Undergraduate Courses for Summer 2024
French
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French 101: First Semester French
Format: Online and Synchronous
Pre-Requisite: None*
*Students with previous knowledge in French MUST take the French placement exam.
Credits: 4
Attributes: 1st sem FL, Elementary level, L&S Credit
Description: For students with no previous training in the language; oral practice and conversation, grammar, reading, vocabulary building, and study of French and Francophone cultures.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Schedule: June 17 – July 14, 2024
M/T/W/R/F – 8:55 am to 10:55 am
T/R – 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
French 102: Second Semester French
Format: Online and Synchronous
Pre-Requisite: French 101 or placement via placement exam
Credits: 4
Attributes: 2nd sem FL, Elementary level, L&S Credit
Description: Continuation of French 101.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Schedule: July 15 – August 11, 2024
M/T/W/R/F – 8:55 am to 10:55 am
T/R – 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
French 203: Third Semester French
Format: Online and Synchronous
Pre-Requisite: French 102 or placement via placement exam
Credits: 4
Attributes: 3rd sem FL, Intermediate level, L&S Credit
Description: Oral practice and conversation, grammar review, reading, vocabulary expansion, creative writing and study of French and Francophone cultures.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Schedule: June 17 – July 14, 2024
M/T/W/R/F – 8:55 am to 10:55 am
T/R – 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
French 204: Fourth Semester French
Format: Online and Synchronous
Pre-Requisite: French 203 or placement via placement exam
Credits: 4
Attributes: 4th sem FL, Intermediate level, L&S Credit
Description: Continuation of French 203 with more advanced materials. Advanced oral practice and conversation, grammar review, reading, vocabulary expansion, creative writing and study of French and Francophone cultures.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Schedule: July 15 – August 11, 2024
M/T/W/R/F – 8:55 am to 10:55 am
T/R – 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
French 211: Topic, 2024 Paris Summer Olympics
Taught in English
Format: Online and Combination of Synchronous / Asynchronous
Pre-Requisite: None
Credits: 3
Attributes: Literature Breadth, Humanities Requirement, Elementary level, L&S Credit
Description: The objective of the class is to take advantage of a mega event of global proportion with a major impact on Paris, the whole of France, and the world. This is an opportunity to put the Paris 2024 games into a historical context – Le Mouvement Olympique – and to observe and reflect on the extraordinary opportunities and challenges presented by the organization of the games. Since this class will be held during the actual Paris Olympics, it will have a unique opportunity to bring an interdisciplinary perspective and reflection to some of the major events as they happen.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Schedule: July 8th – August 18, 2024
M/W/F – 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
French 312: Advanced Writing Workshop
Taught in French
Format: Online and Synchronous
Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 228
Credits: 3
Attributes: 5th sem FL, Advanced level, L&S Credit
Description: Develop writing and oral expression at an advanced level through writing and discussion of internet journalism, translation, or creative genres.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Schedule: June 17 – August 11, 2024
M/W/F – 10:00 am to 11:50 am
Italian
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Italian 201: Accelerated First Year Italian
Format: Online and Synchronous
Pre-Requisite: None*
*Not open to students with credit for Italian 102.
Credits: 4
Attributes: 2nd sem FL, Elementary level, L&S Credit
Description: Accelerated development of oral, reading and writing skills up to a level equivalent to that of the end of ITALIAN 102. No previous knowledge of Italian is required. Does not award retrocredit.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Schedule: June 17 – August 11, 2024
M/T/W/R/F – 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Italian 350: Rome - Lust for Glory
Taught in English
Format: Online and Asynchronous
Pre-Requisite: Sophomore Standing
Credits: 3
Attributes: Literature Breadth, Humanities Requirement, Intermediate level, L&S Credit
Description: Examines the development of Rome, “the Eternal City,” and its continuing presence as both a metaphoric and physical focal point of Italian artistic and cultural sensibilities. Outline the development of Rome’s authoritative or “mythical” status in literature, art, architecture and film, beginning in the Augustan era and arriving to today, focusing on significant moments in the creation and expansion of the actual city and its cultural influence in the late-Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the era of the Risorgimento (Unification of Italy), and the rise of Fascism. Develop ability to think critically about how the diverse material productions of writers (historians, playwrights, poets), painters, sculptors, architects, philosophical thinkers, and later filmmakers of the periods covered reflect one another and reflect the ideas and ideologies of their age.
