ITAL 101 – Elementary Italian I

Pass/Fail Option Available to Qualified Students

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 Available to Qualified Students

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

Gen Ed: Tier 1 Individuals & Societies/150

Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Social Scientist

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.

ITAL 160D1 – Food for Thought in Italian Culture

Gen Ed: Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures/160

Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Social Scientist

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 Available to Qualified Students

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

ITAL 202 – Intermediate Italian II

Pass/Fail Option Available to Qualified Students

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

ITAL 230 – Introduction to Italian Culture

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Humanities

Gen Ed: Building Connections

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.

ITAL 231 – Fashion and Culture in France and Italy

Cross Listed

Gen Ed: Diversity Emphasis

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Individuals and Societies

Gen Ed: Building Connections

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

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

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Humanities

Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Humanist

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.

ITAL 301 – Advanced Italian Conversation through Media

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

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.

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

Gen Ed: Diversity Emphasis

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Humanities

Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Artist

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 330D – Empowered Women in Italian Literature and Culture

Gen Ed: Diversity Emphasis

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Individuals and Societies

Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Humanist

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

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

ITAL 230 – Introduction to Italian Culture

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Humanities

Gen Ed: Building Connections

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.

ITAL 231 – Fashion and Culture in France and Italy

Cross Listed

Gen Ed: Diversity Emphasis

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Individuals and Societies

Gen Ed: Building Connections

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

ITAL 240 – Italian Folklore and Popular Culture

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Humanities

Gen Ed: Building Connections

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

ITAL 330D – Empowered Women in Italian Literature and Culture

Gen Ed: Diversity Emphasis

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Individuals and Societies

Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Humanist

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 101 – Elementary Italian I

Pass/Fail Option Available to Qualified Students

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 Available to Qualified Students

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

Gen Ed: Tier 1 Individuals & Societies/150

Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Social Scientist

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.

ITAL 150C1 – Cities, Colonies and Global Networks in the Western Mediterranean

Cross Listed

Gen Ed: Diversity Emphasis

Gen Ed: Tier 1 Individuals & Societies/150

Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Social Scientist

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.

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

Gen Ed: Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures/160

Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Social Scientist

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 160D1 – Food for Thought in Italian Culture

Gen Ed: Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures/160

Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Social Scientist

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 Available to Qualified Students

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

ITAL 202 – Intermediate Italian II

Pass/Fail Option Available to Qualified Students

Continued skill development; reinforcement of basic language skills.

ITAL 230 – Introduction to Italian Culture

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Humanities

Gen Ed: Building Connections

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.

ITAL 231 – Fashion and Culture in France and Italy

Cross Listed

Gen Ed: Diversity Emphasis

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Individuals and Societies

Gen Ed: Building Connections

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

ITAL 240 – Italian Folklore and Popular Culture

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Humanities

Gen Ed: Building Connections

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

ITAL 250B – The Italian Renaissance

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Humanities

Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Humanist

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.

ITAL 250D – Italian Literature in Translation: The Novel

Gen Ed: Tier 2 Humanities

Gen Ed: Building Connections

Counts toward the major or minor in Italian or Italian Studies. Taught in English.

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.

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.

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 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 431 – The Divine Comedy by Dante

Cross Listed

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

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.