DePaul’s Italian program offers a major with three flexible concentrations (Italian Studies, Italian Language and Literature, Commercial Italian), a minor, graduate courses and certificates that give students the opportunity to attain various levels of language proficiency through an immersive and communicative approach while exploring aspects of Italian literature and culture, history and politics, geography, business, linguistics, and translation.
Each Fall DePaul’s study abroad program in Milan offers students the opportunity to attend Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, a private, student-centered institution driven by its Catholic mission and located at the heart of a thriving global hub for culture and business, including fashion, design, and publishing. 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 organize events and 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 Italian language and culture right here in the city.