Courses
- IT 101 - ELEMENTARY ITALIAN I
- IT 102 - ELEMENTARY ITALIAN II
- IT 201 - INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN I
- IT 202 - INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN II
- IT 353 - ITALIAN CONVERSATION
- IT 356 - ADVANCED GRAMMAR and COMPOSITION
- IT 361 - INTRODUCTION TO ROMANCE LINGUISTICS
- IT 364 - MASTERPIECES OF ITALIAN LITERATURE
- IT 380 - FILM AND LITERATURE
- RL 680 - PETRARCH AND PETRARCHISM
- RL 680 - DANTE AND HIS TIMES
- RL 680 - VICO AND THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY
- RL 680 - CRITICAL THEORY: THE TASK OF THE READER
- RL 680 - MACHIAVELLI AND THE RENAISSANCE
- RL 680 - BOCCACCIO AND THE NOVELLA
Undergraduate
The department offers a 20-hour minor in Italian. Required courses in the minor are IT 101, IT 102, IT 201, IT 202, and 6 hours at the 300 or 400 level. A minimum of 6 hours at the 300 or 400 level must be earned on this campus. Upper level courses are also offered in translation. “Masterpieces of Italian Literature,” “Italian Civilization,” and “Film and Literature” are courses that have attracted students with different backgrounds and interests from other disciplines.
Graduate
Italian cooperates with the “Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies.” Graduate courses in Italian literature are taught in English, and cover a variety of subjects. Over the last five years, course offerings have included “Dante and His Times,” “Women in The Renaissance,” “Vico and His Times,” Boccaccio and The Novella,” “Petrarch and Petrarchism,” “Voices of The Renaissance: Machiavelli.”