Italian (ITA)
111, 112. Elementary Italian. (3h,3h) A course for beginners, covering grammar essentials and emphasizing speaking, writing, and the reading of elementary texts. Lab required. These two courses count for students in the Venice program.
113. Intensive Elementary Italian. (4h) Intensive course for beginners, emphasizing the structure of the language and oral practice. Recommended for students in the Venice program and for language minors. Not open to students who have completed Italian 111 or 112. Lab required. Lecture—five hours. By placement or faculty recommendation.
Offered every semester.
113V. Intensive Elementary Italian in an Immersion Setting. (8h) A sixweek intensive course in Italian taught during the summer in Venice, Italy, designed for students with a maximum of one semester of previous study in Italian. Covers language and culture. Students wishing to register must complete an application early in the spring semester in the Department of Romance Languages and be admitted to the course. Credit not given for both Italian 113V and 112.
153. Intermediate Italian. (4h) Continuation of 113, with emphasis on speaking, devel oping students’ reading, writing skills and preparing them for oral and written discus sion of literary texts in Italian 215. Lab required. P—ITA 113.
154. Intermediate Italian. (3h) An intermediatelevel course intended for students who have taken the 111112 sequence. It offers the opportunity to develop further their reading, writing and conversation skills and prepare for oral and written discussion of literary texts in Italian 215. Lab required. P—ITA 111112.
196. Italian Across the Curriculum. (1h) Coursework in Italian done as an adjunct to
speciallydesignated courses throughout the College curriculum. 215. Introduction to Italian Literature. (3h) Reading of selected texts in Italian. Satisfies basic requirement in foreign language. P—ITA 153 or equivalent. Also offered in Venice.
216. Literary and Cultural Studies of Italy. (3h) Study of selected texts, cultural trends, and intellectual movements. Intended for students interested in continuing Italian beyond the basic requirements. P—ITA 215 or POI.
219. Grammar and Composition. (3h) Review of the basics of structure and vocabulary; detailed examination of syntax and idiomatic expressions; practice in translation of texts of diverse styles and from varied sources; and free composition. P—ITA 215 or 216 or equivalent.
220. Advanced Conversation and Composition. (3h) Practice in speaking and writing Italian, stressing correctness of sentence structure, and emphasis on phonetics, pronuncia tion, fluency, and vocabulary for everyday situations. P—ITA 215 or 216.
224. Italian Regional Cultures. (3h) The course focuses on different aspects of regional cultures in Italy. Emphasis is placed on local lifestyles, literatures, and cinematography. Regional cultures and historic background are analyzed and compared through class demonstrations and cultural artifacts. P—ITA 216 or POI.
281. Italian Independent Study. (13h) P—Permission of department. 325. Italian Neorealism in Films and Novels. (3h) This course is designed to provide the students with an understanding of the history, philosophy, politics, artistic movements and civic renaissance of postwar Italian life. By discussing the most important films, nov
els, short stories, essays, poetry and discussions of the time, the students will discover and learn about Neorealism. P—ITA 216 or POI. 326. Comedy in Italian Cinema. (3h) A study of modern Italian society through the analy
sis of films from the 1950s to the present. Taught in Italian. P—ITA 216 or POI. 327. Modern Italian Cinema. (3h) A study of the major developments of modern Italian cinema. Fulllength feature films by Federico Fellini, Ettore Scola, Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Gianni Amelio, Nanni Moretti, Gabriele Moretti Salvatores, Guiseppe Tornatore, Massimo Troisi, Roberto Benigni, and other Italian filmmakers will be studied and discussed from different perspectives. P—ITA 216 or POI.
328. Dante’s Divine Comedy. (3h) An introduction to Italian medieval literature and culture through a selected, critical reading of Dante’s masterpiece and other medieval texts. This course introduces students to the intellectual and social context of the Italian Middle Ages by relating the texts to the cultural, political, social, and philosophical concerns of the period. P—ITA 216 or POI.
329. Introduction to Renaissance Literature and Culture. (3h) An examination of the culture of the Italian Renaissance. Topics include the ideal of the artist, the ideal of the courtier, the epic genre, the political debates in Florence, the figure of the artist/scientist Leonardo da Vinci, the figure of the navigator, and daily life in Italian cities studied from different social classes and perspectives. P—ITA 216 or POI.
330. Cinematic Adaptation and Literary Inspiration. (3h) Students in this course examine cinematic adaptations of literary works by reading closely the literary texts and viewing their visual counterparts. Students investigate the strategies of adaptation, as well as the criteria by which films based on novels can be evaluated as works of art in their own right. P—ITA 216 or POI.
375. Special Topics. (3h) Selected special topics in Italian literature. P—ITA 216 or POI.
Semester in Venice
1533. Intermediate Italian. (3h) Intensive exposure to speaking, listening, reading and writing at the intermediate level with special emphasis on the surrounding Venetian culture. Counts as equivalent to Italian 153. P—ITA 113 or 111112 sequence. Only taught in Venice.
2173. Studies of Italy. (3h) A survey course on Italian literature from authors from the various regions of Italy and on special cultural themes such as Italian immigration and new immigrations in Italy to give to students in Venice a deeper and broader understanding of Italian cultural complexity. P—ITA 215 or 216 or POI. Only taught in Venice.
See the course listings under Italian for descriptions and prerequisites.
