Course	ITAL 110 Accelerated Italian
Professor	Joseph Luzzi
CRN	16394
Schedule	M T W Th 10:30 - 11:30 am OLINLC 206 Fr 10:30 - 11:30 am OLINLC 208
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

Part two of the course designed for the student with little or no prior exposure to Italian. The course will cover the major topics of grammar and give intensive practice in the four skills (speaking, comprehension, reading and writing). The grammar textbook will be supplemented by traditional homework exercises and a variety of multimedia work in the Bard Foreign Language Resource Center.  Student must also enroll in a required weekly tutorial to practice oral skills.  The course is designed as an indivisible, one-year sequence, and is open only to those students who completed the first segment of the course in Fall 2005. (Friday session with Tutor Veronica Rovoletto)

Course	ITAL 229 Lost in Language: The Search for Identity in the Italian Avant-Garde
Professor	Federica Santini
CRN	16469
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm ASP 302
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

What are the connections between the Babelic quality of experimental language and the feeling of instability of the subject in the postmodern world? How do poetic techniques like collage or pastiche and the introduction of multilingual expressions suggest the effects of globalization? What writers in Italian history, from Dante to the Futurists, employed techniques associated with an “avant-garde”? This course presents the works of a number of experimental Italian authors, including Elio Pagliarani and Andrea Zanzotto, focusing on their capacity to express the meaning of contemporary society through the use of non-linear communication. In-depth textual analyses and a comparative approach will be used to explore wider topics such as the connection between psyche, body and language, the search for an identity within tortured linguistic expression, and the metamorphoses of the self and the world. The course will be conducted in Italian.

Course	ITAL 280 Advanced Conversation and Composition
Professor	Federica Santini
CRN	16397
Schedule	Mon Wed 12:00 -1:20 pm OLINLC 208
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

The aim of this course is to help students obtain a sense of fluency in their oral and written expression of Italian, through focused writing (expository and creative), strategic vocabulary building, and scheduled discussion, debate, and short presentations in class. Course will continue a comprehensive review of grammar, offer a basic introduction to Italian prose stylistics (through examination of excerpts from various genres: fiction, current political commentary, humor, literary essays, philosophical texts, newspaper/magazine articles, children’s literature, etc.), and finally, introduce students to the birth of Italian cinema and its cultural impact. Students are required to enroll in a weekly laboratory session for multimedia work.Prerequisite: Intensive Italian or permission of department.

Course	ITAL / LIT 3205 Dante
Professor	Joseph Luzzi
CRN	16162
Schedule	Tu 4:00 – 6:20 pm OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Literature in English

This course will introduce students to the world and work of the so-called “founder of all modern poetry,” Dante Alighieri. Our close reading of the entire Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) will consider such issues as the phenomenology of poetic inspiration, medieval theories of gender, Dante’s relationship with the literary ghosts Virgil and Cavalcanti, the sources and shapes of the human soul, and how the weight of love (pondus amoris) can save this same soul. We will also read selections from Dante’s other works, including the story of his poetic apprenticeship (The New Life) and his linguistic treatise (On Eloquence in the Vernacular). Conducted in English, readings in English translation; option of work in Italian if student wishes.