Courses

• CAS LI 112: Second-Semester Italian
  Continues the CAS LI 111 basic text: grammar, conversation, compositions. Conducted in Italian. Lab required. Four hours weekly.
• 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, poetry, and plays. Conducted in Italian. Lab required.
• 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. Lab required. Satisfactory completion of CAS LI 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.
• CAS LI 250: Masterpieces of Modern Italian Literature (in English translation)
  Major works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Novels, verse, drama. Authors include Leopardi, Manzoni, Pirandello, Svevo, Montale, Pavese, Calvino.
• CAS LI 283: Twentieth-Century Culture and the Italian Film (in English translation)
  A portrait of modern Italian life as seen through cinema and screenplays. Films by Fellini, Bertolucci, Bellocchio (based on works by Pirandello, Calvino, Moravia, Pasolini) illustrate aspects of Italian cultural development in the twentieth century.
• CAS LI 285: Topics in Italian Literature (in English translation)
  Topic for Spring 2008: TBA.
• CAS LI 288: The Novel in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy (in English translation)
  An examination of well-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian novels by Manzoni, Eco, Calvino, and Bassani, among others. Novels viewed in historical and theoretical contexts.
• 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.
• CAS LI 304: Advanced Self-Expression
  Conversational skills developed through class discussions. Reading of contemporary Italian novels and articles from Italian magazines and newspapers. Review of fundamental grammatical topics and idiomatic patterns. Weekly compositions. Not open to native speakers of Italian.
• CAS LI 305: Topics in Composition and Culture
  Development of writing and oral skills through the analysis of frequent short papers in special writing labs. Topic for Spring 2011: Italy Between Unification and WWI. Discussions of literature, art, and culture at the time between Italy’s unification and World War I.
• CAS LI 306: Advanced Italian Practicum
  Fine tunes a student's ability to use Italian through emphasis on written and oral proficiency. Reading and discussion of a novel, non-fiction, and magazine articles. Three hours weekly for three months. Intensive session meets twelve hours weekly for one month. When offered during the intensive period, class work is complemented by small, informal conversation groups led by students from the Università degli Studi di Padova.
• CAS LI 340: Culture and Civilization in Italy
  Readings in history, art, literature, and contemporary journalism. A broad view of Italian culture and civilization, ancient and modern, to strengthen the student's grasp of Italian language, vocabulary, and syntax.
• CAS LI 345: Ideas and Images of the Italian Renaissance
  A seminar taught by the resident director focusing on a topic in Renaissance studies. This is a topics course, with a flexible curriculum that may be offered by faculty in history, literature, art history, classics, or history of science.
• 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.
• CAS LI 350: Italian Literature I: Medieval
  Development of techniques for reading and interpreting Italian literary texts. Historical and critical study of the first two centuries of Italian literature, 1200-1400: the early poets, Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, and Petrarch.
• CAS LI 351: Italian Literature II: Renaissance and Baroque
  Development of techniques for reading and interpreting Italian literary texts. Historical and critical study of Italian literature from 1300-1750: Boccaccio, Ariosto and Renaissance epic poetry, Machiavelli, the Baroque, Goldoni's theatre.
• 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.
• CAS LI 401: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS LI 402: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS LI 450: The Novel in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy
  An examination of the modern novel in Italy: Foscolo, Capuana, D'Annunzio, Bassani, and Calvino. The development of the novel in Italy is discussed along with related questions of narrative perspective, cultural ideologies, and historical context.

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