minutes
- Educational materials are included in the feesThis course includes 10 private lessons per week. Individual lessons can however be booked for EUR 35 per lesson, so you can adjust the package to your needs (e.g. 5 lessons for EUR 175).The student can choose the number of hours of the lessons. The content of the course is adapted to suit the interests of the student. Educational materials are included in the fees.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Editing and Storytelling PrivateEnglish & Culture course
Florence
Begins any Monday.If you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Follow with us an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers. You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Video EditingEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.With the Private Editing course you’ll be able to perfect your editing skills, or carry through a project with the help and support of professionals in the sector. If you are intending to work in the field of video, editing is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers and people working in other areas of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
Adobe Premiere, file acquisition, sound effects, titles, volume, fades, post-production…..editing has many aspects and techniques, which you can deepen or learn with us, to enter a working context, or to carry out your own projects.
Program:
Being a Private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, according to your professional needs. Adobe Premiere, video acquisition and export, clip selection and assembly, volume, sound effects, post-production……contact our instructors to develop a program tailored to your specific requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Digital PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. Learn to look at and manage everyday reality through a camera viewfinder: this Private Digital Photography course was created to provide you with, or deepen all the skills necessary to successfully explore and practice the world of Digital Photography, in the time of pixel images. Learn all the necessary skills, from shooting to post-production, for those who practice digital photography!
From shooting to various digital technologies, from different models of cameras to post production and file export: we’ll guide you from image capture, through to editing and printing onto fine art paper, planning everything together with you, according to your needs and professional requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Video ShootingEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Video ProductionEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
MosaicsEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn to make an actual mosaic, choosing the direct or indirect method.The Mosaics course will introduce you to the design, preparation of the base, cutting of various materials, and the various laying techniques, to then begin to experiment and develop your own style, using the direct or indirect method.
Explore the ancient technique of Mosaic, elegant and long-lasting, used for the decoration of walls, floors, internal and external structures. It’s a precious and eternal art, which only a few, like our craftsmen, still know how to practice with skill.
You’ll learn the different techniques of this art, from the disparate types of mosaic, to the use of color and various materials. The secret of mosaic is hidden in every detail, from the play of shadows, to the illusion of movement, the use of colors, and perspective…
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Video ShootingEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Editing and Storytelling PrivateEnglish & Culture course
Florence
Begins any MondayIf you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Follow with us an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers. You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Digital PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. Learn to look at and manage everyday reality through a camera viewfinder: this Private Digital Photography course was created to provide you with, or deepen all the skills necessary to successfully explore and practice the world of Digital Photography, in the time of pixel images. Learn all the necessary skills, from shooting to post-production, for those who practice digital photography!
From shooting to various digital technologies, from different models of cameras to post production and file export: we’ll guide you from image capture, through to editing and printing onto fine art paper, planning everything together with you, according to your needs and professional requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Video ProductionEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Video EditingEnglish & Digital Media course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Editing course you’ll be able to perfect your editing skills, or carry through a project with the help and support of professionals in the sector. If you are intending to work in the field of video, editing is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers and people working in other areas of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
Adobe Premiere, file acquisition, sound effects, titles, volume, fades, post-production…..editing has many aspects and techniques, which you can deepen or learn with us, to enter a working context, or to carry out your own projects.
Program:
Being a Private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, according to your professional needs. Adobe Premiere, video acquisition and export, clip selection and assembly, volume, sound effects, post-production……contact our instructors to develop a program tailored to your specific requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Semi-private Course 10: Foreign LanguageOne-to-One course
Orbetello
10 private lessons per week for two students with the same level, studying at the same time.The school can also provide private classes for Latin.Do you want to study together with your best friend, your family or someone you get to know during the language course in other Italian language schools or in your hometown? That’s the perfect course for you!
Just you two learn the language with a private teacher, who can adjust topics and course times to your personal needs.
On three afternoons per week, students can participate in the cultural program that is included in the course price and contains meetings about Italian literature, art, history and archeology as well as excursions.
