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ITA 103S | BASIC ITALIAN II FOR SUMMER | 6 quarter hours ITALIAN (ITA) (Undergraduate) (Covers the equivalent of the second half of ITL 102 and all of ITL 103.) ITA 101 | BASIC ITALIAN I | 4 quarter hours The second half of beginning Italian. Further work on the basic elements (Undergraduate) of the , spoken as well as written, with due regard to the This course is an introduction to the language and culture of , the cultural context of Italian expression. first in the three-quarter beginning Italian sequence. Focus is on the ITA 104 | INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN I | 4 quarter hours development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills and the (Undergraduate) study of Italian culture through language. Class activity will consist This course is the first quarter of the second-year sequence in Italian mainly of interactive oral exercises based on material in the textbook, language and culture. It gives students the opportunity to expand and online, and from other sources. The course aims to provide students improve the four basic language skills (speaking, understanding, reading, with basic functional skills in Italian. Italian 101 focuses on introducing writing) while exploring Italian culture through study of the language. and talking about oneself (interests, occupation, leisure activities, likes, Class activity will consist mainly of interactive oral exercises based dislikes), ordering in a cafe and restaurant, addressing others formally or on material in the textbook, online, and other sources. By the end of informally, and everyday life. By the end of the beginning Italian sequence, the intermediate Italian sequence, students should be able to engage students should be able to engage in basic conversation on a variety in conversation with native speakers on a variety of everyday topics, of topics, write simple paragraphs, and read passages in contemporary communicate in writing through social media, formal correspondence, Italian. and short compositions and understand a variety of authentic Italian ITA 101S | BASIC ITALIAN I FOR SUMMER | 6 quarter hours texts. ITA 103 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of (Undergraduate) instructor, is recommended. (Covers the equivalent of the ITL 101 and the first half of ITL 102.) The ITA 105 | INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN II | 4 quarter hours first half of beginning Italian. Further work on the basic elements of the (Undergraduate) Italian language, spoken as well as written, with due regard to the cultural This second is the first quarter of the second-year sequence in Italian context of Italian expression. language and culture. It gives students the opportunity to expand and ITA 102 | BASIC ITALIAN II | 4 quarter hours improve the four basic language skills (speaking, understanding, reading, (Undergraduate) writing) while exploring Italian culture through study of the language. This course is an introduction to the language and , the Class activity will consist mainly of interactive oral exercises based second in the three-quarter beginning Italian sequence. Focus is on on material in the textbook, online, and other sources. By the end of the development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills and the intermediate Italian sequence, students should be able to engage the study of Italian culture through language. Class activity will consist in conversation with native speakers on a variety of everyday topics, mainly of interactive oral exercises based on material in the textbook, communicate in writing through social media, formal correspondence, online, and from other sources. The course aims to provide students and short compositions and understand a variety of authentic Italian with basic functional skills in Italian. Italian 102 focuses on talking texts. ITA 104 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of about social network (e.g. family, friends, colleagues), food and dishes, instructor, is recommended. lifestyle and daily routine, planning and managing a trip, communicating ITA 106 | INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN III | 4 quarter hours past events or activities. By the end of the beginning Italian sequence, (Undergraduate) students should be able to engage in basic conversation on a variety This course is the third quarter of the second-year sequence in Italian of topics, write simple paragraphs, and read passages in contemporary language and culture. It gives students the opportunity to expand and Italian. improve the four basic language skills (speaking, understanding, reading, ITA 103 | BASIC ITALIAN III | 4 quarter hours writing) while exploring Italian culture through study of the language. (Undergraduate) Class activity will consist mainly of interactive oral exercises based This course is an introduction to the language and culture of Italy, the on material in the textbook, online, and other sources. By the end of third in the three-quarter beginning Italian sequence. Focus is on the the intermediate Italian sequence, students should be able to engage development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills and the in conversation with native speakers on a variety of everyday topics, study of Italian culture through language. Class activity will consist communicate in writing through social media, formal correspondence, mainly of interactive oral exercises based on material in the textbook, and short compositions and understand a variety of authentic Italian online, and from other sources. The course aims to provide students texts. ITA 105 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of with basic functional skills in Italian. Italian 103 focuses on describing instructor, is recommended. one's personality and appearance (for example one's physical traits and ITA 130 | MOLILSAP STUDY ABROAD | 2 quarter hours fashion style), carrying out a survey and talking and asking about future (Undergraduate) events, renting an apartment, talking about animals, understanding Italian This course is specially designed to complement the Modern Language social habits, traditions, diversity. By the end of the beginning Italian Introductory Languages Study Abroad programs, linked to the third sequence, students should be able to engage in basic conversation quarter of the first year language program. The course will be taught on a variety of topics, write simple paragraphs, and read passages in abroad. contemporary Italian. ITA 197 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN ITALIAN | 4 quarter hours (Undergraduate) See schedule for current offerings. 2 Italian (ITA)

