Italian Studies has as its mission to maintain the traditions and study of the great classics as well as to provide a window on an increasingly complex and diverse contemporary Italian culture. It promotes the study of the Italian language through an excellent and rigorous language training program. It offers courses in Italian literature, both in Italian and in English, as well as in Italian film. The department periodically invites scholars specializing in contemporary politics, the Italian immigrant experience and social change, enabling students to gain both a broader and more critical understanding of various aspects of Italian culture, through contact with specialists in these areas.
Minor Concentration Italian Studies (18 Credits)
Italian Studies Minor Concentration (B.A.) (18 credits)
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
Degree: Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Arts and Science
Program credit weight: 18
Program Description
This program may be expanded to the Major Concentration Italian Studies.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Complementary Courses (18 credits)
18 credits selected from three Italian course lists as follows:
Group A 鈥� Basic Language Courses and Group B 鈥� Courses taught in Italian (12-18 credits combined)
Group C 鈥� Courses taught in English (0-6 credits)
Group A - Basic Language Courses
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Course List
| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 205D1 | Italian for Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Grammar, reading, dictation. Intensive practice in speech patterns and written structures. Conversation and composition. Visual material and selected readings will be used in describing the making of contemporary Italy. |
| ITAL 205D2 | Italian for Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 205D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 206 | Beginners Italian Intensive. | 6 |
Beginners Italian Intensive. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. |
| ITAL 210D1 | Italian for Advanced Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Advanced Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intended for students who have never studied Italian, but who have had some informal exposure to the language. Grammar, reading, conversation and composition. An outline of Italian civilization, oral presentations and discussions. |
| ITAL 210D2 | Italian for Advanced Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Advanced Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 210D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 215D1 | Intermediate Italian. | 3 |
Intermediate Italian. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Direct continuation of ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. Grammar, literary readings, conversation. Grammar exercises and composition. Reading of selected literary works, oral presentations and group discussion. |
| ITAL 215D2 | Intermediate Italian. | 3 |
Intermediate Italian. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 215D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 216 | Intermediate Italian Intensive. | 6 |
Intermediate Italian Intensive. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Course designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2. Direct continuation of ITAL 206.
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Group B - Courses Taught in Italian
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Course List
| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 250 | Italian Literary Composition. 1 | 3 |
Italian Literary Composition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Analysis and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century literary texts with a view to improving language and composition skills. Review of major grammatical difficulties. |
| ITAL 255 | Advanced Reading and Composition. 1 | 6 |
Advanced Reading and Composition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The understanding of grammatical structures through a variety of exercises; paraphrasing, translating, composition and discussion. Particular emphasis will be placed on syntax through the study of contemporary texts. |
| ITAL 260 | Reading Italian Literature. | 3 |
Reading Italian Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A selection of poetic, narrative and theatrical texts from different historical periods, providing students with advanced tools in textual analysis and close reading of Italian literary texts. |
| ITAL 270 | Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood. | 3 |
Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An analysis of the historical novel "I promessi sposi", by Alessandro Manzoni: its political, social and intellectual role in the evolution of Italy towards nationhood (Risorgimento). |
| ITAL 281 | Masterpieces of Italian Literature 2. | 3 |
Masterpieces of Italian Literature 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A survey of Italian literature from Renaissance to the 20th century. Interdisciplinary approach. |
| ITAL 290 | Commedia Dell'Arte. | 3 |
Commedia Dell'Arte. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte". |
| ITAL 295 | Italian Cultural Studies. | 3 |
Italian Cultural Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A cultural studies approach to contemporary Italian society. Focus on distinctive traits of Italian popular culture through literature, film, television and other media. |
| ITAL 310 | The Invention of Italian Literature. | 3 |
The Invention of Italian Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course presents Italian's major texts and authors over the ages, by critically exploring how the invention of Italian literature impacts the formation of a national identity. |
| ITAL 329 | Italian Cinematic Tradition. | 3 |
Italian Cinematic Tradition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Italian films in original language. Films are examined from a wide historical and cultural perspective. Introduction to issues and preoccupations central to the Italian cultural tradition. |
| ITAL 332 | Italian Theatrical Traditions. | 3 |
Italian Theatrical Traditions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An overview of the major works and genres of Italian theatre from the Renaissance to the present, analyzing their reception and influence on Italian society. |
| ITAL 345 | Romanticism in Italy. | 3 |
Romanticism in Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course introduces key figures in early-19th century Italian culture (Leopardi, Foscolo, Manzoni), and problematizes both the notion of Romanticism in Italy, and its relationship to the movement for Italian unification. |
