Courses

• 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, and Dante. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS LI 351: Italian Literature II: Renaissance and Baroque
  Techniques for analysis of Italian texts from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, a play of Nicolò Machiavelli's, Ludovico Ariosto, female love-poets of the sixteenth century, the Baroque poetry of Giambattista Marino. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• 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. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS LI 354: Contemporary Italian Literature
  Overview of Italian literature from WWII to the present, covering the representation of the post-war condition, industrial development, geographical and cultural identity crises, and emerging social problems of modern Italy. Includes guest visits from contemporary authors. Taught in Italian.
• CAS LI 355: Migrant Italian Literature
  Study of contemporary Italian literature emerging from Italy's immigrant populations and non-native Italian speakers. Explores how these works engage with the "Italian experience" and forge a new Italian identity. Includes guest visits from contemporary authors. Taught in Italian.
• 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.
• CAS LI 453: Autobiography and the Confessional Novel
  Discussion of Italian autobiographical and confessional novels, concentrating on theoretical questions of self-representation and the differences between confession and autobiography. Authors read: Capuana, D'Annunzio, Svevo, and Aleramo.
• 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.
• CAS LI 473: The Masters of Italian Cinema
  The creative work of Fellini, Visconti, Antonioni, Bertolucci, and De Sica as expressions of a specific cultural perspective on Italian life of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Additional focus on several novels and screen plays that have influenced the work of the directors.
• CAS LI 491: Directed Study: Italian
  Application form available in department.
• CAS LI 492: Directed Study: Italian
  Application form available in department.
• CAS LI 553: Petrarch and the Tradition of Love Poetry
  Petrarch's Canzoniere and earlier philosophical love poems in Italian. Study of later English, French, Spanish poems in the Petrarchan style. Bilingual texts available.
• 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.
• CAS LI 556: Dante: The Divine Comedy II: Purgatorio and Paradiso
  Focus on the literary, philosophical, and theological ideas Dante uses to represent his experience of himself and of human nature. Bi-lingual texts. Lectures and discussions in English. Also offered as CAS RN 556 and CAS XL 385.
• CAS LI 590: Topics in Modern Italian Literature and Criticism
  Topic for Spring 2011: TBA.
• CAS LJ 111: First-Semester Japanese
  Introduction to spoken and written Japanese and to fundamentals of Japanese grammar with oral drills and written exercises.
• CAS LJ 112: Second-Semester Japanese
  Introduction to spoken and written Japanese and to fundamentals of Japanese grammar with oral drills and written exercises.
• CAS LJ 211: Third-Semester Japanese
  Elaboration and refinement of the fundamental skills introduced in CAS LJ 111, 112 with an introduction to reading and composition.

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