<p>Anyone familiar with the ITalian department at NU? Ive been able to do some reasearch for other schools and found that every school seems to have an outstanding Professor and a few others. That being said, I havent found much information on NU's Italian deparment. Does anyone know about it? (or any languages at NU)? Quality of education, size, faculty, prestige, ect?</p>
<p>the prestige of a language degree, depending on what you want to do with it, will probably come more from the school's overall reputation than the individual department.</p>
<p>I'm not a name guy, I'm more concerned with learning the language. (many languages for that matter) than having a name on a piece of paper, my interests are more scholarly than pretentious.</p>
<p>i actually heard someone say the other day "all the language departments at northwestern are mediocre WITH THE EXCEPTION OF italian, and the slavic languages"</p>
<p>the reason for this, as it was explained to me, is that northwestern requires two-year competency in language as an arts & sciences requirement (i'm not sure about the other schools, i know medill requires some language starting this year and communications does too, i'm just not sure how much) and because of this, there are alot of students taking language, and in trying to keep the class sizes ~15 or less students, lots of professors must be hired and thus quality falls.</p>
<p>I was explicitly told though that italian and the slavic languages had quality departments.</p>
<p>Oh thats great, I actually was looking to study Russian, Italian, and French</p>