ITAL 1020 Elementary Italian II with Stella Mattioli and Sarah Annunziato

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM; 11:00AM-12:15PM; 12:30PM-01:45PM; 02:00PM-03:15PM

Elementary Italian II is the second class in the four-course sequence that is necessary to complete the world language requirement. In this course, students will learn to narrate in all tenses of the indicative, express opinions, make hypotheses, and give orders. They will improve their writing skills by producing a number of original texts, including blog posts, essays, and stories. Students will also develop their ability to understand spoken Italian by listening to songs, commercials, and movie clips, and they will read and study song lyrics, newspaper headlines, poems, and some short stories. Students of Elementary Italian II will also have many occasions to learn more about life in contemporary Italy as they study the country’s language.

Prerequisite: passing grade in ITAL 1010 or the equivalent.

ITAL 2020 Intermediate Italian II with Francesca Calamita

MW 02:00PM-03:15PM; 03:30PM-04:45PM

ITAL 2020 Intermediate Italian II is the fourth class in the four-course sequence which fulfills the world language requirement. In this course, students will further develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills as well as deepen their cultural literacy in Italian. You will accomplish these goals with the guidance of your professor, through review of grammar, short readings, compositions, and listening and speaking activities. Students will also have the opportunity to listen to songs, comment on works of art, watch commercials and films, read newspaper articles, analyze how the Italian language reflects the movement towards gender equality, and meet natives of Italy in your quest to become more confident and competent users of the Italian language. In this class we will learn Italian with a focus on gender equality, inclusion and diversity. 

Prerequisite: passing grade in ITAL 2010 or the equivalent.

ITAL 2030 Intermediate Italian II for Professionals with Stella Mattioli

TR 03:30PM-04:45PM

This is the fourth class in the four-course sequence that fulfills the language requirement with modules on issues applicable to the work context. Films, TV series and articles from Italian newspapers will help students to learn more about the Italian society of the new millennium and strengthen their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills at a high intermediate level appropriate for an intercultural professional environment.

ITAL 3020 Advanced Italian II with Enrico Cesaretti

MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM

Emphasis is placed on conversation, as well as composition and vocabulary. Students attending this class will deepen their knowledge of Italian culture and society, with a special focus on socio-cultural debates concerning politics, migration and gender issues. This course is designed with a series of activities focused on experiential learning to achieve fluency in Italian through real-life situations. Prerequisite: ITAL2020.

ITAL 3559 Small Screen Italy: Italian Television and Society with Sarah Annunziato

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM

On January 3, 1954, Radiotelevisone italiana beamed into Italian homes for the first time. This brand-new invention would ultimately become a staple item in households throughout the boot-shaped land. However, television signified much more for Italy than just a trendy fad. In the 1950s it symbolized the miracolo economico that transformed the country from a mostly agrarian to a predominately industrialized nation. Television also finally cemented the use of standard Italian everywhere and provided a window that enabled viewers to learn about ways of life in other parts of Italy and the world itself. This course will explore the evolution of Italian television from its golden age in the 1950s to the rise of the sceneggiato in the 1960s to the eventual birth of “quality television” in the 1980s, and finally the streaming revolution of the present-day. Within each of these eras, we will examine how television intersects with domestic and international politics, new technologies, and language. Taught in Italian.

ITTR 3680 Eve's Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Women's Writing Culture and Society with Francesca Calamita

MW 05:00PM-06:15PM

This course explores how Italian women writers have represented food in their short stories, novels and autobiographies in dialogue with the culture and society from late nineteenth century to the present. Looking how cooking and serving meals to others, while denying themselves the pleasure of eating, are depicted in Italian women’s writing helps us understand the role food and food-related-activities have played, and still play, in women’s lives. These lectures will offer a close reading of the symbolic meaning of food in narrative and the way it intersects with Italian women’s socio-cultural history and the feminist movement, addressing issues of gender, identity and politics of the body.