ITALIAN

CRN

90020

Distribution

D

Course No.

ITAL 106

Title

Intensive Italian

Professor

Maria Nicoletti

Schedule

Mon Tu Wed Th 10:30 am - 12:30 pm LC 206

Fr 10:30 am - 12:30 pm LC Lab

8 credits A single-semester equivalent to Italian 101-102. This rapidly paced course is designed primarily for students who have successfully studied other foreign languages. It is open to others with the instructor's permission. Four two-hour classes and two hours of language laboratory.

CRN

90021

Distribution

D/F

Course No.

ITAL 204

Title

20th Century Italian Theatre

Professor

Maria Nicoletti

Schedule

Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 305

Conducted in Italian. After closely reading a broad range of plays as language and as theatre, students will perform scenes from them in class. Outside work will consist of writing, rewriting, and then performing monologues, dialogues and brief one-act plays. Plays studied include: Selected scenes from Pirandello's Sei Personaggi In Cerca D'autore, Pirandello's Pensaci, Giacomino!, the children theatre of Gianni Rodari which uses the convention of Commedia Dell'arte, and a middle-class social comedy of Natalia Ginzburg, Fragola E Panna. Three filmed versions of plays will be viewed: Sei Personaggi, Pensaci, Giacomino! and Tullio Kezich's adaptation of Italo Svevo's La Coscienza Di Zeno.

Prerequisite: Italian 201 or permission of the instructor.

CRN

90373

Distribution

B/D

Course No.

ITAL 218

Title

Modernism "Italian Style": From "Decadentismo" to "Futurismo" and beyond.

Professor

Carlo Zei

Schedule

Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 306

20th century Italian novels in translation: D'Annunzio, Marinetti, Pirandello, Svevo. Italian literary criticism does not use the term "modernist" in the same way that the Anglo-Saxon tradition does. Some authors locate the beginning of "La modernita" in the 17th century or even earlier, depending on the context. Besides the question of chronology, "modernist literature" translates in Italian in a variety of different ways, often ideologically, aestethically or historically contradictory. In this course we will try to define and locate this evasive Italian version of modernism through the reading of authors such as D'Annunzio, Marinetti, Svevo e Pirandello. Course offered in Italian.

CRN

90219

Distribution

B/D

Course No.

ITAL 320

Title

Survey of Italian Literature I: from the 12th Century to the 18th Century

Professor

Carlo Zei

Schedule

Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm LC 120

A general introduction to Italian literature. A course divided in two parts, the second to be offered in the spring. In this course students will read both excerpts and complete texts selected from a number of Italian classic writers such as Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Galileo, Parini, Goldoni, and many others. All text will be in the original language. The course is designed for students of Italian language at the advanced level; course offered in Italian.