HELP Catalogue 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Italian Department Expand All Courses | Print this Page Facebook this Page (opens a new window) Tweet this Page (opens a new window)

Chair: Eugenio L. Giusti;

Associate Professors: Roberta Antognini, Rodica Diaconescu Blumenfeld, Simona Bondavalli, Eugenio L. Giusti^a;

Visiting Assistant Professor: Filippo Gianferrari;

Advisers: The department.

Courses are conducted in Italian, except for ITAL 168 , ITAL 175 , ITAL 177 , ITAL 237 , ITAL 250 , ITAL 255 , and ITAL 275 .

^a On leave 2017/18, first semester

Programs

Major

• •  Italian Major

Correlate Sequence in Italian

• •  Italian Correlate Sequence

Courses

Italian: I. Introductory

• •  ITAL 105 - Elementary Italian
• •  ITAL 106 - Elementary Italian
• •  ITAL 107 - Intensive Elementary Italian
• •  ITAL 168 - Food Culture and Italian Identity
• •  ITAL 175 - The Italian Renaissance in English Translation
• •  ITAL 177 - Italy and the Modern Self

Italian: II. Intermediate

• •  ITAL 205 - Intermediate Italian I
• •  ITAL 206 - Intermediate Italian II
• •  ITAL 214 - Italian Folklore: Goddesses, Muses, Saints, and Black Madonnas
• •  ITAL 217 - Advanced Composition and Oral Expression
• •  ITAL 218 - On the Edge of Catastrophe: Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
• •  ITAL 220 - Thirteenth-Sixteenth Century Italian Culture
• •  ITAL 222 - Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Italian Culture
• •  ITAL 237 - Finding Dante: A Reader’s Guide to Getting Out of Hell
• •  ITAL 250 - Italian Cinema in English
• •  ITAL 255 - Four Italian Filmmakers (in English)
• •  ITAL 275 - Roots and Branches: Italian Renaissance Authors and Their Impact on Early Modern Western Culture
• •  ITAL 290 - Field Work
• •  ITAL 297 - Reading Course
• •  ITAL 298 - Independent Work

Italian: III. Advanced

• •  ITAL 301 - Senior Seminar
• •  ITAL 302 - Senior Project
• •  ITAL 303 - Senior Project
• •  ITAL 320 - The Language of Desire and the Modern Self
• •  ITAL 323 - Intersections in Music and Literature
• •  ITAL 331 - Heroes, Paladins, and Non-existent Knights: The Italian Epic Tradition from Charlemagne to Calvino.
• •  ITAL 338 - Literary Masterpieces: Dante’s Divine Comedy
• •  ITAL 342 - Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron: The “Novella” as a Microcosm
• •  ITAL 375 - Fictions of Youth: Youth Culture in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
• •  ITAL 379 - Food and Fiction in Modern Italy
• •  ITAL 380 - Modernity in Italy
• •  ITAL 381 - Gender Effects: Women in Italian Cinema
• •  ITAL 384 - Folk Culture
• •  ITAL 385 - Three Contemporary Women Writers: Dacia Maraini, Rossana Campo, Laila Wadia
• •  ITAL 389 - The Impossible Task of Translating: An Introduction of Literary Translation from Italian to English
• •  ITAL 399 - Senior Independent Work

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