ITAL 101 – Elementary Italian I

Pass/Fail Option

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

ITAL 102 – Elementary Italian II

Pass/Fail Option

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.)

ITAL 150B1 – The Holocaust in France and Italy

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Individuals & Societies

Honors Contract

The course examines the origins, development, and implementation of discriminatory racial policies in France and Italy as well as their impact on Jewish citizens and refugees during World War II.

ITAL 150C1 – Mediterranean Cities: French and Italian Perspectives

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Individuals & Societies

Honors Contract

This course considers the ways in which Mediterranean cities in France, Italy and North Africa have been viewed, experienced and conceptualized from ancient times to the present day. After studying classical and scholarly approaches to studying the idea of the Mediterranean, interactive and ecologizing, in the longue durée and microhistories, we shall explore the culture and history of Mediterranean cities and their societies. Our exploration traces ethnic and religious diversity, cultural, economic, political exchange and the history and representation of built environments. We consider the ways in which the city has been imagined in French, Italian and English literature. As the course unfolds, students engage with cultural ideas that have long captured the imagination of writers worldwide. We study the city as a dreamscape "cité pleine de rêves," and move on to trace literary conceptions of travel, the Grand Tour and the seduction of the Mediterranean city and the northern tourist. Following our close study of Venice mentalities, our course traces the history of networks and connectivity within medieval and early modern Mediterranean milieus. Aside from the familiar city-states and ports of call, we study in depth the free port city of Livorno and Jewish Sephardi diaspora. Units follow on colonialism and post-colonialism in the North African Mediterranean city intertwined with cinematic narratives of the region. Final units of the course trace the aesthetic, architectural, photographic representations of Mediterranean urban modernism from Mussolini¿s imprimatur on the landscape of Rome to the extraordinary developments of twentieth century art, architecture and urban design in Marseilles. To engage with contemporary issues, in the final unit we study representations of the cultural impact of migration on the region reading from Algerian born Italian author Amara Lakhous. It is hoped that by the end of the course, students will have developed a foundational grasp of the Mediterranean city from the French and Italian perspectives and learned to distinguish among intertwining ideas of regional and national politics, economies, colonial and post-colonial imaginaries and myths and popular culture.

ITAL 160B1 – Italian Perspectives: Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

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.

ITAL 201 – Intermediate Italian I

Pass/Fail Option

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

ITAL 202 – Intermediate Italian II

Pass/Fail Option

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

ITAL 230 – Introduction to Italian Culture

Tier 2 Humanities

This course introduces students to Italian thought and culture through history. Topics include, among others, literary traditions, arts and architecture, film studies, cuisine, and fashion. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.

ITAL 231 – Fashion and Culture in France and Italy

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 2 Individuals & Societies

Honors Contract

This course considers style, fashion and dress in France and Italy from a cultural studies perspective. Key to the cultural studies approach is the idea that gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, class, and other subject positions organize identities, social relations and the objects and images that culture produces. After a general introduction to these conceptual terms, our course surveys French and Italian fashion history from the 1500s to the present day. Students grapple with key questions of cultural history, beginning with an analysis of the reasons why Paris has been regarded for so long as "the capital of fashion". In recent decades, since the age of globalization, the geography of fashion has become more competitive with Milan, New York and London all vying for fashion capital status. However, the myth of Paris remains with us. To describe this magical mythical Paris is to imagine the place where all the refinements of civilized life reach their fullest expression from avant-garde art to elegant fashion.

ITAL 250C – Intermediality: Italian Theatre, Opera, and Film

Tier 2 Humanities

This course aims to explore the history of Italian theater, focusing on intermediality, or the relations among different media (theatre, opera, film). We will combine a traditional approach to canonical texts of the Italian theatrical tradition with an interdisciplinary methodology that compares literary and visual texts. The syllabus includes fictional, non-fictional, musical, and visual texts by authors such as Machiavelli, Da Ponte, Goldoni, Mascagni, Pirandello, Fo, and Ginzburg. Plays will be read, discussed, analyzed from a literary and visual stance. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.

ITAL 310 – Italian Encounters: Spoken Italian in Context

Honors Contract

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.

ITAL 320 – Italian Encounters: Written Italian in Context

Honors Contract

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.

