SEMESTER: FALL 2018
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LitTrans 255: In Translation: Boccaccio's Decameron - The Human Comedy
LitTrans 260: In Translation: Italy and the Invention of America: from Columbus to World War II
LitTrans 254: In Translation: Lit of Modern Italy-Existentialism, Fascism, Resistance
LitTrans 410: In Translation: Special Topics in Italian Literature
LitTrans 410: In Translation: Special Topics in Italian Literature
LitTrans 365: Machiavelli and His World
SEMESTER: SPRING 2018
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French 209: Littrans: Masterpieces of French Literature and Culture
French 360: French and Italian Renaissance Literature Online
A web-based course comprising 15 week-long units, organized as a virtual journey through Renaissance Italian and French cities. Each unit includes a lecture and readings from main literary texts and cultural documents associated with the city or region.
Pre-Reqs: None
Italian 253: Littrans: Dante's Divine Comedy
Italian 360: French and Italian Renaissance Literature Online
SEMESTER: FALL 2017
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French Lit Trans 268: French Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
Italian Lit Trans 254: Literature of Modern Italy
Italian Lit Trans 255: Boccaccio's Decameron - "Black Death and Medieval Life"
Credits: 3 Contact: Jelena Todorović
This is a COMM-B course. Have you ever wondered how it was to live during the Black Death? What was society like in the Middle Ages? How did these people lay foundation of today’s society we live in? Were they really very different from us, or do we share common everyday challenges? What can we learn from them? And, if we could, what could we teach them? We will ask and answer these questions while reading one of the world’s greatest literary classics, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, a text that will make us both laugh and cry. The course will investigate literature, art, pop culture, music, politics, religion, interpersonal and transcultural relations, warfare, fashion, gender roles, and everyday life of our medieval and early modern ancestors through a variety of sources (from medieval written accounts to the twentieth-century feminist response to the representation of women, from medieval frescoes to film and Internet, etc.).
Italian Lit Trans 260 : Italy and the Invention of America
Credits: 3 Contact: Stefania Buccini
This 3-credit course will explore the central role played by Italy in the Western European vision of the Americas from Columbus’ voyages to World War II. Students will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of a broad variety of works from the late 1500s through the 1950s. Lit Trans 260 provides students with or without an Italian heritage with a unique opportunity to revisit the issue of cultural identity through literary, historical and visual texts.