CCI The Renaissance School - English Language High School in Italy

  Italy

• Other Cities in Italy: 
Rural Areas

Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 3-6 months and 7-12 months
Dates: August until June

Description: CCI The Renaissance School, Canada's only high school in Italy, has become a unique source of highest-quality English-language education, preparing students for university entrance in the U.S.A., U.K., Canada and Europe.
                  
The School, semestered and co-educational, delivers an academically rigorous curriculum in a structured environment in which all students live in residence. Students follow a challenging university-preparation academic curriculum, including Mathematics, Computers, Classical Civilization, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Social Science, English, Art and Drama. All courses are taught in English, except for International languages. The School offers high school grades 10 through graduation. Students may enroll for a single semester or for up to three academic years (two semesters per year). Courses conform to the accreditation guidelines of the Ontario Ministry of Education and credits may be applied toward a high school diploma at institutions throughout North America and abroad. The School also offers summer academic credits on campus during the month of July. CCI is inspected by the Province of Ontario, Canada, whose requirements parallel or exceed most other North American jurisdictions, and is a member of ECIS, the European Council of International Schools.

CCI selects its professional teaching staff, who all possess the required teacher's qualifications, for strength of commitment to, and interest and previous training in, their subject areas. They are chosen also for strong teaching capability, devotion to students' needs and interests both in and outside of school hours, and their willingness to assist and lead the extracurricular life of the School. The overall teacher-to-student ratio of one-to-twelve ensures extensive individual attention is available for every student.

CCI places a high importance on carefully counseling students in their applications to universities and colleges appropriate to the students' ambitions, academic potentials and personal characters. The guidance department with a strong background of awareness of many universities internationally devotes whatever hours are necessary to meeting with each graduating student and carefully analysing and explaining the programs and nature of the universities/colleges recommended for consideration.

The School also maintains an inn, the Allegria where students have their meals in dining rooms accommodating up to 200 persons. CCI students enjoy an excellent Mediterranean diet featuring much pasta, vegetables, salads and olive oil. The Allegria includes recreation rooms where students can relax, play, and present drama and comedy skits. There is also a coffee bar centered around a large, corner fireplace. Once a hotel, the Allegria has eight bedrooms which are let to visiting parents or guests of the School, who are also welcome to dine with the students.

Highlights: Learning and living at CCI unfolds in Italy, home of the Renaissance and the starting point of today's knowledge-based civilization. Students directly experience antiquity, the middle ages, the Renaissance and modern Europe, both formally, through regular organized trips with the School, and informally, through daily life in a modern town sensitively aware and conserving of its more than 3,000 year history. Classroom and book learning, upon which the School places the highest value, is dramatically enhanced when students are learning in the very places where the events being studied happened. Through the many supervised regular trips which signify the importance of travel as a formal part of CCI education, students walk in the same streets, fields, and buildings as the pre-Etruscans; Pompeiians and Romans; emperors and popes; Raphael and Michelangelo.

The School's own town of Lanciano is an ancient-yet-modern, safe, well-serviced small city of 40,000 in eastern Abruzzo, beautifully situated between the ocean and the Apennine Mountains, and provides a safe friendly, and charming environment for students to live and learn. About 15 minutes' drive to the sand or stone beaches of the Adriatic Sea and less than three hours by bus trip from Rome, it has excellent train and bus service to all of Italy and Europe. Lanciano has carefully preserved many artifacts, fossils and architectural elements from all the eras of its long history. Existing as Anxanum in Roman times, it became a fair and trading center in the medieval and Renaissance era, fell into the lasting isolation and invisibility typical of Abruzzo and other rural regions, before joining and playing its part in the "risorgimento (ressurgance)", 19th-century unification under Garibaldi and Cavour, and two world wars of the 20th century. With a friendly, vigorously heritage-conscious citizenry and council, and recent-era government-aided development of industry and tourism throughout the local area to supplement its basic vegetable, olive and wine economy, Lanciano appears amongst the happier and more comfortable places for living in modern Italy.

Cost in US$: USD 17,000- USD 30,000

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Italy Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups of between 80 and 100

Application Process Involves:

• Essay
• Letters of Reference
• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Physical Exam/Health Records
• Transcript
• Written Application

CCI The Renaissance School's Mission Statement: To provide a unique environment in which students experience a renaissance: academic, social and cultural.

Year Founded: 1994