ITAL 330A – Resisting Fascism

This course examines 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 takes an interdisciplinary approach to analyze how the representation of the Resistance in literature and film have evolved, with reference to numerous 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 may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.

ITAL 431 – The Divine Comedy by Dante

Cross Listed

Honors Contract

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.

ITAL 433 – Italian Business

Honors Contract

Italian Business is an advanced seminar in Italian language and general business culture for 400-level students. It will be structured in weekly modules in which students explore both cultural and practical aspects of the Italian economy within the European Union. For example, they will investigate how traditions and customs affect the country's economy and will learn commercial terminology and business practices. Moreover, the seminar will include Italian films dealing with the world of business. These films aim to familiarize students not only with business situations but also with pivotal moments in Italian economic history such as the economic boom, the Mattei case, and the Parmalat scandal. The seminar will provide an introduction to Italian economy from the 1950s to the present, focusing on key factors in the transition from an agricultural-based economy to a leading country in world trade and exports ('Made in Italy' brand, vehicles, clothing, furniture, food, wine, etc.). The seminar will also focus on the acquisition and reinforcement of the essential, practical content, vocabulary and style of every-day business situations and transactions. Each module will offer a specific business situation in which students in pairs or small groups introduce themselves in a business meeting, make travel arrangements, write their resume and cover letter, prepare for a job interview, create a business plan and launch a new product. Finally, while students will be familiarizing themselves with the language and the practices of Italian business, they will also review contextually-relevant, advanced grammatical structures in writing and speaking.

ITAL 599 – Independent Study

Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.

ITAL 102 – Elementary Italian II

Pass/Fail Option

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.)

ITAL 150B1 – The Holocaust in France and Italy

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Individuals & Societies

Honors Contract

The course examines the origins, development, and implementation of discriminatory racial policies in France and Italy as well as their impact on Jewish citizens and refugees during World War II.

ITAL 150C1 – Mediterranean Cities: French and Italian Perspectives

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Individuals & Societies

Honors Contract

This course considers the ways in which Mediterranean cities in France, Italy and North Africa have been viewed, experienced and conceptualized from ancient times to the present day. After studying classical and scholarly approaches to studying the idea of the Mediterranean, interactive and ecologizing, in the longue durée and microhistories, we shall explore the culture and history of Mediterranean cities and their societies. Our exploration traces ethnic and religious diversity, cultural, economic, political exchange and the history and representation of built environments. We consider the ways in which the city has been imagined in French, Italian and English literature. As the course unfolds, students engage with cultural ideas that have long captured the imagination of writers worldwide. We study the city as a dreamscape "cité pleine de rêves," and move on to trace literary conceptions of travel, the Grand Tour and the seduction of the Mediterranean city and the northern tourist. Following our close study of Venice mentalities, our course traces the history of networks and connectivity within medieval and early modern Mediterranean milieus. Aside from the familiar city-states and ports of call, we study in depth the free port city of Livorno and Jewish Sephardi diaspora. Units follow on colonialism and post-colonialism in the North African Mediterranean city intertwined with cinematic narratives of the region. Final units of the course trace the aesthetic, architectural, photographic representations of Mediterranean urban modernism from Mussolini¿s imprimatur on the landscape of Rome to the extraordinary developments of twentieth century art, architecture and urban design in Marseilles. To engage with contemporary issues, in the final unit we study representations of the cultural impact of migration on the region reading from Algerian born Italian author Amara Lakhous. It is hoped that by the end of the course, students will have developed a foundational grasp of the Mediterranean city from the French and Italian perspectives and learned to distinguish among intertwining ideas of regional and national politics, economies, colonial and post-colonial imaginaries and myths and popular culture.

ITAL 160B1 – Italian Perspectives: Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

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.

ITAL 202 – Intermediate Italian II

Pass/Fail Option

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

ITAL 230 – Introduction to Italian Culture

Tier 2 Humanities

This course introduces students to Italian thought and culture through history. Topics include, among others, literary traditions, arts and architecture, film studies, cuisine, and fashion. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.

