01:560:231,232Italian Culture (3,3) First term: Italy`s historical, social, and cultural evolution; achievements and contributions to Western civilization. Second term: social and political reality of present-day Italy; achievements and major problems. |
01:560:241,242Masterpieces of Italian Literature (3,3) Readings and discussion of representative works: from Dante to Machiavelli in the first term and from Galileo to contemporary writers in the second. |
01:560:253Major Works of the Italian Renaissance (3) Historical overview of Italian Renaissance civilization in Florence and other major centers; significant works of representative writers, composers, and artists. |
01:560:254Modern Italian Literary Masterpieces (3) Comparative study of selected narrative, lyrical, and dramatic works of modern Italy. |
01:560:255The Italian Short Story (3) Exemplary masterpieces of Italian short-story writing from the early collections to the classics of the Renaissance and the modern and contemporary masters of the art. |
01:560:304Introduction to Italian Linguistics (3) History of the Italian language and its position within the Romance languages; problems of the description of modern Italian; linguistic materials. |
01:560:315Dante and Medieval Culture (3) Dante`s work in historical perspective: the theological antecedents, the memory of the classical writers, and the new profane literary experience. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:315. |
01:560:331,332Dante in Translation (3,3) Critical study of Dante in translation: the Divine Comedy and other works in their medieval context. |
01:560:335,336Italian Opera (3,3) Italian opera and its cultural milieu from its origin to the present. Libretti and related literature, recordings, and possible attendance at performances. |
01:560:339,340The Italian-American Experience (3,3) Literature of the struggle for survival, adaptation, and success of Italians in the U.S.; their search for identity; their impact on the development of American life and culture. |
01:560:345,346The Italian Cinema (3,3) Development of cinema in Italy; its rebirth after World War II and the achievements of the major directors: Visconti, Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Antonioni, and others. |
01:560:349,350Italian Cinema and Literature (3,3) Development of Italian cinema from neorealism to today (Visconti, Fellini, Wertmuller, and others) and the literature that inspired it and was influenced by it. May not be used in satisfaction of major requirements. Credit not given for both these courses and 01:560:347,348. |
01:560:356Women in Italian Literature and Society (3) Women in the cultural and social milieu of both historical and present-day Italy as portrayed in works of literature and art as well as by today`s mass media. |
01:560:443Contemporary Man's Search for Identity, Dignity, and Justice: The Drama of Pirandello and Betti (3) Discussion of several of the authors` most mature and brilliant plays illustrating contemporary man`s feeling of confusion, alienation, and outrage, and his eternally unsatisfied search for identity and dignity. |
01:560:446Contemporary Italian Literature in Translation (3) Study of selected writers illustrating the main currents of twentieth-century Italian literature: Pirandello, Montale, Moravia, Pavese, Betti, and others. |