ITA 198 | STUDY ABROAD | 1-8 quarter hours ITA 260E | EAT ITALY: THE HISTORY, CULTURE AND POLITICS OF ITALIAN (Undergraduate) FOOD | 4 quarter hours Variable credit. (Undergraduate) ITA 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | 0.5-8 quarter hours TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. In this course students will look at the modern (Undergraduate) and contemporary history of Italian food in Italy and the United States to explore and reflect on the material, symbolic, personal, and political Variable credit. implications of this global commodity. Through a variety of primary ITA 201 | ADVANCED COMMUNICATION I | 4 quarter hours sources both textual and visual and multidisciplinary critical sources, (Undergraduate) students will discuss the symbolic and material forces that shaped food This course is designed for students of Italian language and culture at the choices; the production, marketing, preparation, and consumption of advanced level who wish to secure their knowledge of Italian structure, meals; and the access to food from Italy's Unification to the present. expand their vocabulary and cultural literacy, and work on their writing Weekly topics will span from cinema's most memorable Italian meals to skills. The 200-level sequence creates opportunities for students who ethnographic studies of everyday meals in twenty-first century Italian already have significant background in Italian to make progress in all families; from the success of Pellegrino Artusi's cookbook to the star four areas of language acquisition (reading, understanding, writing and system of Italian-American celebrity chefs to Italian-American culinary speaking). This quarter will focus on Italian and regional literature. The course will conclude with a small-group practicum in which culture. Students will gain a familiarity with the physical and political students will document and reflect upon their own process in preparing map of Italy, as well as selected topics in cultural geography, Italian and eating an Italian meal. history and current events. Students will also review Italian as students work on their language skills through class discussion and ITA 262E | STYLE MATTERS: THROUGH LITERATURE | targeted assignments. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or 4 quarter hours permission of instructor, is recommended. (Undergraduate) TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. This course is an introduction to Italian fashion ITA 202 | ADVANCED COMMUNICATION II | 4 quarter hours from the early-modern period to the present, with an emphasis on (Undergraduate) understanding fashion through literature in which dress is centrally This course is designed for students of Italian language and culture featured. The word 'style' is derived from the Latin 'stilus' or writing at the advanced level who wish to secure their knowledge of Italian tool, an etymology that invites us to investigate the shared language structure, expand their vocabulary and cultural literacy, and work on of the discourse on the arts. We will thus learn to appreciate the formal their writing skills. The 200-level sequence creates opportunities for qualities of dress (the lines, shapes, proportions, fabrics, colors, patterns students who already have significant background in Italian to make and decorations) that identify the style of a period or designer, and progress in all four areas of language acquisition (reading, understanding, the linguistic choices, tropes and figures of writers of the period who writing and speaking). This quarter will focus on Italian culture and incorporated fashion in their writing. Costume books and literary sources, society through history. Students will also review as from Baldassarre Castiglione's Book of the to Elena Ferrante's students work on their language skills through class discussion and Troubling Love, will be complemented by reproductions of paintings, targeted assignments. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or prints, sketches, drawings, photographs, and film. Critical texts will permission of instructor, is recommended. help us unveil the complex aesthetic, political, and social functions that ITA 203 | ADVANCED COMMUNICATION III | 4 quarter hours dressmakers, writers, and society as a whole attributed to fashion as (Undergraduate) they pursued beauty or another aesthetic experience, but also exerted This course is designed for students of Italian language and culture at the power, challenged definitions of gender, expressed sexuality, or displayed advanced level who wish to secure their knowledge of Italian structure, wealth. Some of the questions we will ask are: what is a style? Is fashion expand their vocabulary and cultural literacy, and work on their oral and art or a language? How does the literary representation of fashion change writing skills. The 200-level sequence creates opportunities for students through the centuries? When and how does operate? What can who already have significant background in Italian to make progress in all we learn about a period?s aesthetics through descriptions of gendered four areas of language acquisition (reading, understanding, writing and clothing in literature? How does a color or fabric function as a tool for speaking). This quarter students will focus on topics in Italian history, identity building or disguise, as a symbol of emancipation and revolution literature, and culture from Fascism to the present. Students will also or conformism? Do ethics have a role in the production and consumption review Italian grammar as they work on their language skills through of fashion as a commodity?. class discussion and targeted assignments. ITA 106 or equivalent, ITA 297 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN ITALIAN | 4 quarter hours including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. (Undergraduate) See schedule for current offerings. ITA 298 | STUDY ABROAD | 1-8 quarter hours (Undergraduate) Variable credit. ITA 299 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | 0.5-8 quarter hours (Undergraduate) Variable credit. Italian (ITA) 3

