Month: October 2014

Italian/Medieval 659, Dante’s Divina Commedia. We will discuss the most salient episodes from the Commedia in an attempt to understand Dante’s theological, political, and historical thought. In order to establish the conception and development of Dante’s ideas, the readings from The Commedia will be contextualized especially from the point of view of Dante’s earlier, “minor” works (Via Nova, Convivio, …

Italian/Com Arts 460, Italian Cinema is a 3-credit course conducted in English. This course offers a general survey of Italian film and of the relationship between film and the other arts. There will be consideration of film theory and of the Italian and European socio-political situation in the context of film production. Prerequisites: Italian 204 …

Italian 322, Introduction to Italian Literature II is a 3-credit course intended to provide a chronological survey of Italian literature from the seventeenth centure to the present. The course, which is a continuation of Italian 321, will explore early modern and contemporary Italian literature through the close reading of narrative, poetry and theatre. Lectures and …

Italian 312, Advanced Composition & Conversation is a 3-credit course conducted in Italian that develops composition skills related to expository and other forms of writing, with focus on grammatical skills, conventions, rhetorical techniques for organizing information, presenting coherent arguments, and appropriateness of language to topic. Sustantial work on the development of writing strategies for composing …

0 0 1 118 678 Ohio University 5 1 795 14.0 Italian 301, Italian for Reading Knowledge is a 3-credit course conducted in English that provides students with reading knowledge of Italian. It is intended for anyone with little or no knowledge of Italian who wishes to develop proficiency in reading Italian texts, including graduate …