Romance Languages, M.A. - Italian

The program course outline and graduation requirements for this catalog year are listed below. In addition, a 3.0 cumulative GPA is required for graduation. The department website provides an overview of the program, including admission requirements, faculty biographies, learning outcomes, and careers: https://www.southernct.edu/academics/world-languages-and-literatures/programs.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (30 CREDITS)

Students must earn a grade of "B" or higher in each course.

Core Requirements (15 credits)
Students must take at least one course from each of the four categories. 

Category I
ITA 523 – Dante: Faith, Fantasy, and Mankind 
ITA 525 – Of Love, Dejection, and Rhapsody 

Category II
ITA 524 – Ladies, Knights, Arms and Love: The Dawn of a New Age 

Category III
ITS 526 – Shifting the Center 

Category IV
ITA 528 – Visions of Modernity 
ITA 529 – Refashioning Italy 

Directed Electives (9 credits)
WLL 515 – Translation Studies in the Romance Languages 
WLL 520 – The Historical Avant-Garde 
WLL 581 – Introduction to Graduate Studies in Romance Languages 
WLL 582 – Popular Culture and Cultural Studies 

Capstone (6 credits)

Option 1: Thesis 
WLL 590 – Writing the Thesis Proposal
WLL 591 – Writing the Thesis: Prerequisite is WLL 590 

Option 2: Special Project
WLL 592 – Special Project I 
WLL 593 – Special Project II: Prerequisite is WLL 592 

Option 3: Comprehensive Exam
WLL 594 – Comprehensive Exam Seminar I
WLL 595 – Comprehensive Exam Seminar II