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
229 The Culture of Italian Comics (AT, DG) 4 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 Culture (taught in English)
297C Italian Americans at the Movies
297D Introduction to the Middle Ages
297K Food, History & Cultural Identity in Italy (taught in English. Reading in Italian available.)
297L New Horizons in Reading, Writing and Conversation
297R Race, Hip Hop and Identity in Contemporary Italy
303 Writing on Language (JYW)
324 Introduction to Italian Literature I
325 Introduction to Italian Literature II
333 Women's Bodies: Poetry, Politics and Power (AL) 4 cr
350 Italian Film (AT) 4 cr
371 Advanced Grammar and Composition
394MI Italy and the Mediterranean (taught in English) (IE)
397C The Three Crowns
397F Art and Literature in Renaissance Florence
397G Introduction to Italian Linguistics
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/597L 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 & the Duecento
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