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Comedy Italian-style in cinema (from Toto to Benigni) and its origins. Presents students with another dimension of Italian culture, while perfecting their language skills. Problems in composition addressed through short weekly assignments; grammar review in context. Weekly video screenings.
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An exploration of various identities of Italy, including that of non-Italians in contemporary Italy and Italians living abroad. Students will investigate these issues from a wide variety of sources, including literary, historical and sociological texts, news reports and feature films. Frequent oral and written assignments. Grammar reviewed in context, with particular emphasis on the functions of describing, summarizing and expressing an opinion.
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Students perfect oral expression and communication skills through the close reading and performance of plays from the Commedia dell'arte to Carlo Goldoni, Giovanni Verga, Eduardo De Filippo and Nobel Prize-winners Luigi Pirandello and Dario Fo. Preparation in diction and presentation techniques culminates in the adaptation and production of a 20th century play performed during the Arts First Festival.
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Continuation of Ital Aa, second semester beginning level. Increasing emphasis on reading and writing. Introduction to Italian literature through excerpts from major writers; overview of the history of Italy. Course materials include online workbook and lab.
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Continuation of Ital Aa, second semester beginning level. Increasing emphasis on reading and writing. Introduction to Italian literature through excerpts from major writers; overview of the history of Italy. Course materials include online workbook and lab.
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For students with little or no knowledge of Italian. Aims at achieving basic communication skills and vocabulary. Emphasis on oral expression and listening comprehension. Course materials include online workbook and lab.
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For students with little or no knowledge of Italian. Aims at achieving basic communication skills and vocabulary. Emphasis on oral expression and listening comprehension. Course materials include online workbook and lab.
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From Emilio Salgari's 19th-century adventure novels, to the postmodern comics of Hugo Pratt, this course investigates the representation of Africa in Italian culture. How does Africa shape the work of Modernist writers who lived in Alexandria like Marinetti, Ungaretti, and Cialente, and filmakers like Pasolini and Antonioni, shooting their postmodern wanderings "on location" in Africa? And reversing the gaze, what is the image of Italy in the texts of recent African immigrant writers?
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Resistant to rationality, Italian cities are both archeological sites and blueprints of utopia. From unification to globalization, explores changing ideas of identity, community and citizenship through fiction, film and critical essays on the urban scene.
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Introduction to the contested cultural history of the newly-made Italy: war, work, education, popular culture, fashion, festivals and cooking. Students will explore the interaction between literary texts and other cultural forms.
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Close readings of Dante's Paradiso in the context of medieval culture. Will consider Dante's poetry and the complex literary, philosophical and theological issues it raises. As no part of the Divine Comedy can be fully appreciated without knowing the whole, students are advised to familiarize themselves with the whole poem.
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A complete first-year course in one term for students with no knowledge of Italian, focused on developing all four communicative skills. Students are introduced to contemporary Italian culture through a variety of websites, films and cultural readings that include G. Boccaccio's Andreuccio da Perugia.
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A complete first-year course in one term for students with no knowledge of Italian, focused on developing all four communicative skills. Students are introduced to contemporary Italian culture through a variety of websites, films and cultural readings that include G. Boccaccio's Andreuccio da Perugia.
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Refines and expands the communication skills acquired in Elementary Italian. Students are introduced to contemporary Italian culture through comic books, films, short stories and Nicolo Ammaniti's Io non ho paura. Assignments include practice of complex grammatical structures, weekly blog entries, and a collaborative comic book or fotoromanzo project.
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Refines and expands the communication skills acquired in Elementary Italian. Students are introduced to contemporary Italian culture through comic books, films, short stories and Nicolo Ammaniti's Io non ho paura. Assignments include practice of complex grammatical structures, weekly blog entries, and a collaborative comic book or fotoromanzo project.
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A continuation of Italian Ca. Students experience Italian culture through a variety of readings and films that include traditional and modern folktales. Assignments include practice of complex grammatical structures, weekly blog entries on each group's work in progress, and a student-scripted adaptation and performance of Collodi's Pinocchio.
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A continuation of Italian Ca. Students experience Italian culture through a variety of readings and films that include traditional and modern folktales. Assignments include practice of complex grammatical structures, weekly blog entries on each group's work in progress, and a student-scripted adaptation and performance of Collodi's Pinocchio.
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How is the architecture of the house both an expression of habit and a figure of desire? From Sibilla Aleramo to Alba de Cespedes and Elsa Morante, and through to Elena Ferrante, this course will explore the house as a site of belonging, confinement and transgression. Discussions will address the tension between domestic and public space, and the poetics and politics of inhabiting as a construction of subjectivity and difference.
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Focusing on the city of Rome this course explores regional culture(s) and the concept of city-states in the development of Italian identities. The city's quartieri, architecture, writers, gastronomy, history and legend are introduced through readings, the web, films, workshops and guests. Through guided practice of journalistic and narrative styles, students narrate their own multimedia virtual tour of the capital or another Italian city.
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Introduction to Italian popular culture through songs, TV shows, comics, popular films and fiction. Texts will be read against the socio-historical context of the early sixties "miracolo economico," the political upheaval of the late sixties and seventies, the "riflusso" of the eighties, the political "glasnost" of the nineties and up to contemporary times. We will discover and analyze competing inscriptions of "Italianness" and the ongoing creation of their meaning over the past half-century.
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