ITALIAN

ITALIAN

CRN	92055	Distribution	D
Course No.	ITAL 106
Title	Intensive Italian
Professor	Nina Cannizzaro
Schedule	M W F 11:00 am - 12:00 pm LC 206 Tu Th 11:00 pm - 1:00 pm LC 206 Lab TBA

8 credits Equivalent to a full year of college-level introductory Italian, this rapidly-paced course covers the basics of Italian language and culture in a single semester, and is followed by a month of study in Italy in January 2003 (location tba). The course is designed for students who have successfully studied another foreign language (i.e. B+ or better), and open to others with the instructor's permission. Preference will be given to Italian Studies majors, sophomores planning to spend a semester in Italy, and first-year students. In addition to seven hours of class M-F, 2 hrs. min. of weekly laboratory and multimedia work are required. Enrollment limited to 16. Upon successful completion of this course students may enroll immediately in Bard's 200-level Italian courses, specifically designed to improve students' comprehensive language skills while working within a literary or thematic framework.

CRN	92056	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	ITAL 219
Title	History of Italian Literature:Great Italian Lovers from Cavalcanti to Casanova
Professor	Nina Cannizzaro
Schedule	Mon Tues 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm LC 118 Discussion: Thur 2:30 pm - 3:50 pm LC Lab

The reputation of Italians as the greatest lovers derives in part from the weight and prestige of this culture's literary tradition. The stylistic particularities, and literary themes and/or genres of those Italian texts that went on to achieve outstanding authority in the Western literary imagination can be interpreted in fact as the result of their authors' individual definition of Love itself. This course will examine the various permutations of the concept of Love during the Medieval, Humanist, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, and the diverse literary modes chosen to best exemplify them (poetry, novelle, dialogues, the scientific trattati d'amore, chivalric poems, personal epistles, memoires, and theatre). Authors include Guinizelli, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Boiardo, Ficino, Ariosto, Bembo, Machiavelli, Aretino, Franco, Michelangelo, Stampa, Patrizi, Bandinello, Bruno, Marino, Pallavicino, Casanova and others. All discussion, coursework and primary texts will be in Italian, although students will be regularly assigned critical readings English. Students will further review first-year grammar and do intensive work on their written and oral skills in a weekly discussion section.

Prerequisite ITAL 110 or permission of the department.

CRN	92337	Distribution	D
Course No.	ITAL 270
Title	Advanced Italian: Italy's Cultural Revolution
Professor	Joseph Luzzi
Schedule	Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 308

This course will explore the culture and conflicts of modern Italy's struggle for Unification. We will draw on a wealth of literary, musical, cinematic, and visual sources in an effort to improve students' spoken, aural, and written Italian. Students will read Italian Romantic authors Foscolo, Leopardi, and Manzoni; and analyze the operas of Verdi as well as the nationalist films 1860, 1900, Senso, and The Leopard. We will also draw on Bard's Viva Verdi cultural programs and apply our study of 19th-century Italy to some major issues confronting Italians today. Conducted in Italian, with a weekly review session designed to strengthen Italian language skills.

CRN	92336	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	LIT 3205 / ITAL
Title	Dante
Professor	Joseph Luzzi
Schedule	Tu 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm PRE 128

See Literature section for description.