Italian Graduate Courses
The specific topic in each course entitled “Studies in …” will be announced at registration. Each “Studies in …” course may be repeated for credit provided the topic is different.
ITAL 701 - ITAL 754
ITAL 701. History of the Italian Language. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 704. Problems in Italian Language. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
This course can be repeated for credit, provided the topic is different.
ITAL 707, 708. Humanism and the Renaissance. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr. each semester.
ITAL 707. Special attention will be given to the historical and cultural situation in Quattrocento Italy; Poliziano, Lorenzo de’ Medici; the great centers of Florence, Naples, Rome, and Padua; the chivalric poems of Pulci and Boiardo.
ITAL 708. The questione della lingua; the treatise writers; Machiavelli, Ariosto, and Tasso. The novelle of Bandello, Firenzuola; the Counter-Reformation and the Academies.
ITAL 711. Italian Literature from its Origins to the Trecento. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 713, 714. Dante’s Divina Commedia. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr. each semester.
ITAL 715. The Early Italian Lyric and Petrarch. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 716. Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Italian Novella. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 721. Ariosto and Tasso. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 722. Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Historians, Men of Letters, and Political Thinkers. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 723. Italian Literature in the Age of the Baroque. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 725. Italian Comedy from the Renaissance to the End of the Eighteenth Century. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 726. Aspects of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Theatre. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 752. The Art and Humanism of Manzoni. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 753. Leopardi and Foscolo. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 754. Carducci, D’Annunzio, Pascoli. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 755 - ITAL 780
ITAL 755. Contemporary Italian Poetry. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 760. History of Italian Literary Criticism, from the Renaissance to De Sanctis. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 761. Italian Literary Criticism since 1870. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 762. The Modern Italian Novel. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 763. The Contemporary Italian Novel. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
ITAL 778. Advanced Translation in Italian. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
The course will deal with translation in theory and in practice and will also include linguistics and stylistics. The translation will be from English to Italian and from Italian to English.
ITAL 779. Studies in Italian Cinema. 4 hr.; 3 cr.
The course will examine different aspects of the cinematic art. The approaches include: 1) Movements (neo-realism, new wave, etc.); 2) Genres; 3) Literature into films; 4) The cinema as a socio-cultural phenomenon; 5) Cinematic stylistics. Films will be shown in Italian. Students will be expected to produce substantial works of film analysis.
ITAL 780. Trends and Events in Italian Civilization. 2 hr. plus conf.; 3 cr.
A study of the events and ideological trends of the civilization produced by Italy. Students will read and report on primary texts in fields such as political history, economics, sociology, and on significant artistic and cultural developments.
Italian American Courses
IAST 701. Problematics in Italian/American Culture. 3 hr.; 3 er. Prereq. or coreq.: None.
This course offers a close examination of the more current issues that surround Italian/American culture. Along with the theoretical and analytical writings of select intellectuals residing both within and outside the world of Italian America, the course also examines the notions and concepts of Italian/ American Studies from the perspective of “culture” in its varying manifestations.
IAST 702. Italian Americans and Ethnic Relations: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of lnterculturalism. 3 hr.; 3 er. Prereq. or coreq.: None.
This course examines immigration history from colonial America to the present with the major focus on the period from 1870 to the present Comparative analysis with other ethnic groups within the United States will highlight similar experiences regarding formation, migration, and conflict. Throughout the semester we will discuss the following themes and more: ethnic discrimination and stereotypical images of Italian Americans; the project of multiculturalism; the historiography of Columbus; the relationship between ethnicity and race, religion, and politics; the development of Italian American literature and culture, etc.
IAST 703. Italian American Literature. 3 hr.; 3 er. Prereq. or coreq.: None.
This course examines the literary contributions of Italian Americans from the early 20th century to the present. Migration, settlement patterns, linguistic hybridity, ethnic/racial consciousness, conflicts between marginal and mainstream cultures, and gender ideology will be some of the topics germane to the literature under consideration. The development of secondary criticism and its reflections on Italian American literature is instrumental in defining a canon of texts central to a cultural group. Thus, second-order reflections will be read alongside primary texts in order to examine the strategies taken to offer “protocols of reading,” compelling intertextual analysis.
IAST 704. Italian/American Cinema: Production and Representation. 3 hr.; 3 er. Prereq. or coreq.: None.
This course examines the celluloid works of some of the more prominent names in 20th-century Italian/American film. We will also see a few films, not made by Italian Americans, about Italian Americans. Along with the usual historical and thematic analyses of these works, the technique, “intention,” and narrative “responsibility” of the modern/contemporary filmmaker will be examined. More specifically: How, why, and for whom does one make films and/or write? And, if applicable, how do they fit into the modernist vis-a-vis postmodernist discourse?
Courses in Reserve
ITAL 702. Italian Stylistics.
ITAL 703. Advanced Phonetics.
ITAL 705, 706. History of Italian Literature.
ITAL 712. Dante’s Minor Works.
ITAL 751. The Pre-Risorgimento Period.