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IMP 4600 - Echols Thesis
Optional Thesis for Echols Interdisciplinary Majors
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IMP 4970 - Interdisciplinary Thesis
Required Thesis for Interdisciplinary majors.
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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.
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ITAL 126 - Intensive Introductory Italian
This is the non-credit option for ITAL 1026.
Credits: 0
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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 with modules on issues applicable to the work context. Films, TV series and articles from Italian newspapers will help students to learn more about the Italian society of the new millennium and strengthen their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills at a high intermediate level appropriate for an intercultural professional environment.
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
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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 3660 - Italian American Cinema: The Immigrant Experience on Film
Following the unification of Italy in 1861, immigrants from that nation began coming to the USA in record numbers. While they arrived in search of better lives, they often faced many challenges. Through it all, their experiences have been documented on film. In this course, we will explore these cinematic representations of Italian Americana.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3670 - Contemporary Italian Cinema: From Canon to the Fringe
Examines the social, political and economic evolution of contemporary Italy through cinema and other visual culture forms; cinema is also examined from an aesthetic point of view, as its iconographic and stylistic developments are crucial elements of a visual culture that complements and references traditional modes of representation such as painting and sculpture, as well as architecture, literature and the oral folk tradition.
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.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 3880 - Reinventing Dante: Influence, Adaptation and Transformation
Dante’s Inferno has captivated the imagination of artists as diverse as Botticelli, Milton, Keats, and David Fincher. Artists, writers and filmmakers re-imagine Dante for their own purposes. This course will explore reinventions of Dante’s Inferno, the most enduring vision of the afterlife that has ever been created.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 4010 - Narrating (Un-)sustainability: Ecocritical Explorations in Italy & Mediterr
This course focuses on the potential narratives have to convey messages that are relevant to our ethical and environmental awareness, and to help us imagine alternatives to existing systems of knowledge and distributions of power. We shall learn about the origins and general objectives of ecocriticism, its relevant theories and methodologies, and various approaches to the notion of sustainability.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 4655 - Early Modern Theater: The Drama of Marriage
Course will investigate marriage as represented on the early modern European stage. Italian, Spanish, French and English plays comprise our subject matter. We’ll consider the legal, social, and cultural history of matrimony to background our study of the stageworks; we will analyze scripts and performances to learn how dramatic and theatrical convention intersected w/ marital institution and negotiations, onstage and off. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
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ITTR 4820 - Italian Pop Culture From the 1960s to the Present
This course examines the cultural and socio-political transformations that took place in Italy during its recent history. By discussing different cultural artifacts (films, essays, literature), we shall ultimately try to answer the following questions : does Italy still have space for works that resist populist and consumer culture? What are the ethical and political consequences of Italy’s present culutral condition? Is there an Italian identity?
Credits: 3
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JAPN 1010 - First-Year Japanese
Introduces the basic speech patterns and grammatical units, including casual, daily spoken style, and the polite speech used in formal occasions. Emphasizes speaking, listening, and reading. Writing hiragana, katakana, and 200 kanji are also introduced.
Credits: 4
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JAPN 1020 - First-Year Japanese
Introduces the basic speech patterns and grammatical units, including casual, daily spoken style, and the polite speech used in formal occasions. Emphasizes speaking, listening, and reading. Writing hiragana, katakana, and 200 kanji are also introduced. Prerequisite: JAPN 1010 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
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JAPN 2010 - Second-Year Japanese
Continuation of Elementary Japanese introducing more complex sentence patterns, idioms, and vocabulary to prepare students for an intermediate-level communication. Reinforces spoken Japanese skills with writing and reading exercises, and 250 kanji are introduced. Prerequisite: JAPN 1020 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
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JAPN 2020 - Second-Year Japanese
Prerequisite: JAPN 1020 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
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JAPN 3010 - Third-Year Japanese I
Emphasizes comprehension and active reproduction of modern Japanese beyond the basic patterns of speech and writing. Various topics on current Japanese culture and society are introduced. Prerequisite: JAPN 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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JAPN 3015 - Language House Conversation
For students residing in the Japanese group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 1
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JAPN 3020 - Third-Year Japanese II
Continuation of Third-Year Japanese, emphasizing comprehension and active reproduction of modern Japanese beyond the basic patterns of speech and writing. Continued introduction of topics on current Japanese culture and society. Prerequisite: JAPN 3010 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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JAPN 3025 - Language House Conversation
For students residing in the Japanese group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 1
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JAPN 3100 - Supplemental Reading in Japanese I
The first in a two-part sequence, to be taken in conjunction with JAPN 3010. Students will acquire college-level reading and writing skills through engagement with articles and essays written by Japanese for the Japanese public.
