The class, entirely conducted in English, gives an overview of Italian culture through the aspects that most crucially influenced world culture: geography, material culture, food, lyrical poetry, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the courts, politics, opera, and democratic reaction to dictatorship. Authors include Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Verdi, and Gramsci. Texts will be in English translation by general students and in the original Italian by the majors and minors.

Thatcher House, by arrangement. First year Programs feature small classes or discussion sections of lecture classes taught in the residence halls. In order to participate, students must register for at least two residentially based courses in each of their first two semesters at the University. Honors Colloquium (ITALIAN HO1) available.

Continuation of ITAL 230. Readings, discussion, revision of grammar and exercises. Improvement of basic language skills: speaking, writing, reading and understanding. Course taught in Italian. Prerequisites: ITAL 120 or 126

Course taught in Italian. Review of first year grammar and further development of the four skills: speaking, reading, writing, and understanding.

Not available at this time

Acquisition of the four basic skills: speaking, writing, reading and understanding. For students with no previous study of Italian. Course covers the same material as one year of Elementary Italian (110 and 120) but with greater efficiency. Successful completion of ITAL 126 followed by ITAL 246 allows student to satisfy CAS language requirement in one year.

Continuation of ITALIAN 110. Oral drills, written exercises, 3 hrs per week. Training in the four basic skills: speaking, writing, reading and understanding. Prerequisite: ITALIAN 110

Continuation of ITALIAN 110. Oral drills, written exercises, 3 hrs per week. Training in the four basic skills: speaking, writing, reading and understanding. Prerequisite: ITALIAN 110

Continuation of ITALIAN 110. Oral drills, written exercises, 3 hrs per week. Training in the four basic skills: speaking, writing, reading and understanding. Prerequisite: ITALIAN 110