Italian
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Intermediate Italian |
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Professor:
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Luisanna Sardu
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Course
Number: |
ITAL 201 |
CRN Number: |
90104 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Tue Wed 10:10 AM
- 11:10 AM Olin 307 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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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). |
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Advanced Italian: Food and
Sustainability in Italian Culture |
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Professor:
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Luisanna Sardu
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Course
Number: |
ITAL 239 |
CRN Number: |
90106 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 11:50 AM - 1:10
PM Olin Languages Center 210 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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Food is vehicle of culture, traditions, and connections. It
bridges gaps between people and communities across the globe, serving as an
engine of inspiration in numerous examples of Italian literature and film. In
this course, students will explore the intricate relationships between
humans, their environment, and the food they consume. Employing a multidisciplinary approach
encompassing poetry, visual arts, fiction, and documentaries, this course
will feature excerpts from Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Satire and from
Pulci’s Morgante, where food is often employed to convey aspects of social
status, hospitality, and excess. It will delve into poems by Pascoli and
excerpts from Verga’s Malavoglia, where food represents the struggles of a
rural life. Moving forward, passages from Marinetti’s Cucina Futurista will
be examined, followed by poems by Maraini and short stories by Scego, where
food evokes desire and cultural identity. These themes will be further
analyzed and compared in films by Ferreri, De Sica, Crialese, and others.
This course offers an introduction to Italian culture for those who have
completed the language sequence (i.e. Intermediate Italian II). It offers an
opportunity for students to hone their language skills before they enroll in
an upper-college seminar in Italian. |
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The Middle Sea: Mediterranean Encounters
in Italy |
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Professor:
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Franco Baldasso
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Course
Number: |
ITAL 319 |
CRN Number: |
90105 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue 3:10 PM
- 5:30 PM Reem Kayden Center 200 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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Crosslists: |
Human Rights |
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Since Homer, the Mediterranean Sea had inspired the
founding myths of countless civilizations that prospered and clashed on its
shores. The “Middle Sea” represented for millennia the locus of cultural
encounters par excellence. As the current migration crises showcase, however,
it also constitutes a key geopolitical space of negotiation between national
pretenses and transnational mobility of ideas, cultures, and bodies. By
virtue of its position at the center of the Mediterranean, Italy and its
multilayered culture offered a number of provisional answers to the ceaseless
struggles taking place between North and South, East and West, Orientalism
and Occidentalism. The course will address pivotal works of Italian
literature, cinema and visual culture able to destabilize acquired
assumptions on identity, migration, gender and exile, from Dante and
Boccaccio to Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carlo Levi and Igiaba Scego,
with a particular focus on Mediterranean writers and filmmakers working in
Italy – and in Italian – today or in recent times, such as Predrag
Matvejevic, Alessandro Spina (Basili Shafik Khouzam), Wissal (Wii) Houbabi,
Djara Kan, and Ferzan Özpetek. |
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Cross-listed Courses:
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Sex, Lies and the Renaissance |
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Professor:
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Joseph Luzzi |
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Course
Number: |
LIT 241 |
CRN Number: |
90287 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 10:10 AM - 11:30
AM Olin 101 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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Crosslists: |
Historical Studies; Italian Studies |
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The Birth of the Avant-Garde: Futurism,
Metaphysics, Magical Realism |
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Professor:
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Franco Baldasso
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Course
Number: |
LIT 291 |
CRN Number: |
90289 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 3:30 PM - 4:50
PM Olin 204 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in English |
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Crosslists: |
Italian Studies |
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Romance and Realism: A History of Italian Cinema |
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Professor:
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Joseph Luzzi |
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Course
Number: |
LIT 366 |
CRN Number: |
90305 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon 12:30
PM - 2:50 PM Olin 101 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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Crosslists: |
Film and Electronic Arts; Italian Studies |
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