Your intensive language courses aim to support you in reaching fluency. You will learn core skills (speaking, reading, writing, and listening) as well as the art of translation. Your core cultural courses are wide-ranging. They include novels, poetry, theatre, cinema, art, and transmedia, as well as Italian history and politics. You study Italy from medieval times (Dante and Boccaccio) to the 21st century.? You also take optional modules which offer flexibility and choice.?

Graduate skills and career opportunities

Because far fewer people study Italian, Italian opens up a range of fields where very few people will have the skills you do. Advanced language skills are widely sought after in today?s job market ? especially here in Ireland where many companies sell their products and services to the European continent.?

Our graduates get jobs in a variety of sectors: business, law, charities, the public service, university administration, import-export, writing, journalism, translation, theatre, music, design, tourism, PR, diplomacy, corporate recruitment, finance, football management, teaching, lecturing, and banking.?