PhD Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies (Italian Studies) at University of Pennsylvania

The Graduate Program in Italian Studies in the Department Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania offers students a range of curricular options that provide a broad academic base in Italian literature, intellectual history, film, cultural studies, and critical theory, as well as the most current pedagogical theory and practice. Students are encouraged to shape a curriculum that will prepare them in a primary period of interest as well as a secondary focal area. Students may complement their studies with up to four courses outside the Italian Studies section--for example, in another Romance language, Comparative Literature, English, and History.

Faculty: School of Arts and Sciences  |  Duration: 17 course units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States

What you will study

Requires 17 course units in total. Listed required courses include FIGS 7770 Francophone, Italian and Germanic Proseminar; FIGS 5900 Teaching and Learning; CIMS 6060 FIGS Theory Proseminar: Special Topics; COML 6050 Modern Literary Theory and Criticism; COML 6090 Global France; GRMN 6050 Modern Literary Theory and Criticism.

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