Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Arts
The major in Italian Studies (as well as the minor) is an interdisciplinary program focusing on the study of the Italian language, culture, literature, visual & audiovisual arts, its manifestations in history and its usage in the present cultural and social context.
Italy offers the richest cultural heritage of the Western civilization with the biggest number of UNESCO heritage/artistic sites in the world and has produced some of the most remarkable geniuses of art, design, music, literature, science and cinema (e.g. Dante, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo, Bernini, Vivaldi, Volta, Verdi, De Sica, Fellini, Armani) and founded the first University in Europe. The major in Italian Studies affords access to this extraordinarily rich cultural tradition as well as to one of Europe’s most vital contemporary societies.
The language/culture courses and offerings on key topics in Italian Studies enable students to examine, reflect and comment on the broaden diversity of intellectual and artistic life in Italy and its impact on the Western culture, from the ancient to the contemporary times. The program also provides the necessary preparation for graduate studies, to interact within multicultural and foreign societies and therefore to be prepared for the 21st century professional environment in which diversity and global elements are frequent. The program offers the opportunity to have an educational and cultural experience abroad, in Italy (or in Switzerland), where the students can also do an internship, and have the chance to specialize in a field of their choice (e.g. fine arts, culinary arts, design, fashion, history, international business, entrepreneurship, music, cinema, literature, environmental science).
Short Study Trips to Italy (8-10 days) are regularly offered for LEC students.
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