L’italiano in Canada e nelle Università canadesi
Secondo le stime del censimento del 2016 condotto dal Governo Canadese (ultimi dati disponibili), nel Paese risultano ben 375,640 persone di madrelingua italiana.
Generalmente lo studio dell’italiano nelle scuole e nelle Università canadesi è più diffuso nelle zone in cui vi è un’importante presenza di comunità italiane. Esso inoltre è spesso inserito in diversi curricula scolastici, grazie ad accordi ad hoc conclusi con i provveditorati delle singole province.
In diverse Università di Québec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba e Nova Scotia si possono trovare poi dei dipartimenti d’italiano con corsi di laurea appositi, ma anche dei semplici programmi linguistici, tra cui alcuni dedicati agli adulti in una prospettiva di educazione permanente, processo di costante apprendimento che riguarda l’intera vita di un individuo.
Nel programma di più ampio respiro della “Promozione del Sistema Paese”, la valorizzazione e la diffusione della lingua e della cultura italiana nel mondo costituisce una delle cinque coordinate di azione prioritaria. In tale programma s’inseriscono le figure professionali nominate dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (MAECI) come personale scolastico in Italia che, previo concorso, vengono poi inviate in molti paesi del mondo come dirigenti scolastici, dirigenti amministrativi, docenti di scuole italiane all’estero o lettori. Attualmente in Canada sono in servizio due lettrici, una presso la Carleton University di Ottawa e una presso la University of British Columbia di Vancouver, mentre a Toronto e Vancouver sono presenti due Direttori Didattici di ruolo a cui presto se ne aggiungerà un altro a Montréal.
Il seguente elenco di dipartimenti o programmi d’italiano presenti nelle Università canadesi è tratto da Universitystudy.ca; per maggiori dettagli si rimanda ai rispettivi siti:
1. Alberta
- University of Calgary, Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Department of French, Italian and Spanish – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- University of Alberta*, Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies & Master of Arts, graduate studies
2. British Columbia
- University of Victoria, Hispanic and Italian Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies & Master of Arts, graduate studies
- University of British Columbia, Italian Language and Culture, School of Continuing Studies – Certificate, undergraduate studies & Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- Simon Fraser University, Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of French – Certificate, undergraduate studies
3. Manitoba
- University of Manitoba, Italian, Faculty of Arts, Department of French, Spanish and Italian – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- University of Winnipeg, Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
4. Nova Scotia
- Dalhousie University, Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- University of King’s College, Italian Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
5. Ontario
- York University, Italian, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics – Certificate, undergraduate studies & International Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies & Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- Wilfrid Laurier University, Italian, Faculty of Arts, Department of Languages and Literatures – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- University of Toronto, Italian, School of Continuing Studies -Certificate, undergraduate studies
- University of Toronto, Italian Second Language Learning, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Italian Studies – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- University of Toronto, Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Italian Studies – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies & Master of Arts, graduate studies & Doctor of Philosophy, graduate studies
- University of Toronto – Mississauga, Italian Language Teaching and Learning, Department of Language Studies – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies & Master of Arts, graduate studies
- University of Ottawa*, Italian, Faculty of Arts, Department of Modern Languages and Literature – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- University of Ottawa, Italian Language and Culture, Faculty of Arts, Department of Modern Languages and Literature – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- University of Guelph, Italian, College of Arts, School of Languages and Literatures – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- Queen’s University, Italian, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Spanish and Italian Languages and Literature – Certificate, undergraduate studies & Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- McMaster University, Italian, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Linguistics and Languages – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- Carleton University, Italian, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Linguistics and Language Studies – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- University of Windsor, Italian and German, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- University of Waterloo, Italian Language, Faculty of Arts, Department of Italian Studies – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- St. Jerome’s University, Italian Language, Department of Italian and French Studies – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- University of Western Ontario, Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures – Certificate, undergraduate studies & Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- Brock University, Italian Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- Laurentian University*, Italian Studies, Department of Modern Languages – Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages, undergraduate studies & Master of Modern Languages, graduate studies
6. Québec
- Concordia University, Italian, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- McGill University, Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Department of Italian Studies – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies & Master of Arts, graduate studies & Doctor of Philosophy, graduate studies
- Bishop’s University, Italian Studies, Division of Humanities, Department of Modern Languages – Bachelor of Arts, undergraduate studies
- Université Laval*, Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Université de Montréal*, Mineure en études italiennes, Faculté des arts et des sciences, Département de littératures et de langues du monde
*corsi d’italiano in lingua francese
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