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Los Angeles: Departments
Indo-European Studies
Information Studies
Integrated Manufacturing Engineering
International Development Studies
International Relations
Islamic Studies
Italian
Indo-European Studies
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Information Studies
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Integrated Manufacturing Engineering
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International Development Studies
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International Relations
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Islamic Studies
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Italian
Italian was established as a department at
Los Angeles in September, 1935, and the four courses which were
announced during registration week two of beginning language and
two of literature--were taught by two instructors: Charles Speroni
and Franco Bruno Averardi. Students showed an immediate interest
in Italian, and the young department began to flourish. Two years
later, a course of elementary Italian was taught by Perina Piziali,
who was an assistant in the psychology department.
During World War II enrollment dropped considerably,
and the only instructor left in the department was Speroni. In 1943-44,
in connection with the Army Specialty Training Program (ASTP), a
group of 26 soldiers came to the campus where they spent seven months
taking an intensive course in Italian, and a few "area"
courses on Italy. After the war it was necessary to increase the
staff: first with Carlo L. Golino (1946), and three years later
with Pier Maria Pasinetti. The latter was brought to the campus
to teach both Italian literature and the newly-established course
on world literature.
The department was not always an autonomous one.
It was a separate department between 1935 and 1938; between 1938-40,
it was under the chairmanship of Arthur P. McKinley, who was then
chairman of the Department of Classics; between 1940-41, it was
under the chairmanship of Henry Brush, who was also chairman of
the French department; and between 1941-42, it was chaired by César
Barja, who was at the same time chairman of the Spanish department.
In 1942, it became part of the Department of Spanish and Italian,
and this union lasted until the academic year 1948-49. In 1949,
it once again became a separate department, under the chairmanship
of Speroni, who guided its growth until 1956, when he was asked
to become director of Summer Sessions. The department also has been
under the chairmanship of Golino, Dante Della Terza, and Franco
Fido.
In 1947-48, the department began offering the
A.B. degree with a major in Italian, and in 1951-52, an M.A. degree.
Graduate instruction was started in 1951-52, and in view of the
increasing enrollment, the Ph.D. degree in Romance languages with
a major in Italian was approved by the graduate council in 1958-59.
In 1964, the department also began offering the Ph.D. degree entirely
in Italian language and literature.
The department had a language laboratory and a
departmental library for graduate and advanced students. Since 1957,
it published the review, Italian Quarterly. source
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