| ITAL 356 | Medieval Discourses on Love. | 3 |
Medieval Discourses on Love. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Medieval ideas, attitudes and behaviour surrounding love as represented in literature: readings will include excerpts from early Italian love lyrics, Dante's Vita Nuova, Petrarch's Canzoniere, Boccaccio's Decameron. |
| ITAL 360 | Contemporary Italian Prose. | 3 |
Contemporary Italian Prose. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of Italian fiction, docu-fiction and non-fiction published since 1990, examined in the context of the debates on post-modernism. |
| ITAL 362 | Post-World War 2 Literature and Society. | 3 |
Post-World War 2 Literature and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of Italian prose fiction and non-fiction in the context of some of the events and issues that marked these years: the aftermath of Fascism, the economic boom, terrorism, the Mafia, the North-South question. |
| ITAL 371 | The Italian Baroque. | 3 |
The Italian Baroque. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An analysis of the Italian Baroque period through an interdisciplinary overview of its major figures (Caravaggio, Bernini, Galileo, Marino, Vico) and cultural genres (commedia dell芒鈥⑴絘rte, opera, still life) |
| ITAL 383 | Women's Writing since 1880. | 3 |
Women's Writing since 1880. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity. |
| ITAL 400 | Italian Regional Identities. | 3 |
Italian Regional Identities. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course explores tensions between national and regional narratives in Italy's literature, culture, language, and society. |
| ITAL 410 | Italian Modernism. | 3 |
Italian Modernism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of representative works of major Italian authors from the fin-de-si猫cle to WWII. |
| ITAL 560 | Topics in 19th and 20th Century Literature. | 3 |
Topics in 19th and 20th Century Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of individual authors, genres, and literary or cultural movements that have marked Italian culture in the 19th and 20th century. |
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Group C - Courses Taught in English
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| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 199 | FYS: Italy's Literature in Context. | 3 |
FYS: Italy's Literature in Context. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history. |
| ITAL 230 | Understanding Italy. | 3 |
Understanding Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introductory critical perspective on a series of issues (North/South, Church/State, the family, regionalism, Fascism) related to contemporary Italy through novels, films and essays. |
| ITAL 307 | Topics in Italian Culture. | 3 |
Topics in Italian Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in Italian culture (topics may vary and may concentrate on one or more of the following areas: geography, history, music, art history, political science, and/or literature). |
| ITAL 355 | Dante and the Middle Ages. | 3 |
Dante and the Middle Ages. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time. |
| ITAL 363 | Gender, Literature and Society. | 3 |
Gender, Literature and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Questions of gender identity and literary representation as they emerge from women's texts or from comparisons of women's and men's texts, in relation to specific social and historical conditions. May focus on any time period in Italian history, from medieval to contemporary. |
| ITAL 365 | The Italian Renaissance. | 3 |
The Italian Renaissance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material. |
| ITAL 374 | Classics of Italian Cinema. | 3 |
Classics of Italian Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Key works in the history of Italian cinema; an in-depth analysis of a few exceptional works; emphasis on the complex web of relationship connecting each work to a wide range of cultural products and expressions, from literature to popular culture, in Italy and internationally. |
| ITAL 375 | Cinema and Society in Modern Italy. | 3 |
Cinema and Society in Modern Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy. |
| ITAL 450 | Italy and the Visual Age. | 3 |
Italy and the Visual Age. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of the emergence of a mass culture industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, through the survey of a variety of visual sources. |
| ITAL 464 | Machiavelli. | 3 |
Machiavelli. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Machiavelli, the political thinker and man of letters. A portrait of Machiavelli as political strategist, playwright and observer of his times. Reading of The Prince as well as selected plays, letters and other writings. |
| ITAL 465 | Religious Identities in Italy. | 3 |
Religious Identities in Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines the role played by religion in shaping Italian identities by looking at the works of Dante, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico, Galileo Galilei and other Early Modern authors in their cultural and institutional contexts. By looking at how these authors expressed their beliefs and interacted with religious institutions, students are invited to critically engage on the concept of "religion". |
| ITAL 477 | Italian Cinema and Video. | 3 |
Italian Cinema and Video. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately. |
Major Concentration Italian Studies (36 Credits)
Italian Studies Major Concentration (B.A.) (36 credits)
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
Degree: Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Arts and Science
Program credit weight: 36
Program Description
All students wishing to register for the Major Concentration Italian Studies are strongly urged to meet with a departmental adviser.
Degree Requirements 鈥� B.A. students
To be eligible for a B.A. degree, a student must fulfil all Faculty and program requirements as indicated in .
We recommend that students聽consult an Arts OASIS advisor聽for degree planning.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Complementary Courses (36 credits)
36 credits selected from the three Italian course lists as follows:
Group A 鈥� Basic Language Courses (0-12 credits)
- Students with no knowledge of the Italian language must take 12 credits in language.
- Students with some knowledge of the language may take 6 credits only selected from 滨罢础尝听210顿1 Italian for Advanced Beginners./滨罢础尝听210顿2 Italian for Advanced Beginners., 滨罢础尝听215顿1 Intermediate Italian./滨罢础尝听215顿2 Intermediate Italian., or 滨罢础尝听216 Intermediate Italian Intensive..
