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Credits: 6
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Credits: 6
Score: 8.906633 Details | Listing | Web page
This course is designed to guide students through a close study of major Italian works. It aims to provide a critical overview of literary and cultural movements that have shaped the discipline of Italian Studies. Students' critical thinking will be developed through frequent writing assignments. This course, offered in English, is required for all Italian majors and it satisfies one of the two Literature and Writing requirements. Italian majors should register for the course during the second semester of their first year. The course is also open to non-majors. Spring.
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An investigation into the nature of mysticism as experienced and written about in Italy in the Middle Ages, and how that body of literature informs and affects our personal understanding of the nature of religious experience.
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This course is designed to guide students through a close study of major Italian works. It aims to provide a critical overview of literary and cultural movements that have shaped the discipline of Italian Studies. Students' critical thinking will be developed through frequent writing assignments. This course, offered in English, is required for all Italian majors and it satisfies one of the two College Humanities and Writing requirements. Italian majors should register for the course during the second semester of their first year. The course is also open to non-majors. Spring.
Score: 8.906633 Details | Listing | Web page
This course is designed to guide students through a close study of major Italian works. It aims to provide a critical overview of literary and cultural movements that have shaped the discipline of Italian Studies. Students' critical thinking will be developed through frequent writing assignments. This course, offered in English, is required for all Italian majors and it satisfies one of the two Literature and Writing requirements. Italian majors should register for the course during the second semester of their first year. The course is also open to non-majors. Spring.
Score: 8.906633 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 5
Score: 8.906633 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 5
Score: 8.906633 Details | Listing | Web page
This course is designed to guide students through a close study of major Italian works. It aims to provide a critical overview of literary and cultural movements that have shaped the discipline of Italian Studies. Students' critical thinking will be developed through frequent writing assignments. This course, offered in English, is required for all Italian majors and it satisfies one of the two Literature and Writing requirements. Italian majors should register for the course during the second semester of their first year. The course is also open to non-majors. Spring.
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This course is designed to integrate language proficiency and area studies by focusing on topics on Contemporary Italy, from demography, geography, history, economics, politics, society, and media to the arts and literature. An oral language exam will be administered upon registration to determine level of proficiency. Conducted in Italian. Note: SFS students may count their final oral examination as their required oral proficiency test.
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This course is designed to help students of Italian who have reached an advanced level of competence in the language, practice and refine their writing skills through intensive work on a variety of texts that deal with culturally salient topics in modern Italy. Such topics range from the representation of value systems and cultural attitudes typical of the Italian people to reflections on the history and development of their language. The focus of the course is on the process of writing and on the strategies that can be used to improve it. Students are exposed not only to different topics, but also to different writing genres: from literary narrative texts, to academic texts, to argumentative or informative texts taken from Italian newspapers and periodicals. The work on the language will be related to the texts in the sense that grammar will not be taught separately, but in the context of the genre analyzed. Students will produce different types of texts: from descriptions, to letters, to film or book reviews, to argumentative texts, in order to build the skills necessary to write academic papers. The actual writing process will be carried out both in individual and group format and students will be encouraged to write different versions of the same composition in order to gain confidence and fluency. Conducted in Italian.
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Have you ever dreamed of working for Ferrari, Prada, a Società Italiana Multinazionale, or as an international lawyer? Would you like to wake up in the morning and read the business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore along with your cappuccino? Italy, known for its rich artistic patrimony, is also an industrial power with a thriving economy. This course will introduce students to the Italian business culture, its entrepreneurship, the success of the âmade in Italyâ brands, and the language of business, finance, and commerce. The course will also focus on how business is conducted in Italy, taking into account language, customs, regional differences, and politics. Furthermore, it will introduce students to Italian communicative strategies used in business transactions and business correspondence in Italian. Guest speakers from Italian businesses and the world of fashion will contribute to the course. Conducted in Italian.
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The objective of this course is to explore the interrelationship between the arts, literature, and culture within an historical framework. Through an integrative approach, we will discuss, interpret, and analyze a select number of works of art and literary texts from the 1200s to the 1400s. This was a period of intense development in the world of ideas reflected in the arts, literature, and philosophy. We will discuss how these ideas are interrelated. Slides of works of art discussed in the class will be posted on the course website for easy access. Conducted in Italian.
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Perception of America by Italian journalists, writers, film makers and political figures. A look at contrasting cultural values as evidenced in the arts, in life styles and social trends. Conducted in Italian.
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Italy as a country of emigrants has produced a rich and varied culture in the Americas. This course is designed to analyze a variety of aspects and manifestations of this cultural heritage. The language and cultural identity of Italian communities mainly in the Americas, the literature of Italian American writers, the images of Italy and Italians in cinema are among the main themes that will be discussed in the course. The objective of the course is to lead the students to reflections on both modern Italy and the other Italies, le altreitalie. Conducted in Italian.
