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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically This course offers the opportunity to examine Decameron's narrative strategies in a gendered perspective, emphasizing how the prominent role played by women in the stories becomes instrumental in questioning cultural stereotypes and in destabilizing religious, legal and medical assumptions of medieval society. Discussion will revolve around the notion of sexual identity, the embodiment of sex in the Middle Ages and the rise of realism in 13th- and 14th-century Italian literature. All works are read and discussed in English.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Students are introduced to the classics of early modern Italian literature (Ariosto, Boccaccio, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Tasso et al) under the unifying perspective of how these authors constructed a dialogue about the nature and status of women. With this critical orientation, woman as subject and object of representation emerges as the focus of an intertextual conversation among authors both male and female. Boccaccio's Famous Women is read in conjunction with Fonte's The Worth of Women, the courtier with the courtesan, the recognized masters of pastoral, epic and comedy with lesser known examples by Campiglia and Andreini. Representations of women in painting and sculpture, early modern female artists, and cinematic representations of Franco and Gentileschi are also considered.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Every other year From Marinismo to the present: Goldoni, Foscolo, Manzoni, verismo, Pirandello, Moravia, Buzzati.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Every other year Emphasis will be on the period of the renovation of comedy and tragedy (II Rinnovamento): Machiavelli, Aretino, Le Academie, Alfieri, Goldoni.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically An investigation of various modes of self-expression in 20thcentury Italian prose fiction (autofictions, regional novel, bildungsroman). The texts, read in English, represent an overview of literature written by Italian women from the early 20th century to the present and includecontributions from both peninsular and insular authors. In addition to the relevant literary and sociopolitical contexts of writing, the course explores themes such as the negotiation of the right to write, motherhood and authoring, representation of gender roles, female social transgression, rebellion, and self-awareness.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Detailed analysis of major films with attention to the cultural and political functions of cinema in post-war Italy. Screenings of films by Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti, Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini, Bertolucci and others.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically A critical history o the Italian American presence in and contribution to American culture from 1880 to the present. All dimensions of Italian American cultural creation-from literature and the arts, including cinema, to everyday practices and subcultural styles -will be studied and considered as one vast cultural ext through which the Italian American identity has been formed.
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3.00 Credits
Writing and reporting of feature news stories for print and the Web with special emphasis on stories intended for magazine publication.
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0.00 Credits
An independent study is a specialized, individualized program involving a particular area of interest for which there is not currently an established course. A student, second-year and above, may propose an independent study to any member of the graduate faculty. Permission must be secured before registering for the course.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Once a year Designed to treat special subjects or themes dealing with some major spiritual, political and social issues facing the Jewish people. The subject is chosen at the discretion of the department but with the students' interest in view. Such themes as the dynamics of rabbinic Judaism; philosophy of ancient Israel; foundations of Jewish mysticism, etc., are considered. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: This course may be repeated when topics vary. (Formerly 101 ( LT) Special Topics in Jewish Studies.)
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