2020-21 Italian Courses

FALL 2020 COURSES

Please note course times have changed: http://www.dartmouth.edu/reg/docs/class_schedule.pdf

All courses are remote with synchronous components unless specified otherwise

Italian 1: Introduction to Italian I at D, E (remote with synchronous components)

An introduction to Italian as a spoken and written language. The work includes regular practice in class and scheduled drill-sessions in understanding and using the spoken language. Written exercises and elementary reading materials serve for vocabulary building and discussion. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirements

Italian 2: Introduction to Italian II at D (remote with synchronous components)

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: Intermediate Italian at E - (remote with synchronous components)

Given on-campus as the final course in the required sequence and off-campus as part of the L.S.A. curriculum, this course is designed to develop reading, writing, and speaking skills, with emphasis on expansion of vocabulary and reinforcement of grammatical structures. Some discussion of texts and films of literary or cultural interest. Frequent oral and written assignments and tests, both on-campus and off, plus daily drills off-campus. Open to students by qualifying test or to students who have passed Italian 2. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirements.

Italian 11: Intensive Italian (Benvegnù) at D - (remote with synchronous components)

This 1-credit course is designed for students who have studied Italian for one to three years in high school, or those who have been exposed to Italian through family ties or have spent some time in an Italian-speaking environment. It is also suitable 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,  Romanian, Portuguese, Catalan, and also Latin).  Italian 11 is an accelerated course that combines Italian 1 and 2 in one term, offering an exciting and fast-paced atmosphere in which to learn Italian. 

Italian 9: Advanced Italian Culture (Convertini) at ARR

This course will serve to an introduction to Modern and contemporary Italian culture and society as preparation for future study of Italian language, literature, film and culture at more advanced levels. Through comprehensive grammar review and focus on specific stylistic issues, you will improve your language fluency and your command of spoken and written Italian. 

This iteration of the course will be delivered remotely with synchronous components. This means you will do some of the work asynchronously, but will also able to build a sense of community thanks to our remote class meetings. Through the viewing of the film La meglio gioventù (2003), facilitated discussion, blogs, and hands on creative tasks, you will improve your use of language, while learning about Italian civilization and culture.

Italian 14: Introduction to Italian Culture (Convertini) at ARR

Have you ever wondered what makes people fall in love with Italy? From history, the arts, religion, and gastronomy to science, technology, and "Made in Italy," Italian culture will come alive in this course as you learn how to critically read and discuss cultural texts and artifacts while also gaining an understanding of the global impact of Italian cultural production across time and space. Expect to be highly engaged through lectures, discussions, and hands-on projects. In many units, guest lecturers will broaden the discussion about Italian cultural production from a variety of perspectives.

Through a series of synchronous and asynchronous activities, you will discover the richness and complexity of Italian culture. Through your interaction with the class, on an individual level, through groupwork, and facilitated discussion, you will engage with intellectual inquiry, critical and creative thinking and content creation.

ITAL 33:01: Into and Beyond Dante's Inferno (Callegari) at K - remote with synchronous components. 

An austere ancient authority, a smitten teenage lover, a prophet, an embezzler, a national icon, an unapologetic heretic, a mercenary, and the only truly great poet to have ever lived: Dante has been called many things in the 700 hundred years since he began writing, and he continues to attract the interest of a wildly diverse group of readers. In his medieval masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, Dante irreversibly transformed literary language and perhaps even the way we perceive the universe. Our course will focus on the Inferno, before considering echoes of Dante beyond his time. Our goal will be to bring Dante's vision of Hell to life, reconstructing the terrifying landscape and interpreting the complex poetry of a text that continues to resonate with modern audiences as intensely as it did with its medieval public. Our class meetings will be flexible, to allow the participation of a wide group of students, and dynamic, inviting many outside speakers and using a variety of media to engage with Dante.  

