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Italian Studies

One of the world's most beautiful languages

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Italian language, culture and post-war immigration has enriched many other societies including the United States, Canada, Germany and Australia.

Italian Studies boasts a lively and engaged student community and a vibrant research culture. Our graduates forge careers in fields as varied as diplomacy, education, tourism, design, architecture, music, fashion, arts and food in Australia and abroad.

This discipline is generously supported by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, through the Italian Institute of Culture, and has previously been supported by the Cassamarca Foundation. 

Our study offering

Select from a wide range of language and culture units from one of the largest Italian departments in Australia and undertake a semester with one of our Italian partner universities. Develop high levels of linguistic aptitude and deep understanding of Italian authors, thinkers and literary and intellectual movements from the Middle Ages to the present.

Undergraduate

*Available in the shared pool of majors and minors

Research

        Our research

        Our staff maintain strong interdisciplinary links with a wide range of research clusters across the humanities as well as the social science disciplines of education and politics. Our research areas include: 

        • Sociolinguistics and language teaching methodologies
        • Translation studies
        • Medieval and Renaissance studies
        • Intellectual history
        • Critical, literary and visual theory
        • Modern Italian literature and culture
        • Migrant and travel studies
        • Italian theatre.

        Learn more about languages and cultures research.

        Exchange

        Our advanced exchange programs provide life-changing experiences in Italy where students exercise their language skills and develop an understanding of cultural intricacies first hand. 

        • University of Bologna
        • University of Florence
        • University of Padova
        • University of Pavia
        • University of Rome – La Sapienza
        • Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
        • University of Turin
        • Ca' Foscari University of Venice

        Learn more about study abroad and student exchange.

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        Diploma of Language Studies

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        Flexible pathway program

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        Opportunities from the School of Languages and Cultures

        Our people

        • Antonella Beconi
        • Daniela Panìco

        • Associate Professor Francesco Borghesi
        • Emeritus Professor Nerida Newbigin
        • Professor Flavia Marcello
        • Dr Maria Cristina Mauceri
        • Dr Kathleen Olive
        • Dr Caroline Paganussi

        • Dr Cristiana Palmieri
        • Dr Talia Walker
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        Contact us

        School of Languages and Cultures

        Room 506, Brennan MacCallum Building A18,
        The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006

        Phone: 1800 SYD UNI (1800 793 864) (in Australia)
        +61 2 8627 1444 (outside Australia)

        Email: slc.enquiries@sydney.edu.au

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