2003-2004 Undergraduate Calendar

The Department aims to provide students with a thorough and comprehensive coverage of spoken and written Italian, its literature and culture. In addition to the courses taught in the language, the Department offers a series of courses taught in English that may be acceptable for credit toward a degree. Students are encouraged to participate in one or more of the study programs in Italy.

Summer Studies in Italy

The Italian section of the Department, in conjunction with the Department of Classics, offers a course in Rome, which runs for four weeks during the month of May. The course is given in English and is open to students from any discipline. Contact the Department for information and registration.

Students wishing to study in Italy through other universities may do so in consultation with the Department.

Program Notes

1.	Students with OAC standing or equivalent in Italian take ITAL IF90 and may not take ITAL 1F00 or 1F01 without permission of the Department. Permission is granted only in the most exceptional cases.
2.	Students without OAC standing or equivalent in the language take ITAL 1F00 or 1F01, according to their background. See individual course descriptions.
3.	ITAL 1F00 and 1F01 are introductory language courses. Students who register in these courses must bring their official high school transcript to the Department as proof of their level of competency in order to receive departmental confirmation of registration before the end of the second week of classes (see Undergraduate Academic Calendar). Failure to do so will result in de-registration from the course.
4.	Unless otherwise noted in the course description, courses numbered 2(alpha)00 or above are taught in the language while courses numbered 1F90 and below are taught in the language to the extent possible.
5.	ITAL 1F00 and 1F01 may be taken for degree credit, but cannot be used to meet requirements for major programs in the languages concerned.
6.	ITAL 1F00, 1F01, 1F90 and 2F00 constitute a sequence. Once credit has been obtained in one of these courses, students are not allowed to take for credit a course in the same language with a lower number in the sequence. Students may not take two courses at different levels in the sequence during the same term. This regulation also applies to courses taken at other institutions.
7.	Courses noted as given in English may be included in major programs. Single Pass and combined Honours programs may include no more than two credits in such courses; combined Pass programs may include no more than one and one half credits in such courses.
8.	The Department reserves the right to refuse admission to and/or credit for any of its language courses to a student who has, in the view of the Department, a level of competence unsuited to that course.
9.	In all 20 credit degree programs, at least 12 credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, six of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above and of these, three must be numbered 3(alpha)90 or above. In all 15 credit degree programs, at least seven credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, three of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above.

Pass Program

Year 1

	ITAL 1F90 (see program note 1)
	one Science context credit
	one Social Science context credit
	two elective credits

Year 2

	ITAL 2F00
	two ITAL or MLLC credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above (see program note 7)
	two elective credits

Year 3

	Three ITAL or MLLC credits numbered 2(alpha)90 and above (see program note 7)
	two elective credits

Combined Major Program

Honours

Year 1

	ITAL 1F90 (see program note 1)
	one credit from the co-major discipline
	one Science context credit
	one Social Science context credit
	one elective credit

Year 2

	ITAL 2F00
	one ITAL or MLLC credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above (see program note 7)
	two credits from the co-major discipline
	one elective credit

Year 3

	Two ITAL or MLLC credits numbered 2(alpha)90 or above (see program note 7)
	two credits from the co-major discipline
	one elective credit

Year 4

	Two ITAL or MLLC credits numbered 3(alpha)90 or above (see program note 7)
	two credits from the co-major discipline
	one elective credit

Pass Program

Satisfactory completion of the first three years of the Honours program entitles a student to apply for a Pass degree.

Minor in Italian

Students in other disciplines may obtain a Minor in Italian within their degree program by completing the following courses with a minimum 60 percent overall average:

	ITAL 1F90 and 2F00
	one ITAL credit
	one ITAL literature and/or culture credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above

Course Descriptions

Note that not all courses are offered in every session. Refer to the applicable term timetable for details.

Prerequisites and Restrictions

Students must check to ensure that prerequisites are met. Students may be deregistered, at the request of the instructor, from any course for which prerequisites and/or restrictions have not been met.

ITALIAN

ITAL 1F00

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.

ITAL 1F01

Introductory Italian II

Beginner's course for students of Italian background who have not formally studied the language. Acquisition of reading and oral skills, basic grammar; composition and conversation.

Lectures, 3 hours per week; language lab, 1 hour per week.

ITAL 1F90

Intermediate Italian

Review of basic grammar; composition and oral practice: Discussions based on cultural topics, cities and the art of Italy.

Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one of ITAL 1F00, 1F01, two or more years of secondary school Italian or permission of the instructor.

ITAL 1P95

Italian Culture and Civilization

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.

ITAL 2F00

Language, Literature and Culture

Grammar review; 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.

ITAL 2P40

Early to High Renaissance Art and Architecture

(also offered as VISA 2P40)

Major monuments, buildings and art works of the period from several critical perspectives including the humanist influence on the arts in Florence and Rome, the issue of patronage and the question of the artists' cultural status.

Lectures, seminar 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: ITAL 1F90, VISA 1F98 or permission of the instructor.

Note: given in English.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ITAL 2P10.

ITAL 2P80

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.

ITAL 2P85

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.

ITAL 2P90

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.

ITAL 2P95

Culture and Civilization

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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ITAL 2P11.

ITAL 3F93

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 3P93.

ITAL 3P94

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.

ITAL 3P96

Visual and Poetic Imagery

Patterns of imagery in modern poetic and prose texts as well as in modern Italian art. Tendency toward visual representation in texts, lyricism and narrative in visual art. Poetry, prose; metaphysical painting, futurism, abstract and concrete art.

Lectures, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: ITAL 2F00.

ITAL 3P97

Italian for Teachers

Approaches to the teaching of Italian as a second language. Teaching methods, educational materials and multi-media 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.

ITAL 3P99

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.

ITAL 4M00-4M09

Special Topics in Italian

Special topic in an area not represented by other courses.

ITAL 4M01

2003-2004 Monumental Rome: From Romulus to the Renaissance

(also offered as CLAS 4M01 and VISA 4M01)

Rome as 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 emphasizing 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. Italian majors must complete their assignments in Italian.

ITAL 4P04

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

ITAL 4P97

Strategies in the Teaching of Language, Literature, and Culture

Recent theories and developments in the teaching of language and culture, including literary texts, music, artistic works and monuments.

Lectures 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: students must have a minimum of 4.0 ITAL credits or teaching experience and permission of the instructor.

Note: offered under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy, through the Dante Aligheri Society, Niagara Region.

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