Italian

The Department of European Languages and Literatures offers the Master of Arts degree in French and in Italian. The degree leads to teaching careers in secondary education and college, and to admission to doctoral programs in these languages or comparative literature. In addition, students completing the MA degree have gone on to careers in business where knowledge of languages and cultures is required.

Courses cover numerous aspects of the literature, culture and the arts, from the Medieval through the contemporary periods, viewed through various methods of literary criticism. Courses are also given in the history of the language, advanced translation, fashion, Italian-American culture and Francophone literature. Seminars are set aside for methodology, selected authors or literary topics.

The Department of European Languages and Literatures, in cooperation with the Division of Education, also offers the Master of Science in Education degree in French and in Italian