- Students with competency in the language may substitute courses from Groups B and C for Group A - Basic Language courses.
ALL students with some background must consult with the Department for proper placement.
Group B 鈥� Courses Taught in Italian (a minimum of 12 credits, of which a maximum of 6 credits may be at the 200 level)
Group C 鈥� Courses Taught in English (0-12 credits)
Group A - Basic Language Courses
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Course List
| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 205D1 | Italian for Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Grammar, reading, dictation. Intensive practice in speech patterns and written structures. Conversation and composition. Visual material and selected readings will be used in describing the making of contemporary Italy. |
| ITAL 205D2 | Italian for Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 205D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 206 | Beginners Italian Intensive. | 6 |
Beginners Italian Intensive. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. |
| ITAL 210D1 | Italian for Advanced Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Advanced Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intended for students who have never studied Italian, but who have had some informal exposure to the language. Grammar, reading, conversation and composition. An outline of Italian civilization, oral presentations and discussions. |
| ITAL 210D2 | Italian for Advanced Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Advanced Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 210D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 215D1 | Intermediate Italian. | 3 |
Intermediate Italian. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Direct continuation of ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. Grammar, literary readings, conversation. Grammar exercises and composition. Reading of selected literary works, oral presentations and group discussion. |
| ITAL 215D2 | Intermediate Italian. | 3 |
Intermediate Italian. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 215D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 216 | Intermediate Italian Intensive. | 6 |
Intermediate Italian Intensive. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Course designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2. Direct continuation of ITAL 206.
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Group B - Courses Taught in Italian
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Course List
| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 250 | Italian Literary Composition. 1 | 3 |
Italian Literary Composition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Analysis and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century literary texts with a view to improving language and composition skills. Review of major grammatical difficulties. |
| ITAL 255 | Advanced Reading and Composition. 1 | 6 |
Advanced Reading and Composition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The understanding of grammatical structures through a variety of exercises; paraphrasing, translating, composition and discussion. Particular emphasis will be placed on syntax through the study of contemporary texts. |
| ITAL 260 | Reading Italian Literature. | 3 |
Reading Italian Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A selection of poetic, narrative and theatrical texts from different historical periods, providing students with advanced tools in textual analysis and close reading of Italian literary texts. |
| ITAL 270 | Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood. | 3 |
Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An analysis of the historical novel "I promessi sposi", by Alessandro Manzoni: its political, social and intellectual role in the evolution of Italy towards nationhood (Risorgimento). |
| ITAL 281 | Masterpieces of Italian Literature 2. | 3 |
Masterpieces of Italian Literature 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A survey of Italian literature from Renaissance to the 20th century. Interdisciplinary approach. |
| ITAL 290 | Commedia Dell'Arte. | 3 |
Commedia Dell'Arte. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte". |
| ITAL 295 | Italian Cultural Studies. | 3 |
Italian Cultural Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A cultural studies approach to contemporary Italian society. Focus on distinctive traits of Italian popular culture through literature, film, television and other media. |
| ITAL 310 | The Invention of Italian Literature. | 3 |
The Invention of Italian Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course presents Italian's major texts and authors over the ages, by critically exploring how the invention of Italian literature impacts the formation of a national identity. |
| ITAL 329 | Italian Cinematic Tradition. | 3 |
Italian Cinematic Tradition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Italian films in original language. Films are examined from a wide historical and cultural perspective. Introduction to issues and preoccupations central to the Italian cultural tradition. |
| ITAL 332 | Italian Theatrical Traditions. | 3 |
Italian Theatrical Traditions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An overview of the major works and genres of Italian theatre from the Renaissance to the present, analyzing their reception and influence on Italian society. |
| ITAL 345 | Romanticism in Italy. | 3 |
Romanticism in Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course introduces key figures in early-19th century Italian culture (Leopardi, Foscolo, Manzoni), and problematizes both the notion of Romanticism in Italy, and its relationship to the movement for Italian unification. |
| ITAL 356 | Medieval Discourses on Love. | 3 |
Medieval Discourses on Love. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Medieval ideas, attitudes and behaviour surrounding love as represented in literature: readings will include excerpts from early Italian love lyrics, Dante's Vita Nuova, Petrarch's Canzoniere, Boccaccio's Decameron. |
| ITAL 360 | Contemporary Italian Prose. | 3 |
Contemporary Italian Prose. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of Italian fiction, docu-fiction and non-fiction published since 1990, examined in the context of the debates on post-modernism. |
| ITAL 362 | Post-World War 2 Literature and Society. | 3 |
Post-World War 2 Literature and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of Italian prose fiction and non-fiction in the context of some of the events and issues that marked these years: the aftermath of Fascism, the economic boom, terrorism, the Mafia, the North-South question. |
| ITAL 371 | The Italian Baroque. | 3 |
The Italian Baroque. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An analysis of the Italian Baroque period through an interdisciplinary overview of its major figures (Caravaggio, Bernini, Galileo, Marino, Vico) and cultural genres (commedia dell芒鈥⑴絘rte, opera, still life) |
| ITAL 383 | Women's Writing since 1880. | 3 |
Women's Writing since 1880. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity. |
| ITAL 400 | Italian Regional Identities. | 3 |
Italian Regional Identities. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course explores tensions between national and regional narratives in Italy's literature, culture, language, and society. |
| ITAL 410 | Italian Modernism. | 3 |
Italian Modernism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of representative works of major Italian authors from the fin-de-si猫cle to WWII. |
| ITAL 560 | Topics in 19th and 20th Century Literature. | 3 |
Topics in 19th and 20th Century Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of individual authors, genres, and literary or cultural movements that have marked Italian culture in the 19th and 20th century. |
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Note: Only one of 滨罢础尝听250 Italian Literary Composition. or 滨罢础尝听255 Advanced Reading and Composition. can count toward the program.
