Italian and Italian American Cou

All courses are 3 credits unless otherwise stated
Note: Undergraduate ITL courses are taught in Italian -- HUI courses are taught in English
According to NY State regulations, HUI courses may not be used toward completion of the 36 credit requirement for the NY State Teachers Preparation Program in Italian.

Undergraduate Courses Taught in Italian

ITL 101-S3 Intensive Beginning Italian (6 credits)
An introduction to spoken and written Italian, stressing pronunciation, speaking, comprehension, reading, and writing. Practice in language laboratory supplements class work. An intensive course covering the elementary Italian program.
Remark: Not for credit after passing any college-level course in ITL. This course is the equivalent of ITL 111 and ITL 112.
90 — TuTh: 5:20-8:10 — G. Costa
01 — Tu-Th: 9:50-12:40 — G. Balducci

ITL 111 Elementary Italian I (4 credits)
An introduction to spoken and written Italian, stressing pronunciation, speaking, comprehension, reading and writing. Practice in language laboratory supplements class work.
Students who have completed ITL 101 with a grade of C or higher may not take this course for credit.
01 - MWF: 11:45-12:40/W: 10:40-11:36 — Staff
90 TuTh: 5:20-7:10 — L. Costa

ITL 112-S3 Elementary Italian II (4 credits)
A continuation of ITL 111. Selected texts are read. Practice in language laboratory supplements class work.
Prerequisite: ITL 111 or High School Placement.
Students who have completed ITL 101 with a grade of C or higher may not take this course for credit.
01 - MWF: 11:45-12:40/F: 10:40-11:35 — Staff
90 - TuTh: 5:20-7:10 — Staff

ITL 211-S3 Intermediate Italian I
An intermediate course in the reading and discussion of selected Italian texts. An intensive grammar review offers an opportunity to develop conversational ability.
Prerequisite: ITL 101 or ITL 112
Students who have completed ITL 201 with a grade of C or higher may not take these courses for credit.
Mandatory Prerequisite: ITL 101 or 112
01- TuTh: 11:20-12:45 — Staff
90 -TuTh: 5:20-7:10 — G. Gazzola

ITL 311-S3 Conversation and Composition I
A course in spoken and written Italian, with emphasis on precision and fluency in the spoken form.
Prerequisite: ITL 201 or ITL 212
01 - TuTh 2:20-3:40 — G. Balducci
90 -MW 5:20-6:40 — Staff

ITL 395-G Readings in Italian Literature

Literary analysis and its application to representative texts chosen from the various periods of Italian literature. Readings, writings, and discussions are in Italian.

Prerequisite: ITL 311/312

Tu-Th 3:50-5:10 — M. Mignone

ITL 412 Syntax and Composition
An advanced course designed to acquaint students with the subtleties of Italian grammar and style. Extensive practice in composition and in translation from English to Italian. Analysis of Italian syntax.
Mandatory Prerequisite: ITL 311/312
01: Tu-Th: 2:20-3:40 — G. Costa
02: TuTh: 3:50-5:10 — G. Gazzola

ITL 424 History of Italian Language
A study of the history of Italian language from Latin to its present form Mandatory prerequisite: ITL 311/312 and HUL 324
MW: 2:20-3:40 — A. Fedi

ITL 435 Italian Fantastic Literature
Prerequisites: IITL 312, ITL 395 and ITL 396
TuTh: 11:20-12:40 — L. Fontanella

Undergraduate Courses Taught in English

HUI 231-D Sex and Politics in Italian Cinema

The cinematic representation of gender, class, and sexual politics in post-World War II Italian films and the relationship of these themes to Italian history, society, and culture are discussed. Films by directors such as Bertolucci, Fellini, and Wertmuller are studied. Readings include selected works of film history, criticism, and theory.

M: 2:20-5:10 / W: 2:20-3:40 — J. Reich

HUI 234-G Introduction to 20th-Century Drama

A study of avant-garde drama through the analysis of texts by Marinetti, Bontempelli, Pirandello, Betti, Beckett, Ionesco, and Tenessee Williams. Important questions such as identity and diversity are discussed from a variety of perspectives within the social, psychological, sexual, and multicultural context of our time.
Advisory Prerequisite: Completion of D.E.C. category B or THR 101

TuTh: 3:50-5:10 — L. Fontanella

HUI 235-G Sex, Love and Tragedy in Early Italian Literature

A study of the interaction between the sexes in contrast with man's spiritual needs in the major works of early Italian literature. Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio, Boccaccio's Decameron and Petrarch's poetry will be analyzed.

