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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A yearlong course conducted by intensive oral method for students with no preparation in the language. Its goal is to provide more than a basic knowledge of Italian by developing the fundamental skills: understanding, speaking, reading, writing and cultural awareness. Four class meetings per week plus work in the language laboratory and media center.
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of Itas 101.
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1.00 Credits
This intensive one-semester course provides further development and practice of all language skills. Comprehensive grammar review, with activities designed to enhance listening, speaking, reading, writing and cultural awareness. Four class meetings per week plus work in the language laboratory and media center.
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3.00 Credits
Reading and discussion in Italian of Italian texts (drama, novel, short stories, poetry). Nonliterary texts such as films and music included. Designed to improve students' ability to communicate orally and to express themselves in written Italian; to broaden their understanding of the Italian world; to introduce them to contemporary Italian writers. Four class meetings per week plus work in the language laboratory and media center. Connections: Conx 23008 Italian Culture, Language and Society
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to improve the student's speaking and writing skills in Italian at an advanced level and will develop fluid conversational and writing skills through intensive practice. Three class meetings per week plus work in the language laboratory and media center.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the dramatic shifts in social, political and economic roles of Italian women in the 20th century, beginning with Aleramo's famous autobiographical novel, A Woman ( 1906). Includes the complex treatment of women under fascism; representations of women as wives and mothers; women in the workforce; women's political victories (suffrage and divorce); personal and social struggles for sexual self-determination; the place of Italian women writers in the canon. Amongst the readings: Sibilla Aleramo, Maria Messina, Dacia Maraini, Alba De Céspedes. Lectures, discussions, readings, films and papers in English. Italian majors and minors may select to do readings and papers in Italian. (Tommasina Gabriele) Connections: Conx 20014 Modern Italy, Conx 23006 Sexuality
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major trends and development in the evolution of Italian society and culture, from its origins to the present, from a historical, political, social, artistic and intellectual perspective.
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3.00 Credits
A study of literary movements and genres from the medieval period to the end of the 16th century through the reading and discussion of representative works by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, women writers of the Renaissance and others. Discussion of the Inquisition and Venice's central role in print culture.
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3.00 Credits
A study of literary movements and genres from the 17th century to the present through reading and discussion of representative works by such authors as Galileo, Carlo Goldoni, Giovanni Verga, Grazia Deledda, Anna Banti and Italo Calvino.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to Italian cinema, film analysis and 20th century Italian history (including fascism, war, the "economic miracle" ofthe 1960s and migration). We will study cinematic techniques and styles through close visual readings of films by Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini, Wertmüller, Bertolucci and others. We will see how these films reflect the aesthetic and cultural debates in the Italian socio-historical context. Required weekly film viewing and readings. (Alberto Bianchi) Connections: Conx 23014 Film and Society
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