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Welcome to the Rutgers
University Department of Italian, a department of the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences, serving the New Brunswick campus.
Italian has been
offered at Rutgers since 1939 as a part of the course of studies of the
Romance Languages Department. Just three years later, the first Italian
major was awarded.
Today, our program offers
a variety of courses, from the elementary to the graduate level. They
include the study of Italian language, literature and culture. In fact, we
are one of the few Departments of Italian in the country to offer a
doctorate, the first of which was conferred in 1965.
Our
graduate students may enroll in either our Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.),
Master of Arts (M.A.) or Doctoral program(Ph.D.). Our
numerous undergraduate students may choose to enroll in either our major,
minor, or honors programs. Students may also participate in a summer
program at the University of Urbino (Italy), semester abroad,
or Junior year abroad program in Florence.
The diversity of our
courses is sustained by the standard of excellence of both our faculty and
our graduate student body. As an example of our active scholarship, our
tenured faculty edits and publishes Italian Quarterly, an internationally
recognized journal which launched its first Rutgers issue in 1980; and
NEMLA Italian Studies, a refereed journal publishing the procedings of the
Italian section of the North East Modern Language Association.
In addition, our graduate
students edit and publish, with the assistance of the faculty, La Fusta,
one of the first graduate journals at Rutgers University and in the
country.
With the continued
support of Rutgers University and the international academic community,
the Department of Italian seeks to continue its tradition of excellence
well into the future.
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Italian Department
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