意大利文学硕士课程强调文学和文化研究。我们强调Italianistica（意大利研究），以及从中世纪到现在的个人作家。意大利文学的历史是通过与较大的欧洲和欧洲以外语境相关的语言和主题发展来教授的。包括研讨文体学，修辞学，语义和语法在内的紧密文本分析是研究生研讨会的一部分，但是课程自然会提供与艺术，历史，音乐和哲学主题相关的有用的背景知识。文学硕士课程要求学生加深他们在意大利语授课课程中所掌握的体裁和文学时期知识。这一事实使他们在意大利语的口语和书面方面达到了卓越的语言能力。
The Master of Arts in Italian program stresses the study of literature and culture. We emphasize Italianistica (Italian Studies), and individual authors from the Middle Ages to the present. The history of Italian literature is taught through linguistic and thematic development in relation to larger European and extra-European contexts. Close textual analyses that includes the study of stylistics, rhetoric, semantics, and syntax are a part of graduate seminars, but courses naturally provide useful background knowledge related to topics in art, history, music, and philosophy. The M.A. program requires students to deepen their knowledge of genres and literary periods, which they undertake in courses taught in Italian. This fact enables them to reach superior language competency in spoken and written Italian.