Areas of Study

While the program’s courses are taught in Italian, at least one course is offered in English each year, so if you are just beginning your study of Italian you will also be able to examine more advanced topics in literature and culture. The Italian Studies curriculum consists of:

• language courses that range from elementary to advanced levels
• literature courses spanning from the Middle Ages to contemporary Italy
• culture courses

Holy Cross offers two cooperative programs for students who are interested in combining the study of the liberal arts and sciences with engineering. Both engineering programs are open to students of all majors and class years. Advisors offer one-on-one guidance to connect you to the resources and tools that will enable you to achieve your individual career goals. 

Areas of Study

Offered through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the program offers an unusually rich faculty, with more than 15 faculty members researching the medieval and early modern periods spanning from the fourth to the 17th centuries in Europe, Asia and the Mediterranean basin. Fields include but are not limited to:

Areas of Study:

• Russian language
• Critical thinking and analytical writing
• Russian history, art, and culture
• Early Russia, 19th century, 20th century, contemporary Russia
• Genres (epic and folk tale, drama, poetry, prose, film)
• Geographical regions (Kievan Rus, European Russia, Siberia)

The Studies in World Literatures Program is an interdisciplinary major that will allow you to explore the literary, visual and performative texts produced in different times, places and cultures. While approaching the study of world narrative as a common human phenomenon, the major also asks students to understand how the form, content and modes of expression are challenged, developed, influenced and embraced in unique and self-defining ways by the cultures that produce them.

Areas of Study

Offered through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies program includes courses that will help students to recognize, understand and analyze:

Areas of Study

Offered through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the program will explore:

Areas of Study

Offered through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Film Studies allows students to investigate the subject through a combination of lecture classes and seminars.

• Survey classes in American and World Film
• Courses in French, Italian, German and Russian film taught in English
• Advanced film seminars and tutorials

Offered through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, students work with a faculty advisor to develop a coherent curriculum that fulfills the major requirements while developing a “theme” related to the student’s interests, which is included in their transcript as follows: Health Studies: Global Health, Health Studies: Women’s Health, etc. This theme can evolve as a student progresses through the major.

Students in the history of art examine the rich heritage of global artistic and cultural traditions through specialized lecture and seminar courses. Our art history graduates include educators, museum curators and directors, auction house administrators and appraisers, art librarians, historical preservationists, art publishers and grants managers.