Instructor: Loren Eadie
Schedule: June 17 – August 11, 2024
Lit Trans 410: Topic, Love in Italian literature
Taught in English
Format: Online and Combination of Synchronous / Asynchronous
Pre-Requisite: Sophomore Standing
Credits: 3
Attributes: Literature Breadth, Humanities Requirement, Intermediate level, L&S Credit
Description: Dive into Italian Literature exploring the theme “Amore.” Authors that may be included are: Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio, Ludovico Ariosto, Vittoria Colonna, Giambattista Marino, Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, Igino Ugo Tarchetti, Luigi Pirandello, Dacia Maraini, Elena Ferrante.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Schedule: May 28 – July 7, 2024
M/W/F – 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Undergraduate Courses for Fall 2024
French
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French 101: First Semester French
Pre-Requisite: None*
*Students with previous knowledge in French MUST take the French placement exam.
Credits: 4
Description: For students with no previous training in the language; oral practice and conversation, grammar, reading, vocabulary building, and study of French and Francophone cultures.
Instructor: Graduate TA
French 102: Second Semester French
Pre-Requisite: French 101 or placement via placement exam
Credits: 4
Description: Continuation of French 101.
Instructor: Graduate TA
French 203: Third Semester French
Pre-Requisite: French 102 or placement via placement exam
Credits: 4
Description: Oral practice and conversation, grammar review, reading, vocabulary expansion, creative writing and study of French and Francophone cultures.
Instructor: Graduate TA
French 204: Fourth Semester French
Pre-Requisite: French 203 or placement via placement exam
Credits: 4
Description: Continuation of French 203 with more advanced materials. Advanced oral practice and conversation, grammar review, reading, vocabulary expansion, creative writing and study of French and Francophone cultures.
Instructor: Graduate TA
French 211: TOPIC - Exploring Paris
Pre-Requisite: None
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3 credits
Description: Explore Paris through diverse, historical, creative, and anecdotal perspectives offered by writers, filmmakers, and other artists.
Instructor: Joshua Armstrong
French 228: Intermediate Language and Culture
Pre-Requisite: French 204 or placement via placement exam
TAUGHT IN FRENCH
Credits: 3
Description: Enhance writing and speaking proficiency through cultural readings on France and the francophone world. Review of grammar and focus on more complex grammatical structures. A required prerequisite for the French major.
Instructors: Ritt Deitz and Graduate TA
French 271: Literature, Comics and Film in French
Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 228
TAUGHT IN FRENCH
Credits: 3
Description: An introduction to reading and analyzing literary works, comics, and film, with special emphasis on the development of writing skills in French. The program will concentrate on shorter works from the major genres of French literature, and prepare students for future study of literature.
Instructors: Ewa Miernowska and Graduate TA
French 285: Rebellious Women
Pre-Requisite: None
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3
Description: Explores how women from different francophone regions (North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East) gain agency through literature, movies, comics, and songs, contesting different forms of domination, exclusion, and injustice, based on gender, race, class, and religion.
Instructor: Nevine El Nossery
French 288: Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans Frontières)
Pre-Requisite: None
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3
Description: An overview of the global humanitarian NGO, Doctors without Borders (or Médecins sans Frontières MSF) including its history, mission, organization, and the cultural, political, and ethical challenges it faces. Explores issues of global health, social justice, and humanitarian action. Features distinguished global practitioners with first-hand experience in health crisis situations.
Instructor: Ritt Deitz
French 311: Advanced Composition and Speaking
Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 228
TAUGHT IN FRENCH
Credits: 3
Description: Learn to write essays on a variety of topics, using different registers of French, and work to correct pronunciation and improve conversation skills.
Instructor: Anne Theobald
French 321: Medieval and Early Modern French Literature
Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 271
TAUGHT IN FRENCH
Credits: 3
Description: Introduction to important literary works from the medieval era to the French Revolution.
Instructor: Jan Miernowski
French 322: Modern French and Francophone Literature
Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 271
TAUGHT IN FRENCH
Credits: 3
Description: Introduction to important literary works of modernity (from the French Revolution to the twenty-first century).
Instructor: Josh Armstrong
French 347: Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Pre-Requisite: French 311, 312, 321, 322, or 325
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3
Description: An introduction to the political, social, intellectual, artistic and literary development of French culture, from its origins to the French Revolution (1789).
