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Spring 2008 Courses

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102. Elementary Italian II
Paola D'Amato M 10:30 - 11:25, W 10:30 - 11:25, F 10:30 - 11:25
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
Paola D'Amato M 11:30 - 12:25, W 11:30 - 12:25, F 11:30 - 12:25
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
Anna Rein M 9:30 - 10:25, W 9:30 - 10:25, F 9:30 - 10:25
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.

204. Intermediate Italian II
Arielle Saiber M 11:30 - 12:25, W 11:30 - 12:25, F 11:30 - 12:25
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.

208. Voices from Italy: Spoken, Written, and Online Italian
Matteo Soranzo M 11:30 - 12:55, W 11:30 - 12:55
This course will focus on the situation of contemporary Italian language and culture. We will look at different kinds of materials such as newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, recordings and transcriptions of street and online conversations, and contemporary novels from a linguistic and historical perspective. For example, we will look at the language and genres of Italian TV shows while reading recent studies on the history of Italian mass media and a novel by Stefano Benni. In this class, you will improve your fluency in written and spoken Italian while widening your knowledge of contemporary literature, film and pop culture. Also, you will acquire some general skills for interpreting the language of mass media.

232. How To Do It: Guides to the Art of Living Well in the Italian Renaissance
Arielle Saiber M 2:30 - 3:55, W 2:30 - 3:55
How can I get rich? How can I obtain power and keep it? What are “the rules” for love, sex, finding a spouse? How can I appear to be of a social class higher than I am? How can I stop being depressed? Such timeless questions were answered in innumerable advice and “how-to” manuals in the Italian Renaissance, a pre-modern period in which thoughts of self-fashioning and self-inquiry proliferated like never before. Explores a large selection of serious and satirical advice manuals on health, marriage, family, religion, education, money-making, diplomacy, war, etiquette, and patronage, etc., and draws parallels to the advice sought and given in the name of “self-help” today. Included are works such as Machiavelli’s The Prince, Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, Della Porta’s Natural Magic, Della Casa’s Galateo of Manners, and Ficino’s Book of Life. Conducted in English.

314. Italian Theater
Matteo Soranzo M 2:30 - 3:55, W 2:30 - 3:55
In the first half of the semester students study seven Italian plays and are introduced to the history of Italian theater. Students read, analyze, and produce scenes from Italian plays. At the end of the semester, student groups produce, direct, and perform a play or scenes from a variety of plays. Authors may include Ariosto, Della Porta, Machiavelli, Bruno, Gozzi, Goldoni, Alfieri, D’Annunzio, Pirandello, Bontempelli, De Filippo, Maraini, and Fo. Conducted in Italian.