CRN	94075	Distribution	C / * (Social Science)
Course No.	PS 125
Title	West European Politics and Society
Professor	Elaine Thomas
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 204

See Political Studies section for description.

CRN	94170	Distribution	D / * (FLLC)
Course No.	ITAL 201
Title	Intermediate Italian I
Professor	Nina Cannizzaro
Schedule	Mon Wed Th 11:30 am - 12:30 pm ASP 302 Tu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm OLIN 309

For students who have completed Italian 106 (Intensive) or the equivalent of Italian 101 and 102. Comprehensive review through practice in writing and conversation. Discussion, compositions and oral reports based on Italian literary texts and cultural material.

CRN	94172	Distribution	D / * (FLLC)
Course No.	ITAL 255
Title	Intermediate Italian:Florence
Professor	Amelia Moser
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 pm – 4:20 pm PRE 101

This course is designed to improve students’ spoken, written, aural, and reading comprehension in Italian by combining intermediate level grammatical work with a thematic inquiry into the idea of Florence over the centuries. As part of our comprehensive language study, we will consider questions like, what has Florence represented to both the Italian and foreign imaginary since its founding as a military camp by Caesar in the 1st century BCE? How has the city figured as both concept and actual political and cultural entity for writers ranging from Dante and Petrarch to the Futurists and Fascists? How has the burden of Florence's profound medieval and Renaissance past affected later artists and writers? A special goal of the course will be the theme “Florence after Florence,” that is, the relatively ignored persistence of the city as a political and cultural center after its Renaissance heyday, including its role as Italy's linguistic center for the Romantics to its designation as capital of the newly unified Italy in 1865 and now as a front of leftist resistance in the age of Berlusconi. A prerequisite for this course is Intensive Italian or the equivalent. All our work is in Italian; students will meet for weekly review with the tutor.

CRN	94169	Distribution	B/D / * (FLLC)
Course No.	ITAL 209
Title	Myth and Fascism in Italian Literature
Professor	Nina Cannizzaro
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 203

Cross-listed: Human Rights

This course aims to explore the rise, appeal, structure, goals and representation of the Fascist ideology and regime in Italy at the turn of the 20th century, and the artistic and intellectual response elicited by the oppressive context. The course will examine innovative uses of literature, scientific research, film, music and censorship on behalf of both parts, paying close attention to the day-to-day existence under the Fascist regime, through poetry, novels, historical texts, film, critical essays. Authors will include Carducci, D'Annunzio, Croce, Marinetti (Futurist Manifesto), Palazzeschi, Corradini, Ungaretti, Saba, Primo Levi (If this is a Man), Pirandello (I limoni di Sicilia), Shaw (Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism), Vittorini (Conversation in Sicily), Moravia (Conformist), Gramsci (Letters from Prison), Gentile, Montale, Calvino (Path to the Spider's Nests), and films by Olmi (Tree of the Wooden Clogs), Wertmueller (Love and Anarchy), Pontecorvo (Kapó), Scola (A Particular Day) Taviani (Night of the Shooting Stars), Rossellini (Rome Open City), Rosi (Christ Stopped at Eboli), and Pasolini (Saló). Conducted in English.