Lessons per week: 10 (60 minutes per lesson)
Intensive Fashion Design CourseEnglish for Fashion course
Florence
Students will learn about the practical ability of fashion design, the creation of figurines and everything that is fashionable.Create your own original fashion line, in a journey that from Fashion Design will take you from the study and analysis of fashion, to the practical realization of your line, through the design of beautiful sketches, giving life to everything that is fashion.
If you believe that fashion is for you, with us you’ll develop a specific and multifaceted sensitivity regarding everything that makes up fashion, including new trends, technical-stylistic elements of the garments, influences from the history of costume, and first theoretical approaches to working methodology and planning of collections. Enter the fashion world as a professional, and become a designer and stylist!
From anatomy to color, passing through the study of fabric and the history of fashion, and depending on your specific interests and chosen themes, it’ll be possible to concentrate on specific topics, and go deeper into what most interests you: you can analyze the history of costume, study a specific stylist in depth, concentrate on the preparation of a presentation “book”, or dedicate yourself to the design of accessories, bags and shoes.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Intensive Painting and Drawing Course English & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn to interpret the forms of still-life and figurative drawings using live models and various materials.
Few people would not like to know how to draw and paint: two arts through which you can develop your creativity, relax, have fun, and why not, get useful results professionally as well.
With our course you will learn these techniques from their basics, coming to fully develop your latent potential to find the technique that suits you best.
From charcoal to sanguine, moving on to tempera, oil color and acrylic: with the drawing and painting course you will have a complete overview of the main artistic techniques, patiently followed by our art masters.
Program:
During the course you will introduce the student to the use of various materials such as charcoal, sanguine and graphite (lapis), as far as drawing is concerned.
As for painting, tempera, oil color and acrylic color will be studied.
One will become acquainted with various materials by interpreting the forms of still life and the figure of the live model. You will also be able to work on developing your own language or copying a work.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Intensive Sculpture Course English & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn about a wide variety of techniques and media, including clay modelling, marble sculpture, plaster and wood-cut.
With our Sculpture course you’ll learn the fascinating technique of this art, experience the pleasure of modeling, and bringing an object to life with your own hands – all monitored by expert art masters in their highly equipped “atelier”.
You’ll discover the beauty of this ancient technique, under the watchful and attentive eye of our teachers, who will guide you inside this complex and passionate discipline.
From clay modeling, to marble sculpture, to wood carving; all introduced by drawing, a necessary departure for any realization. Depending on your level and type of course, you can also decide whether to concentrate on one or more specific techniques.
Program:
Within this course there is a wide choice of techniques, from clay modeling to marble sculpture, to wood carving.
Depending on the student’s level, and the type of course chosen, it’ll be possible to focus on one technique, or to choose to work on multiple materials.
At the beginning of the course, there will be an introduction to drawing, based on sculpture, but common to a variety of techniques.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Special Course: Italian and CookingEnglish & Cooking course
Rimini
20 Italian lessons plus 2 practical cooking lessons (2 afternoons) per week.
These lessons are aimed at small groups of people, of all ages who who want to learn traditional Italian recipes in a simple and clear way.
In just a few lessons you will learn how to prepare homemade past dough to enjoy in various formats: from tagliatelle to ravioli, and much more.These lessons are aimed at small groups of people, of all ages who want to learn traditional Italian recipes in a simple and clear way. In just a few lessons you will learn how to prepare homemade pasta dough to enjoy in various formats: from tagliatelle to ravioli, and much more.
Lessons per week: 22 (55 minutes per lesson)
Max. students per class: 5
Starting dates: Every Monday
Beginner level starting dates: 22 Jan 2024, 05 Feb 2024, 04 Mar 2024, 08 Apr 2024, 22 Apr 2024, 06 May 2024, 20 May 2024, 03 Jun 2024, 17 Jun 2024, 01 Jul 2024, 15 Jul 2024, 05 Aug 2024, 19 Aug 2024, 02 Sep 2024, 16 Sep 2024, 07 Oct 2024, 21 Oct 2024, 04 Nov 2024, 18 Nov 2024, 02 Dec 2024, 22 Jan 2024
Combined Course: Standard + Fashion History English for Fashion course
Rimini
The combined courses offered by Tiberius International are the ideal solution for those with little time to learn the language.
