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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …