Center for Italian Studies

The Center of Italian Study is committed to providing students with an education that prepares them to become really qualified in Italian Studies.

In order to obtain that important result we offer our students a direct and personalized relationship with a mentor and tutor, following the student in her/his graduate thesis or Ph. D dissertation, as well as papers on Italian Studies.

It is our aim that all students acquire the ability to understand the Italian language, its history, art, literature and culture from multiple perspectives. The development of linguistic abilities through real texts, video, and audio sources is integral to expanding students’ knowledge since it permits contact with Italian speakers.

Active participation in the language classroom provides students with the opportunity to discuss and reflect on cultural information. This linguistic ability and cultural knowledge will benefit students both in everyday interactions with their communities, studies and in their chosen careers.

The Center also provides a wide range of courses on Dante, Petrarca, Leopardi, Pasolini, Fo, Tabucchi, gender, women and postcolonial Italian Literature, History of Italian Language, Italian Cinema, Italian Politics and Italian Cultural Studies, philological competences on Florentine manuscripts, and specific seminars and workshops on the most important authors and cultural issues.

We know how it is important to explain ourselves through writing. For that reason we offer courses and seminar on creative writing and poetry with Italian poets and writers.