Department of French & Italian Course Information
The Department of French & Italian provides current course information on our website to supplement official course information published by campus. We work hard to ensure that the information presented is correct and current, however students should consult the Guide and Course, Search and Enroll for the most up-to-date information regarding course attributes, specific course offerings, days/times, location, and academic content. Please note that course offerings are subject to change at any time.
We also encourage students to explore the class notes section for each course in the Course, Search and Enroll for content provided by the instructor of the course and/or the department.
For questions about course information, please contact the Primary Curricular Representative, Mandi Schoville.
Summer 2025
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French Undergraduate
French 105: Accelerated Introductory French*
*NEW COURSE coming in Summer 2025 – Online and Synchronous
Credits: 4
Format: Online and Synchronous
Instructor: Heather Allen and a Graduate TA
Requisite: Not open to students with credit in French 102
Equivalent to taking French 101 and 102. Upon completion of this course, students can enroll in French 203.
French 312: Advanced Writing Workshop
Credits: 3
Format: Online and Synchronous
Instructor: Graduate TA’s
Requisite: French 228
Language of Instruction: French
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Italian Undergraduate
Italian 201: Accelerated First Year Italian
Credits: 4
Format: Online and Synchronous
Instructor: Graduate TA’s
Requisite: Not open to students with credit in Italian 102
Equivalent to taking Italian 101 and 102. Upon completion of this course, students can enroll in Italian 203.
Italian 205: Accelerated Intermediate Italian*
Credits: 4
Format: Online and Synchronous
Instructor: Graduate TA’s
Requisite: Not open to students with credit in Italian 204
Equivalent to taking Italian 203 and 204. Upon completion of this course, students can enroll in 5th semester Italian (ex: IT 230, IT 311, IT 312, IT 321, IT 322, IT 340).
*Previously Italian 202, updated and re-launching summer 2025
Italian 350: Rome – Lust for Glory*
Credits: 4
Format: Online and Synchronous
Instructor: Loren Eadie
Requisite: Sophomore Standing
Language of Instruction: English
*Crosslisted with ILS
Fall 2025
Foundational French Language Courses
French 101 – French 102 – French 203 – French 204
Credits: 4 each
Requisite: Follows the sequence (101, 102, 203, 204). Students must have previous course completed to move onto the next course or must place into a course.
Instructor: Graduate TA’s
FR 211: Topic – Exploring Paris
Credits: 3
Requisite: None
Instructor: Joshua Armstrong
Language of Instruction: English
French 228: Intermediate Language and Culture
Credits: 3
Requisite: French 204 or placement in French 228
Instructor: Section 001/002 – Graduate TA’s / Section 003 – Ritt Deitz
Language of Instruction: French
French 271: Literature, Comics, and Film in French
Credits: 3
Requisite: French 228
Instructor: Section 001 – Graduate TA’s / Section 002 – Florence Vatan
Language of Instruction: French
French 285: Rebellious Women from the Global South*
Credits: 3
Requisite: None
Instructor: Nevine El-Nossery
Language of Instruction: English
*Cross-listed with Gender and Womens Studies
French 288: Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontiéres)*
Credits: 3
Requisite: None
Instructor: Ritt Deitz
Language of Instruction: English
*Cross-listed with International Business
French 311: Advanced Composition and Speaking
Credits: 3
Requisite: French 271
Instructor: Section 001 – Anne Theobald / Section 002 – Florence Vatan
Language of Instruction: French
French 313: Professional Communication and Culture in the Francophone World*
Credits: 3
Requisite: French 228 or French 311
Instructor: Ritt Deitz
Language of Instruction: French
*Cross-listed with International Business
French 321: Medieval and Early Modern French Literature
Credits: 3
Requisite: French 271
Instructor: Jan Miernowski
Language of Instruction: French
French 322: Modern French and Francophone Literature
Credits: 3
Requisite: French 271
Instructor: Joshua Armstrong
Language of Instruction: French
French 347: Knights, Priests and Peasants: France 800-1789
(formerly named: Medieval and Early Modern Culture)
Credits: 3
Requisite: French 271
(former requisite: French 311, 312, 321, 322, or 325)
Instructor: Anne Theobald
Language of Instruction: French
French 461: Topic – AI Simulations and Literary Fictions*
Credits: 3
Requisite: French 321 or French 322
Instructor: Jan Miernowski
Language of Instruction: French
*Meets with French 672
French 569: Critical Approaches to Literature and Culture: French and Francophone Perspectives
Credits: 3
Requisite: One of: (French 430, 431, 449, 451, 461, 462, 464, 465, 467, or 472) or graduate/professional standing
Instructor: Nevine El-Nossery
Language of Instruction: French
French 569: Critical Approaches to Literature and Culture: French and Francophone Perspectives
Credits: 3
Requisite: graduate/professional standing
Instructor: Nevine El-Nossery
Schedule: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Description: An introduction to theoretical and critical thinking about literary and visual texts, meant to accompany and supplement interpretative skills. Fundamental notions of rhetoric (principles of versification) and principles of narratology designed to improve the practice of close reading in poetry, drama, prose, and cinema across time periods.
