Academic Programs
The Italian Department offers students the following academic programs whose descriptions and requirements are listed below:
Italian Major
Italian Minor
Major with Business Coursework
Minor – Business
MAGES – 5 year joint BA/MA Program in European Studies
ITALIAN MAJOR
Italian Majors at Georgetown are required to complete 10 to 12 courses taught in the Italian language, depending on the results of the student's placement exam (12 if they begin at the Intensive Basic Level and 10 if they begin at the Intensive Advanced Level). Italian majors are required to study a second language unless they are pursuing a second major, business coursework or pre-med. Italian Majors are also required to spend a semester or an academic year in Italy studying at an Italian University.
Italian majors can pursue a second major (or a minor) in other departments of the College to help prepare them for successful careers in their chosen profession.
Required Courses:
12 General Education courses
4 Second Language courses (intensive track recommended) except if a
student pursues a double major, pre-medical studies, or business coursework.
10 to 12 Courses in the Major + 1 Gateway course in English taken second semester of the first year. This course satisfies one of the two Literature and Writing requirements of the College.
I. The Gateway Course:
ITAL-042 Gateway to the Major
II. Italian Language Courses:
ITAL-011 Intensive Basic Italian
ITAL-032 Intensive Intermediate Italian
ITAL-111 Intensive Advanced Italian I
ITAL-112 Intensive Advanced Italian II
ITAL-231 Contemporary Italy (before overseas study)
ITAL-233 Writing: Literature/Culture
ITAL-237 Business Italian (for students pursuing business coursework or business minor)
III. Italian Literature and Culture Courses
Students must take one course from each of the following groups:
a) From the Origins to the Renaissance
ITAL-311. Italian Art, Literature and History 1200-1500
ITAL-362. Italian Literature and Society 1200-1600
ITAL-368. Politics, Society & Culture in Renaissance Italy
ITAL-379. Poetry of Courtly Love in Italy
ITAL-383. Love, Religion, and War
ITAL-391. History of the Italian Language
ITAL-412. Boccaccio
ITAL-466. Petrarch: The Theme of Love and the Image of Woman
b) From Baroque to the Age of Realism
ITAL-358. Literature of United Italy
ITAL-382. The Fantastic in Nineteenth & Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
ITAL-469. Leopardi, Manzoni and Their Times
ITAL-473. Farewell to Realism: Decadence, Avant-Garde, Modernism
c) From Modernism to the Present
ITAL-315. Le Altre Italie: Italy and the Culture of Contemporary Ethnic Identity
ITAL-322. Poetics of Lightness: Italo Calvino and Post-War Italian Culture
ITAL-337. Italian Cinema: Adventurous Journey
ITAL-359. Bella Ciao! Women’s Identity in Twentieth Century Italy
ITAL-360. Giallo! Italian Detective Fiction
ITAL-380. Identity and Resistance in Fascist Italy
ITAL-381. Italian Contemporary Poetry
ITAL-393. Modern Italian: dialects and other varieties
ITAL-411. From Novel to Film
ITAL-425. From Mazzini to the Euro: The European Consciousness in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
ITAL-426. Encounters with the Other: The Ethnographic Imagination in Italian Literature
ITAL-445. The Betrayals of Translation
ITAL-471. The Writing Factory: Science, Machines, and the Technology of the Word in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
IV. One literature/culture elective from any of the 3 groups listed above
V. Dante
ITAL-460 Dante – The Divine Comedy
VI. The Senior Seminar
ITAL-489 Senior Seminar
NOTE: Students who study abroad for a semester can apply two courses taken abroad toward the Major. Those who study abroad for a full year may apply no more than four courses toward the Major.
ITALIAN MINOR
Required courses:
ITAL 011
ITAL 032
ITAL 111
ITAL112
ITAL 233
1 upper level elective
NOTE: Students who study abroad for either a semester or a year can only apply one course toward the Minor.
DOUBLE MAJOR
Italian Majors may double major in another language or in any of the disciplines in the College:
American Studies
Anthropology
Art, Music & Theater
Biology
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Classics
Comparative Literature
Computer Science
Economics
English
Government
History
Interdisciplinary Studies
Linguistics Mathematics
Philosophy
Physics
Political Economy
Psychology
Sociology
Theology
*Italian Majors who pursue a double major or business coursework are exempt from the second language requirement.
