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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Conducted solely in Italian. Course designed for advanced students who have a good command of the language. Grammar revision is alternated with presentations about modern Italian society, which become topics for compositions and class discussions. Content is presented through films, songs and literary works. Guided tasks encourage students to interact with the Italian population. Daily lessons are presented in a variety of authentic contexts and by using various teaching strategies and instructional materials.
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6.00 Credits
For absolute beginners. Focuses on the development of terms and phrases that will enable students to have simple but useful everyday conversations, while at the same time teaching them the fundamentals of Italian grammar and provide an introduction to Italian culture and society. Daily lessons are presented in a variety of authentic contexts and by using various: teaching strategies (street assignments, researching, reports and discussions, role-plays) and instructional materials (dislogues, articles). Students are also introduced to the reading of short texts and to the writing of brief compositions. This course satisfies all ACTFL goals and standards at the Novice-Mid levelin listening, reading, speaking and writing. Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to advance to a Novice-high level by t ACTFL standards.
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6.00 Credits
Conducted solely in Italian. Course designed to further develop students' Italian language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Attention is given to vocabulary and grammar structures that increase the students' ability to engage interest and those circumstances in which one finds oneself on a day to day basis. Daily lessons are presented in a variety of authentic contexts and by using: various teaching strategies: street assignments, researching, reports and discussions, role-plays, etc; instructional materials: dialogues, articles, movies, songs, etc. This course satisfies all ACTFL goals and standards at the Novice-Hugh level in listening, reading, speaking and writing.
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6.00 Credits
Course aims at improving and perfecting the students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, as well as their knowledge of Italian life and culture. It includes a grammatical review to reinforce and build upon the grammatical elements introduced in the first two introductory courses. Course encourages students to think and speak in Italian. Daily lessons are presented in a variety of authentic contexts and by using various teaching strategies and instructional materials. This course satisfies all ACTFL goals and standards at the Intermediate-Mid level in listening, reading, speaking and writing. Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to advance to an Intermediate-High level by ACTFL standards.
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3.00 Credits
The course is designed as a complete chronological survey of Italian Literature from the earliest movements to those of the modern and contemporary periods. The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the most important literary works and the cultural context in which they were produced, noting the different ways in which authors experience and write about th world as it changes around them and the ways a literary work may become representative of an entire age. The course is divided into two phases. After a general introduction on the origins of Italian Literature, the Provencal influence, the first poetic schools and the beginning prose tradition, we study the works of the major writers of the Italian Trecentro, with a selection of Dante's, Petrarch's and Boccaccio's works. Then the ages of Humanism and Renaissance are introduced and a slection of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is read and discussed. After a midterm review, we begin to introduce the modern age with special attention to prose fiction and historical novels. Students read selctions of Manzoni's The Betrothed: I promessisposi, Verga's The House by the Medlar Tree, Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard, Leonardo Sciascia's The American Uncles. Calvino's "postmodern" collected stories of Under the Jaguar Sun are then read entirely, to have a glance on one of the latest narrative experiments of Italian literature. AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
This course is on the history of Italy from its Unification to the end of the 20th century, with a particulare focus on the political, social, economic and cultural structures. Three main periods are analyzed: the so-called 'liberal' Italy (1861-1914); the fascist regime (1922-1943); the republican Italy (1946-present day). The different histories of the three main geographical regions: South, Center and North are examined. We look at the distinct patterns of evolution and development in socio-cultural, economic and political terms that exist between these regions. The outcome of parallel, interwined and occasionally divergent paths has resulted in specific regional perspectives and attitudes towards the history of the country as a whole. In spite of this regional diversity a perculiar form of national unity exists. the regional dichotomies constitute one of the most interesting characteristics of Italy, one that is reflected in its complex and intriguing politics. This course is based around standard history texts of Contemporary italy; further lectures, discussions, and assignments will integrate primary cultural, literature, musical and cinematic sources.
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3.00 Credits
AUC Designation: CL
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3.00 Credits
The centre of Mediterranean area, Sicily has been conquered throughout the ages by different armies and inhabited by different populations, its look changed and shaped by various architectures and decorative styles, its culture built on many contributions, its literature nourished by other mature cultures with their features, skills, knowledge. The course focuses on some decisive moments of this long time process, trying to find the ttraces that those mixing cultures left on Sicilian culture, detecting the thresholds of the most important changes and outlining the shape of Sicilian Literature as a result of meeting and mixing traditions: we study, among the others, the ancient Greek culture and the mythic heritage; the Arabic tradition; the Spanish culture and its features. After a general introduction of the theory of Comparative Literature, the course will be organized into thematic units, with specific historical, cultural and literary introductions, using the essays and the suggestions of Vincenzo Consolo, one of the most interesting contemporary Sicilian authors. AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
After an introduction on the classical foundations of art & architectural styles in Sicily the course then investigates the Byzantine, Arab and Romanesque elements at the courts of the Norman Kings of Sicily, and Frederick II of Swabis. The 14th and 15th centuries are characterised by the Spanish Catalan Gothic style, whereas the Italian Renaissance features comparatively little, with one exception in the figure of the Sicilian painter, Antonello da Messina. Another great painter, Caravaggio, who came to Sicily at the beginning of the 17th century will also be discussed. The course concludes with the Barogue architecture which characterises the south and east of Sicily; the result of the reconstruction rendered necessary after the earthquake of 1693. AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
After an introduction on the classical foundations of art & architectural styles in Sicily the course then investigates the Byzantine, Arab and Romanesque elements at the courts of the Norman kings of Sicily, and Frederick II of Swabia. The 14th and 15th centuries are characterised by the Spanish Catalan Gothic style, whereas the Italian Renaissance features comparatively little, with one exception in the figure of the Sicilian painter, Antonello de Messina. Another great painter, Carabaggio, who came to Sicily at the beginning of the 17th century will also be discussed. The course concludes with the baroque architecture which characterises the south and east of Sicily; the result of the reconstruction rendered necessary after the earthquake of 1693.
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