| 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 213 |
| 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 213 |
| 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 319 |
| 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
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 318
10:30 AM-11:20 AM, W
BOSLER 318 |
| ITAL 231-02 |
Reading and Writing Contemporary Italian Culture
Instructor: 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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03:00 PM-03:50 PM, W
BOSLER 318
03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 318 |
| ITAL 323-01 |
Fascism and Film: Propaganda, Sexualized Politics and Male Fantasies
Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio, Sara Galli
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 310-01 and WGSS 301-03. Taught in English. In this course, we will explore the narratives of fascism in cinema from the 1920s onwards. The infamous slogan "cinema is the most powerful weapon" was coined by fascist dictator Mussolini who understood how the media could create consensus and control. We will begin our analysis from the Italian cinema produced before and during fascism by directors Camerini, Gallone, and Brignone: their cinema revolves around a fantasy of masculinity associated with racial and ethnic superiority, in contrast to the feminine sphere of reproduction, pliability, and madness. We will then examine the shift to selective memories of victimization and rejection in postwar antifascist films by directors such as Bertolucci, De Sica, Wertmuller, Fellini, Cavani, Taviani, and Spielberg. These films characterize fascism through symbols of violence, immorality, and instability: from the policing of national and sexual boundaries to man-to-man bonding and the fear of homosexuality, and images of Nazi and fascist eroticism. Finally, through the analysis of works by directors such as Scola, Benigni, Bellocchio, and Tarantino, we will explore how cinema continues to intercept the cultural configurations that fascism has constructed of itself, the system(s) of power it has created, and the ur-fascist myths still present in western societies. The FLIC session in Italian (Wednesday, 11:30 - 12:30pm) is offered for Italian minors/majors, INBM majors, and INST majors who have completed ITAL 231 or equivalent.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 314 |
| ITAL 331-01 |
Ideas of Italy
Instructor: Francesco Samarini
Course Description:
In this course we study how Italian political thinkers, writers and intellectuals in different historical periods have constructed their own idea of Italy. We will analyze authors such as Niccol Machiavelli, the forefather of modern political science, and Antonio Gramsci, an Italian philosopher and founder of the largest communist party in Western Europe. We also examine the role that film and literature played in the formation of a national consciousness, through selected readings by authors and directors such as Alessandro Manzoni, Gabriele DAnnunzio, Oriana Fallaci, Luchino Visconti and others.
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 314 |
| ITAL 400-01 |
From Neorealism to Global Screens: History, Genre, and Aesthetics in Italian Cinema
Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 310-02. This seminar traces the evolution of Italian cinema from Neorealism in the aftermath of World War II to the diverse, globally networked productions of the 21st century. Through landmark films and key critical debates, we will investigate how Italy's shifting political landscapes, socio-economic transformations, and cultural identities have shaped cinematic narratives and styles over the past eight decades. We will study major movements-Neorealism, auteur modernism, commedia all'italiana, genre cinema (spaghetti western, giallo/horror), political cinema of the "Years of Lead," and contemporary auteur works-alongside the industrial, technological, and institutional frameworks that enabled them. Readings and discussions will situate each film within its historical context while also analyzing cinematography, mise-en-scne, editing, sound, and performance. Specifically, we will focus on how form and history intersect, from postwar location realism to contemporary digital hybridity.
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11:30 AM-12:45 PM, M
BOSLER 214
03:00 PM-04:15 PM, R
BOSLER 313 |