The Department of Italian is committed to the research and
teaching of Italian language, literature, and culture from all periods--from
Dante to opera, theater, and contemporary film. With seven full-time faculty
members, the department is home to award-winning researchers, a thriving
graduate program (M.A., M.A.T., and Ph.D.), and an incredibly rich undergraduate
program, where students choose from a range of courses on Italian literature
and gastronomy; world-class cities like Venice, Naples, and Rome; business
Italian for careers in wine, food, and fashion; the history of Italian opera;
the mafia movie genre in the United States and Italy; Italian women writers; medieval and
modern Italian poetry; and race, migration, and Italian (post)colonialism,
among others.
The undergraduate program prepares students
for a globalized world by providing them cultural immersion and fluency in a
language other than English, and solid training in the humanities through a
focus on textual analysis, critical thinking and writing, and intercultural
interpretation.
The Department of Italian offers two major
tracks: Italian and Italian studies. Students who wish to attain fluency in
Italian and pursue advanced coursework and research in literature, film, and
culture in the Italian language choose the Italian major. Students who wish to
pursue a more interdisciplinary track--with coursework in English in the
Departments of Art History, Classics, History, and Music--choose the Italian
studies major. The department also offers minors in both tracks.
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