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ITAL 101 Elementary Italian (5)
Develops speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills to a basic level of proficiency. Teaches students to communicate in Italian and understand the cultural context of the language. Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural, and classes are taught through a task-based approach. First in a sequence of three. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 101; ITAL 102; ITAL 103; and ITAL 134. Maximum 10 credits allowed between ITAL 101; ITAL 102; and ITAL 111.

ITAL 102 Elementary Italian (5)
Develops speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills to a basic level of proficiency. Teaches students to communicate in Italian and understand the cultural context of the language. Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural, and classes are taught through a task-based approach. Second in a sequence of three. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 101; ITAL 102; ITAL 103, and ITAL 134. Maximum 10 credits allowed between ITAL 101; ITAL 102; and ITAL 111. Prerequisite: ITAL 101.

ITAL 103 Elementary Italian (5)
Develops speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills to a basic level of proficiency. Teaches students to communicate in Italian and understand the cultural context of the language. Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural, and classes are taught through a task-based approach. Third in a sequence of three. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 101; ITAL 102; ITAL 103; and ITAL 134. Prerequisite: ITAL 102 or ITAL 111.

ITAL 111 Accelerated First-Year Italian (10)
Intensive version of ITAL 101 and ITAL 102 designed for highly motivated students. Maximum 10 credits allowed between ITAL 101; ITAL 102; and ITAL 111. Maximum 10 credits allowed between ITAL 111 and ITAL 134.

ITAL 127 Beginning Conversational Italian (2, max. 6)
Development of beginning-level Italian conversational skills through class discussions and oral presentations. Topics vary. Not open to native speakers.

ITAL 134 Intensive First-Year Italian (15)
An intensive language course equivalent to ITAL 101, ITAL 102, ITAL 103, designed for highly motivated students. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 101; ITAL 102; ITAL 103; and ITAL 134. Maximum 10 credits allowed between ITAL 111 and ITAL 134. Offered: S.

ITAL 199 Foreign Study - Elementary (4-16, max. 16)
Elementary instruction in approved foreign study program. Students who wish to satisfy foreign language proficiency requirement must see the departmental adviser and may be required to take additional courses through ITAL 103.

ITAL 201 Intermediate Italian (5) A&H
Intensive speaking, reading, and writing. Functional review of grammar. First in a sequence of three. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 201; ITAL 202; ITAL 203; and ITAL 234. Prerequisite: either ITAL 103, ITAL 113, ITAL 134, or score of 57-100 on IT TL placement test.

ITAL 202 Intermediate Italian (5) A&H
Intensive speaking, reading, and writing. Functional review of grammar. Second in a sequence of three. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 201; ITAL 202; ITAL 203; and ITAL 234. Prerequisite: ITAL 201.

ITAL 203 Intermediate Italian (5) A&H
Intensive speaking, reading, and writing. Functional review of grammar. Third in a sequence of three. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 201; ITAL 202; ITAL 203; and ITAL 234. Prerequisite: ITAL 202.

ITAL 227 Intermediate Conversational Italian (2, max. 6) A&H
Development of intermediate-level Italian conversational skills through class discussions and oral presentations. Topics vary. Not open to native speakers. Prerequisite: ITAL 103.

ITAL 234 Intensive Second-Year Italian (15) A&H
Intensive language course designed for highly motivated students. Equivalent to ITAL 201, ITAL 202, ITAL 203. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 201; ITAL 202; ITAL 203; and ITAL 234. Prerequisite: either ITAL 103, ITAL 113, ITAL 134, or score of 57-100 on IT TL placement test. Offered: S.

ITAL 240 Introduction to French and Italian Studies (5) A&H
Introduction to cultures, histories, and ideas from French and Italian-speaking countries. Attention given to connections with current and global issues. Readings and instruction in English. Offered: jointly with FRENCH 240; AWSpS.

ITAL 250 Rome (5) SSc/A&H
Focuses on Rome as an historical, intellectual, and artistic world center. Literary and historic documents, visual arts, architecture, film, and opera used to explore the changing paradigms of the Eternal City. In English. Offered: jointly with ART H 250/HSTEU 250; W.

ITAL 260 Fashion, Nation, and Culture (5) SSc/A&H
Introduction to Italian culture focusing on fashion and manners from the late Middle Ages to today. Explores common assumptions about nation, gender, clothes, make-up, and manners, through literary and visual analysis. In English. Offered: jointly with ART H 260/JSIS A 260; W.

