Courses Offered

101. Elementary Italian I

Fall (4) Staff. Corequisite: ITAL101D.
Training in grammar, pronunciation, aural-oral skills, reading and writing. The work includes intensive practice in speaking and understanding. Three hours in the Master Class, one hour in the drill class.

102. Elementary Italian II

Spring (4) Staff. Prerequisite: ITAL101. Corequisite: ITAL102D.
Training in grammar, pronunciation, aural-oral skills, reading and writing. The work includes intensive practice in speaking and understanding. Three hours in the Master Class, one hour in the drill class.

150W. Freshman Seminar

Fall or Spring (4) Staff.
In English. Seminar focuses on specific Italian Literary and/or Cultural Studies topics and issues which may vary from semester to semester. Topic and issue will be indicated in the schedule of classes. The course may be repeated for credit if topic and issue vary. Knowledge of Italian is not required.

200. Italian Studies Abroad: Language and Culture

Summer, Fall, Spring, (1-4) Staff. Prerequisite: Acceptance by Selection Committee.
This number is intended for courses completed in Italy. Course may be repeated for elective credit. Students must pass a placement test with a grade of at least C in order count 200 towards the College Language Requirement.

201. Intermediate Italian I

Fall (4) Staff. Prerequisite: ITAL 102, or placement by SAT II Test score or consent of instructor. Co-requisite: ITAL 201D.
A review of basic Italian grammar through development of writing, speaking, comprehension and reading skills.

202. Intermediate Italian II

Spring (4) Staff. Prerequisite: ITAL 201, or placement by SAT II Test score or consent of instructor. Co-requisite: ITAL 202D.
Continued review of basic Italian grammar through development of writing, speaking and comprehension skills, with additional emphasis on cultural and literary readings.

206. Italian Language Through Film

Fall or Spring (3) Staff. Prerequisite: ITAL 202 or the equivalent.
In Italian. A conversation course using film as a starting point for the refinement of students' speaking skills in Italian. Students will enrich their vocabulary and strengthen their use of more complex grammatical structures and idiomatic expressions, as well as learn to recognize regional differences in spoken Italian as they talk about cinematic texts.

208. Reading and Writing Italy

Fall or Spring (3) Staff. Prerequisite: ITAL 206 or consent of the instructor.
In Italian. The course focuses on the reading of contemporary journalistic and literary texts in Italian and in refining the stylistics of writing in Italian.

275W. University Seminar

Fall and Spring (4) Staff.
In English. A reading-, writing-, and discussion-intensive seminar. Topics vary by semester and by instructor. Restricted to transfer students and co-enrolled students Students receiving a grade of "C-" or better in the seminar will have satisfied the lower-division writing requirement. This course does not fulfill the Freshman Seminar requirement.

300. Italian Studies Abroad

Summer, Fall, Spring (1-4) Staff. Prerequisite: Acceptance by Selection Committee.
This number is intended for upper-division courses completed in Italy. Course may be repeated for credit.

301. Readings in Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment

Fall and Spring (3,3) Ferrarese. Prerequisite: ITAL 202, four high school units or the equivalent, or consent of instructor.
In Italian. Survey of Italian literature. An introduction to the major writers of Italy from the 13th to the 17th century, including such authors as Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso.

302. Readings in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature

(GER 4A, 5) Spring (3) Angelone. Prerequisites: ITAL 202, four high school units or the equivalent, or consent of instructor.
In Italian. Survey of Italian literature. An introduction to the major writers of Italy from the 17th century to the present; including such authors as Goldoni, Leopardi, Pascoli, Carducci, Manzoni, Pirandello and Moravia.

303. Topics in Italian Culture

Fall and Spring (3) Staff. Prerequisite: ITAL 202 or consent of instructor.
In Italian. Topics will alternate, according to the professors' interests and expertise. May be repeated for credit if topics vary.

