Italian: ITL

Lower-Division Courses

ITL X01C. Beginning Italian.

An intensive beginning course with an emphasis on basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

ITL X04. Accelerated First-Year Italian.

Designed for students of high motivation. A six-hour course comparable to Italian 506 and 507.

ITL X05. Introduction to Italian Language and Culture.

An introductory course in Italian language and culture taught in Castiglion-Fiorentino, Italy.

ITL X11C. Intermediate Italian.

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 X12. Accelerated Second-Year Italian.

Comparable to Italian 312K and 312L combined. Intensive work in writing, reading, and speaking at the second-year level.

ITL X17C. Enhancing Italian Skills.

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 X18K. Practice in Spoken Italian I.

Designed to be taken concurrently with Italian 312K.

ITL X18L. Practice in Spoken Italian II.

Designed to be taken concurrently with Italian 312L.

ITL X19S. Topics in Italian.

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 X29S. Topics in Italian.

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.

Upper-Division Courses

ITL X19S. Topics in Italian.

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 X20. Advanced Italian.

Designed to develop the listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills needed for the analysis of literary and cultural readings in Italian.

ITL X21. Introduction to Italian Literature.

Reading and analysis of literature, literary criticism, textual analysis.

ITL X22L. Tradition and Change in Contemporary Italy.

An analysis of Italy's trends and of conflicting values in its political, economic, and social development.

ITL X25C. Italian Through Cinema.

Designed to enrich knowledge of Italian language and culture through screening and discussion of Italian films.

ITL X26C. Italian through Creative Writing.

Develop knowledge of Italian lexicon and its grammar through creative writing practice.

ITL X27C. Italian through Cuisine.

Refine reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in Italian through the context of gastronomy.

ITL X28. Composition and Conversation.

Focuses on idioms, grammar, syntax, and style.

ITL X29. Advanced Composition and Conversation.

Advanced work in writing and speech, based on current events and contemporary readings.

ITL X29S. Topics in Italian.

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 X30. Topics in Italian Studies.

Analysis of Italian culture. Texts include literature, film, popular culture, and other forms.

ITL X30C. The Language of Italian Crime Fiction.

Analyze Italian language and culture as reflected in the crime fiction genre studies through literature, film, popular culture, and other forms.

ITL X30D. Italian across Disciplines.

Students read and discuss Italian language materials related to the subject matter of another designated course.

ITL X30L. Introduction to Italian Linguistics.

Examine fundamental aspects of the Italian language including its structure as well as geographical, socio-cultural and communicative variation.

ITL X32. Italian Translation Workshop.

Focuses on the practical aspects of translation as a means to expand students' resources by practicing and improving grammar, style and lexicon.

ITL X46. Italian Politics.

Explore the Italian language, culture, and society through the examination of Italy's political system and the organization of the Italian government.

ITL X47. Italian Popular Cinema.

Analysis of Italian genre films (melodrama, comedy, horror, western, action), in their cultural and historical contexts.

ITL X48. Italian Drama Workshop.

Intensive analysis of one or several plays or short literary texts, with emphasis on diction, delivery of lines, and acting and staging.

ITL X49P. Italian Internship.

ITL X58Q. Supervised Research.

ITL X65. Conference Course in Italian Language and Literature.

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 X75C. The Antihero in the Twentieth-Century Italian Novel.

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 X75F. Writing Fascism: Writing the Resistance.

Examine major novels dealing with the Italian narrative on World War II and the resistance.

ITL X75N. Neorealism and its Legacy.

Analyze the legacy of neorealism in Italian literature and cinema from approximately the late 1940s to the early 1950s.

ITL X75S. Sicily in Literature and Film.

Examine Sicilian culture through novels and films.

ITL X79H. Honors Tutorial Course.

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.

Graduate Courses

ITL X19S. Topics in Italian.

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 X29S. Topics in Italian.

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 X80C. Italian for Graduate Students in Other Departments.

Intensive reading course, emphasizing basic grammar and vocabulary with translation practice.

ITL X80L. History of the Italian Language.

Survey of the development of Italian from spoken Latin to the present day.

ITL X80P. Introduction to Studies in Literature and Culture.

Proseminar in methods of study and research in Italian Studies.

ITL X80W. Doctoral Writing Workshop.

Acquire the crucial skills for writing a cogent prospectus, dissertation, or article, and complete the prospectus, dissertation chapter, or article.

ITL X81. Topics in Readings in Italian Literature.

Intensive study of a period or a major writer.

ITL X82. Topics in Italian Studies.

Study of various aspects and periods of Italian culture and society.

ITL X83K. Studies in Italian Language.

Synchronic approach to the modern Italian language: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology, stylistics.

ITL X85L. Conference Course in Italian Language and Literature.

For students needing specialized courses not normally or not often included in the regular course offerings.

ITL X85T. Graduate Teaching Practicum.

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 X90K. Topics in Italian Literature through the Renaissance.

Intensive study of a particular writer, school, or literary movement.

ITL X90L. Topics in Italian Literature since the Renaissance.

Intensive study of a particular writer, school, or literary movement.

ITL X95L. Comprehensive Examination Preparation.

Supervised preparation for the comprehensive examination for the doctoral degree.

ITL X96K. Topics in Comparative Romance Linguistics.

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 X96K.1. Introduction to Romance Linguistics.

ITL X98. Thesis.

ITL X98R. Master's Report.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.

ITL X98T. Supervised Teaching in Italian.

Practical exercises in second-language instruction and closely supervised classroom teaching, supported by theoretical studies of second-language learning.

ITL X99W. Dissertation.

Professional Courses

ITL X19S. Topics in Italian.

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 X29S. Topics in Italian.

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.