Italian: Language, Literature, Culture (including courses in English)

• 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.)
• 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 130: Intro Ital Lang
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CAS LI 131: Beginning Italian I
  Specially designed for College of Fine Arts students. Grammar; special attention to phonetics; reading and writing.
• CAS LI 132: Beginning Italian II
  Specially designed for students in the College of Fine Arts. Continuation of CAS LI 131. Grammar; special attention to phonetics; reading and writing.
• 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.
• 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 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. Also offered as CAS CI 266.
• CAS LI 303: Self-Expression in Italian
  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.
• 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
  The course is intended to improve the writing and speaking skills of third year Italian students. The cultural topic examines Italian 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 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, 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
  

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