UTexas

Italian (ITL)

ITL 601C  Beginning Italian  6 Hours  
An intensive beginning course with an emphasis on basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
ITL 604  Accelerated First-Year Italian  6 Hours  
Designed for students of high motivation. A six-hour course comparable to Italian 506 and 507.
ITL 305  Introduction to Italian Language and Culture  3 Hours  
An introductory course in Italian language and culture taught in Castiglion-Fiorentino, Italy.
ITL 611C  Intermediate Italian  6 Hours  
An intensive intermediate course with an emphasis on basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Does not meet the prerequisite requirements for Italian 328, 326K, or 326L.
ITL 612  Accelerated Second-Year Italian  6 Hours  
Comparable to Italian 312K and 312L combined. Intensive work in writing, reading, and speaking at the second-year level.
ITL 317C  Enhancing Italian Skills  3 Hours  
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing course designed to provide students who have credit for Italian 611C with additional preparation for upper-division Italian courses.
ITL 118K  Practice in Spoken Italian I  1 Hour  
Designed to be taken concurrently with Italian 312K.
ITL 118L  Practice in Spoken Italian II  1 Hour  
Designed to be taken concurrently with Italian 312L.
ITL 119S, 219S, 319S, 419S, 519S, 619S, 719S, 819S, 919S  Topics in Italian  1-9 Hours  
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of French and Italian. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
ITL 320  Advanced Italian  3 Hours  
Designed to develop the listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills needed for the analysis of literary and cultural readings in Italian.
ITL 321  Introduction to Italian Literature  3 Hours  
Reading and analysis of literature, literary criticism, textual analysis.
ITL 322L  Tradition and Change in Contemporary Italy  3 Hours  
An analysis of Italy's trends and of conflicting values in its political, economic, and social development.
ITL 325C  Italian Through Cinema  3 Hours  
Designed to enrich knowledge of Italian language and culture through screening and discussion of Italian films.
ITL 326C  Italian through Creative Writing  3 Hours  
Develop knowledge of Italian lexicon and its grammar through creative writing practice.
ITL 327C  Italian through Cuisine  3 Hours  
Refine reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in Italian through the context of gastronomy.
ITL 328  Composition and Conversation  3 Hours  
Focuses on idioms, grammar, syntax, and style.
ITL 329  Advanced Composition and Conversation  3 Hours  
Advanced work in writing and speech, based on current events and contemporary readings.
ITL 129S, 229S, 329S, 429S, 529S, 629S, 729S, 829S, 929S  Topics in Italian  1-9 Hours  
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of French and Italian. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
ITL 330  Topics in Italian Studies  3 Hours  
Analysis of Italian culture. Texts include literature, film, popular culture, and other forms.
ITL 330C  The Language of Italian Crime Fiction  3 Hours  
Analyze Italian language and culture as reflected in the crime fiction genre studies through literature, film, popular culture, and other forms.
ITL 130D  Italian across Disciplines  1 Hour  
Students read and discuss Italian language materials related to the subject matter of another designated course.
ITL 330L  Introduction to Italian Linguistics  3 Hours  
Examine fundamental aspects of the Italian language including its structure as well as geographical, socio-cultural and communicative variation.
ITL 332  Italian Translation Workshop  3 Hours  
Focuses on the practical aspects of translation as a means to expand students' resources by practicing and improving grammar, style and lexicon.
ITL 346  Italian Politics  3 Hours  
Explore the Italian language, culture, and society through the examination of Italy's political system and the organization of the Italian government.
ITL 347  Italian Popular Cinema  3 Hours  
Analysis of Italian genre films (melodrama, comedy, horror, western, action), in their cultural and historical contexts.
ITL 348  Italian Drama Workshop  3 Hours  
Intensive analysis of one or several plays or short literary texts, with emphasis on diction, delivery of lines, and acting and staging.
ITL 349P  Italian Internship  3 Hours  
ITL 358Q  Supervised Research  3 Hours  
ITL 365  Conference Course in Italian Language and Literature  3 Hours  
Course content varies according to needs of students; designed to fill in gaps and give students a good overall picture of the development of Italian literature.
ITL 375C  The Antihero in the Twentieth-Century Italian Novel  3 Hours  
Explore the crisis of certainties at the turn of the last century and the end of the role of the hero, through the examination of major Italian novels.
ITL 375F  Writing Fascism: Writing the Resistance  3 Hours  
Examine major novels dealing with the Italian narrative on World War II and the resistance.
ITL 375N  Neorealism and its Legacy  3 Hours  
Analyze the legacy of neorealism in Italian literature and cinema from approximately the late 1940s to the early 1950s.
ITL 375S  Sicily in Literature and Film  3 Hours  
Examine Sicilian culture through novels and films.
ITL 379H  Honors Tutorial Course  3 Hours  
Supervised individual research on a literary, linguistic, or cultural topic, and writing and defense of a thesis under the direction of a committee of two faculty members.
ITL 380C  Italian for Graduate Students in Other Departments  3 Hours  
Intensive reading course, emphasizing basic grammar and vocabulary with translation practice.
ITL 380L  History of the Italian Language  3 Hours  
Survey of the development of Italian from spoken Latin to the present day.
ITL 180P  Introduction to Studies in Literature and Culture  1 Hour  
Proseminar in methods of study and research in Italian Studies.
ITL 380W  Doctoral Writing Workshop  3 Hours  
Acquire the crucial skills for writing a cogent prospectus, dissertation, or article, and complete the prospectus, dissertation chapter, or article.
ITL 381  Topics in Readings in Italian Literature  3 Hours  
Intensive study of a period or a major writer.
ITL 382  Topics in Italian Studies  3 Hours  
Study of various aspects and periods of Italian culture and society.
ITL 383K  Studies in Italian Language  3 Hours  
Synchronic approach to the modern Italian language: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology, stylistics.
ITL 385L  Conference Course in Italian Language and Literature  3 Hours  
For students needing specialized courses not normally or not often included in the regular course offerings.
ITL 385T  Graduate Teaching Practicum  3 Hours  
Engage in mentorship and pedagogical training by working one-on-one with a faculty member to develop and design an undergraduate, upper-division level course in an area of specialization.
ITL 390K  Topics in Italian Literature through the Renaissance  3 Hours  
Intensive study of a particular writer, school, or literary movement.
ITL 390L  Topics in Italian Literature since the Renaissance  3 Hours  
Intensive study of a particular writer, school, or literary movement.
ITL 395L  Comprehensive Examination Preparation  3 Hours  
Supervised preparation for the comprehensive examination for the doctoral degree.
ITL 396K  Topics in Comparative Romance Linguistics  3 Hours  
General survey of the development of spoken Latin in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and France; main traits of phonology, morphology, and syntax in each modern derivative language.
ITL 396K.1  Introduction to Romance Linguistics  3 Hours  
ITL 698  Thesis  6 Hours  
ITL 398R  Master's Report  3 Hours  
Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.
ITL 398T  Supervised Teaching in Italian  3 Hours  
Practical exercises in second-language instruction and closely supervised classroom teaching, supported by theoretical studies of second-language learning.
ITL 399W, 699W, 999W  Dissertation  3,6,9 Hours