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This 4-credit course is designed for students with little or no knowledge of the Italian language.  The goal is to provide an introduction to contemporary Italian language and culture.   You will be actively engaged in  activities such as:  role-plays, and pair and group work.  Listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills are integrated in all activities.  …

This seminar will explore the career of the controversial Italian artist Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), including his work as poet, filmmaker, playwright, theorist, and political commentator. Pasolini’s work will be studied against the backdrop of Italian and European history from the period of fascism and Resistance through the Economic Boom and rise of new social …

Italian 621, Il Settecento (Part 1) offers a survey of early eighteenth-century (pre-Enlightenment) Italian literature (1690-1750) and examines the development of specific literary genres in the contexts of cultural and intellectual history. The course provides methodologies and philological instruments necessary to the critical reading of a variety of narrative and poetic texts in the perspective …

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 …

The course will explore the birth and development of the notion of “madre patria” in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature. Besides relying on political and historical documents of the period, the course will discuss the notion according to theoretical venues that span from psychology and psychoanalysis to philosophy and hermeneutics. The course will focus on …

This course is meant to be a forum for discussion of issues in Communicative Language Teaching, as well as a workshop where students will be able to evaluate and develop materials and activities for the first semester of language instruction. Open to all languages, 1 credit. Instruction and working hours are 15 in total (50 …