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ISSS 4440 - An Introduction to Jungian Psychology
Contextualizes Jung’s ideas by comparing and contrasting them to Freud’s, and setting them broadly in the framework of academic psychology as a whole. Analyzes Jung’s ideas by describing and discussing the elements of Jung’s model of the psyche, the dynamics of Jung’s model in the moment, and the dynamics of the model over the life-span of an individual.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4450 - Sociology of the American Family
Explores the sociology of the American family, including: family change through American history; poverty and family life; alternative families (including single-by-choice parenting and gay marriage), and the effects of marriage and divorce on the lives of adults and children.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4451 - Business, Government and Society
Examines the complex interrelationships of business with the external environments that involve political, economical, social, technological factors, and nature to understand the conflicts, resolutions, opportunities and threats that arise from these intersections.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4454 - Emotion, Emotional Intelligence, and Meditation
Examines the neurological basis of emotion and the content of emotional intelligence which includes social competence in relationships, impulse control, empathy and compassion, resilience, motivation, and optimism. Discusses the underlying neurological mechanisms through which mindfulness meditation exerts its impact on emotion regulation and emotional intelligence.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4455 - Social Inequality
This course explores systems of social inequality: feudalism, caste and slavery, class, and status groups, primarily in American society, but with reference to Europe and the Indian sub-continent as well. Starting with the fundamental concepts of Karl Marx and Max Weber, students will discuss the theoretical constructs that define systems of inequality, consider some historical examples, and then examine “social stratification” in our own country. Does the United States have a class system? If so, what are its characteristics? Joining the scholarly debate on this issue, students will consider the meaning of equal opportunity and social mobility for achieving the “American dream.” The course also explores the empirical consequences of social inequality for every day life: in health and wellness, housing, education, and family structure.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4456 - Russian-American Relations
Focuses on the post-1945 period and the evolution of Russian-American relations since the fall of the Soviet Union, through an interdisciplinary lense based on contributions from international relations scholars and practitioners as well as historians, economists, philosophers, and political psychologists in historical and contemporary perspectives.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4457 - Post-Soviet Political Challenges: Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
Focuses on the origins of nationalism, separatism, sessesions, and irredentist claims in the Russian Federation and other former Soviet republics.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4458 - The Cold War
This course examines both Russian and American foreign policy at several critical points during the conflict. Through major scholarly works, primary documents, films, class discussions, papers, and lectures students will work together to better understand the Cold War and gain a fuller understanding of its political, military, cultural, economic, and ideological impact at home and abroad. The following questions will be explored: 1) How did the Cold War start?; 2) What were some of the important decisions made during the conflict, and why?; 3) Why did the Cold War end the way it did?
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4459 - The Unknown Europe: Understanding Eastern Europe
Explores the rich cultural, political, religious, social, and historical diversity of Eastern Europe. Introduces East European films and short literary works by which students learn to better understand historic experiences and modern life of Russians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Croats, Serbs, Bosnians, Hungarians, Romanians, and other East Europeans.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4610 - Economics of Climate Change
Examines all aspects of global warming, emphasizing appropriate government policies such as carbon taxes, cap and trade systems, and clean technologies to limit future carbon emissions. Provides students with economic backround and tools to address the public policy issues related to climate change.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4640 - The Economics of Medical Care
Focuses on the trade-off between economic efficiency as reflected by the need to contain medical care costs, and equity considerations of increased access to the health care system. Explores the concepts of: moral hazards, asymmetric information, defensive medicine, allocate efficiency, tax subsidies, and managed care versus fee-for-service.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4641 - Advanced Public Speaking
Utilizes several active learning activities when considering classical rhetorical elements, audience analysis, speech organization, and strategies for improvement in the structure and delivery of extemporaneous and impromptu speeches. Work with conceptual methods, observe exemplary models of good speech making, explore personal communication apprehension, and hone individual rhetorical style.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4651 - Bioethics in Healthcare
