Italian Studies (MA)

The Master of Arts (MA) in Italian Studies, offered by the University of Toronto's Graduate Department of Italian and Spanish Studies, provides advanced education in Italian literature and training in research techniques. Students complete 3.5 graduate full-course equivalents, including a mandatory extra-departmental course and up to two further extra-departmental courses selected in consultation with the Graduate Coordinator. The program is delivered in person and can be completed full-time (3 sessions, typical registration Fall-Winter-Summer) or part-time (15 sessions), within a 3-year full-time (6-year part-time) time limit. Admission requires successful completion of 7.0 undergraduate full-course equivalents in Italian, including 3.0 FCEs in Italian literature spanning at least three of four historical periods (medieval, Renaissance, seventeenth-to-eighteenth-century, nineteenth-to-twenty-first-century) and an appropriate upper-year language course, plus a minimum B+ standing in University of Toronto 300- and 400-series courses or their equivalent. Graduates receive the Master of Arts (MA) credential.