01:560:101,102Elementary Italian (4,4) Speaking, reading, writing; oral-aural and written exercises. Not open for credit to students who have had two or more years of secondary school Italian.

01:560:103Intensive Elementary Italian (8) Speaking, reading, and writing; oral-aural and written exercises. Not open for credit to students who have had two or more years of secondary school Italian or 01:560:101,102.

01:560:105,106Italian for Reading Knowledge (3,3) Development of reading skills. Texts chosen from the humanities and social sciences. Does not satisfy prerequisite for 01:560:131.

01:560:107,108Elementary Italian Laboratory (1,1) Instructor-guided laboratory practicum based on intensive use of media and designed for the improvement of aural/oral skills. Corequisites: 01:560:101 (for 107); 01:560:102 (for 108).

01:560:121Italian Review (4) Intensive review and practice of Italian grammar, reading, and writing. Prerequisite: Placement test in Italian. Not open to students who have taken 01:560:101,102.

01:560:123,124Conversation (3,3) For students enrolled in Intermediate Italian and others who wish to develop fluency in speaking. Not open to students who have taken 300-level courses.

01:560:131,132Intermediate Italian (4,4) Development of fluency and accuracy in speech and composition; current reading materials. Prerequisite: 01:560:102 or equivalent.

01:560:136Intensive Intermediate Italian (8) Prerequisite: 01:560:102 or equivalent. Not open for credit to students who have taken 01:560:131,132.

01:560:250Italian Composition and Stylistics (3) Study and practice in composition to improve skills for written Italian. Analysis and imitation of writing styles and forms; vocabulary development, syntax; frequent written exercises. Pre- or corequisite: Intermediate Italian (01:560:132) or permission of department.

01:560:251 Italian Composition and Stylistics (3) Study and practice in composition to perfect skills for written Italian. Analysis and imitation of writing styles and forms; vocabulary development; syntax; frequent written exercises. Pre- or corequisite: Italian Composition and Stylistics (01:560:250) or permission of department.

01:560:261,262Masterpieces of Italian Literature (3,3) Introduction to Italian literature: from Dante to Machiavelli in the first term and from Galileo to the moderns in the second. Prerequisite: 01:560:132.

06:090:283,284The Italian Language Experience (1.5,1.5) Development of active language skills through formal instruction and the daily experience of foreign language immersion in the varied activities of the house. Limited to and required of residents of the Douglass House. May not be used in satisfaction of major requirements. Course may be repeated.

01:560:299Language Dormitory Residence (E3) Residence in the Italian section of the language dormitory for students interested in the language and culture of Italy. Graded as satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Prerequisite: Permission of the college housing authority.

01:560:305,306Advanced Language and Introduction to Literature (3,3) Refinement of speaking and writing ability. Study of advanced grammar. Introduction to the study of Italian literature.

01:560:317,318Italian Culture Today (1.5,1.5) Contemporary cultural, social, and political life in Italy with emphasis on daily experience. Field trips.

01:560:321,322Advanced Conversation: Civilization (3,3) Development of conversational ability through discussion of significant historical, social, and cultural movements in Italy.

01:560:341,342Italian Literature of the Nineteenth Century (3,3) Neoclassicism, romanticism, and verismo.�Readings from Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi, Carducci, Pascoli, Verga, D`Annunzio, and others.

01:560:347,348Italian Cinema and Literature (3,3) Comparative study of selected films and their literary sources and counterparts.

01:560:351,352Italian Literature of the Twentieth Century (3,3) Particular attention to the contemporary period. Readings from Pirandello, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, Silone, Pavese, Moravia, Vittorini, and others.

01:560:360Practical Commercial Italian (3) Study of Italian commercial organizations in Italy. Practice in business correspondence. Comparison of financial and commercial terms in English and Italian. Pre- or corequisite: Any 300-level course in Italian.

01:560:371Italian Theater (3) A survey of Italian theatrical masterpieces combined with the creative component of writing and performing a play in Italian by the class. Prerequisite: 01:560:250 or 251.

01:560:381,382The Civilization of Italy (3,3) Interdisciplinary approach to Italy`s culture, medieval to contemporary; readings and multimedia lectures highlighting masterpieces of literature, drama, music, and art. Prerequisites: 01:560:250, 251.

01:959:383,384Junior Year in Italy (BA,BA)

01:560:393,394Independent Study in Italian (3,3) Independent study and guided research on a topic selected by the student and approved by a faculty member. Individual conferences.

01:560:401,402Italian Literature of the Thirteenth and Intensive study of the most important representatives of the Sicilian and Tuscan schools, with particular attention to the Dolce Stil Novo�and the works of Dante.

01:560:405The Three Crowns of Florence: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio (3) A course on the three main authors of the fourteenth century. Readings from the Divine Comedy, Petrarch`s Lyrics, and the Decameron. Prerequisite: 01:560:250 or 251.

01:560:409,410Italian Women Writers in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (3,3) Explores the foremost issues concerning women`s writing in the Italian context. Analysis of the historically specific sense of difference in women`s literature.

01:560:415,416Dante (3,3) Critical study of Dante`s Divine Comedy�and other works in their medieval context.

01:560:421,422Italian Literature of the Renaissance (3,3) Italian writers most relevant to the development of the humanistic viewpoint and representative of the creative achievements of the Renaissance: Petrarca, Boccaccio, Poliziano, Machiavelli, Ariosto, Michelangelo, and others.

01:560:431,432Italian Literature of the Seventeenth and Readings from the works of Campanella, Marino, Galileo, Goldoni, Alfieri, Parini, and others.

01:560:491,492Topics in Italian Literature (3,3) Directed independent study of a topic selected in consultation with the instructor.

01:560:495,496Honors in Italian (3,3) Special readings and honors paper prepared under the direction of the departmental honors committee.