HSIA is a travel-study program for students interested in poetry, art, Latin, Greek, ice cream. adventure, and Italian language & culture. Frequent trips to see great art & architecture, from classical to contemporary, illuminate classes.
Program Emphasis
Gender
Type Of Stay
Session Options (Weeks)
Academic Camp Art Camp Cooking Camp Language Camp Archeology Camp Fine Arts Camp
Coed
Resident Camp Travel Camp
4
5
Age Range
Capacity
Average Cost
14 - Over 18
12
$801 - 900 (week)
More About Camp
HSIA is a travel-study program based in Assisi, Italy for high school students interested in poetry, and in art, in Classics, ice-cream and the Italian Language and literature.
Students travel widely in Italy to see some of the greatest art and architecture of all times, from Ancient Greek to Renaissance to Contemporary. There are classes in the mornings, and afternoon and day trips and excursions to see related works of art and architecture. Students sketch, keep journals, learning to connect individually (and constructively!) with what they see and read. HSIA is committed to the belief that literature and art can make students' lives happier and more complete, inspire them to solve problems, help them to know themselves better.
Favorite trips include nearby Perugia, a lively university town, and Bevagna, with its whimsical Roman sea-monster mosaics, Florence, Ravenna, for the beach and its sparkling mosaics, and Castiglione del Lago, where students like climbing around on its famous hexagonal early Renaissance castle with its views of the lake, and, of course, Assisi. Students also love our 3-day trip south to explore Pompeii, Paestum, and the Amalfi Coast.
Students live in a large rambling schoolhouse in the hills outside Assisi in the midst of a national park. with views of plum trees, hay fields, Mount Subasio, puppies, and the HSIA garden. Here students can relax, process everything they've seen and experienced, go for walks, bike, or swim in the (cold!) natural springs (with waterfalls!). Two or three evenings a week, students go into Assisi for the gentle hum of piazza life and impromptu concerts (classical and jazz) or attend festivals, operas, ballets, puppet-shows, etc! in nearby towns.
Community life is an important part of Humanities Spring. A jokey tolerant atmosphere prevails with room for differing opinions. Conversation -- student-student, student-staff, and staff-staff, is at the heart of HSIA. Different backgrounds and interests make the HSIA experience stimulating and fruitful for everyone. Students need have no previous knowledge of Latin, Greek, Italian or art history. The only prerequisites for HSIA are enthusiasm and the desire to learn. Our staff includes poets and classicists, art historians and archaeologists.
At HSIA, we all learn together. Our director, Jane R. Oliensis, got her degrees at Harvard and Columbia in Classics and English, and has taught at high schools and universities on both side of the Atlantic.
HSIA 2010 will run from June 27th to July 25th and cost 3,600 dollars. HSIA offers two kinds of scholarships. Students are welcome to apply for either or both.
HSIA also offers an extra week-long HS archaeology Boot-camp before the standard session begins (June 19th – June 26th), an intensive hands-on study of Pompeii and Paestum, the two classical cities per eccellenza. At Boot-Camp, students read, write, think, and dream classical archaeology. Boot-Camp home-base is the charming Mandetta Hotel in Paestum, with private beach.
Activities and Features
Religious Emphasis
None
Academic
English History Reading Language Studies
Arts and Crafts
General Arts and Crafts
Miscellaneous
Farming
Other Activities
Italian Ancient Greek Latin creative writing landscape painting art history
Camp Address
Winter Address
Santa Maria de Lignano, 2
Assisi PG, 06081 Italy
(+39) 075-802400 (tel.) (+39) 075-802400 (fax.)
Santa Maria de Lignano, 2
Assisi, PG, 06081 Italy
(+39) 075-802400 (tel.) (+39) 075-802400 (fax.)