Introduces the applied ethical subspecialty of bioethics, particularly as related to healthcare and human services. Each day brings advancements in healthcare: multi-organ transplants, “Octo Moms” and expanded viability on both ends of the life continuum. Society applauds these miraculous manipulations of the human essence, yet opposes healthcare agents ‘playing God’. Examines the complexity of society’s response to bioethical dilemmas.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4670 - Organizational Change and Development
Explores system theories, organizational structure and design, organizational culture, organizational diagnosis, and several basic frames of reference for understanding change.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4710 - The Consultant’s Stance: Getting Things Done When You’re Not in Charge
The Consultant’s Stance: Getting Things Done When You’re Not in Charge
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4750 - Intergroup Relations
In this course, students develop an understanding of the basic cognitive and motivational processes involved in inter-group relations. They are encouraged to consider the roles of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination in everyday life. Topics include: variations in racist and sexist beliefs; the effect of stereotypes on how we perceive others and interact socially; and the psychological processes that may change stereotypes and reduce prejudice.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4760 - Organizations that Learn
This seminar takes an interdisciplinary look at some of the characteristics which enable diverse sorts of organizations to learn, grow, thrive and innovatively adapt to their environment. Readings and discussion topics are drawn from a wide range of areas including psychology, philosophy, evolutionary biology, education, system dynamics, organizational behavior, anthropology, and more. The seminar is project driven and both group-intensive and group-reflexive.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4770 - Concepts in Leadership
A study of the basic theory, knowledge, and skills of effective leadership in today’s world. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to use the four leadership frames of Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal (Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership, 2003) as the theoretical construct for both defining effective leadership in today’s world and developing/refining their own skills as leaders. As such, they will also develop both a theoretical and practical understanding of the role of the leader in effecting and managing change. This course will be conducted as a hybrid of independent study, online learning, and live class interaction. More specifically, the course pedagogies will include lecture presentations, online and in-class discussion, case study projects, and interviews.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4790 - Personality Theory
The study of personality deals with questions about what personality is and what it does, and what influences (internal and external, biological and learned) help determine our thoughts, emotions and behavior. This course, which focuses on both theory and personality as an empirical field, will provide the student with an introduction to the study of personality in current and historical context.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4800 - Shamanism in the New Age
Explores how elements of wisdom are carried in the healing, shamanic traditions of the wounded. Explores how we can collectively respond to violence in constructive ways on community and global issues.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4810 - Exploring Mahatma Gandhi’s Non-Violent Resistance
Explores Gandhi’s discussion of satyagraha through the actions, writings and speeches of the Nobel Peace Laureates. Delves into research in the emerging anthropology of violence and peace to find out how and why societies turn to peaceful, rather than violent responses to conflict. Explores the dynamics of violence in the world and the belief that violence is inevitable.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4811 - New Age, Ancient Roots: The Culture of the New Thought Movement in the U.S.
Explores the roots and offshoots of the New Thought Movement in the U.S. from the 17th century into the present. Analyzes the psychic phenomena that catalyzed the formation of the New Age, the founding of Christian Scientism and the Mormon faith, the seeding of American Buddhism, Hinduism, and shamanism, and many progressive changes in U.S. law and policy.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4820 - American Political Thought and Institutions
This course analyzes America’s governing institutions (including the presidency, Congress, the courts, and political parties) through the political thought that informs American constitutionalism. This course, then, is about political ideas as they have appeared and developed in the United States and the manner in which they have influenced and shaped the development of governing institutions. Particular attention will be paid to how these institutions interact, overlap, and intersect.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4821 - Key Concepts in Cultural Analysis
Examines the’ human’ not as a fixed and immutable category or essence, but as a result of specific historical conjunctures, differing intellectual frameworks and varying modes of social production and reproduction. Considers the transmission of ideas across cultures and historical periods and the traveling of texts-through the press, translations-as contributing to the production of the ‘human’.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4831 - Four Women Activists for Sustaining Food, Water and Biodiversity in India
Examines the ethical values and interpretations of political engagement of three Indian and one American female activist (Vandana Shiva, Arundhati Roy, Medha Patkar, and Martha Nussbaum).
