Italian

Course Offerings Fall 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
ITAL 101-01	Elementary Italian Instructor: Luca Trazzi Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	0830:MTWRF DENNY 112
ITAL 101-02	Elementary Italian Instructor: Luca Lanzilotta Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	0930:MTWRF BOSLER 318
ITAL 101-03	Elementary Italian Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio, Enrico Zammarchi Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	0930:MTWRF STERN 103
ITAL 101-04	Elementary Italian Instructor: Luca Trazzi Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	1030:MTWRF DENNY 112
ITAL 101-05	Elementary Italian Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 306
ITAL 104-01	Elementary Italian Instructor: Luca Trazzi Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	0930:MTWRF DENNY 112
ITAL 116-01	Intermediate Italian Instructor: Luca Lanzilotta Course Description: Intensive introduction to conversation and composition, with special attention to grammar review and refinement. Essays, fiction and theater, as well as Italian television and films, provide opportunities to improve familiarity with contemporary Italian language and civilization. Prerequisite: 104 or the equivalent.	0830:MTWRF BOSLER 318
ITAL 116-02	Intermediate Italian Instructor: Tullio Pagano Course Description: Intensive introduction to conversation and composition, with special attention to grammar review and refinement. Essays, fiction and theater, as well as Italian television and films, provide opportunities to improve familiarity with contemporary Italian language and civilization. Prerequisite: 104 or the equivalent.	0930:MTWRF BOSLER 214
ITAL 116-03	Intermediate Italian Instructor: Luca Lanzilotta Course Description: Intensive introduction to conversation and composition, with special attention to grammar review and refinement. Essays, fiction and theater, as well as Italian television and films, provide opportunities to improve familiarity with contemporary Italian language and civilization. Prerequisite: 104 or the equivalent.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 318
ITAL 116-04	Intermediate Italian Instructor: Tullio Pagano Course Description: Intensive introduction to conversation and composition, with special attention to grammar review and refinement. Essays, fiction and theater, as well as Italian television and films, provide opportunities to improve familiarity with contemporary Italian language and civilization. Prerequisite: 104 or the equivalent.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 214
ITAL 232-01	Oral Expression Instructor: Tullio Pagano Course Description: Designed to increase student's comprehension and command of spoken Italian, this course is also an initiation in everyday verbal transactions and cultural communication prevalent in contemporary Italy. Phonetics, oral comprehension, and verbal production are practiced through exposure to authentic documents usually of a non-literary nature, such as television news programs, documentaries, commerical advertisements, and excerpts from films. Two and a half hours classroom and one hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: 116 or the equivalent.	1500:TR BOSLER 314 1900:W BOSLER 314
ITAL 301-01	The Discourse of Love Instructor: Sylvie Davidson Course Description: What is Love? Through a diverse selection of works from authors such as St. Francis, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Lorenzo de' Medici, Pietro Aretino, Gaspara Stampa, and Veronica Franco, students will examine the nature of love from a variety of perspectives. From the spirituality of religion to the physicality of desire and attraction, this course will confront topics such as the medieval and Renaissance ideas of love (courtly love, the Dolce Stil Novo, and love sickness), theological notions of love (charity), different expressions of love (heterosexuality, same-sex attraction and polyamory), and transgressive types of love (lust, adultery, and prostitution). This course is taught in Italian. Prerequisites: 231 and 232, or permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the DIV I. b. distribution requirement. Offered every year.	1330:MR BOSLER 314
ITAL 324-01	Italian Cinema Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio Course Description: Cross-listed with FLST 310-02. Thursday Lab for ITAL and INBM students only. This course is a general introduction to Italian cinema, from the origins to the present. It provides students with basic tools for film analysis and analyzes a selection of films and directors within their cultural and social contexts. This course is offered in English. Italian Studies majors, Italian minors and INBM majors using this course to satisfy major/minor requirements will attend a discussion group in Italian and will write their papers in Italian. Upon successful completion of the work in Italian, students will receive a FLIC: Italian notation on their transcript.	0930:R ALTHSE 106 1900:R ALTHSE 106 1130:MW BOSLER 213
ITAL 500-01	Independent Study Instructor: Sylvie Davidson, Nicoletta Marini Maio Course Description:	: