The Courses

(All courses carry 3 credits unless otherwise noted.)

Notes on Elementary and Intermediate Italian:

  • Students wishing to study Italian and who have completed three years or more of this language in Grades 9 through 12, or have taken the AP exam, should meet with the Undergraduate Program Director. They will begin at the Intermediate level (230, 240 or 246) unless they place into a more advanced level.
  • All courses in Elementary and Intermediate Italian  develop students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, as well as an understanding of many aspects of Italian culture.
  • The foreign language requirement for the College of Humanities and Fine arts is fulfilled by completing either ITAL 230 and 240 or ITAL 246.
  • No more than six credits may be earned for any combination of courses at the Elementary (ITAL 110-126) level. No more than six credits may be earned for any combination of courses at the Intermediate (230-246) levels.

110 Elementary Italian I 

120 Elementary Italian II 

126 Intensive Elementary Italian 6 cr

230 Intermediate Italian I 

240 Intermediate Italian II 

246 Intensive Intermediate Italian 6 cr

280 Language Suite Conversation 2 cr with additional 1-cr Honors option

285 Introduction to Italian Studies (taught in English)

297K Food, History & Cultural Identity in Italy (taught in English. Reading in Italian available.)

297L New Horizons in Reading, Writing and Conversation

297P Pic Lit: The Culture of Italian Comics (taught in English)

303 Writing on Language

324 Introduction to Italian Literature I

325 Introduction to Italian Literature II

350 Italian Film (AT) 4 cr 

371 Advanced Grammar and Composition

394MI Italy and the Mediterranean (taught in English)

397A Major Currents in Nineteenth Century Italian Literature

397L Regional Literature and Culture of Italy 

490A Italian Women Writers

497AF The "Maestri" - Antonioni and Fellini 

497B The Italian-American Experience

497CF Italian Neorealism and Beyond

497DF The Divas: Feminine Icons in Italian Cinema

497EM Expressions of the Modern

497FL/597FL The Liar: Federico Fellini

497J Dante & the Duecento

497L/597M Literature, Theory & Thinking in Calvino's Narratives

497LC/597LC The Liar's Circus: Federico Fellini and His American Legacy

497M Literatures of Fascist Italy

497N Boccaccio's Decameron

497T The Early Renaissance

507 Dante

524 The High Renaissance (AL)

555 19th Century Italian Literature

565 20th-Century Italian Novel

567 Modern Italian Poetry

572 Basic Methods of Teaching

597A Medieval and Renaissance Siena

597B Boccaccio

597C Freud and Interpretation

597E Calvino and Post-War Italian Literature

597G Love in Medieval Italian Literature