ITA 301 | ORIGINS OF : THE | 4 ITA 304 | ITALIAN CIVILIZATION I: THE MIDDLE AGES AND quarter hours | 4 quarter hours (Undergraduate) (Undergraduate) This course will introduce students to the major developments in Italian This course introduces students to medieval and Renaissance Italy, from literature from its origins to Dante's Vita nuova. Topics will include: the about the year 1000 through 1600. Students will discover the social origins of Italian in the courtly tradition; medieval popular song and political history and the art and literature of this critical period of and verse; the and the court of Frederick II; northern Italian Western civilization. They will follow the emergence of the ; the didactic and spiritual literature; Tuscan lyric and the "." development of the medieval court and city, the era of Dante and Giotto, As students familiarize themselves with the historical, philosophical the rise of and the Renaissance with towering figures such and religious context of medieval writers, they will also learn about as Machiavelli, Leonardo, and , and study the figures of the poetic verse forms and techniques of close literary analysis. ITA 106 courtier, historian, politician, artist, and letterato in the High Renaissance. or equivalent, including placement test or permission of instructor, is By reading medieval and Renaissance texts in the original, students recommended. will expand their understanding of language as a process in constant ITA 302 | MASTERPIECES OF THE | 4 quarter change. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of hours instructor, is recommended. (Undergraduate) ITA 305 | TOWARDS UNIFICATION: ROMANTICS, REVOLUTIONARIES, During the Renaissance the questions raised by human experience in the AND REALISTS | 4 quarter hours world came to the forefront of intellectual and artistic inquiry. Starting (Undergraduate) in the fifteenth and more prominently in the sixteenth centuries, Italian This course presents an overview of Nineteenth Century Italian prose writers and artists developed new concepts of subjectivity and agency and poetry. In Italian 305, students will explore themes and cultural and looked at human identity as something made rather than found. This realities in the literary works we read. Students will also hone our skills at course explores how sixteenth century Italian intellectuals and artists interpreting works of literature and read some of the great masterpieces experimented and reflected on fashioning their selves through speaking, of Italian literature. In class, in-depth analisi testuali will be emphasized. writing, self-portraiture, clothing and other practices. Readings include By the end of the quarter, students should have a firm understanding selections of comedies, love and epic poems, letters, autobiographies, of the different natures of poetry and prose as forms of expressions, how-to manuals, political treatises and memoirs by Niccolo Machiavelli, know the major writers of the nineteenth century, and be able to explain Baldassarre Castiglione, Gaspara Stampa, Moderata Fonte, Lodovico the texts read in class not only as works of literature but as cultural Ariosto, , and others. ITA 106 or equivalent, including "artifacts" of a particular period of Italian history. ITA 106 or equivalent, placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. ITA 303 | LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IN ITALY: 1600-1800 | 4 quarter ITA 306 | AND BEYOND: TWENTIETH CENTURY WRITERS AND hours CULTURE | 4 quarter hours (Undergraduate) (Undergraduate) Should literature primarily educate or entertain? Should it follow the This course presents an overview of Twentieth Century Italian prose and model of ancient masters or explore experimentation and novelty? theater. In Italian 306, students will explore themes and cultural realities Should scientific prose be simple or adorned? What is the role of human in the literary works read. Students will also hone skills at interpreting reason, imagination, and divine Providence in shaping history? Does each works of literature. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or language have a specific genius? Should an autobiography be simply permission of instructor, is recommended. accurate or imaginative? These are just a few of the compelling questions ITA 307E | DANTE'S : THE WORLD OF THE CONDEMNED | 4 raised by Italian poets, writers, historians, politicians, philosophers, and quarter hours scientists of the seventeenth and eighteen centuries. Readings from (Undergraduate) this course will include works from these disciplines, and selections TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. The primary goal of Italian 307E is to provide from literary masterpieces such as Emanuele Tesauro's treatise Il students with an understanding of and appreciation for Dante's Inferno. cannocchiale aristotelico, 's Dialogo sopra i due massimi Students will learn techniques of close literary analysis. They will learn sistemi del mondo, Giovan Battista Marino's poem Adone, Giambattista about classical and medieval history, , and poetry. Vico's Principi di scienza nuova, 's comedy La locandiera, They will become acquainted with the extraordinary cultural and political 's poem Il giorno and Vittorio Alfieri's autobiographical reality of fourteenth-century and Dante's life. Above all, they will Vita. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of have ample time and space to consider Dante's amazing poem. Advanced instructor, is recommended. Italian students will have the option to develop their written and spoken Italian while learning to read Dante's beautiful verses in the original. 4 Italian (ITA)

ITA 308E | DANTE'S AND PARADISE: THE REALM OF ITA 312 | ITALIAN DRAMA | 4 quarter hours SALVATION | 4 quarter hours (Undergraduate) (Undergraduate) This course approaches the tradition of Italian drama. Topics may TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. This course is a continuation of Italian 307E. range from the Middle Ages to the present through a multidisciplinary Italian 308E provides students with an understanding of and appreciation perspective. The close reading and discussion of primary sources, a basic for Dante's and . Students will learn techniques overview of the history of Italian drama, several reading comprehension of close literary analysis. They will learn about classical and medieval and creative writing assignments, and a staged reading will guide history, philosophy, theology and poetry. They will become acquainted understanding and appreciation of masterpieces such as Goldoni's La with the extraordinary cultural and political reality of fourteenth-century locandiera and Pirandello's Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore as well as Florence and Dante's life. Above all, they will have ample time and space less widely known but equally fascinating and powerful pieces such to consider Dante's amazing poem. Advanced Italian students will have as Jacopone da 's medieval lauda Donna de Paradiso, cardinal the option to develop their written and spoken Italian while learning to Bibbiena's Renaissance comedy La calandria, and Raffaella Battaglini's read Dante's beautiful verses in the original. postmodern play Conversazione per passare la notte. The course will also ITA 309 | THE ITALIAN NOVEL | 4 quarter hours