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ITALIAN 1: Elementary Italian 1
Introduction to the basic elements of Italian language and culture. Equal attention to aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Conducted in Italian. Not open to students with prior knowledge of Italian. Four class meetings a week. Instructor: Fellin and staff
ITALIAN 2: Elementary Italian 2
Italian 2 develops and expands elements acquired in Italian 1: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Conducted in Italian. Four class meetings a week. Instructor: Fellin and staff
ITALIAN 21: Accelerated Elementary Italian
Covers the elementary Italian Language curriculum (Italian 1-2) in one semester. Development of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Introduction to aspects of Italian life and culture. Four class meetings a week. Instructors: Fellin and staff
ITALIAN 22: Accelerated Intermed. Italian
Covers the intermediate Italian Language curriculum (Italian 63-76)in one semester. Attention to vocabulary development and grammatical accuracy. Writing practice and development of reading skills with emphasis on analysis of cultural and literary texts. Prepares students to enroll in courses at the 100 level. Four class meetings a week. Instructor: Fellin and staff
ITALIAN 63: Intermediate Italian
Content-based approach focusing on aspects of Italian culture and contemporary society. Focus on the development of second language reading skills; review of grammar; practice in understanding, speaking and writing. Literary and cultural texts taken from a variety of media. Instructors: Fellin and staff
ITALIAN 76: Adv Intermediate Italian
Further development of the elements practiced in Italian 1-63. Increased attention to grammatical accuracy and vocabulary development; guided writing practice and development of second language reading skills with emphasis on analysis of cultural and literary texts. Prepares students for 100 level Italian courses. Instructors: Fellin and staff
ITALIAN 101: Writing Workshop
Development of composition tasks related to expository and other forms of writing. Focus on grammatical skills, conventions, and rhetorical techniques for organizing information. Substantial work on the development of writing strategies (vocabulary, editing, revising, and rewriting) through several short papers and a final long paper. Instructor: Fellin and staff
ITALIAN 103: Topics Italian Culture
Practice in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Italian with special attention to cultural topics and issues. Instructor: Staff
ITALIAN 108: Italian Sociolinguistics
ITALIAN 108S: Italian Sociolinguistics
Linguistic diversity in modern Italy. Social and geographic language variation, multilingualism, and the relationship between language and dialect. Special codes, including youth slang, language and politics, language and bureaucracy. Discussion of language and gender, language and racism, linguistic etiquette within Italian society. Instructor: Fellin
ITALIAN 110S: Intro Ital Civilization
The institutions and culture of Italy throughout the centuries. Instructor: Dainotto, Fellin, Finucci, or Hardt
ITALIAN 111: Intro To Italian Lit I
Major writers of the Italian premodern literary tradition of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Poetry, fiction, theater, and essay. Instructor: Eisner
ITALIAN 113: Intro To Italian Lit Iii
Major writers of the Italian modern literary tradition (nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries). Poetry, fiction, theater, and essay. Instructor: Dainotto or Hardt
ITALIAN 114: Major Italian Authors
Textual studies of the most important authors of the Italian literary tradition. Authors may vary. At times the course devoted to single author: Dante, Boccaccio, Pirandello; or, two or three authors studies together in the context of the culture of their time or of their influence on subsequent centuries or authors: Petrarch and Petrarchist phenomenon of the sixteenth century, Morante and the historical novel, Machiavelli and Vico. Not open to students who have taken this course as Italian 165S. Instructor: Finucci and staff
ITALIAN 115: What Makes An Italian
Topics to be announced. Survey course on Italian literature and culture required for Italian major or minor. Instructor: Finucci
ITALIAN 126: Topics Lit/Cul/Civ/Cin
Topics on literature, culture, civilization, and/or cinema. May concentrate on one or many periods. Instructor: Staff
ITALIAN 131: Italian Civilization
A cross-cultural study of Italy through history, culture, people, and institutions. Topics may vary each semester. Instructor: Staff
ITALIAN 132: Italian Cinema
Introduction course to Italian cinema including silent films, Neorealism, fascist productions, Commedia all'italiana and experimentalism. Reading and discussions in English. Instructor: Dainotto and staff
ITALIAN 134: Aspects Renaiss Culture
A study of historical, literary, philosophical, and art historical materials introducing Renaissance culture and the methods developed for its study. Instructor: Staff
ITALIAN 134P: Aspect Renaissance Cul-Precpt
A preceptorial in Italian, requiring concurrent enrollment in Italian 134, Medieval Renaissance 115, History 148A, English 123E, or Art History 149. Further information available from instructor. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Finucci and staff
ITALIAN 137: Modernism, Avant-Gardism, Art
Major artistic movements and theoretical aims of early modernism: fauvism, cubism, expressionism, futurism, constructivism, suprematism, dada, surrealism, deStijl, Bauhaus, and Neue Sachlichkeit in France, Italy, Germany, America. Instructor: Antliff, Leighten, or Stiles
ITALIAN 142S: Italian Literature (Top)
Topics to be announced. Taught in English. Open to juniors and seniors. Instructor: Staff
ITALIAN 143: Dante'S Divine Comedy
A voyage through the three otherworldly places of Dante's philosophical poem (Hell, Purgatory, Paradise) whose transformation of human actions into an ordered ethical system continues to captivate readers. Instructor: Eisner
ITALIAN 143P: Dante'S Divine Comedy: Precept
A preceptorial requiring concurrent enrollment in Italian 143. Additional information available from instructor. Instructor: Eisner
ITALIAN 145S: Topics: Medieval/Early Mod Lit
Topics may include: the Italian Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the baroque, humanism. Taught in English. Instructor: Finucci
ITALIAN 152: Renaissance Arch. In Italy
Architecture, design, theory, engineering, construction, and the related arts, 1400-1600. The architectural production of the Italian Renaissance in its historical, cultural, social, and economical context. Contributions of individual masters, including Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Palladio. Emphasis on architecture in Florence and Rome. Instructor: Galletti
ITALIAN 165S: Major Italian Authors
ITALIAN 170S: Cinema/Literature Italy
ITALIAN 210S: Topics Renaissance Studies
Focus on a particular aspect of the Italian or European Renaissance. Taught in English. Instructor: Finucci