Franklin & Marshall College

Italian

A list of regularly offered courses follows. The indication of when a course will be offered is based on the best projection of the department and can be subject to change.

Please note the key for the following abbreviations: (A) Arts; (H) Humanities; (S) Social Sciences; (N) Natural Sciences with Laboratory; (LS) Language Studies requirement; (NW) Non-Western Cultures requirement.

All courses are taught in Italian unless indicated otherwise.

110. Elementary Italian I. Every Fall

The aim of this course is to develop basic language skills in Italian, including speaking, listening comprehension, reading and writing, with particular emphasis on communication. The course also provides an introduction to contemporary Italy and its artistic, literary, cinematic and culinary traditions.

111. Elementary Italian II.

Continuation of ITA 110. Prerequisite: ITA 110 or placement.

171. First-Year Seminar: F is for Fake. (H) (W)

This course traces the evolution and explores the meaning of fakes, fiction, and hoaxes in Western art and literature. We will examine counterfeited documents, literary forgeries, plagiarism, art reproductions, and unconventional interpretations in order to call into question conventional ideas of authorship, readership, and text. Taught in English. Rizzo

210. Intermediate Italian Language and Culture I. (LS) Every Fall

A continuation of the study of the Italian language, emphasizing speaking, listening, reading and writing. Combines comprehensive grammar review with more in-depth study of Italian culture, based on films, short stories, poems and songs. Prerequisite: ITA 111 or placement. G. Lerner

310. Intermediate Italian Language and Culture II. (H) Fall 2011

Further development of language skills with increased emphasis on analytic thinking and writing. Examination of Italian culture based on films, short stories, songs and arias and poems. Completes presentation of principal grammatical structures begun in previous semester. Prerequisite: ITA 210 or placement. S. Lerner

360. Italian Literary and Cultural Studies I: From the Risorgimento to the Present. (H) Spring 2012

Provides a broad overview of modern Italian culture and history and includes studies in the 20th-century short story (Verga, Pirandello, Calvino, Levi) and cinema (Visconti, Benigni, Giordana). Advanced study of spoken and written Italian and selected topics in grammar. Prerequisite: ITA 310 or placement. S. Lerner

391. Directed Reading.

410. Italian Literary and Cultural Studies II. (H) Spring 2012

Studies in classical Italian poetry and prose (authors have included Dante, Boccaccio, Manzoni, Collodi, Pirandello and D’Annunzio). Advanced spoken and written Italian, selected topics in grammar. Prerequisite: ITA 360.

490. Independent Study.