Italian language graduates find their marketable skills considerably enhanced by their humanities education. All freshman applicants are considered within a competitive admission process for Summer, Autumn, and Winter quarters for the Columbus campus. Students who have taken Italian in high school may take a placement test and can receive course credit for the course. Once these criteria have been met and students are officially enrolled in the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, they may declare their major as Italian, and then contact the coordinating adviser in the Department of French and Italian. The GEC is a body of courses designed to ensure that each student becomes acquainted with the basic areas of academic study.
Some majors also require completion of a foreign language requirement.
A major in Italian consists of no fewer than 50 hours of Italian courses chosen from a variety of conversation, composition, grammar, and literature courses with the help of a major program adviser. Courses in Italian literature cover works grouped by author, such as Dante or Petrarch and Boccaccio, by time period, such as the Renaissance or the Modern periods, or by genre, such as poetry and drama or fiction. Core courses include Italian 101 through 104. These courses do not apply toward the major. Additional electives and General Education Curriculum requirements totaling 196 hours are required by the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences for graduation.