Group C - Courses Taught in English
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Course List
| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 199 | FYS: Italy's Literature in Context. | 3 |
FYS: Italy's Literature in Context. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history. |
| ITAL 230 | Understanding Italy. | 3 |
Understanding Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introductory critical perspective on a series of issues (North/South, Church/State, the family, regionalism, Fascism) related to contemporary Italy through novels, films and essays. |
| ITAL 307 | Topics in Italian Culture. | 3 |
Topics in Italian Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in Italian culture (topics may vary and may concentrate on one or more of the following areas: geography, history, music, art history, political science, and/or literature). |
| ITAL 355 | Dante and the Middle Ages. | 3 |
Dante and the Middle Ages. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time. |
| ITAL 363 | Gender, Literature and Society. | 3 |
Gender, Literature and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Questions of gender identity and literary representation as they emerge from women's texts or from comparisons of women's and men's texts, in relation to specific social and historical conditions. May focus on any time period in Italian history, from medieval to contemporary. |
| ITAL 365 | The Italian Renaissance. | 3 |
The Italian Renaissance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material. |
| ITAL 374 | Classics of Italian Cinema. | 3 |
Classics of Italian Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Key works in the history of Italian cinema; an in-depth analysis of a few exceptional works; emphasis on the complex web of relationship connecting each work to a wide range of cultural products and expressions, from literature to popular culture, in Italy and internationally. |
| ITAL 375 | Cinema and Society in Modern Italy. | 3 |
Cinema and Society in Modern Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy. |
| ITAL 450 | Italy and the Visual Age. | 3 |
Italy and the Visual Age. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of the emergence of a mass culture industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, through the survey of a variety of visual sources. |
| ITAL 464 | Machiavelli. | 3 |
Machiavelli. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Machiavelli, the political thinker and man of letters. A portrait of Machiavelli as political strategist, playwright and observer of his times. Reading of The Prince as well as selected plays, letters and other writings. |
| ITAL 465 | Religious Identities in Italy. | 3 |
Religious Identities in Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines the role played by religion in shaping Italian identities by looking at the works of Dante, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico, Galileo Galilei and other Early Modern authors in their cultural and institutional contexts. By looking at how these authors expressed their beliefs and interacted with religious institutions, students are invited to critically engage on the concept of "religion". |
| ITAL 477 | Italian Cinema and Video. | 3 |
Italian Cinema and Video. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately. |
Honours Italian Studies (54 Credits)
Italian Studies Honours (B.A.) (54 credits)
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Program credit weight: 54
Program Description
Honours students must maintain a GPA of 3.30 in their program courses and, according to Faculty regulations, a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general.
Admission to the Honours program in Italian requires Departmental approval. Students wishing to register should consult with the Department as early as possible. Qualified students may begin Honours in Italian Studies in the first year, instead of the second, at the discretion of the Department.
Degree Requirements 鈥� B.A. students
To be eligible for a B.A. degree, a student must fulfil all Faculty and program requirements as indicated in .
We recommend that students聽consult an Arts OASIS advisor聽for degree planning.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Required Courses (6 credits)
One of the two honours thesis courses below:
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Course List
| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 471D1 | Honours Thesis. | 3 |
Honours Thesis. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Honours Thesis. |
| ITAL 471D2 | Honours Thesis. | 3 |
Honours Thesis. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 471D1 for description. |
| ITAL 472 | Honours Thesis (Intensive). | 6 |
Honours Thesis (Intensive). Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intensive Honours thesis. |
Complementary Courses (48 credits)
48 credits, 9 of which must be at the 400 level or above, selected from the four Italian course lists as follows:
0-12 credits from Group A 鈥� Basic Language Courses.
30-48 credits from Group B 鈥� Courses Taught in Italian.
0-9 credits combined from Group C 鈥� Courses Taught in English and Group D 鈥� Courses Offered in Other Departments.
Note: Students with advanced standing in the language must replace language courses with courses from groups B, C, and D.