Italian 88: Senior Independent Reading and Research (Arrange, all terms) 

A program of individual study directed by a member of the staff. Open only to senior Italian, Italian Studies, and Romance Language (whose primary language is Italian) Majors. A proposal, signed by the faculty advisor, must be submitted to the Departmental Committee on Independent Studies and Honors Theses for approval by the fifth day of classes of the term.

Italian 89: Honors Seminar (Arrange, all terms)

Honors students will arrange a program of study and research during any term of the senior year on a tutorial basis with individual faculty members. A thesis, written in Italian, and a public presentation are the normal culmination of this course. A proposal, signed by the faculty advisor, must be submitted to the Departmental Committee on Independent Studies and Honors Theses for approval by the fifth day of classes of the term.

*All classes are remote with synchronous components**

Italian 1: Introductory Italian I at D, E

Italian 2: Introductory Italian II at D, E

Italian 3: Introductory Italian III at D (Callegari)

Italian 10: Introduction to Italian Literature: Masterworks and Great Issues

• ITAL 10.06 at D (Gilebbi): Food and flavors pervade Italian literature, expressing the historical hunger of a social class, the nourishment of the spirit, or simply the pleasure of the senes.  Through various texts and genres from the Middle Ages to the present, we will examine the culture of food and its social and symbolic value through the centuries.  This course will be conducted entirely in Italian and will have an interactive format.

Italian 35.05: Migration and Ecology in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean at F (Parati) CROSSLISTED (pending) as: ITAL 35.03/INT 17.15/COLT 37.10

Why do people migrate? How does their migration impact the places they cross? How have migrations trajectories changed in the last 150 years? Why do people embark in a risky journey across the Mediterranean Sea? How do their destination countries react to their arrivals? How does migration chance Europe? These are some of the questions we will try to answer in this class. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will look at what the impact of migration is on the environment and in the process of changing old ideas about what Europe is. Through an interdisciplinary approach using material that originates from both the humanities (film, literature, music, and art) and the social sciences (mainly geography and sociology), we will explore the present and discuss the possible futures of migrations across the Mediterranean.

Italian 22: Humanism and the Renaissance at K (Callegari): This course explores the extraordinary cultural production of Italy from the late fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth century—the Renaissance. Specific topics will vary for each offering; students will examine broader social and historical contexts through themes such as the birth of humanism; attitudes toward the ancient world and the "discovery" of new worlds; developments in the visual arts and in science; court society; sexuality and courtesan culture; gender and family life; religious reform. Authors may include Petrarch, Alberti, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Isabella di Morra, Veronica Franco, Ruzante, Castiglione, Ariosto, Bandello, Tasso, and others.

Italian 88: Senior Independent Reading and Research A program of individual study directed by a member of the staff. Open only to senior Italian, Italian Studies, and Romance Language (whose primary language is Italian) Majors. A proposal, signed by the faculty advisor, must be submitted to the Departmental Committee on Independent Studies and Honors Theses for approval by the fifth day of classes of the term.

Italian 89: Honors Seminar Honors students will arrange a program of study and research during any term of the senior year on a tutorial basis with individual faculty members. A thesis, written in Italian, and a public presentation are the normal culmination of this course. A proposal, signed by the faculty advisor, must be submitted to the Departmental Committee on Independent Studies and Honors Theses for approval by the fifth day of classes of the term.

Updated 1/4/21

Italian 5: Italian Express at D: This course is the equivalent of Italian 1 and fulfills the prerequisite to Italian 2. This innovative introductory course will provide you with the linguistic and cultural skills you will need to effectively function in Italy and fully enjoy its wonders. At the end of this course, you will be able to converse in Italian in a social setting and to understand and communicate information regarding travel, public transporation and housing, food and restaurants, shopping, technology, health, money, and more. Each week, three class meetings are combined with three drills and authentic cultural content provided in a weekly online module. 

