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Italian

A la Carte: A Menu of Courses for Fall 2009

CAS LI 111 - First-Semester Italian

For beginners only, or placement examination results. Grammar, conversation practice, written exercises, and compositions. Conducted in Italian. Lab required. Four hours weekly. (If CAS LI 131 or a more advanced college-level course has been completed, this course cannot be taken for credit.)

Prereq: Placement test results.

CAS LI 112 - Second-Semester Italian

Continues the CAS LI 111 basic text: grammar, conversation, compositions. Conducted in Italian. Lab required. Four hours weekly.

Prereq: (CASLI111) or placement test results.

CAS LI 131 - Beginning Italian I for CFA Students.

Specially designed for students in the College of Fine Arts. Grammar; special attention to phonetics; reading and writing.

Prereq: CFA Students only.

CAS LI 211 - Third-Semester Italian

Intended for students with a satisfactory background in elementary Italian, who require some review of basic structures, verbs, and related essentials. Review, emphasis on composition skills, and conversation. Reading and discussion of short stories. Conducted in Italian. Lab required.

Prereq: (CASLI112) or placement test results.

CAS LI 212 - Fourth-Semester Italian

For students who wish to build active use of Italian in speaking, writing, and reading. Continuation of CAS LI 211: review, development of reading skills through analysis of contemporary texts, compositions, conversation. Satisfactory completion of CAS LI 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.

Prereq: (CASLI211) or placement test results.

CAS LI 303 - Self-Expression

Building and expansion of vocabulary through development of fluent discussion in Italian on topics of current interest. Emphasis on idiomatic expressions. Individual oral reports related to Italian culture, history, cinema, and literature. Reading of a novel. Not open to native speakers of Italian. Lab required.

Prereq: (CASLI212) or placement test results.

CAS LI 349 - Italian Seminar: Social, Political, and Cultural Life of Today's Italy

Special topics in Italian area studies, stressing access, via the press and other written and visual means, to contemporary Italian society.

Prereq:CAS LI303 or consent of the instructor

CAS LI 352 - Italian Literature III: Modern Period

Development of techniques for reading and interpreting Italian literary texts. Historical and critical study of Italian literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century: Alfieri, Romanticism and Leopardi, Verga, Capuana and verismo, theatre of Pirandello.

Prereq:CAS LI212 or consent of the instructor

CAS LI 459 - Primo Levi Within Holocaust Literature

A study of Primo Levi's writings and scientific, theological, and philosophical approaches to the Holocaust. Other theorists (Arendt, Wiesel, Muller-Hill) and other survivors' testimonies (Delbo, Borowski, Fink) are read in conjunction with Levi's works. Also offered as CAS RN 459 and CAS XL 459.

Prereq:CAS LL281 or CAS RN384, or junior standing, or instructor consent.

CAS LI 555 - Dante's Hell

A close reading of one text, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, with attention to its medieval contexts: philosophical, theological and historical. Analysis of the poetic means by which Dante represents both human evil and human hope. Bi-lingual text. Lectures and discussion in English. Also offered as CAS RN 555 and CAS XL 383.

Prereq: (CASLI350 OR CASLI351 OR CASLI352)