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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

Winter Courses

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.

TuWThF 1:55-5:40 — G. Costa

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.

01- MWF: 8:30-10:30 — M. Giua

90 MW: 5:20-8:10 — A. Morena

 

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.

90 - Tu-Th: 5:20-7:10 — G. Gazzola

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.

90 - Tu-Th: 5:20-7:10 — L. Craft

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 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-TuTh: 12:50-2:10  — G. Balducci

90-MW: 5:20-6:45— M. Giua

 

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

TuTh: 3:50-5:10 — M. Mignone 

 

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

MF: 2:20-3:40 — G. Costa

 

ITL 426 Italian Linguistics

An examination of the linguistic evolution and the synchronic structures (phonology, morphology, and syntax) of standard Italian and some Italo-Romance dialects..

Prerequisite: ITl 311; ITL 312; HUL 324; or permission of instructor

TuTh: 9:50-11:10 — L. Repetti

ITL 441 Letteratura e Politica

This course will explore the complex relationship between literature and politics in Italian culture from Unification to the present day. We will analyze in context novels, poems, pamphlets, ideological tracts, a film, and the different ways criticism reacted in creating popular conceptions of the role of art in society..

Prerequisite: ITL 311/312 & ITL 395/396
Tu-Th: 11:10-12:40 — P. Carravetta

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

 

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.

T: 2:20-3:40 / Th: 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 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 2:20-3:4:0 — C. Franco

 

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

MW:  12:50-2:10 — A. Morena

 

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.

This course is offered as both HUI 237 and WST 237.

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

MW: 5:20-6:40 — S. Auriti

 

HUI 310​- I: Splendor of Renaissance Art in Venice

The special qualities of Venetian art, which blends Byzantine, Islamic, and Western traditions, are explored through the works of such major figures as Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, and Palladio.

Remark: course offered as both ARH 310 and HUI 310.

Prerequisite: ARH 101 and 102

TuTh: 12:50-2:10 — P. Brooks

 

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  11:20-12:40 — 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

T: 2:20-3:40 /Th: 2:20-4:10 —A. Morena

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 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

 

ITL 571-01  Eros and Love in Italian Poetry

This course will explore questions of psychological interiority, emotional torment, sexual desire, seduction and adultery seen through the social-cultural and political expressions, romantic attachment, and the conflicts between carnal and spiritual love as well as sexual desires and economic necessity. Beginning with the courtly love poems of the Troubadours and the foundational rhetoric of Petrarch’s Rime sparse, the course provides an overview of Renaissance, Baroque and modern poetic treatments of love and eroticism.

W: 5:20-8:10 — G. Gazzola

 

Also available: ITL 581 / ITL 582 / ITL 595 / ITL 599 - See adviser if you need any of these courses.

The Italian program will also offer several graduate courses in culture and literature through the School of Professional Development 

 

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Tentative Summer Courses

The following courses will likely be scheduled for the summer sessions:

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.

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

Session I — MTuWTh: 6:00-9:30 p.m. — Staff

 

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. This course is the equivalent of ITL 211 and ITL 212.

Mandatory Prerequisite: ITL 101 or 112

Session II — MTuWTh: 6:00-9:30 p.m. — Staff

 

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