Italian 2: Introductory Italian II at D

Italian 3: Introductory Italian III at E

Italian 11: Intensive Italian at D (Alberti):  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, Romanian, Portuguese, Catalan, and also 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 web-based component, which, through cultural, grammar and multimedia learning activities, will complement face-to-face work and prepare students for their in-class work. 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.  Prerequisite: One year or equivalent of university level instruction in a Romance Language or Latin; or three high school years of instruction in a Romance Language or Latin; or native speaking proficiency in a Romance Language; or permission of instructor.

Italian 7: First Year Seminar: Mafias at BL (Canepa): What is "mafia"? Organized crime, global business, a shadow state, deep-rooted mentalities, men in big suits, all of the above? In this course we will study Italian mafias in literature, film, history, and contemporary reality, investigating the conditions in which mafias emerged, and those that make it possible for them to continue to thrive today. 

Italian 9: Advanced Italian Culture at E (Convertini): This course will serve to an introduction to Modern and contemporary Italian culture and society as preparation for future study of Italian language, literature, film and culture at more advanced levels. Through comprehensive grammar review and focus on specific stylistic issues, you will improve your language fluency and your command of spoken and written Italian. 

Italian 27: Topics in Italian Literature: Offerings of this course will consist of various topics in Italian literature.

• Italian 27.02: Crossing Cultures: Translation in Theory and Practice at D (Canepa) 

  Human communication depends on translation. Much of what we know about worlds different from our own comes through translations and the dialogues between languages and cultures that they create.  In this course we will focus on translation between Italian and American cultures, and consider the larger question of the representation of "foreignness." We will explore the theory and practice of translation in various contexts—literature, film, popular media—and gain direct experience in the art of translation through workshops and a final project.  

FRIT 31: How Languages are Learned at J (Convertini): Many approaches to language teaching and learning have been proposed and implemented over time. From learning grammar rules and lists of vocabulary to memorization and practice of correct sentences to natural communication, project work, communicative language teaching, and content-based learning, this course will introduce students to some of the language acquisition research that will help them understand how languages are learned. Topics explored in the course will include language awareness, bilingualism, early-child language learning, the major trends in twentieth-century language teaching, and the role of technology in language learning. The course will also offer students the opportunity to reflect on language learning on a personallevel, to find out how they think as language learners and how they can empower themselves to learn languages in an active andengaged manner. Hands-on activities, including class observations, textbook evaluations, and interviews with language learners, will complement the course. Open to all students. Text, lectures, and discussion in English. Students taking the course for major or minor credit in Italian will attend a weekly x-hour and do all written work in Italian. Not open to students who have received credit for FRIT 093.

Italian 35.02: Facisms at F (Parati): How do people become fascists?  How do they rise to power? Why did people support fascism? We will focus initially on the original model for fascist dictatorships, that is Italian fascism, but we will also have in-class presentations by Dartmouth professors on German, Spanish, French and Japanese forms of fascism.  This is a course that will concentrate on history, film, literature, and fashion in order to talk about the slippery definitions of fascism. 

Italian 87: Independent Reading and Research Students may arrange a program of study and research with individual faculty members. Open only to Italian, Italian Studies, and Romance Language Majors. A proposal, signed by the faculty advisor, must be submitted to the Departmental Committee on Independent Studies and Honors Theses for approval by the fifth day of classes of the term. 

Italian 88: Senior Independent Reading and Research A program of individual study directed by a member of the staff. Open only to senior Italian, Italian Studies, and Romance Language (whose primary language is Italian) Majors. A proposal, signed by the faculty advisor, must be submitted to the Departmental Committee on Independent Studies and Honors Theses for approval by the fifth day of classes of the term.

Italian 89: Honors Seminar Honors students will arrange a program of study and research during any term of the senior year on a tutorial basis with individual faculty members. A thesis, written in Italian, and a public presentation are the normal culmination of this course. A proposal, signed by the faculty advisor, must be submitted to the Departmental Committee on Independent Studies and Honors Theses for approval by the fifth day of classes of the term.

Updated 2/1/21