Course Schedule
ITAL 101 – Elementary Italian I
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing; introduction to the basic structures and vocabulary of Italian. (Does not count toward the Italian major or minor.)
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing; introduction to the basic structures and vocabulary of Italian. (Does not count toward the Italian major or minor.)
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Cortinovis, Natasha
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 22 / 25
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- Section: 002
- Instructor: Cortinovis, Natasha
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 22 / 25
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- Section: 003
- Instructor: Meli, Maria Rita
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 25 / 25
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- Section: 004
- Instructor: Meli, Maria Rita
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 24 / 24
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- Section: 005
- Instructor: Meli, Maria Rita
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 24 / 25
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- Section: 006
- Instructor: Meli, Maria Rita
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 22 / 25
ITAL 102 – Elementary Italian II
Listening, speaking, reading and writing; an introduction to the basic structures and vocabulary of Italian, continuation. (Does not count toward the Italian major or minor.)
Listening, speaking, reading and writing; an introduction to the basic structures and vocabulary of Italian, continuation. (Does not count toward the Italian major or minor.)
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Gaspar, Borbala
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 24 / 25
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- Section: 002
- Instructor: Ransdell, Diane R
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 25 / 25
ITAL 150B1 – The Holocaust in France and Italy
The course examines the origins, development, and implementation of discriminatory racial policies in France and Italy as well as their impact on Jewish citizens during and after World War II through the study of historical texts, survivor testimonies, war memoirs, memorials, commemorations and film.
The course examines the origins, development, and implementation of discriminatory racial policies in France and Italy as well as their impact on Jewish citizens during and after World War II through the study of historical texts, survivor testimonies, war memoirs, memorials, commemorations and film.
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Kaye, Deborah A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 80 / 80
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Kaye, Deborah A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 80 / 80
ITAL 160D1 – Food for Thought in Italian Culture
Food has always been an important thread woven through the fabric of Italian culture. Italian cuisine, as diverse and heterogeneous as it is inside the country from North to South, largely contributed to the building of a strong Italian identity, as testified in recent times by the worldwide success of large-scale marketplaces such as Eataly. This course will investigate food's role in shaping Italian society and its cultural practices by looking at images of food in visual art, literature and film. Our historical review will focus on the many symbolic meanings circulating around the representation of food in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and the 20th and 21st centuries. Food will be a lens through which we will read the political, social, and economic changes that have affected Italy in its millennial history.
Food has always been an important thread woven through the fabric of Italian culture. Italian cuisine, as diverse and heterogeneous as it is inside the country from North to South, largely contributed to the building of a strong Italian identity, as testified in recent times by the worldwide success of large-scale marketplaces such as Eataly. This course will investigate food's role in shaping Italian society and its cultural practices by looking at images of food in visual art, literature and film. Our historical review will focus on the many symbolic meanings circulating around the representation of food in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and the 20th and 21st centuries. Food will be a lens through which we will read the political, social, and economic changes that have affected Italy in its millennial history.
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Cavatorta, Giuseppe
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 60 / 60
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Cavatorta, Giuseppe
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 60 / 60
ITAL 201 – Intermediate Italian I
Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.
Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Bellocchio, Maria Letizia
- Days: MoWe
- Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 23 / 25
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- Section: 002
- Instructor: Gaspar, Borbala
- Days: MoWe
- Time: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 24 / 25
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- Section: 003
- Instructor: Gaspar, Borbala
- Days: TuTh
- Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 18 / 25
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- Section: 003
- Instructor: Cavatorta, Giuseppe
- Days: TuTh
- Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 18 / 25
ITAL 202 – Intermediate Italian II
Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.
Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Gaspar, Borbala
- Days: MoWe
- Time: 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 21 / 25
ITAL 230 – Introduction to Italian Culture
This gateway course introduces students to Italian thought and culture through multiple perspectives and disciplines including history, philosophy. literary traditions and cultures, arts and architecture, film, cultural studies and geography. By the end of the course, students will have acquired a broad historical understanding of Italian culture and a deeper sense of the interdisciplinary perspectives that contribute meaning to individual and collective Italian identities. Taught in English.