address the linguistic, stylistic, social, and ideological issues raised by (Undergraduate) the playwrights. Ultimately this class will provide a deep understanding This course approaches the tradition of the Italian novel. Topics of Italian culture through drama and give a unique chance to use, may range from the long prose fiction of the late Middle Ages to the expand, and refine Italian language skills. ITA 106 or equivalent, including contemporary novel through a multidisciplinary perspective. The course placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. may also analyze specific genres such as the historical novel, the ITA 317 | ITALIAN WOMEN WRITERS | 4 quarter hours coming-of-age novel, the detective story, the noir. The close reading (Undergraduate) and discussion of primary sources, a basic overview of the history of This course will explore the rich history of women writers in Italian from the Italian novel, several reading comprehension and creative writing the Middle Ages to the present. As students follow the changing social, assignments, will guide understanding and appreciation of the work of political, and ideological obstacles that women overcame in writing, classics such as Boccaccio, Sacchetti, Bandello, Basile, Cellini, Alfieri, they will discover the rich history of Italian women letter writers, poets, Foscolo, Casanova, Manzoni, Nievo, Verga, Serao, Svevo, and Salgari journalists, essayists, novelists, philosophers, scholars, translators, as well as more recent masters such as Moravia, Deledda, Calvino, and literary critics. The course will introduce their diverse biographies Gadda, , Ginzburg, Morante, and Eco, and the new voices of and linguistic and stylistic talent in voicing their beliefs, concerns, and the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course also address the values through writing in a variety of genres and disciplines. Major figures linguistic, stylistic, social, and ideological issues raised by the writers. include Caterina da , Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, Moderata Ultimately this class will provide a deep understanding of Italian culture Fonte, , Anna Banti, Liala, Alba De Cespedes, Antonia through the novel and offer ample time to use, expand, and refine Italian Pozzi, Amelia Rosselli, Natalia Ginzburg, Liliana Cavani, Adriana Cavarero, language skills. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or , and Elena Ferrante. ITA 106 or equivalent, including permission of instructor, is recommended. placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. ITA 310 | PETRARCA AND BOCCACCIO | 4 quarter hours ITA 318 | CONTEMPORARY MULTICULTURAL WRITERS IN ITALIAN | 4 (Undergraduate) quarter hours This course will introduce students to the life and works of two towering (Undergraduate) figures of fourteenth-century Italian literature, Francesco Petrarca and In this course students will explore the rich landscape of multicultural . The class will focus on select close reading of these writers in Italian after 1990. The course will begin with a survey of the authors' major works, the Canzoniere and . Students will recent history of migration in Italy from a variety of countries in Africa, place these works within the broader context of fourteenth-century social Asia, Eastern Europe, South America and the Middle East and place it in and economic history. Students will also learn techniques of poetic and the context of global migration. Students will then delve into a linguistic, narrative analysis. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or stylistic, and thematic analysis of the works of writers such as Pap permission of instructor, is recommended. Khouma, Tahar Lamri, Igiaba Scego, Laila Wadia, Gabriella Kuruvilla, ITA 311 | | 4 quarter hours Cristina Ali-Farah, Amara Lakhous, Ron Kubati, Anilda Ibrahimi, and (Undergraduate) Gabriella Ghermandi. Their novels and short stories will provide an opportunity to reflect on the construction of identity and otherness This course approaches the tradition of Italian poetry. Topics vary from the Middle Ages to the present through a multidisciplinary perspective. in a multicultural society, and experiences of exile, displacement, and The close reading and discussion of primary sources, a basic overview racism. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of of the history of Italian poetry, several reading comprehension and instructor, is recommended. creative writing assignments, and a poetry reading will guide students' understanding and appreciation of the work of classics such as Dante, , Sannazaro, Bembo, Stampa, Leopardi, D'Annunzio, Pascoli, as well as more recent masters such as Pasolini, Montale, Saba, Valduga, Zanzotto, and new voices of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course will also address the linguistic, stylistic, social, and ideological issues raised by the poets. Ultimately this class will provide a deep understanding of Italian culture through poetry and give a unique chance to use, expand, and refine Italian language skills. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. Italian (ITA) 5

ITA 319 | CILS EXAMINATION PREPARATION COURSE | 4 quarter hours ITA 332 | ITALIAN CIVILIZATION II: EARLY MODERN ITALY | 4 quarter (Undergraduate) hours The CILS Preparation is a rigorous and intensive preparatory course for (Undergraduate) the B2 Certification of Italian as a Foreign Language (CILS). The B2 level This course presents an overview of Baroque, Enlightenment and Pre- officially attests non-native speakers' high intermediate competency Risorgimento civilization and culture. Students will explore literature, but in Italian. Therefore, students should already be at the intermediate/ also art, architecture, science, politics and other areas of civilization as advanced level when they enroll in the course. The CILS is awarded by they relate to the artistic world. Primary sources may include Tommaso the Universita per Stranieri in Siena and is recognized by the Italian Campanella's utopia The City of the Sun; the scientific treatises of Galilei, Government. The course will be conducted as a workshop. Students will Torricelli, and Redi; the sculptures of Bernini and Canova; Metastasio's review all the grammar elements required for this level, perform listening libretti; 's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, Goldoni and reading comprehension activities, and refine writing and oral skills. and Alfieri's autobiographies. By the end of the quarter, students will The CILS Exams are scheduled twice a year, at the beginning of June have a firm understanding of this period, know the major figures of these and December. The exam lasts about four hours and requires a separate centuries, and will be able to discuss the texts and images in class registration and fee. DePaul University is an official testing site for the as cultural "artifacts" of a particular period of Italian history. ITA 106 exam, and one of the few sites outside of Italy to offer CILS preparatory or equivalent, including placement test or permission of instructor, is courses. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of recommended. instructor, is recommended. ITA 340 | ITALIAN CIVILIZATION III: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ITA 320 | ITALIAN FOR BUSINESS | 4 quarter hours ITALY | 4 quarter hours (Undergraduate) (Undergraduate) Italian for business presupposes good knowledge of Italian grammatical This course presents an overview of the artistic, social, economic structures upon which to build. The course focuses on acquiring and political developments of Modern Italy from industrialization and business vocabulary, skills for dealing with Italian business partners, and unification through the fascist era to contemporary society. Students comprehending specialized business journals and reports. An overview should gain an understanding of Italian culture during this exciting of Italy's role of the European Union and the Eurozone are integral to the period. They will also improve their Italian language skills, particularly course. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of reading academic texts and writing shorter papers. This course will instructor, is recommended. introduce students to Italy in the twentieth century. By the end of the ITA 321 | | 4 quarter hours quarter, students should understand how Italy developed as a nation in (Undergraduate) the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, how it became an industrial The main objective of this course is to introduce students to some power, how and why fascism became a force, and how Italy developed fundamental principles of translation and to allow them to acquire as a modern nation after World War II. Students shall study these techniques for translating a variety of texts from Italian to English and, developments in art, in society, in the business world, and through to a more limited extent, from English to Italian. Through intensive work media. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of in the two languages, students will improve their overall Italian language instructor, is recommended. skills, learn about the challenges and rewards involved in translation, and ITA 351 | HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE | 4 quarter hours begin to prepare themselves for advanced or professional translation (Undergraduate) work. Students will learn to take responsibility for their final work product When was the origin of Italian language? Why did Dante, Machiavelli, and on both individual and group projects. Students will also review Italian Galileo turn to the emergent vernacular when most writers, historians verb forms, study the history and theory of translation, and work with and philosophers still used Latin? Why did Goldoni and Alfieri write in online and computer translation tools. There will be a wide variety of French in the 18th century? How did the language of , texts at different levels of difficulty and diverse content: academic and opera, sport, and fashion contribute to shape an Italian identity? Why philosophical prose, journalism, advertising, commercial Italian, recipes are written and spoken Italian so different? Is there anything such as an and cooking shows, literary and poetic texts, opera libretti and pop music. Italian language or should one rather talk about Italian languages (italiani This course will also provide students ample opportunity to practice their regionali, italiano popolare, italiano standard, dialetti)? In this course spoken Italian and conversation skills. ITA 106 or equivalent, including students will respond to these and other compelling questions on Italian placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. language. After a general overview of the history of Italian language from the ninth to the twenty-first century, students will focus on its changes in ITA 329 | ITALIAN CINEMA | 4 quarter hours (Undergraduate) some crucial areas of Italian culture and society. ITA 106 or equivalent, This course presents an overview of Italian film, highlighting the most including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. important directors and films. We shall not only examine the works as ITA 352 | ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE SOCIETY OF COMMUNICATION | 4 films, that is particular semiotic systems, but also as particular cultural quarter hours products. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of (Undergraduate) instructor, is recommended. This course addresses the changes in Italian language usage since the 1980s in a variety of contexts. Students will discuss the impact of the internet, mobile phones, videogames, and social media on Italian language and style in a variety of communicative contexts and become familiar with the linguistic usage in recent politics, commercials, comics, fiction, and TV shows. A variety of critical and theoretical readings will help students reflect on the relation between language, culture, and technology. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. 6 Italian (ITA)

ITA 353 | AND PHONETICS | 4 quarter hours ITA 403 | LITERATURE OF THE SEICENTO & SETTECENTO | 4 quarter (Undergraduate) hours This course is an introduction to Italian phonetics and phonology. (Graduate) After studying the basic principles of general linguistics students will Should literature primarily educate or entertain? Should it follow the learn the terminology of articulatory phonetics through a systematic model of ancient masters or explore experimentation and novelty? analysis of Italian vowels and consonants. They will learn how Italian Should scientific prose be simple or adorned? What is the role of human sounds are produced, described, and transcribed using the characters reason, imagination, and divine Providence in shaping history? Does each of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). They will also develop an language have a specific genius? Should an autobiography be simply understanding of the distinction between phonemes and allophones as accurate or imaginative? These are just a few of the compelling questions applied to contemporary spoken Italian, and learn about some regional raised by Italian poets, writers, historians, politicians, philosophers, and variants of spoken Italian and the evolution of Italian from Latin. Along scientists of the seventeenth and eighteen centuries. Readings