Group A - Basic Language Courses
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Course List
| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 205D1 | Italian for Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Grammar, reading, dictation. Intensive practice in speech patterns and written structures. Conversation and composition. Visual material and selected readings will be used in describing the making of contemporary Italy. |
| ITAL 205D2 | Italian for Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 205D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 206 | Beginners Italian Intensive. | 6 |
Beginners Italian Intensive. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. |
| ITAL 210D1 | Italian for Advanced Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Advanced Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intended for students who have never studied Italian, but who have had some informal exposure to the language. Grammar, reading, conversation and composition. An outline of Italian civilization, oral presentations and discussions. |
| ITAL 210D2 | Italian for Advanced Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Advanced Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 210D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 215D1 | Intermediate Italian. | 3 |
Intermediate Italian. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Direct continuation of ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. Grammar, literary readings, conversation. Grammar exercises and composition. Reading of selected literary works, oral presentations and group discussion. |
| ITAL 215D2 | Intermediate Italian. | 3 |
Intermediate Italian. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 215D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 216 | Intermediate Italian Intensive. | 6 |
Intermediate Italian Intensive. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Course designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2. Direct continuation of ITAL 206.
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Group B - Courses Taught in Italian
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Course List
| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 250 | Italian Literary Composition. 1 | 3 |
Italian Literary Composition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Analysis and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century literary texts with a view to improving language and composition skills. Review of major grammatical difficulties. |
| ITAL 255 | Advanced Reading and Composition. 1 | 6 |
Advanced Reading and Composition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The understanding of grammatical structures through a variety of exercises; paraphrasing, translating, composition and discussion. Particular emphasis will be placed on syntax through the study of contemporary texts. |
| ITAL 260 | Reading Italian Literature. | 3 |
Reading Italian Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A selection of poetic, narrative and theatrical texts from different historical periods, providing students with advanced tools in textual analysis and close reading of Italian literary texts. |
| ITAL 270 | Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood. | 3 |
Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An analysis of the historical novel "I promessi sposi", by Alessandro Manzoni: its political, social and intellectual role in the evolution of Italy towards nationhood (Risorgimento). |
| ITAL 281 | Masterpieces of Italian Literature 2. | 3 |
Masterpieces of Italian Literature 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A survey of Italian literature from Renaissance to the 20th century. Interdisciplinary approach. |
| ITAL 290 | Commedia Dell'Arte. | 3 |
Commedia Dell'Arte. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte". |
| ITAL 295 | Italian Cultural Studies. | 3 |
Italian Cultural Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A cultural studies approach to contemporary Italian society. Focus on distinctive traits of Italian popular culture through literature, film, television and other media. |
| ITAL 307 | Topics in Italian Culture. | 3 |
Topics in Italian Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in Italian culture (topics may vary and may concentrate on one or more of the following areas: geography, history, music, art history, political science, and/or literature). |
| ITAL 310 | The Invention of Italian Literature. | 3 |
The Invention of Italian Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course presents Italian's major texts and authors over the ages, by critically exploring how the invention of Italian literature impacts the formation of a national identity. |
| ITAL 329 | Italian Cinematic Tradition. | 3 |
Italian Cinematic Tradition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Italian films in original language. Films are examined from a wide historical and cultural perspective. Introduction to issues and preoccupations central to the Italian cultural tradition. |
| ITAL 332 | Italian Theatrical Traditions. | 3 |
Italian Theatrical Traditions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An overview of the major works and genres of Italian theatre from the Renaissance to the present, analyzing their reception and influence on Italian society. |
| ITAL 345 | Romanticism in Italy. | 3 |
Romanticism in Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course introduces key figures in early-19th century Italian culture (Leopardi, Foscolo, Manzoni), and problematizes both the notion of Romanticism in Italy, and its relationship to the movement for Italian unification. |
| ITAL 356 | Medieval Discourses on Love. | 3 |
Medieval Discourses on Love. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Medieval ideas, attitudes and behaviour surrounding love as represented in literature: readings will include excerpts from early Italian love lyrics, Dante's Vita Nuova, Petrarch's Canzoniere, Boccaccio's Decameron. |
| ITAL 360 | Contemporary Italian Prose. | 3 |
Contemporary Italian Prose. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of Italian fiction, docu-fiction and non-fiction published since 1990, examined in the context of the debates on post-modernism. |
| ITAL 371 | The Italian Baroque. | 3 |
The Italian Baroque. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An analysis of the Italian Baroque period through an interdisciplinary overview of its major figures (Caravaggio, Bernini, Galileo, Marino, Vico) and cultural genres (commedia dell芒鈥⑴絘rte, opera, still life) |
| ITAL 383 | Women's Writing since 1880. | 3 |
Women's Writing since 1880. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity. |
| ITAL 400 | Italian Regional Identities. | 3 |
Italian Regional Identities. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course explores tensions between national and regional narratives in Italy's literature, culture, language, and society. |
| ITAL 410 | Italian Modernism. | 3 |
Italian Modernism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of representative works of major Italian authors from the fin-de-si猫cle to WWII. |
