A continuation of JPN 110. Development of utilization of grammar and fluency in conversational communication. About 100 more kanji are introduced for reading and writing. Prerequisite: JPN 110 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 15.

A continuation of JPN 110. Development of utilization of grammar and fluency in conversational communication. About 100 more kanji are introduced for reading and writing. Prerequisite: JPN 110 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 15.

A continuation of JPN 110. Development of utilization of grammar and fluency in conversational communication. About 100 more kanji are introduced for reading and writing. Prerequisite: JPN 110 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 15.

Offered as JNX 350 and WRT 350. This course provides students an opportunity to produce an extended reported project while exploring and critiquing contemporary forces shaping the media landscape. Required for senior journalism concentrators and open to all juniors and seniors, this course allows students to synthesize their previous journalistic experience. Students investigate contemporary journalism and methods and how these themes might influence their rhetorical, practical and ethical choices for their work in progress. This course serves as the Journalism concentration capstone.

As the Gateway course for the Journalism Concentration, this course introduces students to journalism as a profession. It uses the personal as the lens through which to survey the field. The course covers basics of the profession, such as the role of journalism in a democracy, the lifecycle of a story (where it starts, how it develops) and the anatomy of a story (what counts as a journalistic story, how journalistic stories are constructed).

Offered as GER 369wb and ITL 369wb. Both Italy and Germany arise from a combination of mobile factors, including people, languages, ideas and ideologies that move across, beyond and before national borders. This course interrogates what it means to study a modern language, specifically German and Italian, by reflecting on this fluidity and mobility of languages and cultures.

This course focuses on the Italian commedia and aims to reflect on the literary, cultural, social, and political meanings that this genre assumed through the centuries. Texts are mainly from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 1700s by authors such as Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, Ludovico Ariosto, and Carlo Goldoni. Special attention is given to modern stage performances in light of their cultural and social backgrounds.

Designed to support Intermediate Italian students to help them improve their conversational skills, this course offers intensive practice in pronunciation, vocabulary, oral comprehension and conversation. It includes class discussions, role-playing and short oral presentations. Prerequisite: two semesters of ITL 110Y or by placement.

Comprehensive grammar review through practice in writing and reading. Literary texts and cultural material constitute the base for in-class discussions and compositions. Students taking ITL 220 are strongly encouraged to take a conversation course. Taking both courses strengthens students’ confidence and ability to become proficient in Italian. Prerequisite: ITL 110Y or ITL 111 or equivalent.

Offered as ITL 211 and POR 211. This course combines the Theatre of the Oppressed, created by Augusto Boal, and Dario Fo’s and Franca Rames’ popular theatre. It also explores the fundamentals of the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”  by Paulo Freire and contributions from philosophers of Ancient Greek classical period, Italian Renaissance, and contemporary European notions, namely playwright Bertolt Brecht. In the first part, the students learn about performative, pedagogical, and social justice theories.