Elementary Italian grammar. Practice of oral skills through pronunciation and easy conversation. Reading of simple texts and exposure to Italian media and culture.

More elements of grammar and culture with integrated readings. Further practice in conversation and exposure to culture though simple examples from media, politics, and art.

Intensive oral-aural practice based on selected readings and exposure to a wide range of contemporary cultural themes through materials such as newspaper articles, advertising material, and videos. Emphasis on more complex grammatical structures and vocabulary.

Intensive oral-aural practice. Practice in speaking through a combination of group-based and individual activities, focusing on grammatical structures, language functions, and vocabulary. Further exposure to a wide range of contemporary cultural themes through materials such as newspaper articles, advertising material, and videos.

A survey of Italian Renaissance civilization, with emphasis on literature and intellectual life. Taught in English. May not be used to meet the foreign language requirement. A knowledge of Italian in not required. CA 1.

An introduction to short stories and frame tale collections as part of a cross-cultural genre of storytelling that flourished during the European medieval era, rooted in different traditions and languages from Asia and the Mediterranean to Europe and the Atlantic world. Students will engage with short stories by rewriting and adapting them to different media. Taught in English. CA1. CA4-INT.

A critical analysis of contemporary Italian society seen through the media of film and literature. Taught in English. May not be used to meet the foreign language requirement. Films in Italian with English subtitles. CA 1. CA 4-INT.

Focuses on the Italian American experience as represented in a variety of fields, including literature and cinema. Taught in English. CA 1. CA 4.

The way Italian literary and cinematic culture justified, survived, and fought the terrors of the Fascist totalitarian regime. Taught in English. May not be used to meet the foreign language requirement. CA 1. CA 4-INT.

Survey of literary genres adapted into film in Italian context. Literary and visual styles, visual literacy, and film criticism. Literary texts cover a range of time periods and cultural considerations. Films represent a variety of cinematic techniques and the new audiences and artistic goals targeted by film adaptations. General film theory and theories of adaptation. CA 1. CA 4-INT.

The diverse culture of Italy, studied through analysis of sociological, literary, artistic, and cinematic works from and about a single one of the different Italian regions and that region's cultural centers, such as Rome, Naples, Florence, Palermo, or Venice. Taught in English. May not be used to meet the foreign language requirement. CA 1.

Special topics taken in a foreign study program. Consent of Department Head required, normally before the student's departure.

A survey of contemporary Italian political, social, economic and cultural life.

Practice in written and oral composition. Syntax study.

Further practice in written and oral composition. Treatment of the finer points in syntax.

Survey of Italian Literature through the changing images of Italian cities.

Survey of Italy's women writers from the early modern period to the present. Developments of Italian feminism and gender issues.

Italy's literary and cinematic representations of Jews in the 20th Century. Jewish identity under Fascism, during World War II, and beyond. Taught in Italian.

Survey of the novella from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The course explores the cross-cultural origins of the genre and the influence of the Italian novella on other European literary traditions. Taught in English (Italian readings optional). CA 1. CA 4-INT.

Selected readings from the works of Poliziano, Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo de'Medici, Michelangelo, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Tasso, and others.

Readings from Boccaccio and others with special attention to the problems of social and sexual ethics.

Dante's poem as a unique synthesis of Medieval culture. Emphasizes its integration of ethics, political thought, and theology with poetic imagination. Taught in English. CA 1.

A survey, in English, of the major literary and philosophical currents of the Italian Renaissance. Selections from Boccaccio, Petrarch, Pico della Mirandola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, and others. Taught in English.

Cinematic representations of Italian Americans in the works of major directors from the silent era to the present. Construction of and attempts to dislodge negative stereotypes of Italian American male and female immigrants. Taught in English. CA 1. CA 4.

Major topics in modern and contemporary Italian cinema. Taught in Italian.

Italian cinema from the silent era to the present. Its genres, such as epic film, melodrama, comedy "Italian-style," "Spaghetti-Westerns," and political cinema. Cinema as a reflection on and comment upon the social and political contexts of Italian history from pre-fascist Italy to modernization and beyond. Taught in English. Films in Italian with English subtitles. CA 1. CA 4-INT.

Major trends in twentieth-century Italian Literature from the early modern period to contemporary times.

Application of current perspectives of ecocriticism to analysis of Italian literature and films that have recorded and imagined the relationship between human and non-human life. Articulation and appraisal of the student's personal relationship to the environment through writing and reflection. CA 1. CA 4-INT.

Supervised experience in a work setting using Italian linguistic skills and cultural competencies. Context may include a specific trade or industry, business, medical or clinical setting, public agency, community-based organization, or research collaboration. May be taken in the context of a study abroad program. Students taking this course will be assigned a final grade of S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory).

Special topics taken in a foreign language program. Consent of Department Head required, normally granted prior to the student's departure. May count toward the major with consent of the advisor.

Special topics taken in a foreign study program.

Prerequisites and recommended preparation vary.

Advanced language practicum and integration of studies in Italian Literature and Culture.