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20 courses
ROME: LUST FOR GLORY examines the development of Rome as a metaphoric and physical focal point of Italian artistic and cultural sensibilities from the Augustan era to today.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2025 · limited sampleFirst Semester Italian covers oral practice, conversation, grammar, reading, vocabulary, and the study of Italian cultures.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Matteo Billeri, Patrizia De Luca
The workload included online homework, writing assignments, and daily work. One student found the material easy if they studied, while another noted it was manageable with consistent daily effort.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Second Semester Italian covers oral practice, conversation, grammar, reading, vocabulary building, and the study of Italian cultures.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Irene Hatzopoulos
There was a fair amount of homework, which students considered essential to the class, while quizzes, tests, and oral exams were not difficult if you studied.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Accelerated Introductory Italian develops speaking, reading, and writing skills; equivalent to completing ITALIAN 101 and ITALIAN 102.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Explores the history of Italian immigration to the US and its effects on identity through literature and film, examining race, ethnicity, and socio-cultural relationships.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2026–Spring 2026 · limited sampleFourth Semester Italian focuses on conversation, writing, grammar review, and reading a modern Italian novel.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Anna Rockwell
Homework was required nightly, but worksheets took at most an hour to complete. Exams were manageable if students attended class and studied.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleAccelerated development of Italian oral, reading and writing skills, equivalent to the completion of bothITALIAN 203andITALIAN 204.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Directed Study course for independent study as arranged with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Directed Study in Italian is an independent study course arranged with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Advanced Italian writing workshop focusing on expository composition, grammatical precision, rhetorical techniques, and strategies for composing and editing.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2025 · limited sampleStudies in Italian Literature and Culture II examines genres and media including poetry, drama, novel, short story, cinema, and television from 1600 to the present, emphasizing cultural and historical contexts.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2025 · limited sampleGraduate survey of Italian literature from Mid-Modernity to the 21st century, taught in Italian.
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Fall 2023–Fall 2023 · limited sampleSenior Honors Thesis is an individual mentored study for seniors completing theses for Honors in the Major, arranged with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Individual mentored study for seniors completing theses for Honors in the Major, arranged with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Italian Directed Study is an independent study course arranged with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Directed Study is an independent study course in Italian, arranged with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Graduate course exploring periods and concepts of Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period, taught in Italian.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2024–Fall 2024 · limited sampleIndependent Study in Italian, arranged with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Advanced graduate seminar in Italian literature focusing on conceptions of love from the 10th to 14th centuries, with topics varying by offering.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleIndividual research in connection with the doctoral dissertation.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history