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Basic Italian I (4) |
Staff |
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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. Laboratory fee, $50. (Fall, spring, and summer) |
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Basic Italian II (4) |
Staff |
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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. Prerequisite: Ital 1 or equivalent. Laboratory fee, $50. (Fall, spring, and summer) |
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Intermediate Italian I (3) |
Staff |
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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 2 or equivalent. Laboratory fee, $50. (Fall) |
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Intermediate Italian II (3) |
Staff |
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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 3 or equivalent. Laboratory fee, $50. (Spring) |
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Language, Culture, and Society I (3) |
Staff |
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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 4. Laboratory fee, $50. |
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Language, Culture, and Society II (3) |
Staff |
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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 9. Laboratory fee, $50. |
| 30 |
Introduction to Italian Literature |
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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 10 or equivalent. (Fall) |
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History of Italian Literature from the Middle Ages Through the 17th Century (3) |
Westwater |
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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 10 or equivalent. (Fall) |
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History of Italian Literature from the 18th Westwater Through the 20th Century (3) |
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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 10 or equivalent. (Spring) |
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Italian Literature and Culture in Translation (3) |
Westwater |
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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. A laboratory fee may be required. (Fall) |
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Textual Analysis (3) |
Westwater |
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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 30 or equivalent. (Spring) |
| 108 |
Advanced Italian Grammar and Style (3) |
Staff |
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Compositions, drills, dictations. Translations into Italian. Study of vocabulary and syntax with emphasis on stylistic devices. Prerequisite: Ital 10. (Fall) |
| 120 |
Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature (3) |
Westwater |
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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 90 or equivalent. |
| 131 |
The Italian Novel (3) |
Westwater and Staff |
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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 90 or equivalent. |
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Independent Study (arr.) |
Staff |
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Admission by permission of department chair and instructor. May be repeated for credit. |