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4850 - Great Books in Globalization
This course addresses major topics dealing with the phenomenon known as ‘globalization’ - the ever spreading reduction of barriers to the exchange of goods services, and ideas across national borders. The method of exploration will involve reading a combination of classical and contemporary works (some books, some articles) from leaders and thinkers grappling with globalization, and its various ripple effects and challenges. Revolving around core themes of responsibility and community, democracy and culture, and prosperity and poverty in the age of globalization, readings will include works from Plato, Thucydides, Milton Friedman, Peter Singer, Thomas Friedman, Moises Naim, Robert Kaplan, Bernard Lewis, Aung San Suu Kyi, Salman Rushdie, and Amartya Sen.
Credits: 3
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ISSS 4993 - Independent Study
Independent Study for students working on Capstone Proposals and Proseminar work.
Credits: 1 to 3
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IMP 2010 - The Arts and Sciences in Theory and Practice
This course is an inquiry into the nature and purpose of the historic set of disciplines comprising liberal learning with the goal of determining the intellectual passions they share, the methods and canons unique to them, and the prospects for articulating a unity among them. The course seeks to attain this goal by looking at theoretical issues such as the nature of verification and meaning, and by examining critically the actual conversations among the scholars of the arts and sciences fields over points of agreement and points of divergence.
Credits: 3
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IMP 4600 - Echols Thesis
Optional Thesis for Echols Interdisciplinary Majors
Credits: 3
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IMP 4970 - Interdisciplinary Thesis
Required Thesis for Interdisciplinary majors.
Credits: 3
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IMP 4971 - Interdisciplinary Thesis
Required Thesis for Interdisciplinary majors.
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ITAL 116 - Intensive Introductory Italian
This is the non-credit option for ITAL 1016.
Credits: 0
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ITAL 126 - Intensive Introductory Italian
This is the non-credit option for ITAL 1026.
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ITAL 216 - Intensive Intermediate Italian
This is the non-credit option for ITAL 2016.
Credits: 0
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ITAL 226 - Intensive Intermediate Italian
This is the non-credit option for ITAL 2026.
Credits: 0
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ITAL 1010 - Elementary Italian I
Introduction to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing Italian. Five class hours and one language laboratory hour. Followed by ITAL 1020.
Credits: 4
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ITAL 1016 - Intensive Introductory Italian
This intensive course begins with instruction in basic oral expression, listening comprehension, elementary reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills at the intermediate level. Part of the Summer Language Institute.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 1020 - Elementary Italian II
Continuation of ITAL 1010. Prerequisite: ITAL 1010.
Credits: 4
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ITAL 1026 - Intensive Introductory Italian
This intensive course begins with instruction in basic oral expression, listening comprehension, elementary reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills at the intermediate level. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: ITAL 1016 or equavalent.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 2010 - Intermediate Italian I
Continued grammar, conversation, composition, readings, and an introduction to Italian literature. Prerequisite: ITAL 1020 or the equivalent. Note: The following courses have the prerequisite ITAL 2010, 2020, or permission of the department.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 2016 - Intensive Intermediate Italian
This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: ITAL 1016 & 1026 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 2020 - Intermediate Italian II
Continuation of ITAL 2010.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 2026 - Intensive Intermediate Italian
This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisite: ITAL 1016 , 1026 and 2016 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 2030 - Intermediate Italian II for Professionals
This is the fourth class in the four-course sequence that fulfills the language requirement. In this course, students will further develop their language proficiency while acquiring specific listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills necessary to succeed in a professional environment. Students will also deepen their cultural literacy in Italian, with particular attention to Italian cultural practices in professional and commercial context.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3010 - Advanced Italian I
Includes idiomatic Italian conversation and composition, anthological readings of literary texts in Italian, plus a variety of oral exercises including presentations, skits, and debates. Italian composition is emphasized through writing assignments and selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax. Prerequisite: ITAL 2020.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3020 - Advanced Italian II
Topics include idiomatic Italian conversation and composition, anthological readings and discussions in Italian of literary texts from the past four centuries of Italian literature (from Tasso to the present), selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax, the elements of essay writing to Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL 2020
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3030 - How to Do Things with Words
One of three required core courses for the Italian Studies Major and Minor (with ITAL 3010 and 3020). ITAL 3030 focuses on interpretative and critical approaches to various genres of Italian textual and visual-linguistic expression. These include poetry, fiction, cinema, and theater. ITAL 3030 introduces students to the history and conventions of each genre, as well as the analytical methodologies suited to intelligent engagement with each.