This gateway course introduces students to Italian thought and culture through multiple perspectives and disciplines including history, philosophy. literary traditions and cultures, arts and architecture, film, cultural studies and geography. By the end of the course, students will have acquired a broad historical understanding of Italian culture and a deeper sense of the interdisciplinary perspectives that contribute meaning to individual and collective Italian identities. Taught in English.
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Bellocchio, Maria Letizia
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 60 / 60
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Bellocchio, Maria Letizia
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 60 / 60
ITAL 231 – Fashion and Culture in France and Italy
The study of fashion is an important conduit for the expression of social identity, political ideas, and aesthetic taste. This course considers the history of style, fashion and dress in France and Italy from a cultural and fashion studies perspective. After a general introduction to models of interpretation and conceptual terms, FREN/ITAL 231 surveys topics in French and Italian fashion design and history from the 1300s to the present day
The study of fashion is an important conduit for the expression of social identity, political ideas, and aesthetic taste. This course considers the history of style, fashion and dress in France and Italy from a cultural and fashion studies perspective. After a general introduction to models of interpretation and conceptual terms, FREN/ITAL 231 surveys topics in French and Italian fashion design and history from the 1300s to the present day
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Kaye, Deborah A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 153 / 160
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Kaye, Deborah A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 153 / 160
ITAL 250A – Love, Literature, and Language in the Italian Middle Ages
This course investigates the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Italy, a time of great tumult with events such as the 100 Years War, the Avignon Papacy, and the Black Plague of 1348. The course focuses on the great writings of the age, for instance, Dante's Inferno, Petrarch's lyric poetry, Boccaccio's Decameron, as well as the first women writers in Italy. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian or Italian Studies (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.
This course investigates the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Italy, a time of great tumult with events such as the 100 Years War, the Avignon Papacy, and the Black Plague of 1348. The course focuses on the great writings of the age, for instance, Dante's Inferno, Petrarch's lyric poetry, Boccaccio's Decameron, as well as the first women writers in Italy. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian or Italian Studies (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Alfie, Fabian R
- Days: MoWeFr
- Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 42 / 50
ITAL 250C – Intermediality: Italian Theatre, Opera, and Film
How did the Italian historical context and theatrical spaces impact the creation and reception of theatrical texts? How did these texts shape the context of the Italian society? What is intermediality? How do media re-narrate, re-interpret, and adapt literary texts? How do media cross linguistic, space/time, and cultural borders? What gets lost in the translation of texts across different media? What is produced instead? These are some of the questions we will explore to improve our understanding of intermediality, or the relations among different media (theatre, opera, film), using the humanist's tools and methodologies (historical and social contextualization, close reading, critical analysis, scholars' production).We will engage with the history of Italian theater from 16thto 20thcentury, contextualizing, reading, and analyzing plays and libretti by Machiavelli, Da Ponte, Goldoni, Mascagni, Pirandello, Fo, and Ginzburg. We will combine a traditional approach to canonical texts of the Italian theatrical tradition with an interdisciplinary methodology that compares literary and visual texts.
How did the Italian historical context and theatrical spaces impact the creation and reception of theatrical texts? How did these texts shape the context of the Italian society? What is intermediality? How do media re-narrate, re-interpret, and adapt literary texts? How do media cross linguistic, space/time, and cultural borders? What gets lost in the translation of texts across different media? What is produced instead? These are some of the questions we will explore to improve our understanding of intermediality, or the relations among different media (theatre, opera, film), using the humanist's tools and methodologies (historical and social contextualization, close reading, critical analysis, scholars' production).We will engage with the history of Italian theater from 16thto 20thcentury, contextualizing, reading, and analyzing plays and libretti by Machiavelli, Da Ponte, Goldoni, Mascagni, Pirandello, Fo, and Ginzburg. We will combine a traditional approach to canonical texts of the Italian theatrical tradition with an interdisciplinary methodology that compares literary and visual texts.
