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Cultural Courses
These courses focus on stimulating the student's perception of some of the great accomplishments that the Italian civlization has produced over many hundreds of years.

All content courses are conducted in English or Italian.

Courses cover: Art, History, Geography, Music, Cinema, Literature, Costume, Theater, Politics and Economics.

A few course examples are:

  • Art and art history - Lessons aim at tapping the sources of Italy's unique artistic heritage via analysis of style, guided tours etc. Painters are studied and placed in their historical and cultural context in an effort to more fully appreciate their beauty and significance.
  • Literature - Literary analysis through close readings of texts from major themes in principal prose work and an overview of issues in order to help students understand the spirit that pervades Italian Literature.
  • Theater - The course examines the origins of theater spanning from the classics to contemporary playwrights. Vast audiovisual material is used which includes rare films that show superb interpretations by famous Italian actors.
  • Classical music panorama - History of Music, seminars on musical instruments and on the art of listening.
  • Italian society - In this course the modern history of the Italian Republic is studied from its birth in 1948 to the present day. Socio-cultural aspects are analyzed so that the student has a clear understanding of the phenomenon of contemporary society.
  • Geo Political - The principal phases of the establishment of the Italian States through the World wars to the fall of Fascism. The course examines historical figures that contributed to the Unification of Italy and its political relations with other European countries.

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CLIDA has put together
a number of stimulating
courses which cover
different aspects of
Italian culture.