ITAL 261 Italian Cities (5) A&H
Introduces Italian culture by focusing on the past and present of five of the nation's most important cities: Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, and Naples. Taught in English. Offered: jointly with ART H 261.

ITAL 262 Dante's Divine Comedy (5) A&H
Introduces Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Covers Dante's journey through the afterlife. Explores questions about the nature of evil, the possibility for spiritual improvement, and the experience of true happiness. Identifies parallels with the modern day. Taught in English.

ITAL 270 Italian Culture Through Food (5) A&H
Food, in Italy, as a cultural and social phenomenon at the center of family life. Explores Italian history and culture through the lens of food, to address questions such as: What is Italian food? When did the success of Italian cuisine start? How did culinary traditions change throughout time?

ITAL 299 Foreign Study - Intermediate (4-16, max. 16) A&H
Intermediate instruction in approved foreign study program. Evaluation by departmental adviser required to establish proficiency. Further study at 200-level subject to departmental evaluation.

ITAL 301 Advanced Italian Language through Contemporary Culture (5) A&H
Advanced Italian language study through authentic cultural documents. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 301; ITAL 302; ITAL 303; and ITAL 334. Prerequisite: either ITAL 203 or ITAL 234. Offered: A.

ITAL 302 Italian Cultural Traditions (5) A&H
Modern culture through literary, journalistic, cinematic, and other texts. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 301; ITAL 302; ITAL 303; and ITAL 334. Prerequisite: ITAL 301. Offered: W.

ITAL 303 Italian Stylistics (5) A&H
Functional grammar review; creative written and oral composition and reading, with special attention to problems of style. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 301; ITAL 302; ITAL 303; and ITAL 334. Prerequisite: ITAL 302.

ITAL 304 Issues and Perspectives in Italian Studies (5) A&H
For students majoring or minoring in Italian. Introduces objects of study (literature, cinema, popular culture, etc.) and forms of knowledge, methods of analysis, and types of skills to be acquired. Taught in Italian. Offered: A.

ITAL 305 Texts and Traditions I (5) A&H
Provides broad historical introduction to texts and traditions from the Middle Ages to 1700 that have shaped Italian literature, art, culture, political discourse, and history. Texts surveyed are not a static corpus of "great works" but representative of cultural references with which most Italian speakers are familiar. Offered: W.

ITAL 306 Texts and Traditions II (5) A&H
Key texts in modern Italian literature, cinema, and other media read in their cultural, political, and historical contexts. Texts surveyed are not a static corpus of "great works" but representative of cultural references with which most Italian speakers are familiar. Taught in Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL 303.

ITAL 313 Made in Italy - Italian for Business (5-) SSc
Prepares students to experience and actively engage in the dynamic world of Italian business, fosters cultural competency, hones practical communications skills, and cultivates linguistic expertise necessary for making connections in one of the world's most important economy. Provides students practical and transferable skills and empowers them in the global job market. Prerequisite: ITAL 202 or ITAL 234

ITAL 318 Italian Literature in English (5) A&H

ITAL 327 Advanced Conversation (2, max. 8) A&H
Not open to students whose native language is Italian. Prerequisite: either ITAL 203 or ITAL 234.

ITAL 334 Intensive Third-Year Italian (15) A&H
Intensive advanced Italian language equivalent to ITAL 301, ITAL 302, and ITAL 303. Maximum 15 credits allowed between ITAL 301; ITAL 302; ITAL 303; and ITAL 334. Prerequisite: Either ITAL 203 or ITAL 234. Offered: S.

ITAL 341 Italian and American Poetry in Translation (5) A&H
Introduction to basic concepts and skills required for Italian-to-English translation. Examines the main aspects of contrastive grammar and stylistics used in translation, providing practical opportunities to incorporate and apply the material. Exposure to a variety of types of translation. Prerequisite: either ITAL 203 or ITAL 234.

ITAL 342 Advanced Italian Composition and Essay Writing (5) A&H
Addresses issues of syntax and grammar, register and style, and advanced vocabulary for academic writing. Teaches students to write a cogent, well-structured essay for upper-level literature classes in Italian. Writing intensive. Conducted in Italian (some material in English). Prerequisite: either ITAL 203 or ITAL 234.

