2023-2024 Italian Courses
SUMMER 2023
FRIT 35.03-Religions in Modern Italy-Wyatt @ 2a-
Religions in Modern Italy-Wyatt @ 2a-Addressing the complex landscape of modern Italian religious life and the cultural production that has accompanied and/or responded to it, this course will examine texts, films, and performing artists that engage with Italian Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Islam, and other religious traditions represented in the country. The focus is on religious affiliation as a cultural rather than a strictly theological practice, reflected in modern Italian social, linguistic, and political realities as well as in questions of race, sexual roles, and gender identity.
F.I.R.E.-Canepa-
The French and Italian Department offers a Full Immersion in Rome Experience (FIRE) at the University of Rome in Italy. FIRE is an experiential model of study abroad at Dartmouth in which students take full advantage of dynamic Roman cultural life through intensive study of the Italian language and culture in the energetic Trastevere neighborhood.
All courses involve in-class and on-site lectures, guest presentations, cultural activities such as walking tours, visits to piazzas and markets, and trips to the opera and sporting events. Students also visit significant Roman monuments (Colosseum, Roman Forum, St. Peters and Vatican Museums, Borghese Gallery) and travel to other towns and cities throughout Italy.
Courses are taught by Dartmouth faculty and local instructors.
FALL 2023 COURSES
Italian 1-3 sections-Alberti and Gilebbi and TBD
Italian 2-1 section-Convertini
Italian 3-2 sections- Benvegnù and TBD
Italian 11-2 sections-Gilebbi
Italian 9-1 section- Benvegnù
Italian 14-Convertini: Journey to Italy; An Introduction to Italian Culture; This course introduces students to Italian culture through a representative selection of texts and topics from past to present, as well as encouraging students to think critically about notions of culture and identity. Topics include stereotypes and the idea of national identity, modern history, society and politics, food culture, the visual arts, music, cinema, religion, science and technology, the environment, Made in Italy, immigration, sports, and mafia. In many units, guest lecturers will widen the discussion by considering the global impact of Italian cultural production across time and space. Students will actively engage with Italian cultural phenomena through in-class lectures and discussions, hands-on exercises, and site visits.
Italian 33-Callegari: Dante:The Divine Comedy; This course introduces students to Italian culture through a representative selection of texts and topics from past to present, as well as encouraging students to think critically about notions of culture and identity. Topics include stereotypes and the idea of national identity, modern history, society and politics, food culture, the visual arts, music, cinema, religion, science and technology, the environment, Made in Italy, immigration, sports, and mafia. In many units, guest lecturers will widen the discussion by considering the global impact of Italian cultural production across time and space. Students will actively engage with Italian cultural phenomena through in-class lectures and discussions, hands-on exercises, and site visits.
Italian 35.02-Parati: How to Be a Facist; 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.
Winter 2024
Italian 1: 2 sections-Alberti-TBD
Italian 2: 2 sections-Gilebbi-TBD
Italian 3: 1 section-Convertini-TBD
Italian 9: 1 section-Convertini-TBD
Italian 21: Medieval & Renaissance Italy-Wyatt-TBD
Italian 35.01: From Dagos to Sopranos-Parati-TBD
LSA/LSA+: Benvegnu-TBD
Spring 2024
Italian 1: 1 section-Alberti-TBD
Italian 2: 1 section-Alberti-TBD
Italian 3: 2 sections-Benvegnu and Gilebbi-TBD
Italian 10: Introduction to Performance Spectacle in Italy-Wyatt-TBD
Italian 37.10: Mafias-Parati-TBD