Recent recorded grades — Spring 2011: 3.71 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.50 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.25 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).
Spring 2027
Seminar-studies in Italian Literature
Advanced graduate seminar in Italian literature focusing on conceptions of love from the 10th to 14th centuries, with topics varying by offering.
offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Ernesto Livorni3.8/5
Summary
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.25 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Demonstrate thorough knowledge of conceptions of love between 10th and 14th centuries.
Master methods of literary and cultural analysis through analyzing and explaining texts in class.
Demonstrate critical understanding of the works studied, synthesize and define a field of inquiry in a persuasive and coherent manner.
Undertake advanced bibliographical research: identify, select, retrieve, and make effective use of primary and secondary sources pertaining to questions in this course.
Write competent critical and analytical essays about texts studied.
Lead a well-informed discussion of medieval literature and culture utilizing an adequate proficiency of Italian and English.
Demonstrate, in class discussions and in the writing of their final papers, an originality of thinking and insight that reaches beyond the current boundaries of knowledge in the field.
Communicate and defend complex ideas in a clear and understandable manner, in both Italian and English.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
175175 letter grades
A79.4%79.4%
AB15.4%15.4%
B4.0%4.0%
BC0.0%0.0%
C1.1%1.1%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Prerequisites
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- Graduate/professional standing
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- Graduate/professional standing
Professors
Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
ERNESTO LIVORNI is recorded teaching in Spring 2011, Spring 2022, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
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| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 20 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.25 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
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Topics
- Conceptions of love in the 10th to 14th centuries
- Medieval literature and culture
Skills
- Advanced bibliographical research and source retrieval
- Writing critical and analytical essays
- Bilingual communication and defense of complex ideas
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
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Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A87.5%87.5%
AB12.5%12.5%
B0.0%0.0%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Seminar-Studies in Italian Literature
Recorded 2026-10-14Mimesis, Art and Life
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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