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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Courses on subjects of special interest taught by either a regular or a visiting faculty member. For specific courses, please consult the current class schedule.
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4.00 Credits
Systematizes and reinforces the language skills presented in earlier-level courses through an intensive review of grammar and composition, lexical enrichment, improvement of speaking ability, and selected readings from contemporary Italian literature.
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4.00 Credits
Offers the opportunity to study Italian Renaissance art and literature within its social and political contexts, focusing especially on the princely courts of northern Italy, which were among the most dynamic and innovative centers of cultural production in Europe in this period. Secondary source assignments are supplemented with a study of 16th-century literary texts and artworks.
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4.00 Credits
Examines plays that explicitly highlight and question the status and performance of gender, as well as selections from political treatises, books of manners, and historiography of the early modern period (1350 to 1700). Topics such as cross-dressing, the emergence of the actress and commedia dell'arte troupes, the dynamics of spectatorship, the development of perspective in painting and theatre, and court power relations are considered, as well the "revisions" that women playwrights and writers made to a largely male-dominated canon.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the fiction and poetry through which Italian American writers have expressed their heritage and their engagement in American life. From narratives of immigration to current work by "assimilated" writers, the course explores the depiction of Italian American identity. Challenging stereotypes, it explores changing family relationships, sexual mores, and political and social concerns.
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4.00 Credits
Variable content course taught by regular or visiting faculty. For specific course content, see current class schedule.
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4.00 Credits
Centers on the study of two key texts of Italian Renaissance social and political thought, Machiavelli's Il principe, and Castiglione's Libro del Cortegiano. The human ideals described in these works-Machiavelli's ruler and Castiglione's courtier and court lady-are discussed in relation to those found in other texts of the period and in relation to the historic notion of the Renaissance as the age that saw the birth of the modern individual.
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4.00 Credits
Offered every two years.
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4.00 Credits
Consideration of the Sicilian novel of the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular attention to Sicily's distinct literature and culture. Writers may include Verga, Pirandello, De Roberto, Lampedusa, Sciascia, Mario Puzo, Andrea Camilleri, Dacia Maraini, Elio Vittorini, and Vincenzo Consolo; films may include Cinema paradiso, La terra trema, Il Gattopardo, The Godfather, and Salvatore Giuliano.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the works of southern thinkers and writers (Bruno, Campanella, and Vico), as well as the Neapolitan Enlightenment and the southern question. It also engages the works of 20th-century writers from southern Italy or of authors who have written about it, such as Carlo Levi, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giovanni Verga, Leonardo Sciascia, and Vincenzo Consolo.
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