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Bellocchio, Maria Letizia
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 35 / 65
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Bellocchio, Maria Letizia
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 35 / 65
ITAL 310 – Italian Encounters: Spoken Italian in Context
Course emphasizes advanced spoken language through the study of Italian popular culture, which can include history, music, media studies, cultural studies, literature, the visual arts, and everyday Italian life.
Course emphasizes advanced spoken language through the study of Italian popular culture, which can include history, music, media studies, cultural studies, literature, the visual arts, and everyday Italian life.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Cavatorta, Giuseppe
- Days: TuTh
- Time: 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 10 / 25
ITAL 330B – Once Upon a Time In Italian American Cinema
What role did cinema play in the encounter between Italian and American culture? How are aesthetic goals such as economy, coherence, and implied perception, and methods such as montage, ellipsis, and points of view being pursued in films that represent the Italian American Experience? To answer these questions, every week we will watch a film made by and/or dealing with the Italian American community. Students will engage with issues of migration, gender, family relations, cultural conflict, and ethnic identity formation by exploring works by directors such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Lee, and Stanley Tucci. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.
What role did cinema play in the encounter between Italian and American culture? How are aesthetic goals such as economy, coherence, and implied perception, and methods such as montage, ellipsis, and points of view being pursued in films that represent the Italian American Experience? To answer these questions, every week we will watch a film made by and/or dealing with the Italian American community. Students will engage with issues of migration, gender, family relations, cultural conflict, and ethnic identity formation by exploring works by directors such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Lee, and Stanley Tucci. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Rabissi, Francesco
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 57 / 60
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Rabissi, Francesco
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 57 / 60
ITAL 330D – Empowered Women in Italian Literature and Culture
Comprehensive study of images of Italian women in literary, historic, religious texts, the visual arts, and their effects on the cultural productions of women writers and artists. We will examine issues of gender, education, social class, desire, religion, law, and the family. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian or Italian Studies (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.
Comprehensive study of images of Italian women in literary, historic, religious texts, the visual arts, and their effects on the cultural productions of women writers and artists. We will examine issues of gender, education, social class, desire, religion, law, and the family. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian or Italian Studies (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Feng, Aileen A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
- Status: Wait List
- Enrollment: 38 / 65
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Feng, Aileen A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
- Status: Wait List
- Enrollment: 38 / 65
ITAL 420 – Framing Italy
Course is an advanced seminar on historical, geographical, social, and artistic aspects of Italy.
Course is an advanced seminar on historical, geographical, social, and artistic aspects of Italy.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Rabissi, Francesco
- Days: TuTh
- Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 8 / 25
ITAL 431 – The Divine Comedy by Dante
This course examines Dante's masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy", the poet's life and other works. The primary focus is on "The Divine Comedy" and its influence on European literature and culture. Other texts will be included.
This course examines Dante's masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy", the poet's life and other works. The primary focus is on "The Divine Comedy" and its influence on European literature and culture. Other texts will be included.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Alfie, Fabian R
- Days: MoWeFr
- Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
- Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 22 / 25
ITAL 101 – Elementary Italian I
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing; introduction to the basic structures and vocabulary of Italian. (Does not count toward the Italian major or minor.)
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing; introduction to the basic structures and vocabulary of Italian. (Does not count toward the Italian major or minor.)
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: unassigned
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
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- Section: 002
- Instructor: unassigned
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
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- Section: 003
- Instructor: unassigned
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
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- Section: 004
- Instructor: unassigned
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
ITAL 102 – Elementary Italian II
Listening, speaking, reading and writing; an introduction to the basic structures and vocabulary of Italian, continuation. (Does not count toward the Italian major or minor.)
Listening, speaking, reading and writing; an introduction to the basic structures and vocabulary of Italian, continuation. (Does not count toward the Italian major or minor.)
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: unassigned
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
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- Section: 002
- Instructor: unassigned
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
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- Section: 003
- Instructor: unassigned
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
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- Section: 004
- Instructor: unassigned
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
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- Section: 005
- Instructor: unassigned
- Days: MoTuWeTh
- Time: 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
ITAL 150B1 – The Holocaust in France and Italy
The course examines the origins, development, and implementation of discriminatory racial policies in France and Italy as well as their impact on Jewish citizens during and after World War II through the study of historical texts, survivor testimonies, war memoirs, memorials, commemorations and film.
