Italian Language Courses Spring 2023
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All Italian language courses will offer engaging, experiential, and communicative activities that will foster a sense of community. Cultural and linguistic tasks to complete independently in small groups will enrich your learning experience. In our language classes we welcome and celebrate different abilities, learning styles, religions, sexual orientations, physical and mental health, emotional needs and, of course, socio-economic status. Our new textbook, "Dieci" is, indeed, not only filled with authentic cultural material, it is also affordable.
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Italian 1: 1 section Zoller @ 10-An introduction to Italian as a spoken and written language, with emphasis on practical conversation. The course includes regular practice in class and scheduled drill-sessions in understanding and using the spoken language. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirements.------------------------------------
Italian 2: 1 section Zoller @ 11-Rapid review and continued study of the fundamentals of Italian, with intensive work in vocabulary building. The course will also include an introduction to the culture and civilization of Italy. Open to students by qualifying placement or to students who have passed ITAL 1. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirements.------------------------------------
Italian 3: 3 sections Alberti @ 11 and 12 and Perego @ 10-This course is designed to reinforce and refine spoken and written language skills through a review of grammar, exposure to a broad spectrum of language ranging from colloquial to literary styles, and the use of samples of Italian language from multiple sources such as advertising, comics, television and literature. Frequent compositions, quizzes, plus linguistic and thematic analysis of texts. Open to students by qualifying placement or to students who have passed ITAL 2 or ARTH 12. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirements.-----------------------------------
Italian 11: 1 section Gilebbi @ 10: This 1-credit course is designed for students with little or no knowledge of the Italian language, but who have a strong background in another Romance language (i.e. Spanish, French, Rumanian, Portuguese, Catalan, or Latin). Italian 11 is an accelerated course that combines Italian 1 and 2 in one term offering an exciting and fast-paced atmosphere to learn Italian. The course will have a hybrid component, that through cultural, grammar and multimedia introductory exercises will prepare students for the in-class activities. In this course, students will learn to talk about familiar events in the present and the past, as well as formulate plans for the future. Weekly cultural videos will situate in context the grammatical content of the course making it relevant and meaningful. Students will be actively engaged in a variety of creative written and oral activities that will help them develop their language skills. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to sign up for Italian 3 or apply for our Italian LSA in Rome. With the goal to facilitate the acquisition of the target language, this course will be conducted entirely in Italian.*from ZERO to CONVERSATION in 10 WEEKS!*
This course is perfect for students who speak another Romance language. If you graduate in 2026, and you have already taken a language up to level 3, the course will satisfy the language requirement.
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Italian 9: 1 section Alberti @ 10-Advanced Language Through Culture expands on the skills acquired in the Italian language sequence (Italian 1, 2, 3, and/or the LSA) as well as offering a transition to Italian 10 and our upper-division literature and culture courses. This course introduces students to modern and contemporary Italian literature, culture and society through a focus on topics such as evolving political and regional identities, gender relations, the role of the media, and the culture of daily life. Students expand their active use of Italian, refine communicative, reading, and writing strategies, and comprehensively review grammar. Course work includes active participation in class discussions, oral presentations, and regular reading and writing assignments in the areas of narrative and poetry, cinema, music, and journalism. Instructors usually choose one or several "anchor" texts around which coursework revolves.
NRO eligible
Italian 07.09: First Year Seminar: Italian Briefs: Storytelling and Crisis in Boccaccio's Decameron (Wyatt) @ 3a
This course will entail a close, critically informed, reading of each of the ten tales that make up Day Two of Giovanni Boccaccio's mid-fourteenth-century Decameron. Each of these single stories will be considered within the wider frame of the collection's 100 stories, told over two weeks by a group of ten college-age narrators – seven women and three men – who flee the city of Florence to escape the epidemic that came to be known as the Black Plague. This devastating event that spread like wildfire throughout Eurasia between 1346 and 1353 will be understood as both the occasion that prompted Boccaccio's collection as well as its interpretive key. The Decameron creates a fictional world that posits a clear before and after, an in-between space of experimentation and risk-taking that reimagines the social, political, economic, and cultural codes of late medieval Italy. As a text that constantly probes its own architecture, thematics, and context, the Decameron serves as an especially fitting vehicle for a seminar focused on deepening the skills of analysis and writing.
Italian 27.03: Miracolo! Italy, 1958-63 at 12 (Canepa):
The years of the economic "boom," or "miracle" following post-WW II reconstruction were, for Italy, a time of unprecedented economic growth and social transformations, of new hopes abut also new challenges. As Italy left behind its predominantly agrarian past and entered full force into the global industrial economy, Italians rapidly made themselves modern: investing in new status symbols and consumer goods in the form of cars, TVs, and refrigerators, listening to new music, cultivating new pastimes and lifestyles, and even making more babies. Yet with modernization came contradictions. Optimism for the future was accompanied by a loss of traditional points of reference and community; economic expansion, by a widening of the gap between Northern and Southern Italy; mass exodus from rural areas to cities, by the creation of the no-mans lands of the urban borgate or shantytowns; and the proliferation of goods, by the perils of unbridled consumerism and existential crisis.
In this course we will explore how the developments and radical shifts of these years were investigated and represented in literature, film, and music, by a remarkable group of writers, film directors, and including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, Natalia Ginzburg, Alberto Moravia, Anna Maria Ortese, Dario Fo and Franca Rame, Federico Fellini, and others.
Degree Requirement Attributes
Dist:LIT; WCult:W
Prerequisite: ITAL 10 or permission of the instructor.
NRO eligible
FRIT 37.04: European Fairy Tales at 10 (Canepa)
The fairy tale is among the oldest and most enduring forms of narrative, a prototype of how we tell stories and of how we reflect on our human condition. Fairy tales are uniquely "in" and "out" of the world; their matter-of-fact mash-up of realistic and fantastic elements is an invitation to imagine dimensions different from the here-and-now. As such, they are a potent vehicle for the expression of cultural aspirations and anxieties as well as for the construction and subversion of ideologies and identities. In this course we will study the evolution of the forms and contents of the rich European fairy-tale tradition, from the Renaissance to our times. Along the way we will also consider the role of "marvelous" genres such as the fairy tale in socialization and the expression of national identity; the relation between oral folk narratives and written literary tales; and the reworking of fairy-tale subjects and motifs in contemporary culture. We will adopt a variety of critical approaches to the fairy tale, as well as create tales of our own.
Cross Listed Courses
COLT 39.03
Degree Requirement Attributes
Dist:LIT; WCult:W
NRO eligible
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