ELEMENTARY HUNGARIAN I

Introduction to the basic structures of the Hungarian language. Students with a schedule conflict should consult the instructor about the possibility of adjusting hours.

• TR 9:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Carol H Rounds
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY ITALIAN I

Same course as ITAL V1101-V1102.

• MTWR 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• MWR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MTWR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathleen C Cannon
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• Instructor: Matteo Heilbrun
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• Instructor: Federica Franze
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Felice Beneduce
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY ITALIAN II

Prerequisites: ITAL V1101 or the equivalent. Introduction to Italian grammar, with emphasis on reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.

• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Federica Franze
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY ITALIAN

An intensive course that covers two semesters of elementary Italian in one, and prepares students to move into Intermediate Italian.  Students will develop their Italian communicative competence through listening, (interactive) speaking, reading and (interactive) writing. The Italian language will be used for real-world purposes and in meaningful contexts to promote intercultural understanding. This course is especially recommended for students who already know another Romance language.  May be used toward fulfillment of the language requirement.

• TRF 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara Spinelli
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 6 points

INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATN I

INTERMD ITALIAN CONVERSATION I

Prerequisites: ITAL W1112 or sufficient fluency to satisfy the instructor. Corequisites: Recommended: ITAL V1201-V/W1202 or ITAL W1201-W1202. Conversation courses may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or fulfill major or concentration requirements. Intensive practice in the spoken language, assigned topics for class discussions, and oral reports.

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Barbara Spinelli
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 2 points

ADVANCED CONVERSATION I

Prerequisites: ITAL W1222 or sufficient fluency to satisfy the instructor. Corequisites: Recommended: ITAL V3335x-V3336y. Conversation courses may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or fulfill major or concentration requirements. Practice in the spoken language through assigned topics on contemporary Italian culture.

• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Luisa Gozzi
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 2 points

INTERMEDIATE HUNGARIAN I

Prerequisites: HNGR UN1101-UN1102 or the equivalent. Further develops a student's knowledge of the Hungarian language. With the instructor's permission the second term of this course may be taken without the first. Students with a schedule conflict should consult the instructor about the possibility of adjusting hours.

• TR 11:35 a.m.-1:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol H Rounds
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN I

Prerequisites: ITAL V1102 or W1102, or the equivalent. If you did not take Elementary Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester.

• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Saggin
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Lara Santoro
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• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN II

Prerequisites: ITAL V1201 or W1201, or the equivalent. If you did not take Elementary Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester. A review of grammar, intensive reading, composition, and practice in conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural material. Lab: hours to be arranged. ITAL V1202 fulfils the basic foreign language requirement and prepares students for advanced study in Italian language and literature.

• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrizia Palumbo
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

INTENSIVE INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN

Prerequisites: ITAL UN1102 or the equivalent, with a grade of B+ or higher. An intensive course that covers two semesters of intermediate Italian in one, and prepares students for advanced language and literature study. Grammar, reading, writing, and conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural materials. This course may be used to fulfill the language requirement.

• MTR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Luisa Gozzi
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 6 points

Nationalism in Theory and History

Nationalism Theory & Hist

Were nations always there? Are they real or imagined? Do they come before or after nationalism and the state? How did we pass from a world of empires, duchies, and city-states to a world of nation-states? Where does legitimacy reside if not in God and his endowed kings? Is the modern world really ‘disenchanted’? How did we come to understand time, space, language, religion, gender, race, and even our very selves in the era of nations? Are we done with this era, living already in postnational times?

This course will combine older theories of nationalism (Gellner, Anderson, Hobsbawm, Smith) with recent approaches of the phenomenon after the ‘Imperial/Global/Transnational Turn’ and late studies in Gender, Race, Culture and Nationalism, in order to offer new answers to old questions. We will talk about many places around the world, but the main stage where we will try out our questions is Italy and the Mediterranean.

• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Konstantia Zanou
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• 3 points

ADVANCED COURSE I

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• TR 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol H Rounds
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: Intermediate Italian II ITAL UN2102 or the equivalent. UN3334x-UN3333y is the basic course in Italian literature. UN3333: This course, entirely taught in Italian, introduces you to Medieval and early modern Italian literature. It will give you the opportunity to test your ability as a close-reader and discover unusual and fascinating texts that tell us about the polycentric richness of the Italian peninsula. We will read poems, tales, letters, fiction and non-fiction, travel writings and political pamphlets. The great “Three Crowns” - Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio - as well as renowned Renaissance authors such as Ludovico Ariosto and Niccolò Machiavelli, will show us the main path to discover Italian masterpieces and understand the European Renaissance. But we will also explore China with Marco Polo and the secrets of the Medieval soul diving into the mystical poems by Jacopone da Todi. We will study parody and laughter through the “poesia giocosa” (parodic poetry) by Cecco Angiolieri and the legacy of Humanism through the letters of Poggio Bracciolini. This first overview will allow you to explore Italian literature from its complex and multicultural beginnings to its diffusion across Europe during the Renaissance.

• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven J Baker
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ITALIAN I

Prerequisites: ITALUN2102 or the equivalent. If you did not take Intermediate Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester. Written and oral self-expression in compositions and oral reports on a variety of topics; grammar review. Required for majors and concentrators.

• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Saggin
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ITALIAN THROUGH CINEMA

Prerequisites: ITAL V3335. Students will develop advanced language competence while analyzing and discussing Italian film comedies and their reflection of changing Italian culture and society. Films by Monicelli, Germi, Moretti, Wertmuller, Soldini and others.

• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrizia Palumbo
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

FORBIDDEN BOOKS? CENSORSHIP AND THE CIRC

In the first eight months of 2023, the American Library Association (ALA) reported a staggering 1,915 attempts to censor library materials. This marks a 20% increase from the same reporting period in 2022, which saw the highest number of book challenges since ALA began compiling the data more than 20 years ago. This stark increase calls for a serious reflection on censorship in its present and past forms. In this course, we will delve into book censorship examining its mechanisms in one of the most infamous historical instances: Fascist censorship in Italy (1922-1945), focusing in particular its effects on the circulation of U.S. literature. By delving into these historical instances of censorship, the course aims to provide critical tools to interpret the present.

While it is true that censorship may have disastrous effects on cultural life and the social fabric – stifling ideas and impacting creativity – at times it also inspires resistance, elicits acts of defiance, and transforms forbidden books into sought-after cultural objects. In this course we will discuss the intended and unintended effects of censorship from the vantage point of the circulation of American literature under Fascism. We will examine the measures taken by the Fascist regime to implement censorship in Italy, analyze specific instances of banned books, along with cases of redactions or re-framing of publications. Additionally, we will explore the translation of U.S. texts, discussing cases of self-censorship by translators and exploring the potential for resistance embedded in the act of translating. Finally, we will describe the effects of censorship on writing practices in Italy. We will explore the counterintuitive effect of prestige that arises due to censorship and the consequent imitation of American models by young Italian-speaking writers.

To engage with these topics we will discuss a diverse range of primary sources including archival documents, legislation, short stories, novels, and poems by prominent Italian and U.S. writers such as Cesare Pavese, Elio Vittorini, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. In addition, we will listen to musical pieces, watch original newsreels, and read letters between Italian and American authors.

• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Luca Abbattista
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• 3 points

Introduction to Fashion Studies

Intro to Fashion Studies

This seminar examines the many meanings of fashion, design, and style; how values underlying fashion are selected, preserved, denied, reinvented or rethought; how the symbolic meanings and ideological interpretations are connected to creation, production and consumption of fashion goods. Based on an anthropological perspective and framework, this interdisciplinary course will analyze ways in which we can understand fashion through the intersections of many different levels: political, economic, aesthetic, symbolic, religious, etc. The course will study how fashion can help us understand the ways in which tradition and innovation, creativity and technology, localism and globalization, identity and diversity, power and body, are elaborated and interpreted in contemporary society, and in relation to a globalized world. Short videos that can be watched on the computer will be assigned. There are no pre-requisites for this course. In English.

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara Faedda
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• 3 points

DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA 1

DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA 1-ITAL

• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Teodolinda Barolini
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA 1

DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA 1-ENG

• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Teodolinda Barolini
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

REN CHIV EPIC-FOLK PERF TRAD

• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jo Ann Cavallo
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

MAKING OF ITALY: THE RISORGIMENTO

THE MAKING OF ITALY

• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Konstantia Zanou
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• 3 points

Mediterranean Humanities I

Mediterranean Humanities I explores the literatures of the Mediterranean from the late Middle Ages to the Early Nineteenth Century. We will read Boccaccio, and Cervantes, as well as Ottoman poetry, Iberian Muslim apocalyptic literature, and the Eurasian connected versions of the One Thousand and One Nights. We will dive into the travel of texts and people, stories and storytellers across the shores of the Middle Sea. Based on the reading of literary texts (love poetry, short stories, theater, and travel literature), as well as letters, biographies, memoirs, and other ego-documents produced and consumed in the Early Modern Mediterranean, we will discuss big themes as Orientalism, estrangement, forced mobility, connectivity, multiculturalism and the clash of civilizations. Also, following in the footsteps of Fernand Braudel and Erich Auerbach, we will reflect on the Mediterranean in the age of the first globalization as a laboratory of the modern global world and world literature.

• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pier Mattia Tommasino
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points