The course examines the origins, development, and implementation of discriminatory racial policies in France and Italy as well as their impact on Jewish citizens during and after World War II through the study of historical texts, survivor testimonies, war memoirs, memorials, commemorations and film.
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Kaye, Deborah A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 80
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Kaye, Deborah A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 80
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- Section: 401
- Instructor: Kaye, Deborah A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 80
ITAL 160D1 – Food for Thought in Italian Culture
Food has always been an important thread woven through the fabric of Italian culture. Italian cuisine, as diverse and heterogeneous as it is inside the country from North to South, largely contributed to the building of a strong Italian identity, as testified in recent times by the worldwide success of large-scale marketplaces such as Eataly. This course will investigate food's role in shaping Italian society and its cultural practices by looking at images of food in visual art, literature and film. Our historical review will focus on the many symbolic meanings circulating around the representation of food in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and the 20th and 21st centuries. Food will be a lens through which we will read the political, social, and economic changes that have affected Italy in its millennial history.
Food has always been an important thread woven through the fabric of Italian culture. Italian cuisine, as diverse and heterogeneous as it is inside the country from North to South, largely contributed to the building of a strong Italian identity, as testified in recent times by the worldwide success of large-scale marketplaces such as Eataly. This course will investigate food's role in shaping Italian society and its cultural practices by looking at images of food in visual art, literature and film. Our historical review will focus on the many symbolic meanings circulating around the representation of food in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and the 20th and 21st centuries. Food will be a lens through which we will read the political, social, and economic changes that have affected Italy in its millennial history.
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Rabissi, Francesco
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 65
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Rabissi, Francesco
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 65
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- Section: 204
- Instructor: Rabissi, Francesco
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 65
ITAL 201 – Intermediate Italian I
Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.
Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Gaspar, Borbala
- Days: MoWe
- Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
ITAL 202 – Intermediate Italian II
Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.
Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Gaspar, Borbala
- Days: MoWe
- Time: 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
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- Section: 002
- Instructor: Gaspar, Borbala
- Days: MoWe
- Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
ITAL 230 – Introduction to Italian Culture
This gateway course introduces students to Italian thought and culture through multiple perspectives and disciplines including history, philosophy. literary traditions and cultures, arts and architecture, film, cultural studies and geography. By the end of the course, students will have acquired a broad historical understanding of Italian culture and a deeper sense of the interdisciplinary perspectives that contribute meaning to individual and collective Italian identities. Taught in English.
This gateway course introduces students to Italian thought and culture through multiple perspectives and disciplines including history, philosophy. literary traditions and cultures, arts and architecture, film, cultural studies and geography. By the end of the course, students will have acquired a broad historical understanding of Italian culture and a deeper sense of the interdisciplinary perspectives that contribute meaning to individual and collective Italian identities. Taught in English.
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Bellocchio, Maria Letizia
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Jan 15 - Mar 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 65
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Bellocchio, Maria Letizia
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Jan 15 - Mar 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 65
ITAL 231 – Fashion and Culture in France and Italy
The study of fashion is an important conduit for the expression of social identity, political ideas, and aesthetic taste. This course considers the history of style, fashion and dress in France and Italy from a cultural and fashion studies perspective. After a general introduction to models of interpretation and conceptual terms, FREN/ITAL 231 surveys topics in French and Italian fashion design and history from the 1300s to the present day
The study of fashion is an important conduit for the expression of social identity, political ideas, and aesthetic taste. This course considers the history of style, fashion and dress in France and Italy from a cultural and fashion studies perspective. After a general introduction to models of interpretation and conceptual terms, FREN/ITAL 231 surveys topics in French and Italian fashion design and history from the 1300s to the present day
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Kaye, Deborah A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 200
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Kaye, Deborah A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 200
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- Section: 401
- Instructor: Kaye, Deborah A
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 200
ITAL 240 – Italian Folklore and Popular Culture
Through multiple interdisciplinary approaches, this course focuses on the dynamics between Italian folklore, or materials that are produced outside of the authoritative and sanctioned Culture, and their depictions in 20th-21st-century popular culture. It will explore the oral narratives (fairy tales, legends, saints' legends) and customary crafts of ordinary Italians and Italian Americans, their variations through the transmission process and their depictions in contemporary media. To better understand folkloristics materials, we will situate them in their cultural contexts: specifically, the culture of the historical Italian peasantry and working-class people as well their geographical placements (North, South, and the implications thereof).