Prerequisites: Must be enrolled in or have taken ITAL 3010 or ITAL 3020
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3040 - Advanced Italian III
This course aims at perfecting student’s command of Italian language, in all major skill areas: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax. Idiomatic Italian conversation promoted via readings and discussions in Italian on current subjects. Writing proficiency promoted through composition work. In Italian. Prerequisites: Completion of ITAL 2020 or its equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3050 - Advanced Italian IV
Continued perfection of Italian language proficiency, in all major skill areas: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax. Idiomatic Italian conversation promoted via readings and discussions in Italian on current subjects. Writing proficiency promoted through composition work. In Italian. Prerequisites: Completion of ITAL 3040 or its equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3110 - Medieval and Renaissance Masterpieces
Introduction to relevant Italian medieval and renaissance literary works. Prerequisites: ITAL 2020
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3120 - Contemporary Literature
Study of selected masterpieces from the modern period of Italian literature. Readings and discussions in Italian. Exercises in essay writing. Prerequisite: ITAL 2020 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3250 - Italian Love Poetry in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
This course treats the production of major poets and writers of Italian Medieval and Renaissance times (Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto, and Tasso) and focuses on the theme of love. It illustrates how central the topic of love was to Italian poetry in the early modern age, its development from classical love verse, and the immense influence of Italian love poetry in the diffusion of Italian culture abroad. Taught in Italian.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3350 - Fine Young Cannibals and Other Stories in Contemporary Italy
This course analyzes stories and short novels by contemporary Italians, from 1990 to the present. The works exemplify new forms of narration, many of which integrate ideas and practices of pulp literature, and noir currents, in the specific aims of their authors. Works by writers self-dubbed the ‘cannibals’ (‘cannibali’) are foregrounded, in an investigation of current short fiction and the imaginary of Italian society today. Taught in Italian. Prerequisites: Completion of or current enrollment in ITAL 3010, and permission of UVa study abroad advisor in Italian.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3460 - Growing Up Italian Style: Children’s Culture
In this course, we will explore how major works of literature for children, from Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, to the poetry of Gianni Rodari, reflect changing views of childhood and parenting in Italy. Students will learn how children’s literature of the 19th-century helped to create an Italian national identity. We will also examine how new media inventions changed story time for children in Italy. Prerequisite: ITAL 3010
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3700 - Lirica (Italian Lyric Poetry)
Lirica (Italian Lyric Poetry)
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3720 - Novella (Italian Short Narrative)
Novella (Italian Short Narrative)
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3730 - Romanzo (Italian Novel)
Surveys the major developments in Italian fiction during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Introduces textual analysis and critical interpretation of literary texts.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3740 - Teatro (Italian Theater)
Studies the major dramatic works from the Renaissance to the present, including productions by Niccolo Machiavelli, Carlo Goldoni, Luigi Pirandello, and Dario Fo.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3750 - Critica (Italian Literary Criticism)
Critica (Italian Literary Criticism)
Credits: 3
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ITAL 3760 - Italian Travel Literature
Study of major Italian travel writers from medieval to modern times, within a discussion of the definition and history of the literary genre, and the critical perspectives relating to it. In Italian. Prerequisites: Italian language course 1010 through 2020, or demonstrated Italian language proficiency per consent of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4000 - Methodologia (Stylistics and Methods)
Methodologia (Stylistics and Methods)
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4100 - Medioevo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Middle Ages)
Medioevo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Middle Ages)
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4200 - Umanesimo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Humanistic Period)
Umanesimo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Humanistic Period)
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4300 - Rinascimento (Italian Culture and Literature during the Renaissance)
Rinascimento (Italian Culture and Literature during the Renaissance)
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4350 - Representations of Women in Italian Literature
Images of women as presented in major Italian literary works from the Medieval period to the 20th century. Areas in which gender issues will be examined include authorship, genre, feminist literary criticism, and representation theory. Prerequisite: ITAL 2020 or its equivalent or instructor approval