| ITAL 560 | Topics in 19th and 20th Century Literature. | 3 |
Topics in 19th and 20th Century Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of individual authors, genres, and literary or cultural movements that have marked Italian culture in the 19th and 20th century. |
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Group C - Courses Taught in English
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Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 199 | FYS: Italy's Literature in Context. | 3 |
FYS: Italy's Literature in Context. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history. |
| ITAL 230 | Understanding Italy. | 3 |
Understanding Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introductory critical perspective on a series of issues (North/South, Church/State, the family, regionalism, Fascism) related to contemporary Italy through novels, films and essays. |
| ITAL 355 | Dante and the Middle Ages. | 3 |
Dante and the Middle Ages. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time. |
| ITAL 363 | Gender, Literature and Society. | 3 |
Gender, Literature and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Questions of gender identity and literary representation as they emerge from women's texts or from comparisons of women's and men's texts, in relation to specific social and historical conditions. May focus on any time period in Italian history, from medieval to contemporary. |
| ITAL 365 | The Italian Renaissance. | 3 |
The Italian Renaissance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material. |
| ITAL 374 | Classics of Italian Cinema. | 3 |
Classics of Italian Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Key works in the history of Italian cinema; an in-depth analysis of a few exceptional works; emphasis on the complex web of relationship connecting each work to a wide range of cultural products and expressions, from literature to popular culture, in Italy and internationally. |
| ITAL 375 | Cinema and Society in Modern Italy. | 3 |
Cinema and Society in Modern Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy. |
| ITAL 450 | Italy and the Visual Age. | 3 |
Italy and the Visual Age. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of the emergence of a mass culture industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, through the survey of a variety of visual sources. |
| ITAL 464 | Machiavelli. | 3 |
Machiavelli. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Machiavelli, the political thinker and man of letters. A portrait of Machiavelli as political strategist, playwright and observer of his times. Reading of The Prince as well as selected plays, letters and other writings. |
| ITAL 465 | Religious Identities in Italy. | 3 |
Religious Identities in Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines the role played by religion in shaping Italian identities by looking at the works of Dante, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico, Galileo Galilei and other Early Modern authors in their cultural and institutional contexts. By looking at how these authors expressed their beliefs and interacted with religious institutions, students are invited to critically engage on the concept of "religion". |
| ITAL 477 | Italian Cinema and Video. | 3 |
Italian Cinema and Video. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately. |
Group D - Courses Offered in Other Departments
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Title |
Credits |
| ARTH 223 | Introduction Italian Renaissance Art 1300-1500. | 3 |
Introduction Italian Renaissance Art 1300-1500. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Surveys the changing role of the artwork in Renaissance Italy in its social, political, and religious contexts. |
| ARTH 325 | Visual Culture Renaissance Venice. | 3 |
Visual Culture Renaissance Venice. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Distinctive visual culture in the context of Venice's singular topography and reputation for licentiousness and toleration. |
| CLAS 302 | Roman Literature and Society. | 3 |
Roman Literature and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An exploration of Roman texts written during the Republican and Imperial periods (200 BCE-400 CE) and the study of social contexts in which they were written. |
| CLAS 404 | Classical Tradition. | 3 |
Classical Tradition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the evolution of Classical Antiquity's social and cultural status from the 17th c. to the present day. Particular consideration is given to the processes of the ongoing professionalization of history and archeology as academic disciplines, the emergence of new political usages of the past, the transformation of cultural practices from the Grand Tour to the modern museum and tourism. |
| ENGL 447 | Crosscurrents/English Literature and European Literature 1. | 3 |
Crosscurrents/English Literature and European Literature 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Comparative study of English and European literature. Topic varies by year. |
| HIST 345 | History of Italian Renaissance. | 3 |
History of Italian Renaissance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the economy, society, politics and intellectual developments in Italy from approximately 1300 to the early 16th century. |
| HIST 380 | The Medieval
Mediterranean
. | 3 |
The Medieval
Mediterranean
. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Thematic history of the Mediterranean during the Medieval period, covering elements of Latin, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations and their interactions. |
| HIST 398 | Topics in Italian History. | 3 |
Topics in Italian History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Topics in Italian history. Topic varies by year. |
| HIST 401 | Topics: Medieval Culture and Society. | 3 |
Topics: Medieval Culture and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in the intellectual and cultural history of the Middle Ages. Emphasis on modern critical approaches to medieval culture, including literature, the supernatural, religious experience. |
| MUHL 387 | Opera from Mozart to Puccini. | 3 |
Opera from Mozart to Puccini. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Mozart's operas and the seria, buffa, and Singspiel traditions. Ottocento opera, grand opera, and cross-fertilization between France and Italy. German Romantic opera. Wagner. Eastern European opera. Verismo and fin-de-si猫cle opera in Vienna and Paris. Sociology of opera. Emphasis on critical understanding of music's role in articulating drama. |
Joint Honours Component Italian Studies (36 Credits)
Italian Studies Joint Honours Component (B.A.) (36 credits)
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
Degree: Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Arts and Science
Program credit weight: 36
Program Description
Students who wish to study at the Honours level in two Arts disciplines may apply to combine Joint Honours program components from two Arts disciplines. For a list of available Joint Honours programs, see "Overview of Programs Offered" and "Joint Honours Programs".
