The Siena School is a Cultural Institute which, in close collaboration with two non-profit organizations, is committed to running semester and summer study abroad programs where our students become a vital part of our ongoing cultural and social work.
We believe in teaching our students how the academic content of our courses can be translated into a deeper understanding of our country and in socially meaningful projects. Studying at the Siena School means listening to all that Italy has to offer and giving back to our city as you become a contributing part of it.
The Siena School semester programs are all based on three corner-stones: Cultural Immersion; Italian Language; Home-stays.
All of our classes are small and we guarantee a high degree of interaction between teachers and students.
We offer our students the possibility of enrolling in a series of more traditional, lecture-based courses or of experiencing Community-Based Learning in our Internship Program in Art and/or Social Work.
We believe that everyone should be given the chance to have a Study Abroad experience and offer full and half-tuition scholarships every semester.
As a Cultural Institute we organize yearly interdisciplinary conferences, publish a cultural magazine, fund research, fund yearly social projects and collaborate with many American and European academic institutes and organizations.