Faculty-Led Program Types

• Department: Modern Languages and Culture
• Time and length: Spring semester program
• Location: Arezzo, Italy
• Description: This program offers a distinctive academic curriculum in Italy that combines a broad spectrum of disciplines. Beyond the academics, the program promotes an intensive cultural experience within the rich social fabric of Italy, especially in Tuscany.

Learn more about the Italian Studies Program

• Department: Religion and Classics
• Time and length: Summer, 7 weeks
• Location: Chavin de Huantar, Peru
• Description: This program offers students the opportunity to train in archaeological field and laboratory methods in Chavin, including excavation techniques, field documentation, photogammetry, artifact identification and processing, database creation, and artifact analysis.

Learn more about the Archaeological Research Program

• Department: Religion and Classics
• Time and length: Spring break, 7 days
• Location: Greece
• Description: This program makes use of the material remnants of Athen’s past to provide students with a hands-on introduction to the history of Athens and the culture of its people, ancient and contemporary. Includes visits to museums and archaeological sites.

• Department: Modern Languages and Cultures
• Time and length: Summer, 3 weeks
• Location: Italy
• Description: The program offers a formal instruction on Italian medieval culture and art -in particular history, history of art and architecture, history of the manuscript, early printed book, and communication media, conservation, and restoration of works on paper (manuscripts, drawings, prints, ancient books), and digital technologies for cultural heritage.

Learn more about the Centennial Program

• Department: Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures
• Time and length: Summer, 6 weeks
• Location: Ghana
• Description: This program is a multidisciplinary field school in Ghana focused on systematic surveying, digital reconstructions, and structural analysis of Elmina Castle.

• Program: Dance and Movement
• Time and length: Winter break, 3 weeks
• Location: Guinea
• Description: Program instruction will include rhythmic foundations for drummers and dancers and will build knowledge of the djembe, dundun, sangban, kenkeni, krins and bell and how they are used culturally for music and dance. Students will learn style, form, technique, and historical context of the dance right in the midst of the vibrant culture and landscape of Guinea.

• Department: Modern Languages and Culture
• Time and length: Summer, 4 weeks
• Location: Rennes, France
• Description: French in France is a month-long conversation and culture course held in Rochester’s Breton sister city, Rennes. Students meet in Paris for several days of orientation by University of Rochester program director and travel together to Rennes. Students are hosted by families who provide housing, meals, and opportunities for language and culture encounters.

• Department: American Sign Language
• Time and length: Summer, 4 weeks
• Location: Paris
• Description: A unique study abroad experience in France for Deaf and hearing college-level ASL students and professionals. Students will have the opportunity to be immersed in French Sign Language and the French Deaf Community in various settings and further their understanding of the international Deaf World.

• Department: Modern Languages and Culture
• Time and length: Summer, 4 weeks
• Location: Berlin
• Description: Students will experience the excitement of Berlin, historic center of Germany and capital of the re-unified state. Students will devote time to German language classes and individual work; weekends are free for exploring and for excursions to Dresden, Potsdam, and Baltic seashore.

• Department: Modern Languages and Culture; Lisio Italian Studies Program
• Time and length: Summer, 4 weeks
• Location: Procida, Italy
• Description: This program is focused on service learning. Students are divided into groups alongside their Italian counterparts in the sustainable social gardens on the island and on the shores of the Mediterranean. Formal Italian instruction and cultural excursions will make up for a fundamental part of the cultural competency segment of this program.

• Department: Modern Languages and Culture
• Time and length: Summer, 4 weeks
• Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
• Description: This program is focused on Russian language and culture in St. Petersburg. Coursework in grammar, conversation, and culture focus on practical language skills. Excursion includes in and around St. Petersburg, including a weekend trip to Moscow.

• Department: Religion and Classics
• Time and length: Summer, 4 weeks
• Location: Torano di Borgorose, Italy
• Description: This program is designed to teach students about archaeological field and laboratory methods and archaeology of ancient Italy. It is taught on site in central Italy, and students learn through first-hand experience excavating at the San Marino site through lab, lecture, readings, and archeological site visits.