Intensive Elementary Italian

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.

Introduction to Italian Lit I

This course's main goals are articulated around one overarching activity: the comprehension of human experience as reflected in Italian literary documents of the pre-modern period, ca. 1225-1650, and the application of that knowledge to contemporary issues. Although the points of comparison are not necessarily direct (we start with Aristotle rather than modern philosophers), all the questions addressed are of vital interest to anyone who asks the fundamental philosophical questions of life. Who am I? What am I doing here? How should I live? and so on.
Subscribe to