Bachelor of Arts - Italian

From ancient Rome to the European Union, Italy has always been at the core of the humanist tradition and the heart of world affairs. A degree in Italian offers a broad-based humanities education with crucial skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, and intercultural communication useful for any number of pursuits after college. The majors have gone on to career paths in teaching, government, and business both in the US and abroad. Others have enrolled in prestigious graduate programs in linguistics, literature, and law.

DePaul’s Italian program gives students the opportunity to attain advanced language proficiency while studying all aspects of Italian literature and culture. Topics of the regular course offerings include:

Students expand upon the fundamental skills learned in the Italian core by choosing one of three concentrations: Italian Studies, Italian Language and Literature, and Commercial Italian. DePaul majors in world language education, management, marketing, environmental studies, history of art and architecture, international studies, political science, and many other disciplines often choose to double major in Italian.

Each Fall DePaul’s study abroad program in Rome offers students the opportunity to study at Italiaidea, a small, student-centered language institute with a superb record and reputation for high-quality instruction, and at St. John’s University campus in Rome, a university, like DePaul, driven by its Vincentian mission. Students can also spend a semester or year in Milan through DePaul's partnership with Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. The Italian Program has a chapter of the National Italian Honor Society Gamma Kappa Alpha and routinely partners with Italian agencies, businesses, and community organizations to offer its students quality internship opportunities locally and abroad. Home to one of the largest Italian-American communities in the US, Chicago also offers a dazzling array of resources—the Italian Cultural Institute, museums, galleries, film centers, restaurants, and cafés—that allow students to immerse themselves in the Italian language and culture right here in the city.