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Learning Goal 1 for Students: Achieve mastery in reading and analyzing critically and creatively literary, cultural, and cinematic texts of the Italian tradition.
Assessment of student achievement of Goal 1:
* Grades in graduate courses
* Comprehensive examination assessing the depth and breadth of knowledge - Assessment of exam by committee of graduate faculty members
* Review by faculty of student progress with close advising and mentoring
Role of the program in helping students to achieve Goal 1:
* Close advising to ensure that students are being prepared in a coherent and academically
* rigorous fashion
* Effective monitoring of student progress
* Evaluation of teaching effectiveness of instructors in graduate courses - If effectiveness is below expectation, work with instructor to improve
* effectiveness
* Periodic review of curricular offerings, degree requirements and assessment tools
* Italian Women Writers
* Language and Nation in Italian Thought
* Italian Literature of the Fourteenth Century
* Representing War, From the Unification to World War II
* Humanist Literature of the Quattrocento
* Landscape and Architecture in Italian Cinema: Antonioni, Pasolini, and Rosi
Want to improve your English level for admission?
Prepare for the program requirements with English Online by the British Council.
- ✔️ Flexible study schedule
- ✔️ Experienced teachers
- ✔️ Certificate upon completion
📘 Recommended for students with an IELTS level of 6.0 or below.
The Department considers all qualified graduate students for various forms of financial support, including the Transliteratures Fellowship ($20,000/year and tuition coverage). Four-year Excellence Fellowship packages, typically include two years of Teaching Assistantship. Three- or four-year Teaching Assistantship offers are available on a competitive basis.
This package consists of a stipend, tuition coverage, and a fee waiver. Very good health benefits are also available. Students may also have the opportunity to be appointed as PTLs (part-time lecturers) and as instructors in the Departments undergraduate summer programs at Rutgers and in our Summer Program in Urbino, Italy.
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