| ITAL 101-01 |
Elementary Italian
Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio, Erik Scaltriti
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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08:30 AM-09:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 213 |
| ITAL 101-02 |
Elementary Italian
Instructor: Luca Trazzi
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 318 |
| ITAL 101-03 |
Elementary Italian
Instructor: Luca Trazzi
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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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 318 |
| ITAL 101-04 |
Elementary Italian
Instructor: Luca Trazzi
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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01:30 PM-02:20 PM, MTWRF
BOSLER 306 |
| ITAL 201-01 |
Intermediate Italian
Instructor: Sara Galli
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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08:30 AM-09:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 208 |
| ITAL 201-02 |
Intermediate Italian
Instructor: Sara Galli
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 208 |
| ITAL 201-03 |
Intermediate Italian
Instructor: James McMenamin
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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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 305 |
| ITAL 232-01 |
Reading and Performing Italian Texts
Instructor: Sara Galli
Course Description:
Designed to increase student's comprehension and command of spoken Italian, this course is also an initiation in everyday verbal transactions and cultural communication prevalent in contemporary Italy. Phonetics, oral comprehension, and verbal production are practiced through exposure to authentic documents usually of a non-literary nature, such as television news programs, documentaries, commercial advertisements, and excerpts from films.
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 208
10:30 AM-11:20 AM, W
BOSLER 208 |
| ITAL 323-01 |
Demystifying the Mafia Universe
Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio, Erik Scaltriti
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 310-01. Additional time slot: Wednesday 1:30-2:20 pm is for students taking the class for FLIC credit. Mafia is synonymous with organized crime, violence, underworld trafficking, and black-market trade. It is identified as a secret organization that operates as a shadow state within a nation. However, due to popular stories and fictional narratives, the term Mafia has become so encrusted with legend and myth that it is difficult to establish its true nature and scope. What does Mafia really mean? How is it related to Southern Italian folklore and its Italian American account? How have Italian and American cultural representations of the Mafia converged, diverged, evolved, and persisted over the course of the past century? How have the cultural conditions of their production and reception shifted as Italians have ceased to occupy the privileged category of "the immigrant" in the popular American imagination, and as Italy has transitioned from a country of emigration to one of immigration? How has the Mafia evolved from a local organization to a global network in the 21st century, and how has cinema registered this shift? What are the unique origins and challenges of the Italian anti-Mafia resistance? Through an analysis of literary texts and films, this course explores representations of the Mafia in Italian and American film from the early years of the 19th century to today. In addition to raising key questions about cultural representation and power (stereotypes; immigration and national identity; racial, gender, and class difference), the course will also guide students through analysis of film genres and techniques.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 314 |
| ITAL 341-01 |
The Discourse of Love
Instructor: James McMenamin
Course Description:
What is Love? Through a diverse selection of works from authors such as St. Francis, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Lorenzo de' Medici, Pietro Aretino, Gaspara Stampa, and Veronica Franco, students will examine the nature of love from a variety of perspectives. From the spirituality of religion to the physicality of desire and attraction, this course will confront topics such as the medieval and Renaissance ideas of love (courtly love, the Dolce Stil Novo, and love sickness), theological notions of love (charity), different expressions of love (heterosexuality, same-sex attraction and polyamory), and transgressive types of love (lust, adultery, and prostitution).
This course is taught in Italian. Prerequisites: 231 and 232, or permission of the instructor. Offered every year.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 213 |