ITAL 343 Stylistics and Rhetoric (5) A&H
Introduces rhetorical devices and figures of speech through analysis of texts within Italian literary tradition. Particular attention given to poetic texts. Prerequisite: either ITAL 203 or ITAL 234.

ITAL 351 Contemporary Italian Culture (5) SSc
Italian culture from the 1980s to the present, with discussion of major events of the period and readings from fiction, political manifestos, song lyrics, etc. Emphasis on recent linguistic developments, changed role of women, meaning of multiculturalism in Italy, and the spread of global culture. Conducted in Italian. Prerequisite: either ITAL 203 or ITAL 234.

ITAL 352 Italian Cultural History (5) A&H/SSc
Italian history and culture from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, with discussion of major historical and cultural events. Includes such readings as selected bibliography and historical documents and literature. Emphasis on the historical context of the most significant aspects of Italian culture through the centuries.

ITAL 353 Language and Cultural Identity (5) A&H/SSc
Investigates the connection between Italian language and cultural identity, from Dante's linguistic theories in the early fourteenth century to nineteenth-century nationalist myths and today's transformations in Italian society. Taught in Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL 302.

ITAL 354 Travels, Migrations, and Exile (5) A&H, DIV
Literature of travel and exploration from medieval times to the twenty-first century as a means of evaluating historical societies, as well as recording responses to encountering real or imagined new places/people. Topics include epic adventures, short stories, travel journals, the 'gran tour', quests of introspection. In English.

ITAL 355 Culture, Politics, and Media in Italy (5) SSc/A&H
Role of media in shaping Italian history, culture, and politics: from medieval scriptoria, to Venice as Renaissance capital of printing, to Berlusconi's media empire. Topics include propaganda and political conflict; heresy and censorship; rising literacy, mass publics, and Americanization of Italian media. Taught in English. Offered: WSp.

ITAL 356 Italian Society in Film and Literature (5, max. 15) SSc/A&H
Studies the evolution of Italian postwar society through the analysis of film and literature as well as critical, historical, and sociological readings.

ITAL 357 Race in Italy: Inventing Others in the Early Modern World (5) A&H, DIV
Shifting Italian and European definitions of race and otherness in literary and visual representations from 1300-1700, ranging from medieval stories about Jews to 17th-century paintings. Topics include religion as race; language and nationalism; travel literature, costume history, and ethnography; and the presence of "black" Africans across Renaissance Europe. Taught in English.

ITAL 380 Italian Culture Seminar (1, max. 7) A&H
Focuses on culture topics (eg. cinema, the media, race and immigration). Must be taken in conjunction with an ITAL 350-level course. Taught in Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL 203 or ITAL 234. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: AWSp.

ITAL 390 Supervised Study (2-6, max. 20)

ITAL 399 Foreign Study: Advanced (4-16, max. 16) A&H
Advanced instruction in approved foreign study program.

ITAL 401 Medieval Italian Readings (5) A&H
Exploration of medieval Italian cultural history through a broad variety of literary and other textual traditions. Prerequisite: ITAL 302.

ITAL 402 Early Modern Italian Readings I (5) A&H
Readings in Italian Quattro/Cinquecento, covering the period of the Renaissance. Prerequisite: ITAL 302.

ITAL 403 Early Modern Italian Readings II (5) A&H
Readings in Italian Sei/Settecento, covering the periods of Baroque and Enlightenment literature. Prerequisite: ITAL 302.

ITAL 404 Modern Italian Readings I (5) A&H
Readings in Italian Ottocento, covering the period of Romanticism. Prerequisite: ITAL 302.

ITAL 405 Modern Italian Readings II (5) A&H
Readings in Italian Novecento, covering the work of major Italian twentieth-century authors. Prerequisite: ITAL 302.

ITAL 431 Italian Theater (5) A&H
The development of Italian theater from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Prerequisite: ITAL 302.

ITAL 465 Contemporary Italian Narrative (5, max. 15) A&H
Critical reading of selected modern exponents of the short story and novel. Prerequisite: ITAL 302.

ITAL 466 Italian Society in Cinema and Literature in Italian (5, max. 15) A&H/SSc
Studies the evolution of Italian postwar society through the analysis of film and literature as well as critical, historical, and sociological readings. Offered in Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL 302.

ITAL 470 Dante (5) A&H
Introduction to Dante's Commedia and minor works, conducted in Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL 302.

ITAL 475 Italian Fascism: Architecture and Power (5) A&H/SSc
Fascism in Italy as studied within the broader European context of nationalism, imperialism, and modernization, with particular emphasis on the arts - literature, film, architecture, and urbanism. Offered: jointly with ART H 495.

