Beginning course on modern standard Japanese. Students will develop basic skills in speaking, reading, and writing. No prerequisites.

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.

Is there an Italian Superman? Do Italians love Mickey Mouse even more than Americans? Are Italians as obsessed with zombies as we are? What are the newest, most interesting Italian graphic novels and what do they tell us about Italian culture, society and history? This course will explore the history of Italian fumetti and graphic novels (in English) beginning with comics journals of the early 1900s and ending with contemporary comic books, strips and graphic novels. Students will learn how to read and interpret the hybrid language of comics, using an appropriate vocabulary for the medium.

Consolidation of language skills (esp. speaking, reading and writing). Students will broaden their exposure to Italian culture and literature through progressively more complex readings, writing, and other cultural experiences (music, film, etc.) Conducted in Italian; will count as an elective towards the Major or Minor. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Italian 240 or 246 or permission of the Department.

Course taught in English. Re-examines Italian neo-realism and the filmmakers? project of social reconstruction after Fascism. How Italian film produces meanings and pleasures through semiotics and psychoanalysis, so as to understand the specific features of Italian cinema, its cultural politics, and the Italian contribution to filmmaking and formal aesthetics. Course taught in English.

Not available at this time

The four basic skills -- speaking, reading, writing, and understanding Italian. For those with no previous experience in the language.

The four basic skills -- speaking, reading, writing, and understanding Italian. For those with no previous experience in the language.

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