The history of fashion through the centuries, the stylistic evolution, the great stylists and the language of fashion.The combined courses offered by Tiberius International are the ideal solution for those with little time to learn the language.
The history of fashion through the centuries, the stylistic evolution, the great stylists and the language of fashion.
Lessons per week: 30 (55 minutes per lesson)
Short Preparatory Course for University - Architecture (English)Pathway Academic Preparation course
Milan
You may opt for a shorter and very intensive session focusing exclusively on the scientific subjects. You are required to have IELTS 5.0 of English to attend this course successfully.
This course is suitable for all students who are available to study during summer. It is suitable for students in their second last year of High School, so that they can get acquainted with the test requirements and have an orientation on the study opportunities in Italian universities.
The short preparatory course for university study in Italy is designed to guide and help you achieve the academic requirements to access Italian Universities.
The short preparation course curriculum is tailored to the fields you plan to study at an Italian University and to the test you need to take to be admitted to a degree course in Italy. You will be trained on test structure, scientific knowledge and practice on past exam tests.
Lessons per week: 30 (45 minutes per lesson)
Location: Language School
Specific programmes available:- Art & Design
Course Content:
100% | Degree specific lessons |
One-to-One CourseOne-to-One course
Rome
One-to-One (or Two to One) Italian classes offer students tailored programmes created by our qualified teachers, who are all Italian native speakers. Duration, frequency and hours of the course are entirely up to the students.
Training programs are developed according to the student's needs, skills and background. Programs are flexible and can be adapted to different necessities or special requests. Individual classes are useful also for those students who want to deepen specific topics, among which grammar, lexis and other particular aspects of Italian culture.
Private lessons can also be taken as a support to group lessons in order to speed up and improve the quality of the learning process.
Lessons per week: 10 (45 minutes per lesson)
University Preparation Course (English Track)Pathway Academic Preparation course
Rome
It prepares students by reinforcing language skills, enhancing writing competence and by focusing on subject matter and vocabulary closely related to each specialized programme.
Course contents:
- Critical thinking and reasoning and general Cultural themes (40 classes).
- Specific knowledge in each University course (100 classes).
Lessons per week: 35 (45 minutes per lesson)
Location: Language School
Combined Course: Standard + ConversationConversation/Communication course
Rimini
MORE CONVERSATION: The combined courses offered by Tiberius International are the ideal solution for those with limited time to learn the language.
From Monday to Friday, 4 lessons of standard Italian language course plus 2 afternoon individual lessons per day, with a maximum of two students in the afternoon lessons.
The combined courses are designed to meet the needs of students who, in addition to group lessons, want to deepen the study of the Italian language or deepen specific topics, individually or at most paired with another student with the same interests. The 6-hour daily course will allow you to dedicate yourself to the study of subjects of linguistic, cultural or professional interest. The focus of the lessons will be on topics of your choice such as for example general conversation, grammar, Italian for business, Italian for hotels and tourism, art, cinema, literature, history, fashion, design, food and wine, and much more.
Lessons per week: 30 (55 minutes per lesson)
Max. students per class: 10
Starting dates: Every Monday
Beginner level starting dates: 22 Jan 2024, 05 Feb 2024, 04 Mar 2024, 08 Apr 2024, 22 Apr 2024, 06 May 2024, 20 May 2024, 03 Jun 2024, 17 Jun 2024, 01 Jul 2024, 15 Jul 2024, 05 Aug 2024, 19 Aug 2024, 02 Sep 2024, 16 Sep 2024, 07 Oct 2024, 21 Oct 2024, 04 Nov 2024, 18 Nov 2024, 02 Dec 2024
One-to-One CourseOne-to-One course
Trapani (Sicily)
In this course, the teacher gives the student specific attention to improve areas they need help with. The student can choose the focus (conversation, grammar or industry-specific language) and the course location (at the school, at home or another venue).At Scuola Virgilio, in addition or as an alternative to the intensive group courses, you can take private lessons, which can be divided into individual, couple or mini-group lessons. There is no more suitable choice for those who prefer to have maximum flexibility in following the lessons without renouncing the same teaching method that the school has been adopting for years now with excellent results: the communicative approach in which commonly used is taught without the use of other languages.