Instructor: Anne Theobald
French 462: French/Francophone Cultural Studies Across the Centuries
Pre-Requisite: French 321 or 322
TAUGHT IN French
Credits: 3
Description: A study of how culture has evolved over the course of French history, in relation to a chosen topic.
Instructor: Nevine El Nossery
TOPIC: Littérature et Cinéma Francophone
Lit Trans 209: Masterpieces of French Literature and Culture
Pre-Requisite: None
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3
Description: A study of representative masterpieces of French and Francophone literature drawn from at least four different centuries. Emphasis on the interpretation of texts, important themes, and the ways literature expresses psychological and sociocultural realities. May cover topics such as: tragedies by Jean Racine, comedies by Moliere, novels by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Honore de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant and Maryse Conde, and stories by Gustave Flaubert and Albert Camus.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Italian
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Italian 101: First Semester Italian
Pre-Requisite: None*
*Students with previous knowledge in Italian MUST take the Informal Italian Placement Test (contact Mandi Schoville for information).
Credits: 4
Description: Oral practice and conversation, grammar, reading, vocabulary building, and study of Italian cultures.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Italian 102: Second Semester Italian
Pre-Requisite: Italian 101, Italian 181 or placement via informal Italian placement test*
*contact Mandi Schoville for information
Credits: 4
Description: Oral practice and conversation, grammar, reading, vocabulary building, and study of Italian cultures. Continuation of Italian 101.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Italian 203: Third Semester Italian
Pre-Requisite: Italian 102, 201 or placement via informal Italian placement test*
*contact Mandi Schoville for information
Credits: 4
Description: Conversational practice, review of grammar, viewing and discussion of Italian films, and class reading of short stories.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Italian 204: Fourth Semester Italian
Pre-Requisite: Italian 203 or placement via informal Italian placement test*
*contact Mandi Schoville for information
Credits: 4
Description: Conversation and writing practice, review of grammar, and class reading of a modern Italian novel.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Italian 230: Modern Italian Literature
Pre-Requisite: Italian 202 or 204
TAUGHT IN ITALIAN
Credits: 3
Description: A survey of Italian history, literature, art, music, politics, and popular culture of the 20th-21st centuries.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Italian 311: Advanced Italian Literature
Pre-Requisite: Italian 202 or 204
TAUGHT IN ITALIAN
Credits: 3
Description: Development of accurate and nuanced capacity for expression in Italian and for understanding the spoken and written language. Also addresses Italian phonetics and phonology to develop accurate pronunciation.composing and editing.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Italian 321: Studies in Italian Literature and Culture I
Pre-Requisite: Italian 202 or 204
TAUGHT IN ITALIAN
Credits: 3
Description: Focuses on masterworks of Italian literature in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, and on the ways in which this period laid a foundation of today’s Italian society and culture. Includes historical, social, and cultural contexts of the Medieval and Renaissance periods.
Instructor: Jelena Todorovic
Italian 340: Structures of Italian
Pre-Requisite: Italian 202, 204, or graduate/professional standing
TAUGHT IN ITALIAN
Credits: 3
Description: Examination of Italian phonetics and phonology, morphology and word formation, and syntax, with attention to contrasts with English. Prepares for advanced courses in Italian linguistics.
Instructor: Loren Eadie
Italian / Lit Trans / ILS / Poli Sci 365: Machiavelli and his World
Pre-Requisite: Satisfied Communications A requirement
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3
Description: Introduces students to the major works of Machiavelli through the close reading of his writings in cultural and historical contexts. Discussion and targeted writing assignments will aim at cultivating in students 1) a broad understanding of Machiavelli’s principal intellectual attitudes, 2) a deeper understanding of his literary sensibility, and 3) the ability to articulate controversies and complexities surrounding his thought.
Instructor: Kristin Phillips-Court
Lit Trans 200: Food Cultures in Italian Literature - FIG
FIG COURSE
Pre-Requisite: None
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3
Description: Investigate the representation of food in Italian literature from the 19th Century to the present and the connection between food and identity in Italy and Italophone culture. Covers novels, short stories and poems and work on methods of literary analysis by focusing on questions of genre, narrative structure, characters, metaphorical and allegorical interpretation, etc. The theme of food (in relation to hunger, class, gender, identity, diaspora, sustainability, etc.) is central in the literary material included.