Joint Honours students should consult an adviser in each department to discuss their course selection and their interdisciplinary research project (if applicable).
Joint Honours students must maintain a GPA of 3.30 in their program courses and, according to Faculty regulations, a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general.
Admission to Joint Honours requires departmental approval. Students wishing to register in the program should consult with the Department as early as possible. Students may register for Joint Honours in the first year, instead of the second year, if in the opinion of the departments they are found to be qualified.
Degree Requirements 鈥� B.A. students
To be eligible for a B.A. degree, a student must fulfil all Faculty and program requirements as indicated in .
We recommend that students聽consult an Arts OASIS advisor聽for degree planning.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Required Courses (6 credits)
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Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 355 | Dante and the Middle Ages. | 3 |
Dante and the Middle Ages. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time. |
| ITAL 470 | Joint Honours Thesis. | 3 |
Joint Honours Thesis. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Research and completion of the Honours thesis on an approved subject. |
Complementary Courses (30 credits)
30 credits, 6 of which must be at the 400 level or above, selected from the four Italian course lists as follows:
0-12 credits from Group A 鈥� Basic Language Courses.
12-30 credits from Group B 鈥� Courses Taught in Italian.
0-18 credits combined from Group C 鈥� Courses Taught in English and Group D 鈥� Courses Offered in Other Departments.
Note: Students with advanced standing in the language must replace language courses with courses from groups B, C, and D.
Group A - Basic Language Courses
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Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 205D1 | Italian for Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Grammar, reading, dictation. Intensive practice in speech patterns and written structures. Conversation and composition. Visual material and selected readings will be used in describing the making of contemporary Italy. |
| ITAL 205D2 | Italian for Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 205D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 206 | Beginners Italian Intensive. | 6 |
Beginners Italian Intensive. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. |
| ITAL 210D1 | Italian for Advanced Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Advanced Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intended for students who have never studied Italian, but who have had some informal exposure to the language. Grammar, reading, conversation and composition. An outline of Italian civilization, oral presentations and discussions. |
| ITAL 210D2 | Italian for Advanced Beginners. | 3 |
Italian for Advanced Beginners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 210D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 215D1 | Intermediate Italian. | 3 |
Intermediate Italian. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Direct continuation of ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. Grammar, literary readings, conversation. Grammar exercises and composition. Reading of selected literary works, oral presentations and group discussion. |
| ITAL 215D2 | Intermediate Italian. | 3 |
Intermediate Italian. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See ITAL 215D1 for course description. |
| ITAL 216 | Intermediate Italian Intensive. | 6 |
Intermediate Italian Intensive. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Course designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2. Direct continuation of ITAL 206.
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Group B - Courses Taught in Italian
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Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 250 | Italian Literary Composition. 1 | 3 |
Italian Literary Composition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Analysis and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century literary texts with a view to improving language and composition skills. Review of major grammatical difficulties. |
| ITAL 255 | Advanced Reading and Composition. 1 | 6 |
Advanced Reading and Composition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The understanding of grammatical structures through a variety of exercises; paraphrasing, translating, composition and discussion. Particular emphasis will be placed on syntax through the study of contemporary texts. |
| ITAL 260 | Reading Italian Literature. | 3 |
Reading Italian Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A selection of poetic, narrative and theatrical texts from different historical periods, providing students with advanced tools in textual analysis and close reading of Italian literary texts. |
| ITAL 270 | Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood. | 3 |
Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An analysis of the historical novel "I promessi sposi", by Alessandro Manzoni: its political, social and intellectual role in the evolution of Italy towards nationhood (Risorgimento). |
| ITAL 281 | Masterpieces of Italian Literature 2. | 3 |
Masterpieces of Italian Literature 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A survey of Italian literature from Renaissance to the 20th century. Interdisciplinary approach. |
| ITAL 290 | Commedia Dell'Arte. | 3 |
Commedia Dell'Arte. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte". |
| ITAL 295 | Italian Cultural Studies. | 3 |
Italian Cultural Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A cultural studies approach to contemporary Italian society. Focus on distinctive traits of Italian popular culture through literature, film, television and other media. |
| ITAL 307 | Topics in Italian Culture. | 3 |
Topics in Italian Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in Italian culture (topics may vary and may concentrate on one or more of the following areas: geography, history, music, art history, political science, and/or literature). |
| ITAL 310 | The Invention of Italian Literature. | 3 |
