Category: Italian Courses

SUD: Storia, letteratura, teatro e cinema.

This course is specifically designed to theorize practice through teaching strategies such as video feedback, video conferencing, video mails; in addition to shared reflection and/or creation of small language learning videos. It is intended to help TAs, in-service language teachers and graduate students develop understandings regarding the acquisition, learning and teaching of languages in the …

Voci di donne fra Sei e Settecento This course will offer graduate students a broad overview of seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Italian women writers: Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia Marinella, Arcangela Tarabotti, Sara Copio Sullam, Luisa Bergalli, Petronilla Paolini Massimi, Faustina Maratti Zappi, Elisabetta Caminer Turra, Diodata Saluzzo, and others. Selected works will be analyzed in a …

Critical Theory and Aesthetics.

Introduction to structural similarities and differences in major Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) and to their historical developments, with reference to basic linguistic features of each language: phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon.  Does not count toward the French major.  Crosslisted with French, Portug, Spanish.  Prerequisite: Span 226 or Portug 226 or French 228 or …

This course provides an overview of Italian grammar with numerous readings to build vocabulary. Geared towards graduate students who wish to acquire a reading knowledge of Italian.  Intensive grammar; readings from appropriate texts in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. At the end of the course students should be able to read at an advanced level of proficiency. Gives …

This seminar considers Machiavelli’s place within the society of letters, or more broadly, within the humanistic tradition. Students will seek to grasp the thread of his thinking across diverse texts and genres, while also evaluating the value, fortune and criticism of each work. Professor Kristin Phillips-Court (phillipscour@wisc.edu)

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.  1 credit. Instruction and working hours are 15 in total (50 minutes each session). Students …

This course offers a survey of 17th-century Italian  literature and examines the development of specific literary genres in the contexts of cultural and intellectual history. It provides methodologies and philological instruments necessary to the critical reading of a variety of narrative and poetic texts in the perspective of  literary and cultural cross-currents of this time …

Besides offering a survey of early Italian authors while focusing on literary motifs and genres, this course emphasizes the importance of material culture and the necessity of its full consideration in textual criticism and interpretation of texts in general. Professor Jelena Todorovic (jtodorovic@wisc.edu).