Italian Course Descriptions
ITAL 001 - Basic Italian I (1st Year)
ITAL 002 - Basic Italian II (1st Year)
ITAL 003 - Intermediate Italian I (2nd Year)
ITAL 004 - Intermediate Italian II (2nd Year)
ITAL 009 - Language, Culture, and Society I (3rd Year)
ITAL 010 - Language, Culture, and Society II (3rd Year)
ITAL 108 - Advanced Italian Grammar and Style (4th Year)
ITAL 030 - Introduction to Italian Literature
ITAL 053 - History of Italian Literature from the Middle Ages Through the 17th Century
ITAL 054 - History of Italian Literature from the 18th Through the 20th Centuries
ITAL 056 - Italian Literature and Culture in Translation
ITAL 090 - Textual Analysis
ITAL 120 - Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature
ITAL 131 - The Italian Novel
ITAL 197 - Independent Study
ITAL 001 - Basic Italian I (1st Year)
Handling the immediate context of daily experience in spoken and written Italian: identifying, describing, and characterizing people, objects, places, and events; giving information and instructions; issuing simple commands and requests. There are no prerequisites for this course.
ITAL 002 - Basic Italian II (1st Year)
Speaking and writing in Italian about past and future events: telling a story (narrating and describing in the past), promising, predicting, and proposing simple hypotheses and conjectures. Prereqisite: ITAL 001.
ITAL 003 - Intermediate Italian I (2nd Year)
Increasing active vocabulary, reinforcing mastery of basic grammar, dealing with more complex structures (verbal phrases, subordinate clauses), and using some patterns of indirect speech (repeating or relaying messages, giving reports, summarizing). Prerequisite: ITAL 002.
ITAL 004 - Intermediate Italian II (2nd Year)
Consolidation and further expansion of the ability to understand as well as produce a more complex level of oral and written discourse emphasizing subjective expression: issuing indirect commands and requests; giving opinions; making proposals, building arguments; defending and criticizing ideas. Prerequisite: ITAL 003.
ITAL 009 - Language, Culture, and Society I (3rd Year)
Development of strong conversational skills and the rudiments of expository writing. The vocabulary and structures necessary to move from handling everyday experience and subjective expression to the exposition of more abstract thought and ideas and discussion of political, social, and cultural issues. Prerequisite: ITAL 004.
ITAL 010 - Language, Culture, and Society II (3rd Year)
Continued expansion of the range and complexity of conversational skills and further development of the writing of effective expository prose on a broad range of subjects. Short literary texts serve as the basis for oral discussion, analytical reading, and writing brief critical essays. Prerequisite: ITAL 009.
ITAL 108 - Advanced Italian Grammar and Style (4th Year)
Compositions, drills, dictations. Translations into Italian. Study of vocabulary and syntax with emphasis on stylistic devices. Prerequisite: 010.
ITAL 030 - Introduction to Italian Literature
Readings, textual analysis, and writing on a broad selection of texts from different genres and periods. Emphasis on study of Italian literature in its cultural context. Close reading approach and introduction to literary vocabulary. Prerequisite: ITAL 010.
ITAL 053 - History of Italian Literature from the Middle Ages Through the 17th Century
Lecture and discussion in Italian. Development of genre and movements. Selected readings across these periods plus reading of complete texts of epics, essays, novels, and plays. Prerequisite: ITAL 010.
ITAL 054 - History of Italian Literature from the 18th Through the 20th Centuries
Lecture and discussion in Italian. Philosophical and literary movements of the modern period. Selected readings across the period plus the reading of complete texts of novels and drama. Prerequisite: ITAL 010.
ITAL 056 - Italian Literature and Culture in Translation
Dynamics of Italian-speaking societies and their cultures studied through literature, art, or film. Topics vary. Readings and lectures in English. The course may be repeated for credit. There are no prerequisites for this course.
ITAL 090 - Textual Analysis
Close examination of critical methods and vocabulary used in literary study as applied to Italian Literature. Attention to linguistic and stylistic difficulties in textual analysis. Prerequisite: ITAL 030.
ITAL 120 - Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature
Works by Dante, Petrarca, and Boccaccio. Emphasis on structure, rhetorical features, and problems of narrative organization. Specific attention to historical and ideological aspects of the works as well as to cultural influence. Prerequisite: ITAL 090.
ITAL 131 - The Italian Novel
A reading of the most important Italian novelists of the 19th and the 20th centuries: Manzoni, Verga, Bassani, Calvino, Eco, Sanguinetti. Study of the relations of each work to its social and cultural context and to the novel as a genre. Prerequisite: ITAL 090.
ITAL 197 - Independent Study
Admission by permission of department chair and instructor. May be repeated for credit.
There are no prerequisites for this course.