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4400 - Barocco (Italian Culture and Literature during the Baroque Age)
Barocco (Italian Culture and Literature during the Baroque Age)
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4450 - Lights and Shadows: Italian 18th-Century Literature
Study of the Italian Enlightenment, in terms of its spectrum of literary/cultural phenomena. Major and lesser-known writers, and the role their works played in transforming early modern traditions into today’s forms and institutions. Among the topics considered: notions of reason and progress, uses of science, criminal/justice systems, advances in theater, opera, the popular novel, autobiography and consumer journalism in Italian.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4460 - Italian Mystery Novels
In this course, we will explore the various subgenres that are most often associated with mysteries: the police procedural, the detective novel, the political thriller, and true crime. Together, we will study the defining features of each genre through close readings of Italian short stories, novels, films, comics, mini-series, and documentaries. Students will learn about how the mystery novel evolved in Italy during the 20th-century
Prerequisite: 3010
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4475 - Romanticismo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Age of Romanticism)
Romanticismo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Age of Romanticism)
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4600 - Novecentismo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Twentieth Century)
Novecentismo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Twentieth Century)
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4810 - Italian Pop Culture: 1960’s - 1990’s
An interdisciplinary approach to the last thirty years of Italian cultural history, from a theoretical and practical perspective. Prerequisite: Students who have completed ITAL 2020. Other students admitted with instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4980 - Distinguished Majors Colloquium - Italian Studies
The Colloquium allows DMPs in Italian Studies to meet regularly with the DMP coordinator to discuss research strategies, documentation styles, and structure and style in extended expository writing as they are working independently on a thesis. It also provides a forum for presenting and discussing work-in-progress. Prerequisite: Acceptance in DMP.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4989 - Distinguished Major in Italian Studies Thesis
Distinguished majors in Italian Studies will meet individually with their thesis advisors to discuss progress and revise drafts of their theses. At the end of the semester, they will present the results of their research in a public forum.
Credits: 3
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ITAL 4993 - Independent Study
Independent Study
Credits: 1 to 3
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ITTR 2150 - Italian Phonetics
Italian Phonetics
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2160 - History of the Italian Language
History of the Italian Language
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2260 - Dante in Translation
Close reading of Dante’s masterpiece, The Inferno. Lectures focus on Dante’s social, political, and cultural world. Incorporates The World of Dante: A Hypermedia Archive for the Study of the Inferno, and a pedagogical and research website (www.iath.virginia/dante), that offers a wide range of visual material related to The Inferno.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2270 - Petrarch in Translation
Petrarch in Translation
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2280 - Boccaccio in Translation
Boccaccio in Translation
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2300 - Machiavelli in Translation
Machiavelli in Translation
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2310 - Ariosto in Translation
Ariosto in Translation
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2360 - Tasso in Translation
Tasso in Translation
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2420 - Goldoni and Alfieri in Translation
Goldoni and Alfieri in Translation
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2430 - Foscolo and Leopardi in Translation
Foscolo and Leopardi in Translation
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2440 - Manzoni in Translation
Manzoni in Translation
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2450 - Verga in Translation
Verga in Translation
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2620 - The Modern Italian Novel in Translation
The Modern Italian Novel in Translation
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2630 - Italian History and Culture Through Film: 1860s - 1960s
This course uses the medium of film to discuss the developments in Italian culture and history over a period of one hundred years, from 1860 to 1960.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 2710 - Italian Cultural History
This course traces the general history and culture of Italy from the Middle Ages to the present. It covers the Renaissance, the Baroque, the ‘Risorgimento,’ the new problems of post-unification, Fascism and the post-World War II Italian Republic. The aim is to provide historical background to comprehend both the complexity of Italian political and social evolution and the multifaceted nature of its cultural identity Taught in English.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3107 - Evolution of Media in Italy: From Unification to the Present