Credits: 1
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JAPN 3110 - Supplemental Reading in Japanese II
The second of a two-part reading course, to be taken in conjunction with JAPN 3020. In-depth study of authentic materials such as newspapers, short essays, and brief articles. Prerequisite: JAPN 3010 or equivalent background.
Credits: 1
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JAPN 4500 - Topics in Japanese Literature
An advanced language seminar devoted to literary texts and criticism with topics determined by instructor.
Credits: 3
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JAPN 4710 - Introduction to Literary Japanese (Bungo)
An introduction to the Japanese language as it was written from earliest times up until the mid-twentieth century. In addition to familiarizing students with grammatical fundamentals of literary Japanese and their differences from the modern language, the course will introduce students to representative writing styles from a wide variety of genres and historical periods. Prerequisite: JAPN 3010 or equivalent background.
Credits: 3
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JAPN 4800 - Lost and Found in Translation
This course is an advanced language seminar of Japanese and aims to enhance students’ skills to think and communicate in Japanese. With a specific focus on the theory and practice of translation, students translate a wide range of Japanese materials into English, while reading about and discussing the concept of “translation” itself. Prerequisite: JAPN 3020 or instructor’s permission.
Credits: 3
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JAPN 4801 - Japanese for Professionals
This advanced Japanese language course aims to cultivate future professionals who will acquire awareness of cross-cultural differences that enable them to operate effectively in the global world. Critical thinking and communication skills will be emphasized.
Credits: 3
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JAPN 4810 - Modern Literary Texts
Reading and discussion in Japanese. Develops comprehension and verbal expression skills at the fourth-year level. Reading selections include works by modern and contemporary novelists, short story writers and poets. Prerequisite: JAPN 3020 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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JAPN 4830 - Media Japanese
In this course, students will interpret, analyze, and discuss various media for education, business and entertainment–such as newspaper articles, blogs, and statistics–in order to gain a deeper linguistic and cultural understanding of contemporary Japan by comparing and contrasting different perspectives on current issues. Prerequisite: JAPN 3020 or equivalent background.
Credits: 3
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JAPN 4993 - Independent Study in Japanese
Independent Study in Japanese.
Credits: 1.00 to 3.00
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JPTR 2600 - Early Modern Japanese Literature
This course will focus on early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa period, in which urbanization, mass education, and the development of printing technology helped produce one of the most creative epochs in Japanese literary and cultural history.
Credits: 3
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JPTR 3010 - Survey of Traditional Japanese Literature
This course provides an introduction to Japanese literature from earliest times through to the nineteenth century. We will read selections from representative texts and genres, including myth, poetry, prose fiction, memoir literature, drama, and works of criticism. No knowledge of Japanese culture or language is required.
Credits: 3
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JPTR 3020 - Survey of Modern Japanese Literature
This is an introductory course to Japanese literary traditions from the late 19th century to the present. By reading a broad range of writings including political accounts, fictional narratives and poetic prose, the course examines how a variety of writing practices contributed to the production of modern Japanese literature. No knowledge of Japanese is required.
Credits: 3
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JPTR 3100 - Myths and Legends of Japan
A seminar exploring Japan’s earliest myths describing the origins of its islands, their gods, and rulers through close readings in English of eighth-century chronicles and poems. Fulfills the Non-Western and Second Writing requirements.
Credits: 3
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JPTR 3210 - The Tale of Genji
A seminar devoted to an in-depth examination in English translation of Japan’s most renowned work of literature, often called the world’s first novel. Satisfies the Non-Western and Second Writing requirements.
Credits: 3
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