Italian Studies

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The Italian Studies Major prepares students for life and work in a globalized world by providing them cultural immersion and fluency in a Language other than English.  These skills are developed on a foundation in the humanities that focuses on textual and artistic analysis, critical reading and thinking, and intercultural understanding and interpretation.

A degree in Italian Studies opens the door to a wide array of opportunities in the professions.  These include: graduate and law school and degrees that prepare students in the arena of international diplomacy and international business. Language proficiency aligned with cultural comprehension improves prospects for students seeking a profession in education and to careers in fashion, import/export, public relations, and all types of work that require communication with diverse populations. 

Students are encouraged to combine an Italian Studies Major with Political Science, International Relations and Diplomacy, International Business, Marketing, Graphic Design, and Fashion Merchandising.

Learning Goals

Students will:

1. Express themselves effectively in spoken and written Italian to share information, reflections, and opinions over a relatively wide array of topics in both formal and informal settings (interpersonal communication).
2. Identify and understand the value of cultural artifacts, practices, and perspectives of the Italian-speaking world and express how these relate to the present and to the place and time in which they were conceived and circulated (cultural knowledge).
3. Recognize and reflect on difference and diversity by comparing and contrasting culturally situated beliefs, behaviors, and traditions of the Italian-speaking world with those of their own culture (cross-cultural awareness).

The Italian division encourages students to participate in study abroad programs.

Programs

• Italian Studies -B.A.
• Italian Studies Minor

Courses

• ITAL 310 - Italy at the Crossroads of Language and Culture

• ITAL 101 - Elementary Italian I
• ITAL 102 - Elementary Italian II

• ITAL 192 - Italian for Spanish Speakers
• ITAL 201 - Intermediate Italian I
• ITAL 202 - Intermediate Italian II

• ITAL 300 - Advanced Grammar and Composition
• ITAL 301 - Advanced Discussion
• ITAL 306 - Perspectives on Rome: The Eternal City
• ITAL 307 - Perspectives on Venice: The City Built on Water
• ITAL 308 - Perspectives on Milan: A Most Modern City
• ITAL 309 - Perspectives on Sicily: Island of Intersections

• ITAL 235 - Italy: History and Cinema
• ITAL 255 - Italian Civilization and Culture I
• ITAL 256 - Italian Civilization and Culture II
• ITAL 280 - Italia Oggi (Italy Today) I
• ITAL 295 - Italian Cinema

• ITAL 345 - Business Italian

• ITAL 263 - Women of the Italian Renaissance
• ITAL 275 - Dante’s Inferno
• ITAL 312 - To Hell and Beyond: Dante’s Other World
• ITAL 360 - Italian Short Story
• ITAL 365 - Literature of the Italian Middle Ages
• ITAL 366 - Literature of the Italian Renaissance
• ITAL 367 - Literature of the Italian Romantic Period
• ITAL 368 - Literature of Modern Italy

• ITAL 282 - Machiavelli
• ITAL 283 - Michelangelo
• ITAL 284 - Galileo
• ITAL 286 - Italian-American Short Stories
• ITAL 287 - Pirandello
• ITAL 288 - Da Vinci

• ITAL 205 - Italian Language
• ITAL 399 - Directed Study
• ITAL 450 - Independent Study
• ITAL 455 - Internship
• ITAL 501 - Dante and the Middle Ages
• ITAL 502 - Early Modern Literature
• ITAL 503 - The Medici: Patronage and the Arts
• ITAL 504 - Italian Cinema
• ITAL 505 - 20th Century Italian Literature
• ITAL 506 - Immigrant Literature: Contemporary Writers in Italy

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