You can take lessons wherever and whenever you want, at any time of the year, in the classroom but also outside the school: at the bar, on the terrace, at home during a stay in Trapani, ... or online! Even private lessons, like the intensive group courses, are dynamic and engaging, thanks to a well-balanced mix of conversation and grammar, always with the friendly and informal style that characterizes Scuola Virgilio. What is more, they are adapted each time to the specific needs and level of the students.
Lessons per week: 10 (60 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Graphic Design Private One-to-One course
Florence
With the private Graphics course you’ll be able to learn or perfect this important profession, arranging the program according to your specific needs. Develop all the IT and theoretical skills for the realization of a perfect design, agreeing the teaching modules with us, according exactly to your level!!
The ever-growing importance of communication in contemporary society makes the graphic designer for advertising and illustration an eclectic, hybrid and highly in-demand figure in the workplace.
You’ll learn to analyse, conceive and develop visual and verbal communication, managing to convey messages with the utmost ease and effectiveness. You’ll be able to perfect your skills in the main graphic suites, such as Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Affinity Design.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One CourseOne-to-One course
Trapani (Sicily)
In this course, the teacher gives the students specific attention to improve areas they need help with. The students can choose the focus (conversation, grammar or industry-specific language) and the course location (at the school, at home or another venue).At Scuola Virgilio, in addition or as an alternative to the intensive group courses, you can take private lessons, which can be divided into individual, couple or mini-group lessons. There is no more suitable choice for those who prefer to have maximum flexibility in following the lessons without renouncing the same teaching method that the school has been adopting for years now with excellent results: the communicative approach in which commonly used is taught without the use of other languages.
You can take lessons wherever and whenever you want, at any time of the year, in the classroom but also outside the school: at the bar, on the terrace, at home during a stay in Trapani, ... or online! Even private lessons, like the intensive group courses, are dynamic and engaging, thanks to a well-balanced mix of conversation and grammar, always with the friendly and informal style that characterizes Scuola Virgilio. What is more, they are adapted each time to the specific needs and level of the students.
Lessons per week: 10 (60 minutes per lesson)
Semi-private Course 20: Foreign LanguageOne-to-One course
Orbetello
20 private lessons per week for two students with the same level, studying at the same time.The school can also provide private classes for Latin.You want to study together with your best friend, your family or someone you got to know during the language course in other Italian language schools or in you hometown? That’s the perfect course for you!
Just you two learn the language with a private teacher, who can adjust topics and course times to your personal needs.
On three afternoons per week, students can participate in the cultural program that is included in the course price and contains meetings about Italian literature, art, history and archeology as well as excursions.
Lessons per week: 20 (60 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Graphic Design Private One-to-One course
Florence
With our private Graphics course you’ll be able to learn or perfect this important profession, arranging the program according to your specific needs. Develop all the IT and theoretical skills for the realization of a perfect design, agreeing the teaching modules with us, according exactly to your level!!
The ever-growing importance of communication in contemporary society makes the graphic designer for advertising and illustration an eclectic, hybrid and highly in-demand figure in the workplace.
You’ll learn to analyse, conceive and develop visual and verbal communication, managing to convey messages with the utmost synthesis and effectiveness. You’ll be able to perfect or learn the principal graphic suites, such as Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Affinity Design.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Food StorytellingEnglish & Culture course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day.With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through private classroom lessons, and outside lessons, this course offers the opportunity to go deeper and learn this interesting technique, with a considered program, aimed at the realization of your project, or your objectives.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Graphic Design Private One-to-One course
Florence
With our private Graphics course you’ll be able to learn or perfect this important profession, arranging the program according to your specific needs. Develop all the IT and theoretical skills for the realization of a perfect design, agreeing the teaching modules with us, according exactly to your level!!
The ever-growing importance of communication in contemporary society makes the graphic designer for advertising and illustration an eclectic, hybrid and highly in-demand figure in the workplace.
