91497

ITAL 201 Intermediate Italian I

Anna Cafaro

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1:30 -2:50 pm

OLINLC 115

OLIN 306

FLLC

This course intends to reinforce students’ skills in grammar, composition, and spoken proficiency, through intensive grammar review, conversation practice, reading/analysis of short texts, writing simple compositions, as well as the use of magazine articles, video and songs. Students engage in discussion and must complete compositions and oral reports based on Italian literary texts and cultural material. Prerequisites: Two semesters of elementary Italian or Intensive Italian 106 (or the equivalent). Class size: 18

91498

ITAL 230 History of Italian Theater

Anna Cafaro

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11:50 -1:10 pm

OLINLC 206

FLLC

This course introduces students to the world of Italian theater from the Renaissance to today. Students are led to a comprehensive historical overview of Italian theater, its protagonists, and its fundamental role in the evolution of Italian society. As we will focus on the development of theater as an independent artistic genre, we will reflect on the relation between text and its representation, comedy and “comic,” the value of the written word, the role of improvisation, the variety of theatrical forms in the 21st cent., and the role of theater itself in our society. Plays of Commedia dell’Arte, Goldoni, Pirandello, De Filippo, Fo, Maraini, Martinelli will be studied within their historical, social and aesthetic contexts. Readings/course work in Italian. Class size: 15

91854

LIT 3205 Dante & the Modern Imagination

Joseph Luzzi

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10:10 - 12:30 pm

HEG 300

ELIT

Cross-listed: Italian; Medieval Studies This new course will explore the fascinating reception of Dante's Divine Comedy over the centuries in multiple literary traditions, national cultures, and artistic media. We will spend the first few weeks of the course developing a reading of Dante's epic poem, then trace its presence in such phenomena as: Petrarch and Boccaccio's debates about poetry; Milton's epic imagination; the founding of the American Dante Society at Longfellow's Harvard; the cinematic Dante of Antonioni and other auteurs; the “illustrated” Dante from Doré to Rauschenberg; selected instances of Dante in the non-Western world; even Dante in American pop culture today. Course/reading in English with option of section/course work in Italian for qualified students. This course counts as pre-1800 offering. Class size: 15