Course Schedule

Course Term
Course Attributes
Fall 2024
ITAL

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.)

Section
001
Days
MoTuWeTh
Time
09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
22 / 25
  • Days: MoTuWeTh
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 22 / 25
Section
002
Days
MoTuWeTh
Time
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
22 / 25
  • Days: MoTuWeTh
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 22 / 25
Section
003
Days
MoTuWeTh
Time
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Closed
Enrollment
25 / 25
  • Days: MoTuWeTh
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 25 / 25
Section
004
Days
MoTuWeTh
Time
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Closed
Enrollment
24 / 24
  • Days: MoTuWeTh
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 24 / 24
Section
005
Days
MoTuWeTh
Time
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
24 / 25
  • Days: MoTuWeTh
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 24 / 25
Section
006
Days
MoTuWeTh
Time
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
22 / 25
  • Days: MoTuWeTh
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 22 / 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.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
77 / 80
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 77 / 80
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
77 / 80
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 77 / 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.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Closed
Enrollment
60 / 60
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 60 / 60
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Closed
Enrollment
60 / 60
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 60 / 60

ITAL 202 – Intermediate Italian II

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

Section
001
Days
MoWe
Time
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
21 / 25
  • 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.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Closed
Enrollment
60 / 60
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 60 / 60
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Closed
Enrollment
60 / 60
  • 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

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
153 / 160
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 153 / 160
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
153 / 160
  • 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.

Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
42 / 50
  • 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.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
33 / 65
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 33 / 65
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
33 / 65
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 33 / 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.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
09:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
10 / 25
  • 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.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
57 / 60
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 57 / 60
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
57 / 60
  • 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.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
37 / 65
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 37 / 65
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Closed
Enrollment
37 / 65
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 37 / 65

ITAL 420 – Framing Italy

Course is an advanced seminar on historical, geographical, social, and artistic aspects of Italy.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
8 / 25
  • 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.

Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
22 / 25
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 22 / 25
Spring 2025
ITAL

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.)

Section
001
Days
MoTuWeTh
Time
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Status
Closed
Enrollment
25 / 25
  • Days: MoTuWeTh
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 25 / 25
Section
002
Days
MoTuWeTh
Time
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Status
Open
Enrollment
21 / 25
  • Days: MoTuWeTh
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 21 / 25
Section
003
Days
MoTuWeTh
Time
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Status
Open
Enrollment
11 / 25
  • Days: MoTuWeTh
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 11 / 25
Section
004
Days
MoTuWeTh
Time
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Status
Open
Enrollment
20 / 25
  • Days: MoTuWeTh
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 20 / 25
Section
005
Days
MoTuWeTh
Time
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Status
Closed
Enrollment
25 / 25
  • Days: MoTuWeTh
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • 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.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 17 - May 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
47 / 80
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 47 / 80
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Mar 17 - May 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
47 / 80
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 47 / 80
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Mar 17 - May 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
47 / 80
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 47 / 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.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 17 - May 7
Status
Closed
Enrollment
65 / 65
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 65 / 65
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Mar 17 - May 7
Status
Closed
Enrollment
65 / 65
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 65 / 65
Section
204
Days
Time
Date
Mar 17 - May 7
Status
Closed
Enrollment
65 / 65
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 65 / 65

ITAL 201 – Intermediate Italian I

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

Section
001
Days
MoWe
Time
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
16 / 25
  • Days: MoWe
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 16 / 25

ITAL 202 – Intermediate Italian II

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

Section
001
Days
MoWe
Time
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
24 / 25
  • Days: MoWe
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 24 / 25
Section
002
Days
MoWe
Time
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Status
Open
Enrollment
24 / 25
  • Days: MoWe
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 24 / 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.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jan 15 - Mar 7
Status
Closed
Enrollment
65 / 65
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 15 - Mar 7
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 65 / 65
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jan 15 - Mar 7
Status
Closed
Enrollment
65 / 65
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 15 - Mar 7
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 65 / 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

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Instructor
Status
Closed
Enrollment
200 / 200
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 200 / 200
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Instructor
Status
Closed
Enrollment
200 / 200
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 200 / 200
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Instructor
Status
Closed
Enrollment
200 / 200
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 200 / 200

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.

Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
14 / 50
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 14 / 50

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.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Status
Open
Enrollment
11 / 20
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 11 / 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.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 17 - May 7
Status
Closed
Enrollment
65 / 65
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 65 / 65
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Mar 17 - May 7
Status
Closed
Enrollment
65 / 65
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 17 - May 7
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 65 / 65

ITAL 410 – Words and Worlds: Italian Literature and/or Film

Course is an advanced seminar on Italian narratives, either visual or literary.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Date
Jan 15 - May 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
11 / 25
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
  • Dates: Jan 15 - May 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 11 / 25