304. Introduction to Italian Cultural Studies

Fall or Spring (3-4) Angelone.
In English. This course explores in an interdisciplinary manner the cultural transformations that have occurred in Italy from 1945 to the present through an analysis of evolving constructs of Italian national identity. The texts used include novels, literary, anthropological and sociological inquiries, films, the press and design artifacts. Students with advanced language skills may take a 4th credit of reading and discussion in Italian. (Cross listed with LCST 351)

309. Dante and the Medieval Tradition

Fall (3-4) Ferrarese.
In English. Readings, in translation, and discussion of representative works and trends in courtly love and scholastic traditions to focus attention on Dante's literary, esthetic and historical milieu, and achievements. Students with advanced language skills, with the consent of instructor, may take a 4th credit for reading and discussions (one additional hour per week) in the original language.

310. Italian Cinema and Post-War Italian Culture

Spring (3-4) Angelone.
In English. A study of Post-War cultural developments in Italy through the medium of major Italian cinematic productions and directors. The course will focus on political, economic, social, artistic and religious developments as important manifestations of contemporary Italian culture. Students with advanced language skills, with the consent of instructor, may take a 4th credit for reading and discussions (one additional hour per week) in the original language.

312. Renaissance Italy

(GER 5) Spring (3-4) Ferrarese.
In English. The course highlights the intellectual and political structures that shaped Renaissance society in Italy, and examines the origins of Italian national identity through readings of a variety of literary and aesthetic genres such as epic poetry, political and historical treatises, music and theater. Contemporary cinematic representations of the Renaissance will also be analyzed. Students with advanced language skills, with the consent of the instructor, may enroll in a 4th credit of reading and discussion (one additional hour per week) in Italian.

313. Topics in Italian Studies

Fall or Spring. Staff.
In English. Topics will alternate, according to the professors' interests and expertise. May be repeated for credit if topics vary.

Topic for Fall 2012. Gramsci, Machiavelli and Imagined Italies

In English. This course will conduct an in-depth reading of the key concepts of Antonio Gramsci’s thought with regards to the national project in Italy, linking him to the Renaissance thinker Machiavelli through their respective theories on power, culture and politics in the nation-state. Our main texts will be The Prince by Machiavelli and the Prison Notebooks by Gramsci, but we will also support our reading with essays by Giovanni Gentile, Benedetto Croce, Benito Mussolini, Max Horkheimer, Louis Althusser and Ernest Cassirer.  

314. Italian Theatre

(GER 5) Fall or Spring (3) Staff. Prerequisite: ITAL 202 or consent of instructor.
In Italian. A study of Italian theatre through major Italian playwrights and filmmakers. Course will focus on political, social and economic developments in Italy. Period will vary at the instructor's discretion. Playwrights include: Marinetti, Pirandello, De Filippo, Fo, Ginzburg, Rame and Maraini.

316. 20th-Century Italian Women Writers

(GER 5) Fall or Spring (3) Angelone.
In English. Twentieth-century Italian women writers will be selected and read. The course will focus attention in particular on feminist issues. Students with advanced language skills, with the consent of instructor, may take a 4th credit for reading and discussions (one additional hour per week) in the original language. (Cross listed with WMST 316)

317. Italian America

Spring (3) Angelone.
In English. This course will explore the imaging and self-imaging of Italian-Americans in literature and film, from representations of Italian immigrant "otherness" to present-day attempts at identity construction, differentiation and assimilation by Italian-American filmmakers. Alongside issues of ethnicity, we will consider those of gender, class and race, in order to understand the positioning of "Italian-American" within the greater spectrum of identities that make up the U.S. map.

320. Imitations of Life: Italian Autobiographies

Fall or Spring (3-4) Staff.
In English. Course examines strategies of self-representation in autobiographies, diaries, letters, and novels of selected authors. Issues addressed include the making of the modern self and the fashioning of an Italian identity. Readings selections from Petrarch, Cellini, Goldoni, Casanova, Alfieri, Pellico, Sciascia, Aleramo, Viganò, and others. Taught in English. Students with advanced language skills, with the consent of the instructor, may take a 4th credit for reading and discussions (one additional hour per week) in the original language. (Cross listed with LCST 351)

411. Independent Study

Fall and Spring (3,3) Staff.
This course is designed to permit in-depth study in an area of literature, linguistics or culture not available in current course offerings. A written petition to instructor and approval of section coordinator required before registration.

412. Teaching Practicum.

A mentored teaching internship experience for students to work closely with a faculty mentor in teaching either a language or content course.