纽约大学意大利语专业课程为本科生提供了许多机会。在严格而轻松的学术环境中，学生将掌握该语言，并全面了解意大利的历史，文化和社会。课程范围从但丁到当代电影和社会，从文艺复兴时期的女作家到未来主义的表演艺术。该联合专业总共需要九门四分制课程（36分）。希望主修意大利语和语言学的学生必须完成中级意大利语II或强化中级意大利语四门课程。其中包括两门必修的语言课程和两门文学和/或文化与社会的选修课。
New York University's Department of Italian Studies is the largest free-standing Italian department in North America, with faculty expertise that includes a range of historical periods and methodologies, spanning from medieval literature to neorealist cinema. Students can take courses in topics such as Renaissance epic, Futurism, literary translation, avant-garde literature, opera, Italian American culture, and Dante's Divine Comedy. Classes are conducted in both Italian and English.<br><br>We offer one-on-one faculty advising for students who choose to write honors theses and/or present their work at our annual undergraduate research symposium. Through our department, students have access to the bountiful event programming of the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marim, and have the opportunity for internships and scholarships. Majors and minors are encouraged to enrich their studies by spending at least one semester at NYU's breathtaking Florence campus.<br><br>Linguistics is the science of human language. It seeks to determine that which is necessary in human language, that which is possible, and that which is impossible. While linguists work to determine the unique qualities of individual languages, they are constantly searching for linguistic universalsproperties whose explanatory power reaches across languages. The discipline of linguistics is organized around syntax (the principles by which sentences are organized), morphology (the principles by which words are constructed), semantics (the study of meaning), phonetics (the study of speech sounds), phonology (the sound patterns of language), historical linguistics (the ways in which languages change over time), sociolinguistics (the interaction of language with society), psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics (the representation of language in the brain). Current research by faculty members extends across the field, including topics in the interaction of syntax and semantics, phonetics and phonology, languages in contact, pidgin and creole languages, urban sociolinguistics, and computer analogies of syntactic processes.