Instructor: Grazia Menechella
Lit Trans 248: National Identity in the Global World - The Italian Case - FIG
FIG COURSE
Pre-Requisite: None
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3
Description: What is a national identity in the context of the fluid globalized world in which we live? How are identities affected by big migratory waves within the same country and, more importantly, from one country or continent to another? The Italian case is one of the many in the so-called Western world that can help us to monitor the possible answers to these questions. Through readings and discussions of novels, avant-garde manifestoes, poems, two main tasks will be accomplished. The first task of analyzing literary texts in a variety of genres (epistolary novel, historical novel, avant-garde rhetoric, poetry) to familiarize ourselves with textual analysis and some theoretical tools supporting the interpretative tasks of literary criticism. And the second task of appreciating the rhetorical devices that those texts adopt at different times of Italian modern and contemporary history.
Instructor: Ernesto Livorni
Lit Trans 254: Literature of Modern Italy - Existentialism, Fascism, Resistance
Pre-Requisite: Sophomore Standing
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3
Description: Covers Italian history and culture from the Unification (1860) to the 21st century.
Instructor: Graduate TA
Lit Trans 255: Black Death and Medieval Life Through Boccaccio's Decameron
Pre-Requisite: Sophomore Standing
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3
Description: Have you ever wondered what it was like to live during the Black Death? Were our medieval and early-modern ancestors different from us, or are we challenged with similar problems? What can we learn from their lives? And, if we could, what could we teach each other? Discuss these topics while reading one of the world’s greatest literary classics, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, a text that will make us both laugh and cry. Through reading the Decameron, investigate medicine, art, culture, music, politics, religion, interpersonal and transcultural relations, warfare, fashion, gender and gender roles, as well as everyday life in the Middle Ages and early modernity. Also examines medieval written documents, twentieth-century feminist responses to the Decameron and filmic renditions of it, medieval frescoes, historical descriptions of the plague, and modern descriptions of, and reactions to, the COVID-19 pandemic.
Instructor: Jelena Todorovic
Lit Trans 260: Italy and the Invention of America - From Columbus to Word War II
Pre-Requisite: None
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3
Description: Focuses on the central role played by Italy in the European vision of America between Columbus’s voyages and the Second World War.
Instructor: Stefania Buccini
Graduate Courses for Fall 2024
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French 820: College Teaching of French
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
TAUGHT IN French
Credits: 3
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.
Instructor: Heather Allen
French 947: Seminar - Literature Questions
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
TAUGHT IN French
Credits: 3 credits
Schedule: Tuesdays, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Description: Study of literature and culture organized thematically or by time period.
Instructor: Jan Miernowski
Theme: Les Visages du rire
French 948: Seminar - Literature Questions
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
TAUGHT IN French
Schedule: Mondays, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Description: Study of literature and culture organized thematically or by time period.
Instructor: Florence Vatan
Theme: History and Nature in Premodernity, Modernity, and Nonmodernity
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Italian 340: Structures of Italian
Pre-Requisite: Italian 202, 204, or graduate/professional standing
TAUGHT IN ITALIAN
Credits: 3
Description: Examination of Italian phonetics and phonology, morphology and word formation, and syntax, with attention to contrasts with English. Prepares for advanced courses in Italian linguistics.
Instructor: Loren Eadie
Italian 631: Features in Italian Literature
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
TAUGHT IN Italian
Credits: 3
Schedule: Thursdays, 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Description: In-depth exploration of periods and concepts of Italian literature, from the Middle Ages to Baroque period. Topics vary.
Instructor:
Italian 731: Features in Italian Literature
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
TAUGHT IN Italian
Credits: 3
Schedule: Mondays, 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Description: In-depth exploration of periods and concepts of Italian literature, from the Middle Ages to Baroque period. Topics vary.
Instructor: Kristin Phillips-Court
Theme: History, Narrative, and the Poetics of Precarity in Early Modern Italy
Italian / French 821: Issues in Methods of Teaching French and Italian
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
TAUGHT IN Italian
Credits: 1-3
Schedule: Fridays, 10:00 am to 112:00 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.
Instructor: Loren Eadie
Italian 951: Seminar - Studies in Italian Literature
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
Credits: 3 credits
Schedule: Tuesdays, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Description: Advanced seminar.
Instructor: Stefania Buccini
Topic: Identità e scrittura nel Settecento