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Italian (09/30/21) Bulletin 2021-22 Italian (09/30/21) L36 Ital 201D Intermediate Italian in the Everyday World, Italian Level III This course aims for students to achieve intermediate proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Focus is placed on Contact: Rebecca Messbarger vocabulary building and increased facility with Italian grammar Phone: 314-935-5175 through interactive exercises and the use of authentic materials, such as readings and videos. Regular compositions and exams Email: [email protected] as well as a final exam. Prerequisite: Ital 102D or higher. Website: http://rll.wustl.edu Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H Courses L36 Ital 215 Conversation/Culture Visit online course listings to view semester offerings This course examines popular culture through a focus on what is said and performed. The course consists of thematic units for L36 Ital (https://courses.wustl.edu/CourseInfo.aspx? focusing on everyday occurrences and themes that mark the sch=L&dept=L36&crslvl=1:4). Italian experience, such as conversation in the Italian bar; poignant views of life expressed in films and other media; daily L36 Ital 1015 Introductory Italian for Visual Arts experiences depicted in poems and songs; public and private Students learn methods of effective communication, the rapid politics; the role of the meal in real life, art and literature. As acquisition of spoken ability, and a working vocabulary for students advance through each thematic module, they develop the visual arts: drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, a creative project in which they put into practice (by a skit/ photography, the museum, and so on. Students will also learn presentation/text/art work) what they have learned. Prerequisite: beginning reading and writing skills. Ital 102D or the equivalent. Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD BU: HUM L36 Ital 101D Elementary Italian in the Everyday World, L36 Ital 216 Conversation Level I A continuation of Ital 215, this course emphasizes the This course stresses the rapid acquisition of spoken ability, with development of speaking skills in Italian through study of aspects attention to the development of reading, writing, and listening of contemporary Italian culture in particular art, music, film and skills through contextualized learning and engagement with politics. culturally authentic materials. Designed for students with no prior Credit 2 units. BU: HUM knowledge of Italian or minimal experience in another Romance language. L36 Ital 247 First-Year Seminar: Italy's Invention of the Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H Modern Museum This course traces the development in Italy of what we know L36 Ital 102D Elementary Italian in the Everyday World, as the modern museum. Unfolding chronologically from the Level II Renaissance to the current day, the course will examine the Continuation of Ital 101D. This sequence stresses effective origins and rise of art, natural history, science, and national communication and the rapid acquisition of spoken ability with museums across the peninsula from Rome to Venice, Florence increased attention to the development of reading, writing, to Naples. We will study the establishment of the early public and listening skills. Prerequisite: Ital 101D or placement by art museums epitomized by the Vatican Museums, the Uffizi examination. Gallery, and the Capitoline Museums. We will examine the Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H impact on national and cultural identity of Fascist propaganda museums instituted under Mussolini's regime, and we will conclude with an examination of extraordinary new museums L36 Ital 106D Accelerated Elementary Italian in the Everyday in Italy, such as the interactive MUSME (Museum of Medicine) World, Level I in Padua, and the MEIS (National Italian Judaism and Shoah This course is designed especially for students with previous Museum) in Ferrara. Art Curators, and Museum directors will language study. It moves at an accelerated pace toward the visit our course. acquisition of spoken ability, with attention to the development Credit 3 units. A&S: FYS BU: IS of reading, writing and listening skills through contextualized learning and engagement with culturally authentic materials. Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H L36 Ital 249 Refracted Light: How Others View Italy Throughout the centuries Italy has both enjoyed and suffered the fascinated gaze of foreigners, who have written about it, L36 Ital 107D Accelerated Elementary Italian II painted it, made music and films about it. Drawing principally Continuation of Italian 106D. Designed for students whose on prose writings from the 18th to the 20th centuries, in such previous study of French or Spanish enables them to grasp varied genres as the short story, the novel, the mystery novel, the principles and rules of Italian grammar more efficiently. travel writing and the memoir, this course examines the images Emphasis on all four language skills: speaking, listening, of Italy