from with the theoretical component of the course, students will also have this course will include works from these disciplines, and selections ample opportunity in class and working online to practice their spoken from literary masterpieces such as Emanuele Tesauro's treatise Il Italian and improve their pronunciation by reducing or eliminating their cannocchiale aristotelico, Galileo Galilei's Dialogo sopra i due massimi accent. ITA 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of sistemi del mondo, Giovan Battista Marino's poem Adone, Giambattista instructor, is recommended. Vico's Principi di scienza nuova, Carlo Goldoni's comedy La locandiera, ITA 395 | FOREIGN LANGUAGES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM | 2 quarter Giuseppe Parini's poem Il giorno and Vittorio Alfieri's autobiographical hours Vita. (Undergraduate) ITA 404 | ITALIAN CIVILIZATION I | 4 quarter hours The two credit FLAC course allows students to enrich their experience (Graduate) in the co-required course through added reading, writing, listening and This course introduces students to medieval and Renaissance Italy, from speaking activities in Italian. Students must have the equivalent of 106 or about the year 1000 through 1600. Students will discover the social higher ability in Italian to take this two credit component. Please contact and political history and the art and literature of this critical period of the Department of Modern Languages if you have questions about this Western civilization. They will follow the emergence of the vernacular; the course or about language placement. development of the medieval court and city, the era of Dante and Giotto, ITA 397 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN ITALIAN | 4 quarter hours the rise of Humanism and the Renaissance with towering figures such (Undergraduate) as Machiavelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, and study the figures of the See schedule for current offerings. courtier, historian, politician, artist, and letterato in the High Renaissance. By reading medieval and Renaissance texts in the original, students will ITA 398 | STUDY ABROAD | 1-8 quarter hours expand their understanding of language as a process in constant change. (Undergraduate) Variable credit. ITA 405 | TOWARDS UNIFICATION: ROMANTICS, REVOLUTIONARIES AND REALISTS | 4 quarter hours ITA 399 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | 0.5-8 quarter hours (Graduate) (Undergraduate) This course presents an overview of Nineteenth Century Italian prose Variable credit. and poetry. In Italian 405, students will explore themes and cultural ITA 401 | ORIGINS OF ITALIAN LITERATURE | 4 quarter hours realities in the literary works we read. Students will also hone our skills at (Graduate) interpreting works of literature and read some of the great masterpieces This course will introduce students to the major developments in Italian of Italian literature. In class, in-depth analisi testuali will be emphasized. literature from its origins to Dante's Vita nuova. Topics will include: the By the end of the quarter, students should have a firm understanding origins of Italian poetry in the courtly tradition; medieval popular song of the different natures of poetry and prose as forms of expressions, and verse; the Sicilian school and the court of Frederick II; northern Italian know the major writers of the nineteenth century, and be able to explain didactic and spiritual literature; Tuscan lyric and the "dolce stil novo." As the texts read in class not only as works of literature but as cultural students familiarize themselves with the historical, philosophical and "artifacts" of a particular period of Italian history. religious context of medieval writers, they will also learn about poetic ITA 406 | FUTURISM AND BEYOND: LITERATURE OF THE NOVECENTO | 4 verse forms and techniques of close literary analysis. quarter hours ITA 402 | WRITING THE SELF IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE | 4 quarter (Graduate) hours This course presents an overview of Twentieth Century Italian prose and (Graduate) theater. In Italian 406, students will explore themes and cultural realities During the Renaissance the questions raised by human experience in the in the literary works read. Students will also hone skills at interpreting world came to the forefront of intellectual and artistic inquiry. Starting works of literature. in the fifteenth and more prominently in the sixteenth centuries, Italian writers and artists developed new concepts of subjectivity and agency and looked at human identity as something made rather than found. This course explores how sixteenth century Italian intellectuals and artists experimented and reflected on fashioning their selves through speaking, writing, self-portraiture, clothing and other practices. Readings include selections of comedies, love and epic poems, letters, autobiographies, how-to manuals, political treatises and memoirs by Niccolo Machiavelli, Baldassarre Castiglione, Gaspara Stampa, Moderata Fonte, Lodovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, and others. Italian (ITA) 7

ITA 407 | DANTE'S INFERNO: THE WORLD OF THE CONDEMNED | 4 ITA 411 | ITALIAN POETRY | 4 quarter hours quarter hours (Graduate) (Graduate) This course approaches the tradition of Italian poetry. Topics vary from The primary goal of Italian 407 is to provide students with an the Middle Ages to the present through a multidisciplinary perspective. understanding of and appreciation for Dante's Inferno. Students will The close reading and discussion of primary sources, a basic overview learn techniques of close literary analysis. They will learn about classical of the history of Italian poetry, several reading comprehension and and medieval history, philosophy, theology and poetry. They will become creative writing assignments, and a poetry reading will guide students' acquainted with the extraordinary cultural and political reality of understanding and appreciation of the work of classics such as Dante, fourteenth-century Florence and Dante's life. Above all, they will have Petrarch, Sannazaro, Bembo, Stampa, Leopardi, D'Annunzio, Pascoli, ample time and space to consider Dante's amazing poem. Advanced as well as more recent masters such as Pasolini, Montale, Saba, Italian students will have the opportunity to develop their written and Valduga, Zanzotto, and new voices of the late twentieth and twenty-first spoken Italian while learning to read Dante's beautiful verses in the centuries. The course will also address the linguistic, stylistic, social, and original. ideological issues raised by the poets. Ultimately this class will provide ITA 408 | DANTE'S PURGATORY AND PARADISE: