This 6-week Gap Year Course travels through Italy three times a year—Spring (January to early March),  Early Summer (April to June), and Autumn (October to December). You will visit Venice, Castelfranco  Bologna, Florence, Siena, and Roma, with day trips to San Gimignano, Verona, Naples, and Pompei.

We use art and architecture to cover all subjects, be it history, art history, philosophy, politics, music and literature. For AHA, teaching students how to form a "habit" of creativity is something we take very seriously. This is why we have numerous creative sessions incorporated, allowing students to experiment with watercolors, sketching, creative writing, paper marbling, rowing in the Venice Canal, cooking classes, etc. We hope to help students form new ideas and have the confidence to articulate them.

Our Gap Year is a wonderfully ambitious program with interests that spread from the ancient world in Rome and Naples to the Renaissance in Florence and contemporary art in Venice. You will learn about Leonardo, appreciate Titian, and understand why we should know about Michelangelo. 

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