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Italian Courses

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For any questions related to course placement, please reach out to the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Italian, Professor Elsa Filosa. 

1000 Level

  • ITA 1001: Commons iSeminar
  • ITA 1101: Elementary Italian
  • ITA 1102: Elementary Italian
  • ITA 1103: Intensive Elementary Italian
  • ITA 1111: First-Year Writing Seminar

2000 Level

  • ITA 2203: Intermediate Italian
  • ITA 2501W: Grammar and Composition
  • ITA 2614: Conversation
  • ITA 2700: Great Italian Works in English Translation

3000 Level

  • ITA 3000: Introduction to Italian Literature
  • ITA 3041: Italian Civilization
  • ITA 3100: Literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
  • ITA 3240: Dante’s Divine Comedy
  • ITA 3242: Dante in Historical Context
  • ITA 3340: Famous Women from Antiquity to Renaissance
  • ITA 3500: Baroque, Illuminismo, and Romanticism in Italy
  • ITA 3600: Twentieth-Century Literature: Beauty and Chaos
  • ITA 3601: The City in Time and Space
  • ITA 3640: Classic Italian Cinema
  • ITA 3641: Contemporary Italian Cinema
  • ITA 3642: Italian Visual Culture
  • ITA 3701: City Fictions
  • ITA 3702: Topics in Contemporary Italian Civilization
  • ITA 3703: Italy: A World Cultures & Languages
  • ITA 3704: Made-in-Italy: Italianness in Italy and Abroad
  • ITA 3705: Italian Food Studies: History, Culture, and Identity
  • ITA 3740: Imaginaries of Italian migration in USA
  • ITA 3802: Contemporary Italian Society and Culture
  • ITA 3803: Mediterranean Culture (taught in Sicily and Italy)
  • ITA 3850: Independent Study
  • ITA 3890: Special Topics in Italian Literature