Connections 23008 - Italian Culture,Language and Society

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Wheaton College - Massachusetts

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The First-Year Seminar section forming the basis of this connection examines different ways of seeing Italy and the complex nature of Italian life reflected in the concept of la dolce vita. Course materials, in English and Italian, include films, fiction, history and personal accounts of life in Italy today. The centrality of language to the historical disunity and eventual unification of Italy is a theme that runs throughout the seminar, and the politics of art and the ways in which language reflects cultural values emerge as important themes in the course. These themes mean that either or both of the other two courses provide stimulating interdisciplinary intersections of culture, art and language. Combining these courses will also provide a strong foundation for students who wish to study or travel in Italy. Great Works II is a continuation of Art History 101, covering architecture, sculpture and painting in Western art from the early Renaissance to the present. Among the periods covered in this course are Italian art of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, including Sienese, Florentine and Venetian paintings, Renaissance architecture, Italian Baroque art and architecture, as well as modern periods of art that originated in Italy, such as Futurism. Readings in Contemporary Italian Literature is designed to improve students' oral and written abilities to communicate abstract and sophisticated ideas in Italian. The course also introduces them to contemporary Italian writers and thus broadens their understanding of the Italian world through poetry, short stories and other textual production such as advertising and film. Italian 200 is normally a fourth-semester Italian course with Italian 101,102 and 150 as prerequisites, but there are also usually a number of first-year students in the course. Connections: Fsem La dolce vita with Arth 102 Great Works II orArth 202 Great Works II (Enhanced) and/or Itas 200 Advanced Intermediate Italian

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.wheatoncollege.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 285-7722

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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