Master of Arts in Italian

at Queens College, City University of New York

The Department of European Languages and Literatures offers the Master of Arts degree in Italian. The degree leads to teaching careers in secondary education and college, and to admission to doctoral programs in these languages or comparative literature. Courses cover numerous aspects of the literature from the Medieval through the contemporary periods, viewed through various methods of literary criticism. Courses are also given in the history of the language, advanced translation, civilization, and the cinema. Seminars are set aside for methodology, selected authors or literary topics, and special problems. The Department of European Languages and Literatures, in cooperation with the Division of Education, also offers the Master of Science in Education degree in Italian.