Introductory Italian I
Beginner's course for students with no background in Italian. Acquisition of reading and oral skills, basic grammar; conversation and composition.
Lectures, 3 hours per week; language lab, 1 hour per week.
Intermediate Italian
Grammar review; emphasis on more complex structures; composition and oral practice. Discussions based on selected literary texts.
Lectures, 3 hours per week; language lab, 1 hour per week.
Prerequisite: ITAL 1F00 or 1F01 or OAC Italian or two or more years of high school Italian or permission of the instructor.
Italian Culture and Civilization
The artistic heritage of Italy and the intellectual, political and social forces that have shaped the mentality and way of life of the Italians. Selected texts and multi-media material.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ITAL 1F95.
Language, Literature and Culture
Advanced grammar, oral and written practice. Introduction to the study of film, literary texts and principles of criticism.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ITAL 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Renaissance Art and Thought
Italian Renaissance architecture, painting and sculpture as well as selections from writers such as Machiavelli and Castiglione.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ITAL 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Modern and Contemporary Italian Culture and Civilization
The historical changes and key issues in 19th- and 20th-century Italy focussing on Italian unification, Fascism and modern Italy. Arts and literature representative of the period.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ITAL 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Italian Cinema
(also offered as FILM 2P80)
Major film directors and cultural trends in Italian cinema. Films studied include those by De Sica, Rossellini, Fellini, Antonioni, Bertolucci, Amelio and Moretti.
Lectures, 3 hours per week, plus film lab.
Note: given in English. Knowledge of Italian not necessary.
Italians in Canada and Italy-Canada Relations
History of Italian immigration in Canada with focus on Ontario. Italian-Canadian literature including such writers as Nino Ricci and Mary Di Michele. Cultural and economic relations between Italy and Canada.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English.
Translation and Language Practice
Translation of selected material from magazine articles, essays and various texts. Focus on interference between English and Italian. Introduction to business correspondence.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ITAL 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
Major works of three of Italy's greatest writers. Selections from Dante Alighieri's La Divina Commedia, Francesco Petrarca's Il Canzoniere and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ITAL 2F00 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ITAL 3F96 or ITAL 3P93.
Italian Romanticism: Prose and Poetry
Major texts of the Italian Romanticism, including Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi and selections from Leopardi's Canti and the works of Foscolo.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ITAL 2F00 or permission of the instructor.
The Modern Novel
Representative novels from leading modern and contemporary writers such as Pirandello, Moravia, Pavese, Buzzati, Silone, Vittorini, Calvino, Sciascia, Banti, Ginsburg.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ITAL 2F00 or permission of the instructor.
Modern Italian Poetry
Major poets and currents of the 20th-century. Selections from the Crepuscolari, the Vociani, the Futurists, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, the Hermetics, post-Hermeticism.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ITAL 2F00 or permission of the instructor.
Italian for Teachers
Approaches to the teaching of Italian as a second language. Teaching methods, educational materials and multimedia resources.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: ITAL 2F00 and one ITAL credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.
Note: offered under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Dante Alighieri Society, Niagara Region. Lectures by guest speakers.
Advanced Grammar and Composition
Principles of syntactical analysis and elements of style; study of figurative language and compositions on literary and non-literary topics.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ITAL 2F00 or permission of the instructor.
Special Topics in Italian
Special topic in an area not represented by other courses.
2001-2002 Monumental Rome: from Romulus to the Renaissance
(also offered as CLAS 4M01 and VISA 4M01)
Rome as a city of monuments, from its founding to the Renaissance. The Roman and imperial fora, baths, Colosseum, medieval and Renaissance churches and palaces, including St. Peter's and the Vatican. Emphasis on the sites both as monuments and commemoratives and their social functions.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: given in English. Offered in Italy for four weeks. Registrants are expected to defray the cost of travel, accommodation and other expenses.
Translation: Applications
Lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic interrelationships between source text and target text; application of translation methodologies to a variety of texts.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: MLLC 3P94