ITAL 480 Dante's Comedy in English (5) A&H
Introduction to Dante's Comedy. Considers formal, structural, linguistic, literary, historical, cultural, philosophical, and theological issues raised by the text. Discusses the main currents of twentieth-century Dante criticism.

ITAL 481 Dante's Comedy in English (5) A&H
Second half of a two-quarter series. Close study of Dante's Purgatory and Paradiso and retrospective reading of Inferno. Explores Dante's concept of art, both human and divine, as it is developed in and defines the poem. Prerequisite: ITAL 480.

ITAL 482 The Decameron in English (5) A&H
An integral reading of the Decameron, with some consideration of its place in world literature and as an expression of the culture of its time.

ITAL 490 Proseminar in Italian Literature (3-5) A&H
Intended to help students achieve a mature critical mastery of Italian literature.

ITAL 499 Special Topics (1-5, max. 10)
Topics to meet specific needs.

ITAL 501 Medieval Italian Readings (5)
Exploration of medieval Italian cultural history through a broad variety of literary and other textual traditions.

ITAL 502 Early Modern Italian Readings I (5)
Readings in Italian Quattro/Cinquecento over the period of the Renaissance. Covers major intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures of the period, including humanistic rediscovery of Graeco-Roman models, chivalric poems, comic theater.

ITAL 503 Early Modern Italian Readings II (5)
Readings in Italian Sei/Settecento, covering the periods of Baroque and Enlightenment literature.

ITAL 504 Modern Italian Readings I (5)
Readings in Italian Ottocento, covering the period of Romanticism.

ITAL 505 Modern Italian Readings 2 (5)
Readings in Italian Novecento, covering the work of the major Italian twentieth-century authors.

ITAL 514 Dante (5, max. 10)

ITAL 531 Italian Theater (5)
The development of Italian theater from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Individual conferences with lecturing professor. Prerequisite: graduate students only.

ITAL 550 Methods in Literary and Humanistic Scholarship (5)
Review of basic tools, techniques, and paradigms for scholarly research and writing in literary studies and the humanities. Offered: jointly with FRENCH 550.

ITAL 551 Theories of the Text from Medieval Manuscripts to Digital Media (5)
Overview of textual theory and literary criticism. Foundations in philology and literary history. Bibliography and textual criticism. Formalist and poststructuralist critiques. Sociology and materiality of the text. History of the book. Texts in the digital age. Offered: jointly with FRENCH 551.

ITAL 552 Manuscript Cultures (5)
Techniques, terminology, and bibliography of manuscript scholarship. The production of manuscripts from Antiquity through the Renaissance; the evolution of scripts; the rise of literacy; and the development of libraries in Italy and France. Topics and methods include material philology, textual criticism, relations between text/image, and the digitalization of manuscripts. Offered: jointly with FRENCH 552.

ITAL 553 Topics in Print Culture (5)
Key readings, theoretical questions, and critical approaches in book history, focusing on printed texts from Gutenberg to today. The impacts of evolving technologies, material forms, and circulation within French, Italian, and other literary traditions. Methods and tools for evaluating an interpreting these impacts (bibliography, historie du livre, and textual scholarship). Offered: jointly with FRENCH 553.

ITAL 560 Reading Fashion (5)
Examines the emergence and problematizing of the notion of "fashion" in early modern Europe, focusing on Italy, France, and England. Analyzes late medieval and early modern literary and visual reflections of "fashion" in relation to today's critical discourses on fashion. Taught in English.

ITAL 570 Seminar in Cinema (5)
Studies in various areas of Italian cinema, concentrating on major directors, critics, and movements. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

ITAL 590 Special Seminar and Conference (1-10, max. 30)
Group seminars, or individual conferences, are scheduled under this number to meet specific needs. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

ITAL 591 Literary Problems: Middle Ages and Fourteenth Century (5, max. 10)

ITAL 592 Literary Problems: Renaissance (5, max. 10)

ITAL 593 Literary Problems: Early Modern (5, max. 10)

ITAL 594 Literary Problems: Eighteenth Century (5, max. 10)

ITAL 595 Literary Problems: Nineteenth Century (5, max. 10)

ITAL 596 Literary Problems: Twentieth Century (5, max. 10)

ITAL 600 Independent Study or Research (*-)