Georgia Tech invites undergraduate and graduate students to take advantage of an exchange program developed with the University of Pavia that allows Georgia Tech undergraduate and graduate students to take courses in Italy either during the spring or summer semester of 2002. Begun in the fall of 2001, the program is devoted to enhancing education and research between the United States and Italy in the field of philosophy of science and technology, ethics, and cognitive science.

Undergraduate students participating in the program would take three courses (12 credits) that would lead either to a "Certificato in Epstemologia e Filosofia della Technologia" or a "Certificato in Scienze Cognitive." Graduate students would participate in seminars as well as undertake research related to their dissertation. Courses taken at the University of Pavia would receive credit within the Italian university system and would be transferred to Georgia Tech after appropriate review. Although course work would be primarily in English, students would be able to take a course in intensive Italian in conjunction with the program.

Pavia is a university town dominated by learning and research much as Cambridge and Oxford. Important during the period of the Roman Empire, the town became the capital of the Longobard kingdom and later of the "Regnum Italicum" until the 12^th century. Boethius and Augustine are buried in Pavia; Leonardo Da Vinci contributed to the planning of the canal system linking Pavia to other Italian cities. Conquered by the French, Spanish, and Austrians, Pavia obtained independence in 1859. Pavia is located 30 km from Milan.

Cost: $6116 (Resident), $6366 (Nonresident). Cost includes tuition. Students will live in the historic Collegio Ghislieri in the center of medieval Pavia.

For further information regarding the program please see the website or contact:

Professor Nancy J. Nersessian (Georgia Tech), nancyn@cc.gatech.edu

Professor Lorenzo Magnani (Univeristy of Pavia), lmagnani@cc.gatech.edu,   lmagnani@unipv.it