This unique course will offer students the possibility to enter the world of Italian pasta production, learning specific techniques for both dry and fresh pasta as well as how to deal with production for direct sales and catering service. This is the perfect chance for all international students who wish to learn the techniques of pasta making and production both for fresh pasta laboratory and catering to have a real professionalizing experience and make a step forward to entrepreneurship in the industry.

This exciting certificate course equips students with the knowledge and technical skills needed to restore precious artworks, with a focus on developing artistic talent and creativity.

The London College of Music certificated program in music performance is the ideal course for beginners to intermediate musicians and singers who aspire to improve their skills while gaining a certification recognized all over the world.

The course is aimed at international students who wish to become pastry chefs and focuses on building consistent knowledge of pastry making. The program is the gateway for all those who want to start a career in the world of pastry making but do not have previous experience in this field.

The New Italian Culinary Program is a one-year course, organized in two educational units. It is the perfect course if you are looking for a real full immersion in Italian food and a complete study experience to become a professional chef of Italian Cuisine.

East Exit is a program of scholarships open to students of art in Eastern Europe. The program is a semester abroad dedicated to a large range of students' interests and takes place in Spring & Fall terms (Spring semester runs February-May, Fall semester runs September-December). Scholarships offered by the Siena Art Institute for East Exit students cover full tuition or 80% of the tuition expenses.

With advancing age, we speak of memory loss, but this is only one of the aspects that make up the cognitive function, characterized by four brain activities that interact: memory, concentration, reasoning, and speed with which information is processed. Therefore, any kind of mental training that aims to keep the brain young must include them all. The course aims to enhance them through the Instrumental Enrichment Program (Pas) developed by Prof. Feuerstein.

Social psychology is the scientific study of the way individuals think, feel, and behave in social situations. This course will provide a general background in the main content areas of social psychology, as well as an understanding of the techniques used by social psychologists to study human social behavior.

Whether you are a professional chef or a serious home gourmet, no other one-week course in the world will give you more knowledge and Italian regional cooking experience than the Foundation of Italian Cuisine. Several areas of the menu are prepared and presented including perfect base sauces, pasta, vegetarian and Mediterranean cuisine. Special emphasis is placed on baking, integrating specialty bread, hearth bread, pizza, focaccia, and desserts into the chef’s repertoire. Working alongside master chefs you will discover how to recreate the authentic vibrant flavors that have made Italy the food capital of the world. As always, this program is all-inclusive from the time of arrival at the airport until departure. Accommodations, ground transfers, all meals and cultural travel are all included.

This course will address food-related issues from an anthropological perspective. It will examine the role that food plays in shaping: group and personal identities; ethnic affiliations in a global world; religious boundaries through rituals, taboos, and avoidances; and revitalization of local and global communities. Through readings assignments and ethnographic research in the city of Perugia, students will explore how food traditions and local food are maintained and transformed over time and space, and how culinary knowledge is used to mark cultural belonging and differences. The course will focus on food as cultural heritage through an analysis of culinary tourism, food in urban settings, the culture of restaurants, and UNESCO protection of endangered diets. Furthermore, it will apply gendered perspectives on the body and analyze power dynamics in Italian families through food consumption and preparation. Students will study food as a site of cultural transmission but also of dissent and resistance. The course incorporates a semester-long ethnographic project on restaurants and street-food vendors in Umbria. Through these exercises in qualitative research, students will become engaged in original research in and out of the classroom.

The new Basic Gelato course offers more practical exercises, new recipes, and new technologies to enrich your learning experience. From spring 2020 it is possible to enroll in the Basic Gelato course also online! Choose the type of enrollment that best suits your needs: online or premium in the classroom.

The study plan The study plan of the ice cream maker course includes theoretical and practical lessons to learn how to carry out both manual processes and through the use of machinery and equipment, mixing, pasteurizing, homogenizing the ingredients according to the recipes, making a correct maturation, freezing and hardening of the product. The ice cream maker course will allow you to apply specific techniques to practice the profession in artisan workshops for the production of ice cream and ice cream parlors.

Student and graduate work are directly affected by the philosophy, teaching methodology, and physical structure of the studio in which it is created. A distinguishing characteristic of The Florence Academy of Art is that we require all our students to work from life under natural north light, in the tradition of the masters of the past whom we admire: Titian, Rembrandt, Velázquez, and Sargent, to name a few. Our students do not idly copy their subjects but instead, learn to translate nature in a way that is both anatomically accurate and artistically beautiful. Long poses may last three hours a day, five days a week for four or five weeks. This gives artists time to work out problems and produce a competent drawing or painting. Natural light allows students to select a specific area of the painting to keep in sharp focus while peripheral areas remain out of focus, just as the eye sees in nature: there are no edges in natural light, but soft gradations of light to dark. A sight-size method is a helpful tool, and we apply it in the early stages of the curriculum when students are learning measurement, proportion, and shadow shape. Artists at the advanced levels are taught to apply comparative measurements when necessary.

The program includes copying paintings of old masters and learning their original techniques while learning to restore artworks. Upon completion of the three-year program, the student graduates with a diploma. Upon completion of one - year program, the students receive a certificate.

AEF Dance Certificate Program qualifies successful students to be recognized as performers with chorographical skills. The program also serves as an ideal basis from which to access a range of dance professions.