Adult Study Abroad
You are not a typical tourist, and this is not just travel, so choose purposeful adventure and authentic Italian experience through an Adult Study Abroad program with Molise Italian Studies!
Traverse a living classroom where ancient history, authentic cuisine, artisan crafters, and breathtaking landscapes are your teachers. Discover an authentic and lesser-known Italy while sampling unparalleled local foods and wines, bridging cultures, and exploring Molise’s beautiful beaches, majestic mountains, and ancient hillside villages through a variety of cultural, historical, and outdoor activities, as well as customized hands-on experiences. Each day blends guided discovery with shared meals and local hosts, offering a richly layered learning vacation rooted in tradition, curiosity, and connection.
Don't take a vacation from learning--take a learning vacation!
Across our Adult Study Abroad portfolio, Molise Italian Studies offers multiple pathways into learning, connection, and exploration, recognizing that travelers arrive with different goals, timelines, and ways of engaging place. Whether through immersive journeys, community-rooted work, focused seminars, regional extensions, single-day experiences, artistic exchange, or independent adventure, each program is intentionally designed to support meaningful engagement with Molise and beyond, meeting participants where they are while inviting deeper understanding.
You will walk away from these programs with expanded Italian language competence; a new appreciation for Italian culture and food; the Global Competence Certificate; a plan for continuing to develop your Global Intercultural Citizenship; and a lifetime’s worth of memories. Andiamo!
All Adult Study Abroad Programs Include:
- Difr Dive Intercultural Citizenship Short Course, including…
- 4-hour virtual pre-departure workshop
- Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®) & debrief
- Global Competence Certificate program
- Difr IC microcredential
- Free copy of Difr Thrive: A Reflective Workbook
- Pre-departure, 24-hour on-site, & re-integration support
- Optional extensions prior to or following your program
- Add a second MIS program (and get $100 off both!)
- Book further activities with one of our partners
- Let us help put together a trip to Rome or Naples
Learning Vacations are designed for curious adults who want to spend time understanding a place rather than passing through it. These journeys combine movement across a region with guided encounters, hands-on experiences, and time for reflection, inviting participants to recognize the patterns of history, craft, and daily life that shape Molise today.
Grand Tour of Molise: Between History & Taste
Explore how land, cuisine, and tradition shape daily life across one of Italy’s most intact regions as you trace Molise’s ancient pathways of craft and culture, from transhumance routes and Benedictine abbeys to bell foundries, cheese dairies, artisan workshops, and Tintilia vineyards, learning from the people who steward this land and its stories.
7 days, 6 nights (Year-Round)
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Tracing Roots: Genealogy & Living Traditions in Molise
Trace the landscapes, traditions, and stories that shaped generations of families in Molise. Beginning with genealogical research in Campobasso, you will explore villages, churches, and archives connected to ancestral life while discovering the region’s history, food traditions, and living culture. From medieval towns and archaeological sites to vineyards and the Adriatic coast, this journey invites you to experience Molise not just as a place to visit, but as a place to reconnect.
6 days, 5 nights (Year-Round)
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Living the Adriatic: Coastal Culture in Molise & Abruzzo
Explore the coastal landscapes and rural traditions that shape everyday life along the Adriatic in Molise and southern Abruzzo. You will visit historic towns, travel ancient tratturi through the countryside, meet fishermen in the harbor of Termoli, and experience the region through its food and artisan traditions. From farms and vineyards to seaside villages and the dramatic cliffs of the Costa dei Trabocchi, this journey invites you to discover a way of life rooted in land, sea, and community.
5 days, 4 nights (April-Oct)
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From Mountains to Murals: Nature & Living Traditions in Molise
Roam mountains, rivers, and villages as you discover the landscapes and traditions that shape everyday life. You will visit Agnone’s historic cheese makers and bell foundry, trek through waterfalls and forest trails in Carpinone, explore the Romanesque Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Canneto, and enjoy the colorful street art bringing new life to the medieval streets of Civitacampomarano. Along the way, meals with local restaurants and encounters with artisans reveal the culture and rhythms of Molise.
5 days, 4 nights (Year-Round)
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Termoli & Tremiti: Between History & the Molise Sea
Discover the coastal heritage of Molise as you explore the seaside town of Termoli and the remarkable Tremiti Islands. You will wander the medieval borgo overlooking the Adriatic, visit the cathedral and castle that guard the harbor, and experience nearby historic and archaeological sites that reveal the region’s deep past. The journey continues offshore to the Tremiti archipelago, where boat excursions, dramatic cliffs, and centuries-old abbeys offer glimpses of natural beauty and maritime history.
