| ITAL 101-01 |
Elementary Italian
Instructor: Francesco Samarini
Course Description:
Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 310 |
| ITAL 102-01 |
Elementary Italian
Instructor: Sara Galli
Course Description:
Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent
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08:30 AM-09:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 318 |
| ITAL 102-02 |
Elementary Italian
Instructor: Sara Galli
Course Description:
Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 318 |
| ITAL 102-03 |
Elementary Italian
Instructor: Luca Lanzilotta
Course Description:
Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 319 |
| ITAL 102-04 |
Elementary Italian
Instructor: Luca Lanzilotta
Course Description:
Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent
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01:30 PM-02:20 PM, MTWRF
BOSLER 318 |
| ITAL 201-01 |
Intermediate Italian
Instructor: Luca Lanzilotta
Course Description:
Intensive introduction to conversation and composition, with special attention to grammar review and refinement. Essays, fiction and theater, as well as Italian television and films, provide opportunities to improve familiarity with contemporary Italian language and civilization.
Prerequisite: 102 or the equivalent. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 319 |
| ITAL 231-01 |
Reading and Writing Contemporary Italian Culture
Instructor: Francesco Samarini, Sara Galli
Course Description:
Designed to increase student's awareness of various rhetorical conventions and command of written Italian through analysis and imitation of model texts of a literary and non-literary nature.
Two and a half hours classroom and one hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: 201 or the equivalent.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 315
10:30 AM-11:20 AM, W
BOSLER 315 |
| ITAL 231-02 |
Reading and Writing Contemporary Italian Culture
Instructor: Sara Galli, Francesco Samarini
Course Description:
Designed to increase student's awareness of various rhetorical conventions and command of written Italian through analysis and imitation of model texts of a literary and non-literary nature.
Two and a half hours classroom and one hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: 201 or the equivalent.
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01:30 PM-02:20 PM, W
BOSLER 308
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 308 |
| ITAL 323-01 |
Family Matters in Italian Films & Literature
Instructor: Mattia Mossali
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 310-01, SOCI 230-03 and WGSS 301-03. Taught in English. How have concepts of love, marriage, and family evolved over time? How have these ideas responded-or failed to respond-to the profound transformations within Italian and Western society, particularly in the context of capitalism and globalization? Have they adapted to reflect new values and societal shifts? This course begins with an analysis of Germi's Divorce Italian Style (1961), a film that critically engages with the patriarchal structures embedded in Italian society, and Antonioni's tetralogy (1960-64), exploring through a transnational perspective how contemporary Italian filmmakers and writers have questioned and deconstructed the notions of "traditional" love and family, along with their associated values. We will critically examine the themes of incommunicability and failure within family dynamics (Ferrante), particularly in the context of pervasive capitalism, finance, and the rise of social networks (Genovese). Emphasizing a challenge to conventional heteronormative paradigms, the course will pay special attention to representations of same-sex families and their portrayal in visual media (Ozpeteck). Through critical readings in history, sociology, and psychoanalysis, we will lay the groundwork for a deeper understanding of the literary texts and films studied throughout the semester, with a focus on how gender, sexuality, and social structures intersect to shape contemporary notions of love, marriage, and family.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 314 |
| ITAL 332-01 |
Real and Imaginary Journeys
Instructor: Mattia Mossali
Course Description:
By exploring the inner conflicts of their own soul and venturing beyond the boundaries of their native culture, Italian authors from Dante and Petrarch to Italo Calvino and Federico Fellini have opened new paths that often influenced the development of Western art and literature and touched the lives of countless readers and viewers around the world. In this course, we use the theme of the journey to analyze the work of some of the most influential Italian authors and trace their cultural legacy.
This course is taught in Italian. Prerequisites: 231 and 232, or permission of the instructor. Offered every two years.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
BOSLER 213 |
| ITAL 400-01 |
Love, Sex and Sexuality in Boccaccio's 'Decameron'
Instructor: James McMenamin
Course Description:
This course will focus on Boccaccio's Decameron with a critical eye on the construction of the text and the stylistic complexity of the individual novelle. A special emphasis will be placed on issues and themes related to love, sex, and sexuality, addressing these topics from various perspectives such as sex within and outside marriage, medicine, reproduction, chastity, ethics, immoral behavior, law, sex work, race, religion, and sexual violence. The course will culminate in an interdisciplinary research project that reflects each students personal interests.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 222 |
| ITAL 500-01 |
The Italian Bildungsroman: Women, Gender, Migration
Instructor: Mattia Mossali
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| ITAL 500-02 |
Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’ and the Elements of Storytelling
Instructor: James McMenamin
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