This course sequence (AS.210.151 and AS.210.152) is an introduction to Italian for students with no previous exposure to the language. By the end of the academic year, you will be able to meet basic needs in an Italian-only environment. Examples include introducing yourself, asking for and giving directions, ordering a meal at a restaurant, describing and asking information about places and people, and engaging in a simple phone conversation. Advanced speakers of other Romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese) are encouraged to enroll in AS.210.175 (Accelerated Italian for Speakers of Other Romance Languages I)

• Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Proietti, Leonardo; Zannirato, Alessandro
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Course helps students develop basic listening, reading, writing, speaking, and interactional skills in Italian. The content of the course is highly communicative, and students are constantly presented with real-life, task-based activities. Course adopts a continuous assessment system (no mid-term and no final).

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Zawacki, Samuel James
• Room: Krieger 307
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/17
• PosTag(s): n/a

Course helps students develop basic listening, reading, writing, speaking, and interactional skills in Italian. The content of the course is highly communicative, and students are constantly presented with real-life, task-based activities. Course adopts a continuous assessment system (no mid-term and no final).

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Proietti, Leonardo
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/17
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course sequence (AS210.175 and AS210.176) is designed for advanced speakers of other Romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese), and will cover the same material as the regular-track Italian Elements I and II (AS.210.151 and AS.210.152) and Intermediate Italian I and II (AS.210.251 and AS.210.252) courses. Upon successful completion of both semesters, students will be allowed to register for AS.210.351 (Advanced Italian I).

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Zannirato, Alessandro
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/17
• PosTag(s): n/a

This is the second part of an elementary Italian language course sequence designed for advanced speakers of other romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese). This course will cover the same material as the regular-track Intermediate Italian I and II courses. Students completing this course with a grade of B or higher will be allowed to register for AS210.351 (Advanced Italian I) in the Fall term. Pre-requisite: Completion of AS.210.175 with a grade of B or higher, or Italian Language Program Director permission.

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Zannirato, Alessandro
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Taught in Italian. Course continues building on the four essential skills for communication presented in Intermediate Italian I (listening, speaking, reading, writing) on topics of increasing complexity. Course adopts a continuous assessment system.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Proietti, Leonardo
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/17
• PosTag(s): n/a

Course presents a systematic introduction to a variety of complex cultural and historical topics related to present-day Italy, emphasizing intercultural comparisons, interdisciplinarity, and encouraging a personal exploration of such topics. Course adopts a continuous assessment system (no mid-term and no final).

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Franzini, Martina
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Italy, once a land of emigrants, is now a place of arrival for people from Africa, eastern Europe, and beyond. This course explores themes of otherness and belonging, exile and assimilation, translation and transformation, myth and memory through a selection of films and literature about migration—to, from and within Italy. Readings will include Vita by Melania Mazzucco, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous, and Adua by Igiaba Scego as well as excerpts from works by Luigi Pirandello, Giovanni Pascoli, Carlo Levi, and Mario Soldati. Films range from Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers to Brusati’s Bread and Chocolate, Crialese’s The Golden Door, Matteo Garrone’s Io, Capitano, and Ferrente’s documentary about the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio. Although our focus is Italy, there will be opportunities to reflect on expressions of migrant experiences in other languages, cultures, and art forms.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jewiss, Virginia C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

How do I make money, gain and keep power, find love, live long, strengthen my memory, avoid depression, cook well, write beautifully, fence, mix paint, counteract poisoning, and create coded messages?  The Renaissance had answers to these and many other questions. This course explores a large sampling of advice from the Italian Renaissance. Readings include Machiavelli’s Prince, Della Casa’s Galateo of Manners, Maestro Martino's Art of Cooking, and selections from Cornaro's Art of Living Long, Manciolino's Guide to Swordsmanship, Cennini's Craftsman's Handbook, Della Porta’s Natural Magic, Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, Ficino’s Book of Life, as well as religious sermons, humanist treatises, and books of “secrets.” Secondary literature will provide historical context for the primary texts and tools for recognizing and unpacking the persuasive devices used in these early examples of self-help. Students will become familiar with Italian Renaissance thought and develop analytical and critical skills to examine advice in its cultural and temporal context. The course as a whole will focus on the notion of “core values” and what is at stake when you propose help or seek help. We will also experience some of these "how-to's", such as calligraphy, oration, creating codes, and more.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Saiber, Arielle
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The supernatural is often described as the disruption of universal coherence. It becomes an aggression that challenges the stability of a world in which the natural laws were, until then, intact. The Impossible suddenly happens in a world in which it was banished.

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Cipriani, Giulia M.
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL

The supernatural is often described as the disruption of universal coherence. It becomes an aggression that challenges the stability of a world in which the natural laws were, until then, intact. The Impossible suddenly happens in a world in which it was banished.

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
• Instructor: Avesani, Tatiana; Cipriani, Giulia M.
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/4
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL

This course asks the question, "what does it mean to be a visionary?" We will read a selection of Renaissance and Baroque Italian texts that demonstrate some form of ‘non-normative’ thinking, altered state of consciousness, or speculation on the future. These texts often cross genre boundaries, existing in between autobiography, literature, philosophy, religion, art, and science. We will pair these readings with critical studies on mysticism, prophecy, dreams, and altered states of consciousness, as well as contemporary art labeled “visionary.” Conducted in English with all Italian and Latin texts also available in English.

