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All courses are 3 credits unless otherwise stated

Note: Undergraduate ITL courses are taught in Italian -- HUI courses are taught in English

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. This course is the equivalent of ITL 111 and ITL 112

Remark: Not for credit in addition to ITL 111 or ITL 112.

This course satisfies DEC entry skill in Foreign Language if passed with a grade of C or better.

Students who have completed ITL 112 with a grade of C or higher may not take this course for credit.

90 MW: 5:20-8:10 — M. Giua

01- MWF: 9:35-11:35 — C. Taliercio-Cohn

 

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.

02 - TuTh: 9:50-11:40  — G. Battista

90 - Tu-Th: 5:20-7:10 — F. Scricco

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.

This course satisfies DEC entry skill in Foreign Language if passed with a grade of C or better.

Students who have completed ITL 101 with a grade of C or higher may not take this course for credit.

01 - MWF: 11:45-12:40:40-12:35 — M: 10:40-11:35  — H. Schnittger

90 - Tu-Th: 5:20-7:10 — L. Arcilesi

ITL 201-S3  Intensive Intermediate Italian (6 credits)

Intermediate course in the reading and discussion of selected Italian texts. Review of grammatical and syntactical skills offer an opportunity to develop conversational ability.

Remark: Not for credit after passing ITL 211 or ITL 212

Mandatory Prerequisite: ITL 101 or 112 or equivalent.

MWF: 10:40--12:40 — G. Costa

ITL 212-S3  Intermediate Italian II

An intermediate course in the reading and discussion of selected Italian texts. An intensive grammar review offers an opportunity to develop conversational ability.

Remark: Not for credit after passing ITL 201

Prerequisite: ITL 211

Students who have completed ITL 201 with a grade of C or higher may not take these courses for credit.

Tu-Th: 3:50-5:10 — I. Marchegiani

 

ITL 312-S3  Conversation and Composition II

Reading of selected short passages in prose and poetry with emphasis on improved writing skills, oral expression and increased mastery of Italian.

Prerequisite: ITL 212 or ITL 201

01-MW: 2:20-3:40  — G. Costa

02-Tu-Th: 12:50-2:10— G. Balducci

 

ITL 396-G  Readings in Italian Literature - Theater and Poetry

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

Mandatory Prerequisite, ITL 311, Mandatory Prerequisite or Co-Requisite ITL 312

Tu-Th: 2:20-3:40 — M. Mignone

 

ITL 410  Business Italian

A course designed for students who wish to become more proficient in reading, writing, and translation Italian. Students are also trained of the use of Italian in business, in administration. and in every day professional life. Emphasis is put on the idiomatic peculiarities of the Italian language and the relation of Italian to the structure of English.
Prerequisites: ITL 311 and 312
Tu-Th: 9:50-11:10 — G. Balducci

 

ITL 411  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.

Prerequisite: ITL 311 and 312

MW: 2:20-3:40 — A. Fedi

 

ITL 435  Spring 08 topic: ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN DECADENTISM

This course will examine, from an interdisciplinary point of view, the Italian Decadentism within the European context. Important questions such as rationality and irrationality, spiritualism and search of identity, will be discussed from a variety of perspectives within the social, psychoanalytical, and sexual context, as they appear in the major novels of Italo Svevo and Luigi Pirandello. This course will be conducted in Italian.

Prerequisites: ITL 395 and 396

Tu-Th: 11:45-12:40 — L. Fontanella

Undergraduate Courses Taught in English

AMR 102 -G - Making American Identities

A chronological representation of some of the ways that peoples living in the current U.S. have identified themselves collectively as Americans and individually as belonging to distinct groups marked by racial, ethnic, gender, and class differences.  Readings include texts of various kinds:  historical, fictional, and theoretical. A computer — virtual classroom — is part of the coursework.

MW: 3:50-5:10 — T. Grenkov

 

HUI 216-I  Italian Civilization Through the Ages

The historical development of civilization in Italy with reference to literature and connection to artistic expression such as visual art, music, and theatre.

MW: 3:50-5:10 — A. Fedi/H. Schnittger

 

HUI 231-D Sex and Politics in Italian Cinema

This course will examine the great works of Italian cinema in the light of two important themes in Post-War Italy: sex and politics. The discussions will focus on the cinematic representations of gender, class, and sexual politics as well as the films' contextual relationship with Italian history, society and culture. Readings will include selected works of film history, criticism, and theory.

MW: 2:20-5:10 — G. Balducci

 

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 DEC. category B or equivalent

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. Arcilesi

 

HUI 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.

Remark: cross-listed with WST 237

Tu-Th: 11-:20-12:40 — Kightlinger

HUI 333-G  The Italian American Experience in Literature

Literary and historical perspectives on the experience of Italians in America and their contribution to American culture.

Remark: Cross-listed with EGL 333

Advisory Prerequisite: A literature course at the 200-level or higher.

Tu-Th  9:50-11:10 — M. Bona

HUI 338-K  Images of Italian Americans in Films

Italian-American ethnicity as represented in mainstream and independent American cinema from the silent era to the present. Particular attention will be paid to the origin and existence of the traditional stereotypes associated with these representations and how Italian-American filmmakers respond to them.

Mandatory Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing.

Advisory Prerequisite: HUM 201 or HUM 202; HUI 231

M: 5:20-6:40/W: 5:20-8:10 — P. Carravetta

 

HUL 324  Romance Linguistics

The linguistic evolution and synchronic grammar of the Romance languages are studied. The course is conducted in English

MF: 12:50-2:10 — L. Repetti

 

Graduate Courses

 

ITL 501  Contemporary Italian Civilization

A study of contemporary Italian culture and its political, social, and economic structure, as well as the study of cultural life and institutions.

Th: 5:20-8:10 — M. Mignone

 

ITL 502  Contemporary Italian Cinema

This class examines Italian cinema of the last twenty years. We focus our attention on how each film engages relevant historical, cultural, and political issues of contemporary Italy, and how to integrate these texts into the secondary school classroom. This course will be taught exclusively in Italian, even though many of the secondary readings will be in English.

W: 5:20-8:10 — J. Reich

 

ITL 508 Italian Syntax and Composition

A course designed to acquaint students with the subtleties of Italian syntax. Extensive compositions, including translations from English, are employed  to improve the writing style of student.

M: 5:20-8:10 — C. Franco

 

HUI 231-D Sex and Politics in Italian Cinema

This course will examine the great works of Italian cinema in the light of two important themes in Post-War Italy: sex and politics. The discussions will focus on the cinematic representations of gender, class, and sexual politics as well as the films' contextual relationship with Italian history, society and culture. Readings will include selected works of film history, criticism, and theory.

Tu-Th: 1:30-5:55  — G. Balducci

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

MW: 1:30-4:55 — G. Costa