Program Description
The Modern Languages program of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures / Département de langues, littératures et cultures offers a variety of programs with a concentration in Italian Language and Culture. Students with or without prior knowledge of the Italian language will be placed at the appropriate level upon assessment of their proficiency by a program advisor.
Language is studied both experientially (through classroom practice of sounds, intonation patterns, posture and gestures and situations typical of the target language) and theoretically (learning how to study language through, for example, grammatical analysis). University of Windsor’s Multi-Media Language Learning Lab and departmental mini-lab provide enhancement and support. Understanding of Italian culture is acquired through courses on Italian history, modern Italian life and classical and contemporary literature and cinema.
This program include a core component of courses in comparative literature, general and applied linguistics and cultural studies to help contextualize Italian language and culture.
Unique in all of Canada is that students taking University of Windsor’s Honours degree are required to spend their third year at a university in a country where the language and culture they are studying is spoken. They will take courses in that language and the credit for those courses will be transferred for credit to the University of Windsor toward their degree requirements.