5 days, 4 nights (May-Sep)
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Community-Based Global Learning programs are designed for participants who want to make an impact through collaborative projects and partnerships. These cultural exchanges prioritize sustained engagement with local organizations, pairing hands-on service with contextual learning that deepens understanding of place, relationships, and shared responsibility.
Language in Action: Community & Culture in Italy
From Molise’s mountain villages and Adriatic coast to Rome’s historic streets, you will collaborate with local educators to support English-language learning through play and creativity, explore coastal traditions and engage community initiatives in Termoli, and place the people and landscapes encountered along the way into a broader context through the art and history of Italy's capital.
20 days, 19 nights (July 1-20, 2026)
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Social Work Across Cultures: Community Care in Action
From Rome’s historic streets to the mountain communities and Adriatic coast of Molise, you will engage with local organizations and community partners to explore how care, inclusion, and social responsibility take shape in everyday life. Through conversations with social workers, cooperative programs supporting people with disabilities, and grassroots initiatives serving vulnerable populations, the landscapes and traditions encountered along the way come into focus as part of a broader story of community resilience and cultural continuity in central and southern Italy.
17 days, 16 nights (Year-Round)
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Seminars are focused and immersive programs centered on a specific academic or creative theme and led by professors or expert practitioners. Each seminar blends structured instruction with hands-on learning and site-based experiences, supporting deep inquiry and skill development, and culminating in applied or creative outcomes.
Coaching Beyond the Pitch: Global Football & Community Learning
Step onto the field in Molise and elevate your coaching skills while deepening your intercultural awareness through the global language of football. In this immersive program, you will complete an intensive five-day coaching course with Sascha Bauer, linking technical development with mental performance, and tactical IQ with social competences to enhance both individual excellence and team success. You will then apply your learning by leading a youth football camp in concert with a local Italian football club and alongside local and international coaches.
Beyond the pitch, you will experience Italian culture through its food, language, and daily life, creating meaningful connections with the local community. Shared meals, informal language learning, and collaboration with Italian coaches will provide authentic cultural immersion that enriches both personal growth and professional development. Highlights include a night out in Rome, experiencing the atmosphere of one of the world’s most iconic cultural capitals, as well as a beach visit in Termoli, where the Adriatic coast offers time to connect, reflect, and enjoy the local lifestyle.
Football becomes more than a game — it becomes the shared language that connects players, coaches, communities, and cultures. It becomes the field where leadership, community, and global learning meet.
16 days, 15 nights (June 13-28, 2026)
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Extensions are optional, short- to medium-length itineraries designed to complement a Molise-based program. These experiences offer focused exploration in nearby regions or thematic areas and can be added before or after a core itinerary, or even selected independently when time in Italy is limited.
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Excursions & Workshops are partial- to full-day experiences that offer concentrated engagement with local culture, skills, and landscapes. Ranging from culinary and artisan traditions to outdoor activities and guided cultural visits, these experiences can complement a Molise-based program or be selected independently by those living in or enjoying an extended stay in the region.
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Molise in Performance:
Performing Artists programs are customizable cultural exchange experiences designed for musicians and performance groups seeking to engage Molise through live performance and artistic presence. Itineraries are shaped collaboratively and may include concerts in theaters, historic and outdoor venues, churches, clubs, and festivals, paired with opportunities for local connection, rehearsal, and cultural immersion.
Custom Length (Year-Round)
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Self-Guided Explorations & Experiences are designed for independent travelers who want the freedom to explore Molise at their own pace, supported by thoughtful context and local insight. From festivals and historic churches to villages, landscapes, and cultural sites, these resources invite autonomy and adventure, offering orientation, ideas, and depth without prescribing an itinerary.
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Digital Nomad
Immersive Local Living
Stay connected to work or complete personal projects in peace, immersing yourself as much as feels comfortable.
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Italian Language
Intensive or Conversational
Live like a local in Molise while you develop Italian language competency and Intercultural Citizenship.
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Continued Learning From Home
Unable to travel overseas? Check out CIC’s online seminars, book groups, and domestic Study Away.
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Great! We are constantly developing new programs and looking for amazing partners. Please fill out our interest form, and also feel free to contact us with further questions or to discuss possible lengths and structures for your course.
To enroll, please fill out and submit the online enrollment form, linked below and on each program page. Then complete and submit (by email or mail) the Official Waiver/Release. Prior to enrollment confirmation, applicants will participate in a short video chat interview with program staff.
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