that non-Italians project. Beyond learning about Italy, reading, writing. Prerequisite: Italian 106D or permission of students consider their own "idea" of Italy, examine their own instructor. frame of reference and cultural biases, interrogate a variety of Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM 1 Bulletin 2021-22 Italian (09/30/21) stereotypes, and ponder how well one can truly understand L36 Ital 311 Introduction to Contemporary Italy a place as an outsider or reader. Authors studied include This course is taught every year in the Boston University Stendhal, Dickens, James, Forster and Mann, as well as such program in Padua, Italy, with which Washington University is contemporary writers as Michael Dibdin and Shirley Hazzard. affiliated. The course focuses on refining students' ability to Credit 3 units. A&S: FYS A&S IQ: HUM, LCD BU: HUM express themselves in Italian while presenting an overview of the history and society of contemporary Italy. Readings L36 Ital 280 Sex in Italian Culture and Media include works by authors who are particularly significant to Italian literature of the 20th century, as well as an array of other Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD materials. Open only to Washington University students enrolled in the Padua, Italy, program with Boston University. L36 Ital 2991 Undergraduate Independent Study Credit 4 units. Prerequisite: Ital 201D and permission of the department. No more than 6 units may be earned by a student. L36 Ital 319 Advanced Conversational Italian Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM EN: H Designed to offer students with strong proficiency in Italian an opportunity to practice and refine their conversational skills L36 Ital 301 Oral Communication I through the study, rehearsal and performance of theatrical Designed to offer students an opportunity to practice and scenes or an Italian comedy from the repertoire of such chief refine their conversational skills while expanding their practical literary figures as Machiavelli, Goldoni, Pirandello, Natalia vocabulary. Wide variety of topics for discussion; brief oral Ginzburg and Dario Fo. Prerequisite: Ital 215 or placement by reports. Regular homework assignments with emphasis on web- examination. based research and learning. Prerequisite: Ital 201D. Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD BU: HUM Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD BU: HUM EN: H L36 Ital 321 Independent Study L36 Ital 307D Advanced Italian in the Everyday World Credit variable, maximum 3 units. This course aims at reinforcing and developing advanced grammar structures and writing abilities through the study of a L36 Ital 322 Topics variety of media centered around the theme of humor. Have you ever laughed . in Italian? Materials include literary excerpts, This course examines contemporary Italian culture through a short stories, film, television clips, and songs. Our focus will variety of genres and media, which may include short stories, be on grammar and syntax as the bases to understanding graphic novels, blogs, zines, essays, news articles, podcasts, contemporary Italian humor. This course is essential for the film, music, and so on. Strong emphasis will be placed on further study of Italian language and literature; it must be taken writing. Throughout the course, students will produce their own before or concurrently with Ital 323C and Ital 324C. Prerequisite: analyses of key questions defining Italian culture through the Ital 201D or permission of instructor. production of multimedia pieces that combine writing with such interpretive vehicles as film, music, and digital photography. Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H Essential for further study of Italian language and literature, this course may be taken concurrently with Italian 307D, 323C L36 Ital 309 Transmedia Italian Culture: Stories, or 324C. Prerequisite: Ital 201D or permission of instructor. In Interpretation, Performance Italian. This course examines contemporary Italian culture through a Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: variety of genres and media, which may include short stories, HUM EN: H graphic novels, blogs, zines, essays, news articles, podcasts, film, music, and so on. Strong emphasis will be placed on L36 Ital 3221 Topics: The Jewish Experience in Italy writing. Throughout the course, students will produce their own analyses of key questions defining Italian culture through the This course will examine the social and political history of the production of multimedia pieces that combine writing with such Jews of Italy from the period of Italian unification through the end interpretive vehicles as film, music, and digital photography. This of World War II. We will look through two different prisms: first, course is in Italian, and it aims to expand students' writing and the constant of Jews' minority status in a Catholic country at a analytical skills in Italian as well as their cultural competence. No time when Church doctrine was hostile to them, and second, final.
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