You’ll learn to analyse, conceive and develop visual and verbal communication, managing to convey messages with the utmost synthesis and effectiveness. You’ll be able to perfect or learn the principal graphic suites, such as Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Affinity Design.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Food StorytellingEnglish & Culture course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day.With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through private classroom lessons, and outside lessons, this course offers the opportunity to go deeper and learn this interesting technique, with a considered program, aimed at the realization of your project, or your objectives.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Food StorytellingEnglish & Culture course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day.With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through classroom lectures and external lessons, this course offers you the opportunity to learn the linguistic codes, the method, and the platforms to build stories that don’t just talk about food and its protagonists, but rather, TELL it. At the end of the course, you’ll present your own personal and original project, linked to a chosen theme (a tradition, a dish, or a typical Tuscan product).
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Graphic Design Private One-to-One course
Florence
With our private Graphics course you’ll be able to learn or perfect this important profession, arranging the program according to your specific needs. Develop all the IT and theoretical skills for the realization of a perfect design, agreeing the teaching modules with us, according exactly to your level!!
The ever-growing importance of communication in contemporary society makes the graphic designer for advertising and illustration an eclectic, hybrid and highly in-demand figure in the workplace.
You’ll learn to analyse, conceive and develop visual and verbal communication, managing to convey messages with the utmost synthesis and effectiveness. You’ll be able to perfect or learn the principal graphic suites, such as Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Affinity Design.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Food StorytellingEnglish & Culture course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day. With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through private classroom lessons, and outside lessons, this course offers the opportunity to go deeper and learn this interesting technique, with a considered program, aimed at the realization of your project, or your objectives.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Food StorytellingEnglish & Culture course
Florence
Starting dates available on request.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through private classroom lessons, and outside lessons, this course offers the opportunity to go deeper and learn this interesting technique, with a considered program, aimed at the realization of your project, or your objectives.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Graphic Design Private One-to-One course
Florence
With our private Graphics course you’ll be able to learn or perfect this important profession, arranging the program according to your specific needs. Develop all the IT and theoretical skills for the realization of a perfect design, agreeing the teaching modules with us, according exactly to your level!!
The ever-growing importance of communication in contemporary society makes the graphic designer for advertising and illustration an eclectic, hybrid and highly in-demand figure in the workplace.
You’ll learn to analyse, conceive and develop visual and verbal communication, managing to convey messages with the utmost synthesis and effectiveness. You’ll be able to perfect or learn the principal graphic suites, such as Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Affinity Design.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Stone Setting Intensive CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Lessons held in the workshop (for students and goldsmiths) with techniques related to the great classic and contemporary Florentine style.Registration deadline: 15 Jun.With the Stone Setting course you’ll learn a complex technique necessary to carry out the daily work of a goldsmith, whether you are a young apprentice or an expert craftsperson.
Enter a well-equipped goldsmith’s workshop, and learn the art of setting gems, through demonstrations and exercises that will cover all the stages of metal setting, using semi-finished silver, and synthetic stones, predominantly high-quality cubic zirconia, offering a perfect imitation of actual precious stones.
The techniques taught are related to the great Florentine style, both classic and contemporary. Starting with relatively simple embedding techniques, such as bezels and claws, you’ll soon advance to more complex work, such as pavé.
Lessons per week: 30 (55 minutes per lesson)
Mamma's Recipes Cooking CourseEnglish & Culture course
Florence
The incredible experience of living in a private Italian house, and learning how to cook typical Tuscan dishes with “la mamma”.
During these sessions, you’ll not only learn the recipes and tricks of home cooking, but you’ll also communicate in Italian, improving your spoken language in an authentic family environment.
An experience that includes accommodation in the “mamma’s” house, in a single room with or without breakfast. The four cookery sessions take place from Monday to Thursday in the late afternoons and conclude with a friendly shared dinner.
Activities:
Preparation of a typical Tuscan menu and dinner. Here’s a sample menu: bruschetta or mixed crostini, homemade pasta with porcini mushrooms, meat rolls with sautéed artichokes, and panna cotta with a berry sauce.
4 cookery sessions, from 17:00, lasting 3-4 hours, from Monday to Thursday (Friday is a free day).
The price includes: 4 cookery sessions with the mamma, with dinner. Single or double room with breakfast, in a private house, from Sunday to Saturday.
