SPRING 2025
ITAL 0105 Section S01, CRN 27265. Accelerated Elementary Italian. This is an intensive elementary language course designed for students with no previous knowledge of Italian. Knowledge of another Romance language, although not required, is recommended. The course develops basic communication skills in Italian and explores practices, products, and perspectives of Italian culture. Four meetings a week plus one conversation hour. This course is ideal for students interested in fast-tracking their language learning to meet Brown-in-Bologna requirements. Enrollment is limited to 15. Students in the Remote Study / Study Abroad cohort may not enroll.
ITAL 0400 Section S01, CRN 26279. Intermediate Italian II. Review of specific grammar problems. Reading of one novel and newspaper articles. Compositions and oral presentations. Three Italian films. Prerequisite: ITAL 0300, or placement by examination.
ITAL 0600 Section S01, CRN 26280. Advanced Italian II. A sixth semester course with intensive practice in speaking and writing. Short stories, poems, music, and movies will be used to discuss Italian Society from the Second World War through the present. We will explore some important themes--family, religion, gender, and politics. Class discussion, compositions, oral presentations, and a final paper. Prerequisite: ITAL 0500, placement by examination.
ITAL 1030B Section S01, CRN 27867. Modernity, Italian Style. Class, Gender, Race, Ideology in the Cinema of the Economic Miracle. Grappling with migration, class struggle, ethnic, gender and generational conflicts, environmental upheavals, counter-cultural movements and a profound ideological polarization, Italy in the 1960s provides a striking historical laboratory for our contemporary predicaments. We will watch a selection of films from the golden decade of Italian cinema, focusing in particular on how modernist masters such as Antonioni, Fellini and Pasolini, and young auteurs such as Bellocchio, Bertolucci and Cavani, forged original styles and expressive techniques in order to capture and denounce the contradictions of a neo-capitalist society. Taught in English (an Italian discussion session will be activated if enough students enroll).
ITAL 1620 Section S01, CRN 26274. The Divina Commedia: Dante's Paradiso: Justifying a Cosmos. Close study of the third and final part of Divine Comedy, in which Dante unfolds how, in his view, the planetary and stellar spheres condition human life and fashion the Providential plan of history. There will be ancillary readings from Dante's other works: Convivio, the Monarchia, and the Epistles. In Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL 0500 or 0600, or instructor permission.