Italian at Temple University

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Benvenuti! Welcome to the official page for Italian at Temple University! Why invest in Italian?

Apart from being the number one study abroad destination among university students, Italy’s importance in the corporate world and its complimentary pairing with humanities studies make Italian the fourth most studied foreign language in the United States. The Italian program at Temple University is an interdisciplinary course of study that, in addition to being built on requirements of language pr

11/26/2021

Join us on Tuesday (11.30.21 @ 2:00 pm EST) as we explore the numerous ways that Dante’s Divine Comedy is interwoven within Buffy the Vampire Slayer! To register for the lecture go to: https://temple.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvdeqqqzIsGNVuu486eO4kB9muZLwfVH1M
so cool if you had time to attend ❤️

11/17/2021

Join us on tomorrow (November 18) at 2:00 pm as we welcome Dr. Dennis Looney Who will present on “Dante Alighieri, Public Humanities, and Social Justice Now”. To register for the zoom event go to: https://temple.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqcOCqqDkpE9BmxZa-T19oRFqzMnAp5Wps?mc_cid=db0c53d71e&mc_eid=785d55933b

08/22/2021

Dr. Gragnani at this year’s Convocation Ceremony where she proudly served as one of the faculty marshals! ❤️🦉🍒🇮🇹🏫📚

07/30/2021

The Italian Studies Program has made learning a foreign language financially accessible by providing you with a FREE open-source textbook written just for you! Enroll in Italian 1001 or 1002 TODAY!

07/21/2021

Greeting owls! Are you, like , “in search of Italy” but discouraged by having to purchase an expensive textbook? 😱 Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered! Italian has made learning a foreign language financially accessible by providing you with a FREE open source textbook written just for you! 🤗🙌 For questions feel free to reach out to Dr. Galati: [email protected] ✍️👍

05/12/2021

Watch here: https://youtu.be/7c8OYRSMGos In this video Dr. Gragnani and Dr. Galati share some important and exciting information on how you can make the most of your Italian experience in Rome!

By transforming your Rome experience into an actual degree in Italian or Italian Studies, you are not just checking off a box, but are investing in your future by acquiring invaluable skills for your future employers! You are demonstrating:

- Dedication and commitment to your experience
- Cultural competence
- Stronger analytical, critical, and cognitive skills
- Risk taking and navigating barriers
- Empathy

After studying in Rome you might be a few courses away from completing a dual degree. If you are taking one or more of the courses listed below, make sure you contact us ([email protected] or [email protected]) to explore your possibilities to further capitalize on your experience!

Fall 2021 Course Offerings

- Italian Culture Through Film
- Mafia in Modern Italy
- Modern Italy from Napoleon to Hi**er
- Immigration, Race and Identity in Contemporary Italy
- Contemporary Politics of Europe
- Masters of Renaissance Art
- Galleries and Studios of Rome
- Michelangelo
- Wonders of Rome: Art and Culture of the Baroque Era

04/29/2021

Errata Corrige: one of our award recipients was missing in our previous post. Congratulations to all of our awardees who received the MLW Academic Scholarship for Italian and the Study Abroad Scholarship to further their studies of Italian and Italian culture in Rome!

04/28/2021

The Italian Studies program congratulates our Spring 2021 recipients of the Marthe Lavallée-Williams Scholarship for Academics and Study Abroad! The Marthe Lavallée-Williams Academic Scholarship provides financial support to Italian majors during their junior and senior year (applicants may apply in their sophomore year)! The Marthe Lavallée-Williams Study Abroad Scholarship is available to students in CLA planning to take Italian Studies courses while in Italy! Email Dr. Galati ([email protected]) or Dr. Gragnani ([email protected]) to learn more about these AMAZING OPPORTUNITIES available to our students!

04/02/2021

2021 marks 700 years since the death of the Sommo poeta, Dante Alighieri. Throughout the year Temple University joins a vast number of cultural and academic institutions in celebrating the Italian poet’s output, influence, and legacy on world culture, the humanities, and beyond.

To that end, we organized a virtual event, “Lectura Dantis: Temple University Reads Dante” in the hopes of uniting our overseas campuses and the Temple University community during this most difficult time of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lectura invites our entire university community to read a selection of cantos from Dante’s Inferno. Although we cannot be together in the same physical space, we can all read from the same text and share a common goal of celebrating a key figure in the humanities.

In keeping with our connection to Dante and Philadelphia we will be using the Henry Longfellow translation of Dante’s Inferno. Longfellow visited Philadelphia, “that delightful land which is washed by the Delaware's waters” in 1867 and later composed the poem, “Philadelphia”.

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Dante's Inferno, Canto I 2021 marks 700 years since the death of the Sommo poeta, Dante Alighieri. Throughout the year Temple University joins a vast number of cultural and academic ...