Lessons per week: 4 (55 minutes per lesson)
Italian and Cookery English & Cooking course
Florence
This course consists of 20 morning Italian classes from Monday to Friday. In the afternoons there will be a culinary activity for between 2 and 5 hours. This could include a tour, wine tasting, cooking course, a trip to a farm and one dinner. With the help of the Italian and Cookery course, you’ll not only learn the Italian language, but also refine the palate, because you’ll taste and learn to cook the best and most typical Tuscan dishes.
A cultural and gastronomical trip to Florence, sampling splendid Tuscan wines, and exploring the flavor of the local “cuisine” – a language course has never been so much fun!
A course that offers you high-level gastronomic tastings, the teaching of Italian language and cooking, cultural, food and wine tours in Florence, and much more. Don’t miss this chance to explore Italian cuisine and culture!
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Book Binding Basic - Binding on Canvas English & Arts & Literature course
Florence
Students will learn to bind with canvas.This course can be for one or two students.
With the basic bookbinding course you will be able to learn the history and practice of this discipline with the help of our expert craftsmen; from folding to finishing, you will immerse yourself in an ancient and suggestive art.
Explore the ancient and evocative world of bookbinding; an elegant and precious art that only a few expert craftsmen practice and pass on.
Folding, cutting, naming, preparing the sheets and the book, sewing with twine, gluing … you will even prepare the glue, to create a precious book that you can keep and show to friends!
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Standard 15General
Florence
Florence is one of Italy’s most iconic cities, and certainly a favourite destination for visitors from all over the world. It’s in this beautiful city that you will study Italian for 15 hours per week, all while living in your teacher’s home and benefitting from a full board meal plan and access to conversation in Italian practically whenever you want it.
This is a city where most attractions and places of interest are within walking distance of each other, so you will find it easy to move independently once you start exploring Florence for yourself outside of class hours. Your host family will give you the best advice on how to move around while not getting too caught up in the tourist areas - one of the many ways that you will benefit from their local expertise.
All teachers working with the home tuition programme are fully qualified, so you can expect carefully designed and delivered lessons on your course. To communicate any issues, HLI asks guests to get in touch with their Local Organisers working in Florence.
The original and most popular programme for adults. The programme completely immerses you in the target language and culture. You enjoy full board accommodation, private language lessons, and free time outside lessons and mealtimes to explore on your own or share the daily life of your host family. Your host family will show you around the area, local shops, public transport, and help you organise excursions and activities during your stay. Learn your target language fast with an intensive language programme. Choose from 15, 20, 25, or 30 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your host teacher per week.
• Full board accommodation in your teacher’s home
• 15 to 30 hours private language lessons per week
• Recommended age 18+
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
Standard 15General
Turin
Come and study Italian with a private teacher in their home, in Turin. You will receive 15 carefully and professionally planned one-to-one lessons per week in your teacher’s family home, where you will also benefit from the family’s conversation in Italian, as well as their native cultural knowledge. Having an Italian family accompany you during your first time living in Italy will help you understand some of the cultural differences that might exist between Turin and your place of origin.
One of the first areas you will check out should be the historic centre since this is where the vast majority of sights, shops and entertainment options are located - however just be aware that this is the area with the most international visitors, so if you want to be immersed around Italian speakers then you may wish to hang out in the San Salvario area of Turin.
You will be able to contact HLI’s Local Organiser staff who work in Turin if you ever need to raise an issue regarding any aspect of your experience with the programme, so you will always have assistance on hand.
The original and most popular programme for adults. The programme completely immerses you in the target language and culture. You enjoy full board accommodation, private language lessons, and free time outside lessons and mealtimes to explore on your own or share the daily life of your host family. Your host family will show you around the area, local shops, and public transport, and help you organise excursions and activities during your stay. Learn your target language fast with an intensive language programme. Choose from 15, 20, 25, or 30 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your host teacher per week.
• Full board accommodation in your teacher’s home.
• 15 to 30 hours of private language lessons per week.
• Recommended age 18+
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
You can find additional courses in our section of English courses & camps for teenager and children in Naples.
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