Program Requirements
The Master of Arts in Italian is a 45-credit program focusing on Italian literature, film, culture, literary theory, a thesis proposal, and a thesis. Areas of interest include film studies, nineteenth-century studies, transnational studies, gender studies, Calvino, Bertolucci, Early Renaissance Naples and Venice, vernacular and Neo-Latin poetry, among others.
Thesis Courses (24 credits)
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ITAL 698 Thesis Proposal (6 credits)
Overview
Italian (Arts) : A written presentation which will include: (a) a review of the literature pertinent to the thesis, (b) the definition of the thesis research project within the parameters of the critical literature, and (c) an indication of how the research project will be carried out.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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ITAL 699 Thesis (18 credits)
Overview
Italian (Arts) : Completion of the thesis.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Required Courses (12 credits)
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ITAL 602 The Literary Tradition (3 credits)
Overview
Italian (Arts) : The course highlights the importance of tradition in literature and focuses on different aspects of Italian literary history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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ITAL 610 Bibliography of Italian Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Italian (Arts) : Tools for literary research: encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, journals, Internet sites, library catalogues. Tools for linguistic research: historical, specialized, Italian-dialect, etymological vocabularies. History of the book: manuscript, early printing, catalogues of incunabula and of early books.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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ITAL 619 Topics in Literary Theory (3 credits)
Overview
Italian (Arts) : An introduction to some of the main subjects and authors of modern literary theory. Topics may include reception theory, deconstruction, postmodernism, cultural studies, formalism and structuralism, semiotics, gender studies, psychoanalysis, Marxism, translation and subjectivity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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ITAL 680 Research Seminar (3 credits)
Overview
Italian (Arts) : Presentation and discussion of research work.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
9 additional course credits, chosen in consultation with an adviser from among the graduate courses offered by the Department. The three courses should cover three distinct chronological periods in Italian literature.
A maximum of 6 credits of graduate courses may be taken outside the Italian Studies Department, upon the advice of the Supervisor and with the permission of the Graduate Studies Director.
In exceptional cases, when program requirements cannot be fulfilled otherwise, students may take ITAL 606 Individual Reading Course 1 and ITAL 607 Individual Reading Course 2 offered as tutorials.
Typically, the first year of the program will consist of: Literary Theory course, ITAL 610, the three complementary courses and ITAL 698. The second year will include ITAL 602, ITAL 680 and the thesis.
