CRN	93373	Distribution	D
Course No.	ITAL 106
Title	Intensive Italian
Professor	Joseph Luzzi
Schedule	Mon Tu Wed Th 11:00 am - 1:00 pm LC 115

( + two-hour lab per week with Italian tutor)

This course is designed for students with little or no background in Italian who wish to immerse themselves in the language and culture of Italy. We will meet ten hours a week, and use a wealth of grammatical, literary, visual, and aural materials in order to help students acquire, in as short a time as possible, a strong grasp of the Italian language. The course will include also the most updated cultural and media sources from Italy in an effort to introduce students to the lively contemporary idioms of Italy today. Conducted in Italian, the course will culminate (for interested students) in a four-week intensive language program in Florence, Italy (for an additional four credits).

CRN	93374	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	ITAL 250
Title	The Inferno
Professor	Nina Cannizzaro
Schedule	Mon Wed Fr 10:00 am - 11:00 am OLIN 304

A close reading of the Dante's Inferno, the first 'cantica' of the Divine Comedy and the first literary work composed in Italian. Primary sources, class discussion and coursework will be conducted in Italian, but supplemented regularly with critical literature in English. Students will also attend an additional hour of tutorial to review first-year grammar and improve oral and written expression. Limited to 16.

CRN	93375	Distribution	D
Course No.	ITAL 330
Title	La questione della lingua
Professor	Nina Cannizzaro
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm LC 120

This seminar will focus on the early history of the Italian language, and examine questions such as cultural diglossia, bilingualism and hybridity, the Latin foundations of Old Italian, early Italian 'raccolte', Dante's theory and response in the Comedy and De Vulgari Eloquentia (Literature in the Vernacular), the Renaissance pursuit of neologisms, grammatical and orthographic standardization, and early Italian dictionaries and grammar books. Conducted in Italian; no prior knowledge of Latin assumed.