ELEMENTARY ITALIAN I
Same course as ITAL V1101-V1102.
- MWR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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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.
- MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patrizia Palumbo
CULPA: 15
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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.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Federica Franze
CULPA: 4
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- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE COURSE II
Prerequisites: HNGR UN1101-UN1102 or the equivalent. Further develops a students knowledge of the Hungarian language. With the instructors 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.
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Instructor:
Carol H Rounds
CULPA: 5
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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.
- MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Felice Beneduce
CULPA: 7
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- 4 points
INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE II
Prerequisites: ITAL UN2102 or the equivalent. UN3334-UN3333 is the basic course in Italian literature. UN3334: Authors and works from the Cinquecento to the present. Taught in Italian.
- 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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Federica Franze
CULPA: 4
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- 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.
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Instructor:
Patrizia Palumbo
CULPA: 15
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- 3 points
SENIOR THESIS/TUTORIAL
Prerequisites: the faculty advisers permission. Senior thesis or tutorial project consisting of independent scholarly work in an area of study of the student’s choosing, under the supervision of a member of the faculty.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Leake
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Instructor:
Nelson Moe
CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info -
Instructor:
Konstantia Zanou
Info - 3 points
ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONTEMP ITALY
This seminar examines ways in which Italy is understood and represented by Italians and non-Italians. It will analyze the formation of multiple discourses on Italy, how Italian culture and society are imagined, represented and/or distorted. Based on an anthropological perspective, this course will examine ways in which we can understand Italy through the intersections of pluralism, ethnicity, gender, and religion. The course will study how Italy strives for political and economic unity, while there is a concurrent push toward inequality, exclusion, and marginalization. Moreover, the course will analyze the revitalization of nationalism on one hand of regionalism on the other, and will focus on the concepts of territory, identity, and tradition. Short videos that can be watched on computer and alternative readings for those fluent in Italian will be assigned. There are no pre-requisites for this course.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barbara Faedda
Info - 3 points
ITAL AUTOBIOGRPHY 19-20TH CENT
Against the backdrop of the heated critical debate on the boundaries and limitations of the autobiographical genre, this course addresses the modern and contemporary tradition of autobiographical writings, focusing in particular (but not exclusively) on exploring and positing the potential difference between male and female autobiographers. More specifically, we will question the adequacy of the traditional model of autobiographical selfhood based on the assumption of unified, universal, exemplary and transcendent self to arrive at an understanding of women's autobiography. Topics to be addressed include: the crisis of the subject, je est un autre, the man with a movie camera, strategies of concealment and disclosures. Authors to be studied include: D'Annunzio, Pirandello, Svevo, Fellini, Moretti, Ortese, Ginzburg, Manzini, Cialente, Ramondino. In Italian
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Leake
Info - 3 points
ITAL WOMEN WRITERS 1945-1990
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Leake
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Mediterranean Humanities II
Med Hum II
What is the Mediterranean and how was it constructed and canonized as a space of civilization? A highly multicultural, multilingual area whose people represent a broad array of religious, ethnic, social and political difference, the Mediterranean has been seen as the cradle of western civilization, but also as a dividing border and a unifying confluence zone, as a sea of pleasure and a sea of death. The course aims to enhance students’ understanding of the multiple ways this body of water has been imagined by the people who lived or traveled across its shores. By exploring major works of theory, literature and cinema since 1800, it encourages students to engage critically with a number of questions (nationalism vs cosmopolitanism, South/North and East/West divides, tourism, exile and migration, colonialism and orientalism, borders and divided societies) and to ‘read’ the sea through different viewpoints: through the eyes of a German Romantic thinker, a Sephardic Ottoman family, an Algerian feminist, a French historian, a Syrian refugee, an Italian anti-fascist, a Moroccan writer, an Egyptian exile, a Bosnian-Croat scholar, a Lebanese-French author, a Cypriot filmmaker, an Algerian-Italian journalist, and others. In the final analysis,
Med Hum II
is meant to arouse the question of what it means to stand on watery grounds and to view the world through a constantly shifting lens.
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Konstantia Zanou
Info - 3 points
RSRCH-MEDIEVAL & RENSSNCE LIT
Guided reading and research on a topic or in a field chosen by the student in consultation with a member of the faculty. Required for Ph.D candidates, ideally during the semester when they prepare the dissertation proposal (prospectus) under the supervision of a potential sponsor.
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Instructor:
Teodolinda Barolini
CULPA: 7
Wikipedia
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Instructor:
Pier Mattia Tommasino
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
RESEARCH-MODERN & CONTEMP LIT
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Leake
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Instructor:
Konstantia Zanou
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