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Italian has been taught at the University of Toronto since 1853 and has long been central to the University’s modern language offerings. Combined into one department with Spanish from 1887 to the early 1970s, Italian Studies was established as a separate department in 1973 and soon became the largest Italian department in the world outside of Italy.
The department’s undergraduate programs include courses dealing with all aspects of Italian literature as well as Italian drama and cinema, Italian culture, and Italian Canadian culture. The language courses are structured to suit the demands of students of varied backgrounds and levels of preparation and to attract students beginning the language in their first year of university. Courses in linguistics and history of the Italian language offer further specialization. Courses in cultural studies cover all periods of Italian literature, and increasingly deal with broader issues around diaspora, media, and politics.
Students have been active in organizing associations at both the undergraduate and graduate level for social events, film series, workshops, and conferences. The Italian Canadian community has also been a critical partner in nurturing interest in and study of Italian culture as it developed in Italy itself and as it spread around the world.
Our undergraduate students move into a wide range of professional and business careers around the globe. Our graduate students are faculty members in university departments across North America, including Stanford, Georgetown, McGill, Western, York, Ryerson, Guelph and others. Please use this website to learn more about our people and programs.
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