The course will explore the specific features of Italian mass media from the Unification to the present, considering how the press, cinema, radio, television and the Internet have affected and shaped Italian society. It will trace the evolution of Italian media in relation to key events such as the Risorgimento, Fascism, both World Wars, reconstruction and industrialization, and the political rise of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3215 - Dante’s Italy
This course investigates Italian history and culture through the prism of Dante Alighieri’s Comedy, one of the most important works in European literature. The three canticles of the Comedy offer a meditation on the social and political life of the Italian city-states, a critique of contemporary Christianity, and a commentary on art and literature at the end of the Middle Ages.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3250 - Italian Love Poetry in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
This course treats the production of major poets and writers of Italian Medieval and Renaissance times (Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto, and Tasso) and focuses on the theme of love. It illustrates how central the topic of love was to Italian poetry in the early modern age, its development from classical love verse, and the immense influence of Italian love poetry in the diffusion of Italian culture abroad. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3580 - Sister Arts Literary Artistic Relations in the Italian Renaissance
This course focuses on the literary and cultural traditions that inform treatments of art and artists in the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3610 - Italian Political Thinkers
Students of this course will study the political theories of Dante, Machiavelli, Beccaria, and Gramsci through a close-reading of each author’s major works. We will also examine how their ideas influenced contemporary politics, literature, and the visual arts both in Italy and in the United States. These goals will be accomplished through regular reading assignments, short essays, and presentations.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3680 - Eve’s Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Women’s Writing Culture and Society
This course explores how Italian women writers have represented food in their short stories, novels and autobiographies in dialogue with the culture and society from late nineteenth century to the present. These lectures will offer a close reading of the symbolic meaning of food in narrative and the way it intersects with Italian women’s socio-cultural history, addressing issues of gender, identity and politics of the body.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3690 - Mafiosi vs Goodfellas: Organized Crime on Film in Italy & The USA
Organized crime has long fascinated filmmakers from both Italy and the USA. But, how does each country portray this phenomenon and its effects on law, politics, and the individual? What socio-cultural and historical factors explain the different presentations? In this course, we will examine these questions through discussion and analysis of films from Italy and the United States, primary source documents, and novels.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3710 - From Fiction to Film
Combining narratological and socio-historical interpretative approaches, this course studies a series of novels and short stories that have been adapted to the big screen. We will concentrate on the study of film technique, comparative analyses of textual and filmic sequences, and cross-cultural examinations of the different socio-historical contexts that produced both narratives and films.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3758 - Love Affair with Tuscany: Utopias and Beyond
This course aims to examine the Anglo-American love affair with Tuscany/Florence, and deepen students’ understanding of it by providing richer, more complex knowledge of the region and its culture. The class will simultaneously explore notions of utopia and dystopia, against the background and actual lived experience of this sought-after destination.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3770 - The Culture of Italian Comedy
Treats Italian comedy from historic, generic, and theoretical viewpoints; divided into 4 units: 1) medieval comic-realist verse (poetry and song), 2) Renaissance comic theater, including plays by Machiavelli, Ariosto and the Sienese Intronati Academy, 3) the commedia all’italiana film, focusing on cinema by Germi and Monicelli, and 4) modern comic performances by Italians. Special units on Tuscan- and Neapolitan-style humor. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3775 - Acting Italian: Benigni, Goldoni, Fo
Watch, read, and laugh at performances by Italy’s most famous comic stars! Plays, films, and one-man shows form the texts, which include not only modern productions by contemporary masters Roberto Benigni and Dario Fo, but also the comedies of the originator of middle-class Italian humor, Carlo Goldoni. Works of these writers/actors/producers introduce important aspects of Italian literary, performative, and cultural traditions. In ENGLISH.
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