BUSINESS MINOR
A Business Minor is available to Majors in Italian.
The Business Minor consists of seven courses, four prerequisites and three upper-level electives:
Four prerequisites:
Principles of Accounting (ACCT-001) or Accounting I (ACCT-101)
Microeconomics (ECON-001)
Macroeconomics (ECON-002)
Statistics with Exploratory Data Analysis (MATH-006) or Economic Statistics (ECON-121)
Note: MATH-035 (Calculus I) is a prerequisite for any Finance class.
The four prerequisites must be completed before enrolling in any other business coursework and prior to submitting a request for the minor. The minor request is submitted to the Georgetown College Dean's Office. The College Dean's Office will forward all requests to The McDonough School of Business at the end of each semester.
Upon completion of the four prerequisites and acceptance into the minor, students select three upper-level electives from the areas of Marketing, Management, or Finance. Please note all restrictions, prerequisites and fall/spring availability as indicated in the Course Descriptions sections of this Bulletin and the Schedule of Classes.
BUSINESS COURSEWORK with an Italian Major
The Business coursework program is available to Italian majors. The business coursework consists of 14-15 courses, and is the functional equivalent of a second major. No more than 25% of the 38 courses required for graduation may be taken from The McDonough School of Business. The requirements for each program may be found in the College Bulletin.
The business-related requirements of this program consist of 14-15 courses:
5 prerequisites
4-5 core courses
5-8 upper-level core concentration courses
Prerequisites:
ACCT-001 Principles of Accounting (ACCT-101 is required for the Accounting Concentration)
ECON-001 Microeconomics
ECON-002 Macroeconomics
MATH-006 Statistics with Exploratory Data Analysis or ECON-121 Economic Statistics
MATH-035 Calculus I
Students who wish to pursue this program must take the 5 prerequisite courses before applying to the program. To apply, students should submit a Declaration of Business Coursework Form to the Georgetown College Dean's Office, indicating completion of all pre-requisites and stating the intended field of concentration. At the end of each semester, all requests are submitted to The McDonough School of Business for review. Interested students should complete the prerequisites by the second semester of sophomore year.
The second language requirement is waived for students in the Language with Business Coursework Program.
FIVE-YEAR JOINT MASTERS
IN ITALIAN, GERMAN & EUROPEAN STUDIES
Joint MAGES/Undergraduate Degrees
In conjunction with the BMW Center for German and European Studies, the Italian Department offers a five-year AB/MAGES program for Italian majors who plan to pursue an education in international affairs at the graduate level.
Requirements
Third-year students who have maintained an honors academic average (3.5 cumulative GPA) are eligible to apply. Candidates for these joint degree programs must complete all requirements for the respective undergraduate program as well as for the MAGES degree. Candidates matriculate fully into the MAGES program in their senior year. Appropriately selected MAGES elective coursework will be accepted in fulfillment of undergraduate divisional requirements and free electives.
Students seriously considering an AB/MAGES program are encouraged to select their junior year divisional courses in consultation with the Director of the MAGES program. Students interested in exploring this joint degree should be in contact with Dr. Serafina Hager, Chair of the Italian Department.
Admissions
Joint Undergraduate/MAGES Program applicants must complete all application procedures and fulfill all entrance requirements for the MAGES program with the following variations:
Applicants are exempt from submitting scores from the Graduate Record Exam (GRE)
Each applicant must be interviewed by the Director of the MAGES program (except those studying abroad)
If studying abroad, students should contact MAGES before departure.
AB/MAGES
Applications, which can be obtained from the MAGES website, must be submitted to Dr. Serafina Hager, Chair of the Italian Department for endorsement, which will be contingent upon the student’s completion of the College general education requirements as well as satisfactory progress in the major. Approval from the College Dean’s Office is also required. The application requires a letter of support from the Italian Department Chair.
Students who are interested in this program should strongly consider declaring an undergraduate minor in Economics, Government, History, or European Studies Certificate for greatest flexibility in course selection.
The Program:
6 required courses (RCs)
3 interdisciplinary electives (IEs) selected from three of the five disciplines: Cultural Studies, Comparative Politics, Economics, History and International Relations.
7 free electives
NOTE: A maximum of two courses applied toward the Italian Major may also count for the MAGES degree.
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