Through multiple interdisciplinary approaches, this course focuses on the dynamics between Italian folklore, or materials that are produced outside of the authoritative and sanctioned Culture, and their depictions in 20th-21st-century popular culture. It will explore the oral narratives (fairy tales, legends, saints' legends) and customary crafts of ordinary Italians and Italian Americans, their variations through the transmission process and their depictions in contemporary media. To better understand folkloristics materials, we will situate them in their cultural contexts: specifically, the culture of the historical Italian peasantry and working-class people as well their geographical placements (North, South, and the implications thereof).
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Bellocchio, Maria Letizia
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 65
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Bellocchio, Maria Letizia
- Days:
- Time:
- Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 65
ITAL 250B – The Italian Renaissance
This course investigates the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy, a time when renewed interest in the Classical past completely altered Western Culture: the arts flourished, the sciences developed, and philosophers re-conceived of the value of the individual. This course focuses on the great artists and writers of the age, for instance, Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Gaspara Stampa, and Veronica Franco. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian or Italian Studies (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.
This course investigates the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy, a time when renewed interest in the Classical past completely altered Western Culture: the arts flourished, the sciences developed, and philosophers re-conceived of the value of the individual. This course focuses on the great artists and writers of the age, for instance, Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Gaspara Stampa, and Veronica Franco. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian or Italian Studies (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Alfie, Fabian R
- Days: MoWeFr
- Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 50
ITAL 310 – Italian Encounters: Spoken Italian in Context
Course emphasizes advanced spoken language through the study of Italian popular culture, which can include history, music, media studies, cultural studies, literature, the visual arts, and everyday Italian life.
Course emphasizes advanced spoken language through the study of Italian popular culture, which can include history, music, media studies, cultural studies, literature, the visual arts, and everyday Italian life.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Alfie, Fabian R
- Days: TuTh
- Time: 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
ITAL 320 – Italian Encounters: Written Italian in Context
Course emphasizes advanced written language as found in Italian culture through a variety of genres, which can include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, opera, cinema, music and history.
Course emphasizes advanced written language as found in Italian culture through a variety of genres, which can include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, opera, cinema, music and history.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Rabissi, Francesco
- Days: TuTh
- Time: 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 20
ITAL 330A – Resisting Fascism
This course examines how artists dealt with the Italian armed resistance against Fascism particularly during the last two years of World War II, and its continuing importance in post-war Italy. The course analyzes how the representation of the Resistance in literature, art and film have evolved and why, with reference to numerous artistic, literary, and cinematic works. The course aims also at inspiring reflections on the relevance of rethinking the history of that period in light of present political developments in Italy and Europe.
This course examines how artists dealt with the Italian armed resistance against Fascism particularly during the last two years of World War II, and its continuing importance in post-war Italy. The course analyzes how the representation of the Resistance in literature, art and film have evolved and why, with reference to numerous artistic, literary, and cinematic works. The course aims also at inspiring reflections on the relevance of rethinking the history of that period in light of present political developments in Italy and Europe.
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- Section: 101
- Instructor: Cavatorta, Giuseppe
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- Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 65
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- Section: 201
- Instructor: Cavatorta, Giuseppe
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- Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 65
ITAL 410 – Words and Worlds: Italian Literature and/or Film
Course is an advanced seminar on Italian narratives, either visual or literary.
Course is an advanced seminar on Italian narratives, either visual or literary.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Feng, Aileen A
- Days: TuTh
- Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 25
ITAL 498H – Honors Thesis
An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course for two sequential semesters. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.
An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course for two sequential semesters. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.
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- Section: 001
- Instructor: Alfie, Fabian R
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- Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 1