THE REALM OF a deep understanding of Italian culture through poetry and give a unique SALVATION | 4 quarter hours chance to use, expand, and refine Italian language skills. (Graduate) ITA 412 | ITALIAN DRAMA | 4 quarter hours This course is a continuation of Italian 407. Italian 408 provides students (Graduate) with an understanding of and appreciation for Dante's Purgatorio and This course approaches the tradition of Italian drama. Topics may Paradiso. Students will learn techniques of close literary analysis. They range from the Middle Ages to the present through a multidisciplinary will learn about classical and medieval history, philosophy, theology and perspective. The close reading and discussion of primary sources, a basic poetry. They will become acquainted with the extraordinary cultural and overview of the history of Italian drama, several reading comprehension political reality of fourteenth-century Florence and Dante's life. Above and creative writing assignments, and a staged reading will guide all, they will have ample time and space to consider Dante's amazing understanding and appreciation of masterpieces such as Goldoni's La poem. Advanced Italian students will have the opportunity to develop locandiera and Pirandello's Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore as well as their written and spoken Italian while learning to read Dante's beautiful less widely known but equally fascinating and powerful pieces such verses in the original. as 's medieval lauda Donna de Paradiso, cardinal ITA 409 | THE ITALIAN NOVEL | 4 quarter hours Bibbiena's Renaissance comedy La calandria, and Raffaella Battaglini's (Graduate) postmodern play Conversazione per passare la notte. The course will also This course approaches the tradition of the Italian novel. Topics address the linguistic, stylistic, social, and ideological issues raised by may range from the long prose fiction of the late Middle Ages to the the playwrights. Ultimately this class will provide a deep understanding contemporary novel through a multidisciplinary perspective. The course of Italian culture through drama and give a unique chance to use, expand, may also analyze specific genres such as the historical novel, the and refine Italian language skills. coming-of-age novel, the detective story, the noir. The close reading ITA 417 | ITALIAN WOMEN WRITERS | 4 quarter hours and discussion of primary sources, a basic overview of the history of (Graduate) the Italian novel, several reading comprehension and creative writing This course will explore the rich history of women writers in Italian from assignments, will guide understanding and appreciation of the work of the Middle Ages to the present. As students follow the changing social, classics such as Boccaccio, Sacchetti, Bandello, Basile, Cellini, Alfieri, political, and ideological obstacles that women overcame in writing, Foscolo, Casanova, Manzoni, Nievo, Verga, Serao, Svevo, and Salgari they will discover the rich history of Italian women letter writers, poets, as well as more recent masters such as Moravia, Deledda, Calvino, journalists, essayists, novelists, philosophers, scholars, translators, Gadda, Primo Levi, Ginzburg, Morante, and Eco, and the new voices of and literary critics. The course will introduce their diverse biographies the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course also address the and linguistic and stylistic talent in voicing their beliefs, concerns, and linguistic, stylistic, social, and ideological issues raised by the writers. values through writing in a variety of genres and disciplines. Major figures Ultimately this class will provide a deep understanding of Italian culture include Caterina da Siena, Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, Moderata through the novel and offer ample time to use, expand, and refine Italian Fonte, Sibilla Aleramo, Anna Banti, Liala, Alba De Cespedes, Antonia language skills. Pozzi, Amelia Rosselli, Natalia Ginzburg, Liliana Cavani, Adriana Cavarero, Dacia Maraini, and Elena Ferrante. ITA 410 | PETRARCA AND BOCCACCIO | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) ITA 418 | CONTEMPORARY MULTICULTURAL WRITERS IN ITALIAN | 4 This course will introduce students to the life and works of two towering quarter hours figures of fourteenth-century Italian literature, Francesco Petrarca and (Graduate) Giovanni Boccaccio. The class will focus on select close reading of these In this course students will explore the rich landscape of multicultural authors' major works, the Canzoniere and the Decameron. Students will writers in Italian after 1990. The course will begin with a survey of the place these works within the broader context of fourteenth-century social recent history of migration in Italy from a variety of countries in Africa, and economic history. Students will also learn techniques of poetic and Asia, Eastern Europe, South America and the Middle East and place it in narrative analysis. the context of global migration. Students will then delve into a linguistic, stylistic, and thematic analysis of the works of writers such as Pap Khouma, Tahar Lamri, Igiaba Scego, Laila Wadia, Gabriella Kuruvilla, Cristina Ali-Farah, Amara Lakhous, Ron Kubati, Anilda Ibrahimi, and Gabriella Ghermandi. Their novels and short stories will provide an opportunity to reflect on the construction of identity and otherness in a multicultural society, and experiences of exile, displacement, and racism. 8 Italian (ITA)

ITA 419 | CILS EXAMINATION PREPARATION COURSE | 4 quarter hours ITA 432 | ITALIAN CIVILIZATION II | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) (Graduate) The CILS Preparation is a rigorous and intensive preparatory course for This course presents an overview of Baroque, Enlightenment and Pre- the B2 Certification of Italian as a Foreign Language (CILS). The B2 level Risorgimento civilization and culture. Students will explore literature, but officially attests non-native speakers' high intermediate competency also art, architecture, science, politics and other areas of civilization as in Italian. Therefore, students should already be at the intermediate/ they relate to the artistic world. Primary sources may include Tommaso advanced level when they enroll in the course. The CILS is awarded by Campanella's utopia The City of the Sun; the scientific treatises of Galilei, the Universita per Stranieri in Siena and is recognized by the Italian Torricelli, and Redi; the sculptures of Bernini and Canova; Metastasio's Government. The course will be conducted as a workshop. Students will libretti; Cesare Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, Goldoni review all the grammar elements required for this level, perform listening