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Nonexistent knights, cloven viscounts, cosmicomics, the geography of the city and the universe: the production of the most experimental Italian writer of the 20th century engages in a dialogue with literary tradition, investigates the links between literature and science, and reflects on the mechanisms of textual creation and consumption. In the first of the Norton lectures that he was going to deliver at Harvard in 1985, Calvino described his working method as one involving "the subtraction of weight". The course explores the author's "poetics of lightness" through a thorough analysis of his work, from the war novel The Path to the Spiders' Nest (1947) to the textual adventures of If on a Winter Night a Traveler (1979). Conducted in Italian.
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A study of Italian cinema as a reflection of Italian culture. Historical overview of the major periods of Italian film: Neorealism '50s, the 1960s, and the 1970s. Analysis of the historical setting and world vision of the directors. Conducted in Italian.
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The course explores the historical and cultural factors that shaped the notion of woman in twentieth-century Italy. It traces the development of female identity through an analysis of the turn of the century struggle for electoral rights, the Fascist celebration of motherhood as women's sole mission, the postwar years, and feminism. Particular attention will be devoted to the ways in which women writers participated in and reacted to cultural discourses. Novels by Aleramo, De Cespedes, Banti, Fallaci and others; movies by Visconti, Scola, and Archibugi. Conducted in Italian.
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WHODUNIT? Italian literature begins to ask this question only in the 1930s, with the publication of the first libri gialli, which drew inspiration from British and American crime fiction. In this seminar, we will trace the extraordinary evolution of Italian detective fiction from its foreign antecedents and its early success in Italy's mass literary market to the later appeal exerted by the detective format upon mainstream contemporary male novelists, as well as upon their feminist re-writers. A study of the Italian giallo will allow us to explore how literature adopts the motif of crime to raise issues of justice, politics, and morality, how power is deployed in the struggle between mafia and the law, how the space of the city is connected with the space of the narrative, and how writers use the search for meaning to convey different ideas about knowledge and interpretation of reality, from the heroic discovery of truth to the postmodern anti-heroic failure to decipher clues and solve mysteries. Conducted in Italian.
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This course explores twentieth-century Italian literature with an emphasis on contemporary poetry and the narrative. In particular, the course will focus on the works of such authors as Luigi Pirandello, Cesare Pavese, Carlo Levi and Elio Vittorini and will discuss the development of the genre in post-WWII Italy. Conducted in Italian.
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In this course we will examine the writings of lay and religious men and women from the earliest Italian vernacular texts to the Early Modern period. We will read works from different genres (theatre, narrative prose, correspondence, lyric poetry, etc.) by writers from different social and cultural backgrounds. The primary focus will be a close reading of the text in the original. This close reading will be supplemented by the examination of a variety of critical approaches intended to enhance the understanding of the primary text. Authors to be studied include Francis of Assisi, Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Caterina da Siena, Lorenzo de' Medici, Machiavelli, Ariosto, Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, and Veronica Franco. Conducted in Italian.
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This seminar revolves around contemporary Italian novels, poems, essays and films in which the autobiographical question plays a pivotal role: What is at stake in self-representation? How does the notion of "the autobiographical" evolve and for what purpose? Crucial topics will be the impact of psychoanalysis upon the representation of the self; the female writer's avowed marginalization from historiography and aesthetics; the memory of Jewish persecutions; the defamiliarizing experience of the return to one's homeland after emigration; and the intellectual's confession of crisis in post-war Italy. Conducted in English. This course satisfies one of the two literature and writing requirements of the College.
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From Perpetua's account of her own martyrdom at the beginning of the third century to Teresa of Avila's practice and teaching of mystical doctrine, Christian women writers have struggled passionately against great odds to make their voices heard and their vision known. The aim of this course is to read a wide selection of the texts produced by such women with minds and hearts open to their lived experience. Reading selections will be in English and English translation. Conducted in English. This course satisfies one of the two literature and writing requirements of the College.
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From the comic to the sublime: the four great chivalric poems of Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso. Class lectures and discussions will explore such issues as the poets' reliance on models from the French Carolingian and Breton cycles, the depiction of contemporary Italian society, escape to the heroic past, attitudes toward Humanism and the Renaissance, and the portrayal of women. All works will be read in English translation. Conducted in English. This course satisfies one of the two literature and writing requirements of the College.
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Poet, novelist, playwright, as well as recipient of the 1934 Nobel prize, Luigi Pirandello is best known for his long-lasting influence on 20th-century European theater. This course examines the main themes of Pirandello's multi-faceted production, and their relationship with the contemporary development of Italian literature and theater. Conducted in Italian. This course satisfies one of the two literature and writing requirements of the College.
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