*subject to change*

Summer '26

F.I.R.E. Rome (Canepa): Students will have the opportunity to spend ten weeks in Rome, fully immersed in Italian language (Italian 1 and Italian 2) and culture (Italian 4). The immersion experience will include visits to significant Roman monuments such as the Colosseum, Roman Forum, St. Peters and Vatican Museums, and the Borghese Gallery, as well as other towns and cities of Italy, and to participate in co-curricular activities such as visits to piazzas and markets, trips to the opera and sporting events, and more. Participants are housed in student apartments in the lively and charming neighborhood of Trastevere.  The program will be directed by a Dartmouth faculty member in Italian.  Contact Professor Nancy Canepa for more information. Students will have the opportunity to experience Rome at its best and the diverse cultural and natural wonders in other areas of Italy, as well.  And by participating in the program, students will complete two-thirds of the Dartmouth language requirement!

Italian 33.01 XL Rel 32.02 (Callegari) @ 11: Into and Beyond Dante's Inferno: The work of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) stages from beginning to end a struggle between personal desire, social obligation, and the conflicting cultures of Christian religion and the body politic. The unprecedented fusion Dante made of these elements in the Commedia [The Divine Comedy] has guaranteed his great poem a vast public, extending across world cultures and the seven centuries since it initially traveled among elite readers in north-central Italy in the early decades of the fourteenth century. This course will first examine the development of Dante’s poetic voice in La vita nova [The New Life, ca. 1293-94] and then focus on its subsequent expansion into an all-encompassing vision of life and death in Inferno [Hell, ca. 1306-09], the first of the three canticles of the Commedia. Situating Dante in his own time and place will be essential to our analysis of his poetry, but attention to the multiple ways that Dante’s work has been interpreted, translated, and appropriated in other periods, languages, and media will provide a critical framework for understanding its enduring appeal, why – in the words of Italo Calvino – it “has not finished saying what it has to say.” Readings, lectures, discussion, and written work – to include a mid-term exam, two short essays, and a final digital project – will be in English. Students taking the course for major or minor credit will attend a weekly X-hour and write the two essays in Italian. Cross Listed Courses: REL 32.02. Degree Requirement Attributes: Dist:LIT; WCult:W. 

Fall '26

3 sections of Italian 1.

1 section of Italian 2.

2 sections of Italian 3.

1 section of Italian 11.

Italian 9 (Callegari) @ 12: Italian Culture--This course students will analyze some of the most significant Italian cultural, social, and political themes from the 60's to present. Through the viewing of the film La Meglio Gioventù (2003), blogging, and creative writing assignments, students will strengthen their ability to express ideas in both the written and spoken language. NRO eligible. Dist:LIT; WCult:W. Prerequisite: ITAL3 or permission of the instructor.

Italian 14 (Gilebbi) @ TBD. 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. Degree Requirement Attributes: Dist: SOC; WCult:CI. NRO eligible.

Italian 27 Eco-narratives in Italian Culture-(Gilebbi) @ 12: How do literature and the visual arts represent natural environments, and what can they teach us about the complex relationships between humanity and nature? This course, conducted in Italian, explores how the human–nature relationship is imagined and represented in Italian literature, art, and cinema. Students will examine how these representations reflect, critique, and shape Italy’s cultural relationship to the physical environment of the peninsula, its environmental history, and its current ecology. Through take-home assignments, class discussions, and small-group presentations, students will engage with key texts of the Italian literary and visual canon while sharpening their critical reading strategies and expanding their environmental imagination.

Italian 33.01 XL Rel 32.02 (Callegari) @ 11: Into and Beyond Dante's Inferno: The work of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) stages from beginning to end a struggle between personal desire, social obligation, and the conflicting cultures of Christian religion and the body politic. The unprecedented fusion Dante made of these elements in the Commedia [The Divine Comedy] has guaranteed his great poem a vast public, extending across world cultures and the seven centuries since it initially traveled among elite readers in north-central Italy in the early decades of the fourteenth century. This course will first examine the development of Dante’s poetic voice in La vita nova [The New Life, ca. 1293-94] and then focus on its subsequent expansion into an all-encompassing vision of life and death in Inferno [Hell, ca. 1306-09], the first of the three canticles of the Commedia. Situating Dante in his own time and place will be essential to our analysis of his poetry, but attention to the multiple ways that Dante’s work has been interpreted, translated, and appropriated in other periods, languages, and media will provide a critical framework for understanding its enduring appeal, why – in the words of Italo Calvino – it “has not finished saying what it has to say.” Readings, lectures, discussion, and written work – to include a mid-term exam, two short essays, and a final digital project – will be in English. Students taking the course for major or minor credit will attend a weekly X-hour and write the two essays in Italian. Cross Listed Courses: REL 32.02. Degree Requirement Attributes: Dist:LIT; WCult:W. 

Winter '27

2 sections of Italian 1 and 2.

1 section of Italian 3.

Italian FYS7 (Gilebbi).

Italian 10 (TBD).

Italian 27-Topics-Early Italian Literature and Culture @ 11 (Callegari).

Italian 37.12- A Bite-Sized History of Italy: The Story of how Italy became Italy through Food & Beverage Culture-@12 (Callegari): While Italy as a nation-state has only existed since 1861, a sense of Italian identity long pre-existed that reality, thanks largely to a deeply-rooted, shared enogastronomic culture that became the envy of the world. Departing from the dormice and garum of the Roman Empire and arriving at the heresy of pineapple pizza, “A Bite-Sized History of Italy” will present a long-view, wide-lens portrait of a place that has become so well-known for its food as to almost preclude interrogation, even as it might be said that food is the very reason for its existence. Open to all students. Texts, lectures, and discussions in English. Reading, writing, and x-hour in Italian for major or minor credit in Italian. Degree Requirement Attributes: Dist:INT or LIT; WCult:W. 

LSA+ Rome (Convertini).

Spring '27

1 section of Italian 1 and 2.

2 sections of Italian 3.

1 section of Italian 11.

FRIT 37.04 @ TBD, European Fairy Tales (Canepa): 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 address questions concerning canon formation; 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 also acquaint ourselves with a variety of critical approaches to the fairy tale, and create tales of our own in a special storytelling workshop. Cross Listed Courses: COLT 39.03. Degree Requirement Attributes: Dist:LIT; WCult:W. 

ITAL 27.03 (Alberti) @ TBD: 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.