The fall of 2017 marked the second year in a row that the Honors College took 20 first-semester freshmen to the Kent State Florence Center, Palazzo Vettori, in order to learn about the community and understand life through the eyes of another culture.
“I made friendships and started my life in Florence and then had to come back here to Kent,” said Reilly Schrock, a freshman integrated social studies major who studied in Florence in the fall.
Amber Cruxton, the associate director of education abroad, said that while in Florence, students are required to take freshman honors colloquium and elementary Italian one, as well as two to three Kent core classes such as art history, Roman achievement and Italian cinema.