Remark: Meets English major requirements

Advisory Prerequisite: Completion of DEC category B or equivalent.

TuTh 2:20-3:40 — C. Franco / L. Costa

HUI 236-K The Italian American Scene

Explanation of the phenomenon of Italian American experiences from immigration and ethnicity and beyond. Studies in anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and culture provide historical and theoretical backgrounds of the experience of Italians in North and South America and their contributions to American culture.

Advisory Prerequisite: Completion of D.E.C. category B

TuTh: 12:50-2:10 — P. Carravetta

HUI 237 / WST 237-K Images of Italian American Women

Examination of the role of Italian-American women through literature, film, politics, and music. The specific ways they have contributed artistically and socially to the American cultural scene from the first wave of Italian-American immigration to the present is considered.

Tu-TH: 11:20-12:40 — M. Bona

HUI 239-I Modern Italy

A survey of contemporary Italy and its political, social, and economic structure, as well as the study of cultural life and institutions with comparisons to American models and standards.

TuTh: 2:20-3:40 — M. Mignone

HUI 331-G Travel and Identity: Italian Travelers from Petrarch to Calvino.
The metaphor and experience of the journey as literary identity. This course will investigate the construction of the Italian self through travel from the Middle Ages to the present as seen through novels, poems, travelogues, journals, graphic novels and movies by, among others, Petrarch, Polo, Columbus, Verrazzano, Casanova, Da Ponte, Borgese, Calvino, and Rossellini.
Cancelled

HUI 336-K Italian Americans and Ethnic Relations

An historical and sociological examination of Italian-Americans from Colonial America to the present with the major focus on the period from 1870 to the present. Comparative experience with other ethnic and minority groups within the U.S., including formation, migration, and conflict.

Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing.

TuTh: 3:5--5:10 — Staff

HUI 390-01/EGL 369 Italian American and African Women Writers
Cross-cultural analysis of the literary contributions of women from writers from Italian and Italian American backgrounds. Students will read from the 19-th and 20-th centuries, examining the literary contributions of women writers form both cultural groups.

Remark: Cross-listed with EGL 369

Tu-Th: 9:50-11:10 — M. Bona

HUI 390-02/EUR 390 Nationalism, Colonialism, Migration

A study of the interrelation of the three overpowering social forces in the XIX Century, starting from the Congress of Vienna and extending to the eve of World War I. For nationalism focus will be on Italy, France, Germany, Greece and England; for colonialism, Africa; for migration, North and South America.

Remark: U3 / U4 standing

Tu-Th: 9:50-11:10 — P. Carravetta

Graduate Courses

ITL 510 Advanced Conversation and Composition

A course designed to develop fluency and accuracy in the use of the spoken language through intensive practice, exposition, class discussion, and the use of the language laboratory.

Th: 5:20-8:10 — A. Fedi

ITL 512 Italian and its Dialects
An examination of Italian dialects within the larger framework of Romance language development, particularly through primary texts (medieval to modern) in various Italian dialects.
M: 5:20-8:10 — L. Repetti
TL 516 Seminar on Dante
An in-depth analysis of Dante's work, with special emphasis on the Divina Cmmedia and Vita Nuova.
W: 5:20-8:10 — C. Franco

ITL 571/FRN 571 – European Literary Theory & Methods.
A study of selected major schools of criticism that developed during the XX Century in Europe: formalism, structuralism, Marxism, reception aesthetics, and hermeneutics. Authors include Saussure, Jakobson, Mukarovsky, Todorov, Eco, Lukacs, Della Volpe, Sartre, Barthes, Segre, Iser, Ingarden, Gadamer, Ricoeur. Besides inquiring into the philosophical differences among these schools, students will apply the different approaches to the same prose and poetic texts.
Remark: This course is taught in English
Tu: 5:20-8:10 — P. Carravetta

The Italian Program also offers the following graduate courses through the School of Professional Development:

CEF 557, CEG 531, CEJ 588, CEI 526, CEV 541, CEV 542

See the SPD web site for detail

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Last updated: 03/29/08