The Invention of Italian Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course presents Italian's major texts and authors over the ages, by critically exploring how the invention of Italian literature impacts the formation of a national identity. |
| ITAL 332 | Italian Theatrical Traditions. | 3 |
Italian Theatrical Traditions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An overview of the major works and genres of Italian theatre from the Renaissance to the present, analyzing their reception and influence on Italian society. |
| ITAL 356 | Medieval Discourses on Love. | 3 |
Medieval Discourses on Love. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Medieval ideas, attitudes and behaviour surrounding love as represented in literature: readings will include excerpts from early Italian love lyrics, Dante's Vita Nuova, Petrarch's Canzoniere, Boccaccio's Decameron. |
| ITAL 360 | Contemporary Italian Prose. | 3 |
Contemporary Italian Prose. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of Italian fiction, docu-fiction and non-fiction published since 1990, examined in the context of the debates on post-modernism. |
| ITAL 383 | Women's Writing since 1880. | 3 |
Women's Writing since 1880. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity. |
| ITAL 400 | Italian Regional Identities. | 3 |
Italian Regional Identities. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course explores tensions between national and regional narratives in Italy's literature, culture, language, and society. |
| ITAL 410 | Italian Modernism. | 3 |
Italian Modernism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of representative works of major Italian authors from the fin-de-si猫cle to WWII. |
| ITAL 560 | Topics in 19th and 20th Century Literature. | 3 |
Topics in 19th and 20th Century Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of individual authors, genres, and literary or cultural movements that have marked Italian culture in the 19th and 20th century. |
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Note: Only one of 滨罢础尝听250 Italian Literary Composition. or 滨罢础尝听255 Advanced Reading and Composition. can count toward the program.
Group C - Courses Taught in English
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| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| ITAL 199 | FYS: Italy's Literature in Context. | 3 |
FYS: Italy's Literature in Context. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history. |
| ITAL 355 | Dante and the Middle Ages. | 3 |
Dante and the Middle Ages. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time. |
| ITAL 365 | The Italian Renaissance. | 3 |
The Italian Renaissance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material. |
| ITAL 375 | Cinema and Society in Modern Italy. | 3 |
Cinema and Society in Modern Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy. |
| ITAL 464 | Machiavelli. | 3 |
Machiavelli. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Machiavelli, the political thinker and man of letters. A portrait of Machiavelli as political strategist, playwright and observer of his times. Reading of The Prince as well as selected plays, letters and other writings. |
| ITAL 477 | Italian Cinema and Video. | 3 |
Italian Cinema and Video. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately. |
Group D - Courses Offered in Other Departments
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| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| ARTH 223 | Introduction Italian Renaissance Art 1300-1500. | 3 |
Introduction Italian Renaissance Art 1300-1500. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Surveys the changing role of the artwork in Renaissance Italy in its social, political, and religious contexts. |
| ARTH 325 | Visual Culture Renaissance Venice. | 3 |
Visual Culture Renaissance Venice. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Distinctive visual culture in the context of Venice's singular topography and reputation for licentiousness and toleration. |
| CLAS 302 | Roman Literature and Society. | 3 |
Roman Literature and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An exploration of Roman texts written during the Republican and Imperial periods (200 BCE-400 CE) and the study of social contexts in which they were written. |
| CLAS 404 | Classical Tradition. | 3 |
Classical Tradition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the evolution of Classical Antiquity's social and cultural status from the 17th c. to the present day. Particular consideration is given to the processes of the ongoing professionalization of history and archeology as academic disciplines, the emergence of new political usages of the past, the transformation of cultural practices from the Grand Tour to the modern museum and tourism. |
| ENGL 447 | Crosscurrents/English Literature and European Literature 1. | 3 |
Crosscurrents/English Literature and European Literature 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Comparative study of English and European literature. Topic varies by year. |
| HIST 345 | History of Italian Renaissance. | 3 |
History of Italian Renaissance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the economy, society, politics and intellectual developments in Italy from approximately 1300 to the early 16th century. |
| HIST 380 | The Medieval
Mediterranean
. | 3 |
The Medieval
Mediterranean
. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Thematic history of the Mediterranean during the Medieval period, covering elements of Latin, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations and their interactions. |
| HIST 398 | Topics in Italian History. | 3 |
Topics in Italian History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Topics in Italian history. Topic varies by year. |
| HIST 401 | Topics: Medieval Culture and Society. | 3 |
Topics: Medieval Culture and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in the intellectual and cultural history of the Middle Ages. Emphasis on modern critical approaches to medieval culture, including literature, the supernatural, religious experience. |
| MUHL 387 | Opera from Mozart to Puccini. | 3 |
Opera from Mozart to Puccini. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Mozart's operas and the seria, buffa, and Singspiel traditions. Ottocento opera, grand opera, and cross-fertilization between France and Italy. German Romantic opera. Wagner. Eastern European opera. Verismo and fin-de-si猫cle opera in Vienna and Paris. Sociology of opera. Emphasis on critical understanding of music's role in articulating drama. |
