意大利研究专业将确保其出色的意大利语能力，使学生能够与语言使之成为可能的文学和文化文物进行广泛而密切的合作。基于他们在语言课程中巩固的语言能力，专业将其熟练程度扩展到各种意大利语文本。该培训锻炼并确保我们的学生具有分析文本和上下文以及构想，表达和捍卫原创思想的能力。意大利研究未成年人获得语言水平并至少修读两门高级课程，尽管程度较小，但也能获得类似的收益。
An Italian Studies major assures exceptional competence in Italian, allowing students to work extensively and closely with literary and cultural artifacts that language makes possible. Building on their linguistic proficiency consolidated in the language program, majors expand that proficiency to a wide variety of Italian texts. This training exercises and assures our students' ability to analyze texts and contexts, as well as to conceive, articulate, and defend an original idea. Italian Studies minors reap similar benefits, albeit to a lesser extent, by attaining linguistic proficiency and taking at least two advanced courses.