AGI- Rome: Refugee Service Management

Program Info.

  • Instrutor: Marco Tavanti (mtavanti@usfca.edu)
  • Course Name: Refugee Service Management
  • Date: January 9-15, 2023
  • Syllabus
  • Cost: program fee TBD + flight
  • Units: 2
  • Application deadline: Oct 8th

Apply here!

Program Description.

The Intersession 2022 AGI program in Rome, Italy, is an intensive week of lectures by immigration experts and visits to the offices of the UNHCR-Italy office, Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS-International), Centro Astalli (JRS-Italy), Doctors without Borders (MSF), Save the Children, etc. During the program, participants learn to compare the roots, best practices, and policy challenges of migration and integration in Europe.

Selected participants have to budget airfare and other expenses for a week in Rome, Italy. 

The application process is now open, please contact Marco Tavanti (mtavanti@usfca.edu) for questions.

The Rome Immersion is part of the Arrupe for Justice Immersions, these immersion programs educate for solidarity within a globalized world and to experience the "nitty-gritty reality of that world" by combining academic, experiential, and reflective experiences that are based on the Jesuit ideal of observing, reflecting, analyzing, and acting (The Circle of Praxis).  

Read more about the Student's experience in Rome Immersion Blog (SOM perspective).