French 672: Topic – AI Simulations and Literary Fictions*
Credits: 3
Requisite: Graduate/professional standing
Instructor: Jan Miernowski
Schedule: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm
Description: Explores a specific topic in the history of French and/or Francophone literature and culture; includes analysis and interpretation of texts and/or film in their historical contexts. May be focused on one, or cut across different literary periods. Applies diverse interpretative methodologies to a coherent body of material.
*Meets with French 461
French 820: College Teaching of French
Credits: 3 credits
Requisite: graduate/professional standing
Instructor: Heather Allen
Schedule: Fridays, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Description: Introduction to teaching collegiate world languages with an emphasis on communicative and literacy-based pedagogical strategies.
*Meets with Italian 821
Foundational Italian Language Courses
101 – 102 – 203 – 204
Credits: 4 each
Requisite: Follows the sequence (101, 102, 203, 204). Students must have previous course completed to move onto the next course or must place into a course.
Instructor: Graduate TA’s
Language of Instruction: Italian
Italian 230: Modern Italian Culture
Credits: 3
Requisite: Italian 204 or Italian 205 (or Italian 202 prior to Summer 2025)
Instructor: Graduate TA’s
Language of Instruction: Italian
Italian 301: Italian for Reading Knowledge*
*Note: This course is only for students wanting to gain reading knowledge of Italian, typically graduate students who must fulfill a Reading Knowledge Requirement. This course does not count towards the undergraduate foreign language requirement, not does it count towards the Italian major or Italian certificate.
Credits: 3
Requisite:
(formerly: ITALIAN 204 or ITALIAN 205 (or ITALIAN 202 prior to Summer 2025), or graduate/professional standing)
Instructor: Loren Eadie
Language of Instruction: Italian
Italian 311: Advanced Italian Language
Credits: 3
Requisite: Italian 204 or Italian 205
Instructor: Ernesto Livorni
Language of Instruction: Italian
Italian 321: Studies in Italian Literature and Culture I
Credits: 3
Requisite: Italian 204 or Italian 205
Instructor: Loren Eadie
Language of Instruction: Italian
Italian 365: Machiavelli and His World*
Credits: 3
Requisite: Satisfied Communications A requirement
Instructor: Kristin Phillips-Court
Language of Instruction: English
*Crosslisted with Lit Trans, ILS and Poli Sci.
NEW COURSE
Italian 400: Italian American Cinema and TV
Credits: 3
Requisite: Sophomore Standing or graduate/professional standing
Instructor: Patrick Rumble
Language of Instruction: English
Lit Trans 200: Food Cultures in Italian Literature – FIG ONLY
Credits: 3
Requisite: None
Instructor: Grazia Menechella
Language of Instruction: English
Lit Trans 248: National Identity in the Global World: The Italian Case – FIG ONLY
Credits: 3
Requisite: None
Instructor: Ernesto Livorni
Language of Instruction: English
Lit Trans 254: In Translation: Lit of Modern Italy-Existentialism, Fascism, Resistance
Credits: 3
Requisite: Sophomore standing
Instructor: Patrick Rumble
Language of Instruction: English
Lit Trans 255: Black Death and Medieval Life Through Boccaccio’s Decameron
Credits: 3
Requisite: Sophomore standing
Instructor: Jelena Todorovic
Language of Instruction: English
Lit Trans 260: Italy and the Invention of America: from Columbus to World War II
Credits: 3
Requisite: None
Instructor: Stefania Buccini
Language of Instruction: English
Lit Trans 410: Topic – Renaissance Rebels
Credits: 3
Requisite: Sophomore standing
Instructor: Kristin Phillips-Court
Language of Instruction: English
NEW COURSE
Italian 400: Italian American Cinema and TV
Credits: 3
Requisite: Graduate/professional standing
Instructor: Patrick Rumble
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm
Language of Instruction: English
Description: General survey of the most significant film and television directors, genres, styles and themes in Italian American Film and Television, from the Early Cinema to the present. Films and TV programs engaging with the Italian American Experience will be studied within the cultural, historical, literary and ethnic contexts of North America.
Italian 659: Dante’s Divine Commedia
Credits: 3
Requisite: Graduate/professional standing
Instructor: Jelena Todorovic
Schedule: Thursdays, 2:25 pm to 4:55 pm
Description: Lectures on Dante’s life and times, reading Divine Comedy.
Italian 741: The 17th Century and Arcadia
Credits: 3
Requisite: Graduate/professional standing
Instructor: Stefania Buccini
Schedule: Tuesdays, 2:25 pm to 4:55 pm
Description: Survey of seventeenth-century Italian literature
Italian 821: Issues in Methods of Teaching French and Italian
Credits: 1-3 credits
Requisite: Graduate/professional standing
Instructor: Loren Eadie
Schedule: Fridays, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Description: Intended for instructors of elementary- and intermediate-level collegiate instructors of Italian; key concepts of communicative, literacy-oriented language teaching and related techniques for classroom instruction of Italian.
Italian 951: Seminar-Studies in Italian Literature
Credits: 3
Requisite: Graduate/professional standing
Instructor: Grazia Menechella
Schedule: Mondays, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Description: Advanced seminar. Topics vary.