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  • ITAL 227: The Contemporary Italian Novel

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    There is no other genre more comprehensive and interesting than the novel! Italian culture and society come together when reading Italian literary narrative. In this course, students will read novels published in the last twenty years from Italo Calvino onward in order to analyze the effects of the Italian novel tradition and the impact of postmodernism on recent output. Students will be encouraged to analyze the social context of the fiction studied, relating it to developments in Italian society in the postwar and more contemporary period. Students taking this subject will learn to apply contemporary literary theory of specific texts; to evaluate the importance of specific Italian elements in the novels studied and to be able to discuss novels.
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  • ITAL 230: Italian Cinema as Social Commentary

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Italian directors and scriptwriters have consistently shown a strong awareness of their country¿s socio-political complexities. From the Mafia to political corruption, Italian artists fearlessly engage with their society¿s scandals, corruption cases, and untimely and unjust deaths of their fellow citizens. Students will see and analyze films from the postwar period to the current day. Through these vivid and classic films, students gain an understanding of how movies centered on social issues can be simultaneously entertaining and thought-provoking. Taught in English. Satisfies humanities and Italian Studies Minor requirements. Can be used as a media studies elective.
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  • ITAL 231: New Italian Cinema 1980-2005

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Cinema is perhaps one of the most important elements that connote and make Italian culture so famous around the world. From La Dolce Vita to La Vita e¿ Bella, Italian films speak to different crowds in different ways. The overall image is one of a country fraught by problems and existential issues that bears always that life must be lived at its fullest, no matter the historical period. At the core of this course lies the study of the techniques and the themes contemporary Italian directors employ in their distinctive engagement to treat and depict the problems of Italian society, lack of identity, massive immigration, Mafia, the relics of terrorism.
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  • ITAL 233: The Myth of Childhood in Italian Cinema

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the important theme of childhood in Italian Cinema. In fact, this topic is very frequented by Italian film makers, as the child¿s point of view is present in many trends and periods of Italian cinema which often utilizes literary texts as its point of departure to develop new perspectives on childhood and Italian society in its transformations. In this course, students will be offered a unique chance of analyzing the theme of childhood in mainly two periods of Italian cinema. One, the famous period dubbed as Neo-realism, will make up the first part of the semester. We will analyze films by Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, and Roberto Rossellini. Films from postmodern cinema will constitute the second and final part of the semester. In this part of the course, we will screen films by Gianni Amelio, Oscar winner Gabriele Salvatores, and Cristina Comencini. The idea behind this division is to compare and contrast these two very different cinematic expressions which originate from different periods of Italian society and its history. The result I hope to reach is a fruitful semester after which students will be familiar and comfortable with Italian film reading and related cinematic techniques, with the desire to further pursue studies in both.
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  • ITAL 250: Masterpieces of Italian Literature in Translation I

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    The unique role played by Italian Humanism and Renaissance on European literature and civilization even shines through contemporary best-sellers like Dan Brown¿s The Da Vinci Code. This course is designed to bring works of Italian literature to the attention of students who may have or may not have any knowledge of Italian. Many works of Italian literature found their way to France, Spain, and England where they were read, translated and disseminated. In all of these nations the process of assimilation of Italian things influenced life, language, politics and literature. During this semester, students will acquire familiarity with some of these famous texts by reading among others Dante¿s Comedy, Boccaccio¿s Decameron, and Machiavelli¿s The Prince. Satisfies requirements for Minor in Italian Studies, Humanities and Literature.
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  • ITAL 251: Masterpieces of Italian Literature in Translation II

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    This is the second semester of this course designed for students who are interested in the key role played by Italian literature and culture in the development of a European civilization. Starting with Ludovico Ariosto¿s The Folly of Orlando and Benvenuto Cellini¿s famous Autobiography, we will read Galileo Galilei¿s scientific writings which will make us better understand the writing of contemporary writers Italo Calvino and Primo Levi.
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  • ITAL 304: Italy and the Renaissance

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Italian Renaissance has consistently been a fascinating topic of study throughout the centuries. In this course, students will engage with texts highly representative of the culture of Renaissance, a period in which scholars stressed the importance of the liberty of the human spirit to form new models for the advancement of humankind in the arts, ethics, politics, and science (just to name some fields that thrived during this period). From humanist Petrarch to Boccaccio, from architect Alberti to Leonardo da Vinci, from political theorist Machiavelli to Campanella, important narratives of history, art, and literature will be analyzed to fully appreciate the cultural legacy of Italian Renaissance. Students will be encouraged to pursue their specific interests within the context of the course. Course taught in English. It satisfies humanities and literature requirements. It satisfies Italian Studies Minor Requirements.
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  • ITAL 306: The Italian American Experience; A Survey

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    In a country of immigrants such as the United States of America, each ethnic component reveals distinct features that began during the journey to the new continent and still today construct part of who they are. In this course students will analyze Italian migration in the United States from a historical, cultural, and literary standpoint that will show the importance of the Italian contribution to the making of the country. Thomas Jefferson¿s friendship with Filippo Mazzei represents only one of the highlights of an often painful, yet successful, settlement of Italians in the country of democracy and freedom. The formation of a new identity arises from the bridging of the former culture and the new one to master. The process of formation, along with the issues raising from the condition of immigrants and the energy drawn from a new economic situation of mobility, have led Italian American artists like Francis Ford Coppola and Pietro DiDonato to wonderful works of fiction and poetry, film and visual arts. After a historical introduction to the phenomenon, students will study some of the most representative works produced in Italian American culture during the semester. Lectures are supplemented by films (See schedule). It satisfies humanities, literature, and Italian Studies minor requirements. Taught in English.
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  • ITAL 494: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

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  • MATH 108: Elementary Functions

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Real numbers, inequalities, functions; polynomial, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric functions and their inverses; systems of equations; sequences. Prerequisite: Placement.
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