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.
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Instructor:
Carol H Rounds
CULPA: 5
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- 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.
- MTWR 11:10 a.m.-noon
- MWR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kathleen C Cannon
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Ricardo A Belisario
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Instructor:
Matteo Heilbrun
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Instructor:
Alessandra Saggin
CULPA: 4
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- 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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Luisa Gozzi
CULPA: 14
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- 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.
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Instructor:
Barbara Spinelli
CULPA: 9
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- 6 points
INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATN 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.
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Instructor:
Barbara Spinelli
CULPA: 9
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- 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.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Felice Beneduce
CULPA: 7
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- 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 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carol H Rounds
CULPA: 5
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- 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.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandra Saggin
CULPA: 4
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Instructor:
Federica Franze
CULPA: 4
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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.
- MWR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Felice Beneduce
CULPA: 7
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- 4 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.
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Instructor:
Steven J Baker
CULPA: 3
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- 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.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patrizia Palumbo
CULPA: 15
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- 3 points
GRAND TOUR IN ITALY
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Luisa Gozzi
CULPA: 14
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- 3 points
ITALIAN FOOD/GLOBALIZED WORLD
This seminar examines the many meanings of food in Italian culture and tradition; how values and peculiarities are transmitted, preserved, reinvented and rethought through a lens that is internationally known as ;Made in Italy;; how the symbolic meanings and ideological interpretations are connected to creation, production, presentation, distribution, and consumption of food. Based on an anthropological perspective and framework, this interdisciplinary course will analyze ways in which we can understand the Italian taste through the intersections of many different levels: political, economic, aesthetic, symbolic, religious, etc. The course will study how food 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 Italian society, in relation to the European context and a globalized world. Short videos that can be watched on the computer and alternative readings for those fluent in Italian will be assigned. In English.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barbara Faedda
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Travel Literature in and from the Medite
This course will study various forms of travel writing within, from, and to the Mediterranean in the long nineteenth century. Throughout the semester, you will read a number of travel accounts to develop your understanding of these particular sources and reflect on the theoretical discussions and the themes framing them, namely orientalism, postcolonial studies, imaginative geographies, literature between fiction and reality, Romantic and autobiographical writing, gender, sexuality and the body, the rise of archeology, adventurism, mass migration and tourism. We will focus on Italian travel writers visiting the Ottoman Empire and the Americas (Cristina di Belgioioso, Gaetano Osculati, Edmondo de Amicis) and others visiting the Italian peninsula (Grand Tourists, Madame De Staël), and we will study the real or imaginary travels of French, British and American writers to the Eastern Mediterranean and to antique and holy lands (Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Count Marcellus, Austen Henry Layard, Lord Byron, Mark Twain), as well as Arabic travel writers to the West (Rifāʻah Rāfiʻ al-Ṭahṭāwī).
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Konstantia Zanou
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MEDIEVAL LYRIC
This course maps the origins of the Italian lyric, starting in Sicily and following its development in Tuscany, in the poets of the dolce stil nuovo and ultimately, Dante. Lectures in English; text in Italian, although comparative literature students who can follow with the help of translations are welcome.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Teodolinda Barolini
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
STUDIES IN DANTE
Prerequisites: In-depth knowledge of the Commedia. A variable-content research seminar that rotates through various areas of Dante studies. Areas covered in the past include: the history of the ideas of hell, purgatory, paradise; Dante’s relation to the classics; Dante's so-called minor works, such as Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia; Dante's lyric poetry. The Fall 2019 seminar will be devoted to Dante's prose treatises.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Teodolinda Barolini
CULPA: 7
Wikipedia
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- 3 points