ITAL 231 – Fashion and Culture in France and Italy

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 2 Individuals & Societies

Honors Contract

This course considers style, fashion and dress in France and Italy from a cultural studies perspective. Key to the cultural studies approach is the idea that gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, class, and other subject positions organize identities, social relations and the objects and images that culture produces. After a general introduction to these conceptual terms, our course surveys French and Italian fashion history from the 1500s to the present day. Students grapple with key questions of cultural history, beginning with an analysis of the reasons why Paris has been regarded for so long as "the capital of fashion". In recent decades, since the age of globalization, the geography of fashion has become more competitive with Milan, New York and London all vying for fashion capital status. However, the myth of Paris remains with us. To describe this magical mythical Paris is to imagine the place where all the refinements of civilized life reach their fullest expression from avant-garde art to elegant fashion.

ITAL 240 – Italian Folklore and Popular Culture

Tier 2 Humanities

A study of the oral narratives (fairy tales, legends, saints' legends) and customary crafts of ordinary Italian and Italian Americans.

ITAL 101 – Elementary Italian I

Pass/Fail Option

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

ITAL 102 – Elementary Italian II

Pass/Fail Option

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.)

ITAL 150B1 – The Holocaust in France and Italy

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Individuals & Societies

Honors Contract

The course examines the origins, development, and implementation of discriminatory racial policies in France and Italy as well as their impact on Jewish citizens and refugees during World War II.

ITAL 160D1 – Food for Thought in Italian Culture

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

Honors Contract

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.

ITAL 201 – Intermediate Italian I

Pass/Fail Option

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

ITAL 202 – Intermediate Italian II

Pass/Fail Option

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

ITAL 230 – Introduction to Italian Culture

Tier 2 Humanities

This course introduces students to Italian thought and culture through history. Topics include, among others, literary traditions, arts and architecture, film studies, cuisine, and fashion. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.

ITAL 231 – Fashion and Culture in France and Italy

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 2 Individuals & Societies

Honors Contract

This course considers style, fashion and dress in France and Italy from a cultural studies perspective. Key to the cultural studies approach is the idea that gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, class, and other subject positions organize identities, social relations and the objects and images that culture produces. After a general introduction to these conceptual terms, our course surveys French and Italian fashion history from the 1500s to the present day. Students grapple with key questions of cultural history, beginning with an analysis of the reasons why Paris has been regarded for so long as "the capital of fashion". In recent decades, since the age of globalization, the geography of fashion has become more competitive with Milan, New York and London all vying for fashion capital status. However, the myth of Paris remains with us. To describe this magical mythical Paris is to imagine the place where all the refinements of civilized life reach their fullest expression from avant-garde art to elegant fashion.

ITAL 250C – Intermediality: Italian Theatre, Opera, and Film

Tier 2 Humanities

This course aims to explore the history of Italian theater, focusing on intermediality, or the relations among different media (theatre, opera, film). We will combine a traditional approach to canonical texts of the Italian theatrical tradition with an interdisciplinary methodology that compares literary and visual texts. The syllabus includes fictional, non-fictional, musical, and visual texts by authors such as Machiavelli, Da Ponte, Goldoni, Mascagni, Pirandello, Fo, and Ginzburg. Plays will be read, discussed, analyzed from a literary and visual stance. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.

ITAL 301 – Advanced Italian Conversation through Media

Honors Contract

Course emphasizes advanced speaking and listening skills in Italian by analyzing different media.

ITAL 310 – Italian Encounters: Spoken Italian in Context

Honors Contract

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.

ITAL 330B – Once Upon a Time In Italian American Cinema

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 2 Humanities

his course examines the extraordinary role played by cinema in the encounter between the Italian and American cultures. Every week we will watch a film made by and/or dealing with Italian Americans. Issues of migration, gender, family relations, cultural conflict and ethnic identity formation will be addressed 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.

ITAL 330C – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Italian Cinema

This course will provide an historical introduction to Italian cinema by concentrating on examples of classic genres and movements, such as the early silent epic, Neorealism, Auteur cinema, Comedy Italian style, Spaghetti Western, and Contemporary Italian Cinema. Films by Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Antonioni, and Sorrentino will be watched, analyzed and discussed from both a filmic and a historical stance. We will examine issues of representation and production of societal values, i.e. gender, family relations, and national identity. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.

ITAL 330D – Empowered Women in Italian Literature and Culture

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 2 Individuals & Societies

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.

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

Honors Contract

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