Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.

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.

This course surveys Italian culture from late antiquity through the Middle Ages. Topics include perspectives on law, religion, commerce and trade, communal politics, family structure, and history of everyday life. Taught in English.

The Mediterranean Sea has been a dynamic crossroad for people, goods, and ideas for thousands of years. Beginning with the medieval commercial revolution to modern rebellions, we will examine the historical patterns of political development, trade and economic growth, migration and cultural change, war and conflict that shaped French and Italian maritime cities, colonies and global networks from Venice to Livorno, Marseille to Algiers. Taught in English.

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.

This course approaches the study of magic in medieval and Renaissance Italy as a crossroads where different pathways converge. First, it is a point of intersection between religion and science. Second, studying Italian society through the lenses of magic, religion and science provides a crossroads where popular culture meets with learned culture. As we cover topics from love potions and spells, astrology, alchemy and natural philosophy, students explore fundamental ideas and concepts, beliefs and practices that characterized pre-modern European intellectual thought. Taught in English

Course represents an accelerated course covering the material of both 101 and 102 (and not merely an accelerated 102 class) therefore, it is not recommended for those students who have already taken 101. 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.)

Listening, speaking, reading, and writing; introduction to the basic structures and vocabulary of Italian. (Does not count toward the Italian major or minor.)