and Alfieri's autobiographies. By the end of the quarter, students will and reading comprehension activities, and refine writing and oral skills. have a firm understanding of this period, know the major figures of these The CILS Exams are scheduled twice a year, at the beginning of June centuries, and will be able to discuss the texts and images in class as and December. The exam lasts about four hours and requires a separate cultural "artifacts" of a particular period of Italian history. registration and fee. DePaul University is an official testing site for the ITA 440 | ITALIAN CIVILZATION III | 4 quarter hours exam, and one of the few sites outside of Italy to offer CILS preparatory (Graduate) courses. This course presents an overview of the artistic, social, economic ITA 420 | ITALIAN FOR BUSINESS | 4 quarter hours and political developments of Modern Italy from industrialization and (Graduate) unification through the fascist era to contemporary society. Students Italian for business presupposes good knowledge of Italian grammatical should gain an understanding of Italian culture during this exciting structures upon which to build. The course focuses on acquiring period. They will also improve their Italian language skills, particularly business vocabulary, skills for dealing with Italian business partners, and reading academic texts and writing shorter papers. This course will comprehending specialized business journals and reports. An overview introduce students to Italy in the twentieth century. By the end of the of Italy's role of the European Union and the Eurozone are integral to the quarter, students should understand how Italy developed as a nation in course. the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, how it became an industrial ITA 421 | TRANSLATION | 4 quarter hours power, how and why fascism became a force, and how Italy developed (Graduate) as a modern nation after World War II. Students shall study these The main objective of this course is to introduce students to some developments in art, in society, in the business world, and through media. fundamental principles of translation and to allow them to acquire ITA 451 | HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE | 4 quarter hours techniques for translating a variety of texts from Italian to English and, (Graduate) to a more limited extent, from English to Italian. Through intensive work When was the origin of Italian language? Why did Dante, Machiavelli, and in the two languages, students will improve their overall Italian language Galileo turn to the emergent vernacular when most writers, historians skills, learn about the challenges and rewards involved in translation, and and philosophers still used Latin? Why did Goldoni and Alfieri write in begin to prepare themselves for advanced or professional translation French in the 18th century? How did the language of Italian cuisine, work. Students will learn to take responsibility for their final work product opera, sport, and fashion contribute to shape an Italian identity? Why on both individual and group projects. Students will also review Italian are written and spoken Italian so different? Is there anything such as an verb forms, study the history and theory of translation, and work with Italian language or should one rather talk about Italian languages (italiani online and computer translation tools. There will be a wide variety of regionali, italiano popolare, italiano standard, dialetti)? In this course texts at different levels of difficulty and diverse content: academic and students will respond to these and other compelling questions on Italian philosophical prose, journalism, advertising, commercial Italian, recipes language. After a general overview of the history of Italian language from and cooking shows, literary and poetic texts, opera libretti and pop music. the ninth to the twenty-first century, students will focus on its changes in This course will also provide students ample opportunity to practice their some crucial areas of Italian culture and society. spoken Italian and conversation skills. ITA 452 | ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE SOCIETY OF COMMUNICATION | 4 ITA 429 | ITALIAN FILM | 4 quarter hours quarter hours (Graduate) (Graduate) This course presents an overview of Italian film, highlighting the most This course addresses the changes in Italian language usage since important directors and films. Students shall not only examine the the 1980s in a variety of contexts. Students will discuss the impact of works as films, that is particular semiotic systems, but also as particular the internet, mobile phones, videogames, and social media on Italian cultural products. language and style in a variety of communicative contexts and become familiar with the linguistic usage in recent politics, commercials, comics, fiction, and TV shows. A variety of critical and theoretical readings will help students reflect on the relation between language, culture, and technology. Italian (ITA) 9

ITA 453 | ITALIAN PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) This course is an introduction to Italian phonetics and phonology. After studying the basic principles of general linguistics students will learn the terminology of articulatory phonetics through a systematic analysis of Italian vowels and consonants. They will learn how Italian sounds are produced, described, and transcribed using the characters of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). They will also develop an understanding of the distinction between phonemes and allophones as applied to contemporary spoken Italian, and learn about some regional variants of spoken Italian and the evolution of Italian from Latin. Along with the theoretical component of the course, students will also have ample opportunity in class and working online to practice their spoken Italian and improve their pronunciation by reducing or eliminating their accent. ITA 496 | PRACTICUM IN ITALIAN INSTRUCTION | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) Supervised practice in language instruction, paired with a mentor instructor in a beginning or intermediate language course. Students observe a class, teach a lesson or lessons, assist in assessment and lesson planning, and complete individualized assignments to develop their skills as classroom language instructors. Repeatable. ITA 497 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN ITALIAN | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) See schedule for current offerings. ITA 498 | STUDY ABROAD | 4-8 quarter hours (Graduate) Variable credit. ITA 499 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | 1-8 quarter hours (Graduate) Variable credit.