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- 102. Elementary Italian II
- Anna Rein M 10:30 - 11:25, W 10:30 - 11:25, F 10:30 - 11:25 Adams-104
- Continuation of Italian 101. Three class hours per week, plus weekly drill sessions and language laboratory assignments. Study of the basic forms, structures, and vocabulary. More attention is paid to reading and writing.
- 102. Elementary Italian II
- Anna Rein M 11:30 - 12:25, W 11:30 - 12:25, F 11:30 - 12:25 Adams-104
- Continuation of Italian 101. Three class hours per week, plus weekly drill sessions and language laboratory assignments. Study of the basic forms, structures, and vocabulary. More attention is paid to reading and writing.
- 204. Intermediate Italian II
- Davida Gavioli M 1:30 - 2:25, W 1:30 - 2:25, F 1:30 - 2:25 Adams-208
- Three class hours per week and one weekly conversation session with assistant. Aims to increase fluency in both spoken and written Italian. Grammar fundamentals are reviewed. Class conversation and written assignments are based on contemporary texts of literary and social interest.
- 221. Mona Lisa and the Mafia: Italian Culture across the Centuries
- Arielle Saiber M 2:30 - 3:55, W 2:30 - 3:55 Kanbar Hall - 107
- A look at Italy and Italian America through both Italian and non-Italian eyes. This course explores why Italy is one of the most beloved and romanticized countries in the world, what its dark sides are, and what created the Italian stereotypes we have today. We search for answers to these questions in literary works, philosophy, history, journalism, art, film, and on the internet. Conducted in English.
- 312. Hallucinatory Landscapes: The Fantastic in Italian Film and Literature
- Arielle Saiber M 11:30 - 12:55, W 11:30 - 12:55 Sills-Peucinian Room
- Myths of metamorphosis, fables, fairy tales, horror films, the absurd, the magical, the uncanny, the supernatural, the surreal, sci fi—what is it that characterizes the transfiguration of reality? How have Italian authors confronted and expressed deviation from the real? And how does where these deviations take place play a role in our experience of them? Explores the relationship between “the fantastic” and “space” through various literary genres and film, as well as through extensive critical theory. Primary texts include works by Boccaccio, Ariosto, Leopardi, Tarchetti, Buzzati, Landolfi, Calvino, and others; and films by Bava, Argento, Bozzetto, Salvatores, and others. In Italian.