• Days/Times: M 3:30PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Saiber, Arielle
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/11
• PosTag(s): n/a

Training for professional academic purposes.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Saiber, Arielle
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Saiber, Arielle
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stephens, Walter E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Saiber, Arielle
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for graduate students to prepare their prospectus and one chapter of their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for graduate students to prepare their prospectus and one chapter of their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Saiber, Arielle
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course sequence (AS.210.151 and AS.210.152) is an introduction to Italian for students with no previous exposure to the language. By the end of the academic year, you will be able to meet basic needs in an Italian-only environment. Examples include introducing yourself, asking for and giving directions, ordering a meal at a restaurant, describing and asking information about places and people, and engaging in a simple phone conversation. Advanced speakers of other Romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese) are encouraged to enroll in AS.210.175 (Accelerated Italian for Speakers of Other Romance Languages I)

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Raimondi, Silvia
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/14
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course sequence (AS.210.151 and AS.210.152) is an introduction to Italian for students with no previous exposure to the language. By the end of the academic year, you will be able to meet basic needs in an Italian-only environment. Examples include introducing yourself, asking for and giving directions, ordering a meal at a restaurant, describing and asking information about places and people, and engaging in a simple phone conversation. Advanced speakers of other Romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese) are encouraged to enroll in AS.210.175 (Accelerated Italian for Speakers of Other Romance Languages I)

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Proietti, Leonardo
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/14
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course sequence (AS210.175 and AS210.176) is designed for advanced speakers of other Romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese), and will cover the same material as the regular-track Italian Elements I and II (AS.210.151 and AS.210.152) and Intermediate Italian I and II (AS.210.251 and AS.210.252) courses. Upon successful completion of both semesters, students will be allowed to register for AS.210.351 (Advanced Italian I).

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Zannirato, Alessandro
• Room: Hodson 303
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course sequence (AS.210.251 and AS.210.252) will reinforce your ability to engage in complex daily tasks in Italian, and will introduce you to more formal academic and real-world topics. By the end of the academic year, you will be able to write a strong résumé and cover letter in the European format, sit a job interview in Italian, and participate in debates on simple topics. You will also read five engaging short stories, watch several Italian films, and discuss topics such as emigration and immigration from/to Italy, the protection of the environment, and the history of the Italian South.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Proietti, Leonardo; Zannirato, Alessandro
• Room: Maryland 309
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/17
• PosTag(s): n/a

This highly interactive course focuses on complex historical and contemporary themes, and is ideal, among others, for students who are specializing in international studies, medicine, psychology, and cognitive science. Students will analyze authentic texts and audiovisual materials on topics including the history of the Sicilian mafia, mental health and the deinstitutionalization movement in Italy, Europe and Italy in the 1960s-1980s, the role of curiosity and amazement in scientific discovery and art, and intercultural differences around hilarity. Taught in Italian.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Giuseffi Grippa, Gianluca; Zannirato, Alessandro
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Over the last three decades Italy, historically a country of emigrants—many of whom suffered from discrimination in the societies they joined—became a destination for hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees from various countries, and particularly from Africa. Significant numbers of these immigrants came to Italy as a result of the country’s limited, though violent colonial history; others arrive because Italy is the closest entry-point to Europe. How have these migratory flows challenged Italian society’s sense of itself? How have they transformed the notion of Italian national identity? In recent years, growing numbers of Afro- and Afro-descendant writers, filmmakers, artists and Black activists are responding through their work to pervasive xenophobia and racism while challenging Italy’s self-representation as a ‘White’ country. How are they forcing it to broaden the idea of ‘Italianess’? How do their counternarratives compel Italy to confront its ignored colonial past? And, in what way have Black youth in Italy embraced the #Blacklivesmatter movement? This multimedia course examines representation of blackness and racialized otherness, whiteness, and national identity through literary, film, and visual archival material in an intersectional framework. Examining Italy’s internal, ‘Southern question,’ retracing Italy’s colonial history, and recognizing the experiences of Italians of immigrant origins and those of immigrants themselves, we’ll explore compelling works by writers and filmmakers such as Igiaba Scego, Gagriella Ghermandi, Maza Megniste, Dagmawi Yimer, and others.

• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura
• Room: Hodson 315
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ITAL

The goal of this course is to familiarize Graduate Student Instructors in Italian with foundational elements of Second Language Acquisition and foreign language teaching. The course will (1) acquaint students with historical and current theories of foreign language pedagogy; (2) demonstrate strategies to integrate theoretical knowledge into everyday practice, both in terms of instructional delivery, and materials development; (3) introduce participants to basic evaluation tools to critically assess teaching practices and tools in terms of quality, relevance, validity, reliability and other theory-based criteria; (4) help participants to articulate their own pedagogical training and philosophy of teaching in preparation for the academic job market. Taught in Italian.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Zannirato, Alessandro
• Room: Smokler Center 213
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Training for professional academic purposes.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zannirato, Alessandro
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/11
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Saiber, Arielle
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/11
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/11
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stephens, Walter E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/11
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for graduate students to prepare their prospectus and one chapter of their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/11
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for graduate students to prepare their prospectus and one chapter of their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stephens, Walter E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/11
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for graduate students to prepare their prospectus and one chapter of their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Saiber, Arielle
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/11
• PosTag(s): n/a