English course

SISSA sponsored courses

Every year - next to be held in autumn, 2012 - SISSA organizes an English course in order to help students improve their ability to speak correctly. The course is focused mainly on talking abilities but before the beginning of the course students' suggestions about the contents of the course are welcomed.

Fall 2012-2013 courses

There will be three classes: intermediate, upper intermediate and 'academic writing and seminar presentation' (advanced level). The advanced level is addressed to third and fourth year students, while the other ones are for whoever is willing to enrol on.

Each class will consist of two 1h1/2 lessons a week, which will be scheduled after 5pm. The classes should start by the end of November and last 45 hours.

There are 40 positions both for the Intermediate and the Upper Intermediate level, and 20 for the Advanced one. Please note that the lessons are addressed to PhD students of SISSA and are free of charge. Applications by other people (post-docs, master students, postgraduate fellows...) will be accepted in time order up to depletion of the available positions.

In order to apply, please follow [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDNWQUZNLVRsOXg2cmVpWER0dlExZEE6MQ | this link] and fill in the form. ('Campo obbligatorio' means 'Required')

For further information, please write to <email>studentreps@sissa.it<\email>.

The teacher for the advanced course will be Tonya Blowers who has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Warwick as well as qualifications in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. She has over twenty years’ experience of teaching adults English language, writing and literature in universities and colleges in the UK and the USA.

Please note that attendance might be compulsory for some PhD curricula.

Other courses

One can also follow courses at the Universita Popolare that is located in Piazza Del Ponterosso n.6. For these ones you have to pay a fair amount (around 120-130 euros for per course.)