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This procedure is needlessly difficult--another reason for you to write a love letter to General Motors. You will need a small ratchet or socket-driver (don't remember the size, sorry, but it's metric and quite small), a flat-head screwdriver, a flashlight and an inspection mirror.
You'll also need a new flasher can, of course. The original is a Wagner 323. Although a Blazer International FL 552/536 Variable Load Thermal Flasher will work fine, I recommend against this particular unit because it is virtually silent, and you will not be able to hear the turn signal when it's on. While replacement in a NORMAL car would be as simple as opening the fuse box and yanking it out, the Beretta/Corsica is NOT a normal car, and so you'll have to either live with silent signals (like me) or go to all the trouble I'm about to detail and hope that the next replacement is loud enough. Some stores carry extra-loud flashers--if you see one, use it. I always found the signals in this car to be a bit too quiet anyway.
You have to remove the bottom plastic cover beneath the dashboard on the driver's side. Sliding the driver's seat back, you will see a color-matched panel secured with three easy-to-reach Philips head screws. This is NOT the panel you need to remove.
The panel you have to remove is accessible only when you get on your back on the floor in front of the driver's seat. You will see a black plastic panel secured with three bolt-head screws at the top, and one small nut down beside the accelerator pedal. Remove those three screws and that one nut.
Then wrestle that black panel out. It will need to come out toward the seat, because there is a slender horizontal post beside the brake pedal that the panel must slide along. Be careful: one of the interior lights is also secured to this panel, and you'll need to remove it before you can clear the panel from the work area. Just turn the light assembly 90 degrees counter-clockwise, and it'll come right out.
Once you've got that panel out of the way, you need to get back on your back again and look up. There is a so-called "convenience panel" mounted to a stamped steel dashboard frame. It is situated such that it faces the front of the car, so it's going to be difficult to see: with your head under the dash, you have to look back towards the rear of the car to see it. Using the flashlight and inspection mirror, you will see that this inconveniently-located "convenience panel" is home to the electronic door-reminder chime, several relays, and a flasher can. Don't get your hopes up, this isn't the flasher can you're looking for--this visible and somewhat-accessible flasher is for the hazard lights or "four-ways," NOT the turn signals. If you want to be sure about that, reach up onto the top of the steering column and switch the hazard lights on. You'll be able to feel this flasher can as it ticks.
The turn signal flasher is secured to this "convenience panel" using a metal clip. The clip will be visible, but the flasher is actually on the BACK of the "convenience panel." Using a screwdriver, push the clip upwards until it's no longer attached to the "convenience panel." The flasher can is now hanging by its wires, and can easily be grasped. It'll be inserted into its connector pretty tightly, so you'll want to use the flat head screwdriver to separate the flasher can from its home. Replace it with the new can. When you do that, you'll just have to pry the retaining clip off the old flasher can, put it on the new one, and secure the newly-installed flasher can to that stupidly-named "convenience panel" so it doesn't flop around and possibly cause trouble later.
Now just put everything back the way it was. One thing to note: there are two studs protruding from the firewall. You'll want to make sure the black plastic panel is put into place such that it rests atop these studs. Otherwise it'll begin to droop down and deform over time.
Now wasn't that stupidly difficult?
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