Seminar targeted to graduate students to aid in their professional formation and to help shift their carrier as teachers of Italian language and literature.

Prerequisite for W1002: HNGR W1101 or the equivalent. Introduction to the basic structures of the Hungarian language. Students with a schedule conflict should consult the instructor about the possibility of adjusting hours.

Lecture and lab. Enrollment limited. Prerequisite for V1102: ITAL V1101 or the equivalent. Introduction to Italian grammar, with emphasis on reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Lab: hours to be arranged.

Limited enrollment. Same course as ITAL V1101-V1102. Prerequisite for W1102: ITAL W1101 or the equivalent.

Limited enrollment. No previous knowledge of Italian required. An intensive course that covers two semesters of elementary Italian in one, and prepares students to move into Intermediate Italian. Grammar, reading, writing, and conversation. May be used to fulfill the language requirement only if followed by an additional two (2) semesters of Italian language. ITAL V1201-V1202, or ITAL V1203 and ITAL V3333, V3334, V3335, or V3336, for a total of three(3) semesters of Italian Language.

Prerequisite for W1201: HNGR W1202 or the equivalent. Prerequisite for W1201: HNGR W1201 or the equivalent. Further develops a student's knowledge of the Hungarian language. Students with a schedule conflict should consult the instructor about the possibility of adjusting hours.

Prerequisites: For V1201: ITAL V1102 W1102 or the equivalent; for V1202: ITAL V1201 or W1201 or the equivalent.

Limited enrollment. A review of grammar, intensive reading, composition, and practice in conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural material. Lab: hours to be arranged. ITAL V1202 fulfils the basic foreign language requirement and prepares students for advanced study in Italian language and literature.

Same course as ITAL V1201-V1202. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite for W1202: ITAL W1201 or the equivalent.

Prerequisites: ITAL V1102 or the equivalent.

Prerequisites: ITAL V1102 or equivalent, with a grade of B+ or higher. Limited enrollment. An intensive course that covers two semesters of intermediate Italian in one, and prepares students for advanced language and literature study. Grammar, reading, writing, and conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural materials. This course may be used to fulfill the language requirement if preceded by both V1101 and V1102. Students who wish to use this course for the language requirement, and previously took Intensive Elementary, are also required to take at least one of the following: ITAL V3333, V3334, V3335, or V3336, for a total of three (3) semesters of Italian Language.

Prerequisites: ITAL W1112 or sufficient fluency to satisfy the instructor.

Recommended parallel: ITAL V1201-V/W1202 or W1201-W1202. Conversation courses may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or fulfill major or concentration requirements. Intensive practice in the spoken language, assigned topics for class discussions, and oral reports.

Prerequisites: ITAL W1222 or sufficient fluency to satisfy the instructor. Recommended parallel: ITAL V3335-V3336

Conversation courses may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or fulfill major or concentration requirements. Practice in the spoken language through assigned topics on contemporary Italian culture.

Prerequisites: ITAL V1202 or W1202 or the equivalent.

Written and oral self-expression in compositions and oral reports on a variety of topics; grammar review. Required for majors and concentrators.

Prerequisites: ITAL V3335

Advanced reading, writing, speaking with emphasis on authentic cultural materials. Topic and semester theme varies, to include "Italian in Film Comedy," "Linguistic and Cultural Diversity of Italy," etc.

Prerequisite for W3340: HNGR W1201 or the equivalent. Prerequisite for W3341: HNGR W3340 or the equivalent. W3340 focuses on the more complex syntactic/semantic constructions in addition to vocabulary enrichment. Readings in literature, oral presentations, translations, and essays serve to enhance the grammatical material. W3341 has an emphasis on rapid and comprehensive reading of academic materials. In addition to weekly readings, oral presentations and written essays serve to improve flulency in all aspects of Hungarian.

Prerequisites: ITAL V3336 or the equivalent and instructor's permission.

Students read short texts, analyze the anatomy of an Italian essay, observe and practice sophisticated sentence structures, solidify their knowledge and usage of Italian grammar, and expand their vocabulary. After discussing and analyzing examples of contemporary prose, students will integrate the structures and vocabulary they have acquired into their own writing.

This course maps the origins of the Italian lyric, starting in Sicily and following its development in Tuscany, in the poets of the dolce stil nuovo and ultimately, Dante. Lectures in English; text in Italian, although comparative literature students who can follow with the help of translations are welcome.

While focusing on the Decameron, this course follows the arc of Boccaccio's career from the Ninfale Fiesolano, through the Decameron, and concluding with the Corbaccio, using the treatment of women as the connective thread. The Decameron is read in the light of its cultural density and contextualized in terms of its antecedents, both classical and vernacular, and of its intertexts, especially Dante's Commedia, with particular attention to Boccaccio's masterful exploitation of narrative as a means for undercutting all absolute certainty. Lectures in English; text in Italian, although comparative literature students who can follow with the help of translations are welcome.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of Futurism (arguably the first great avant-garde movement in modern European literature), is also one of the most remarkable writers of the Italian 20th century in his own terms. The course will explore Marinetti's basic contribution to modern Italian literature. Available editions as well as the typescripts of forthcoming books will be used. Marinetti's epoch-making contribution will also be studied in a comparative European and American context. Lectures in English, most texts in Italian, some in French; open also to comparative literature students who can read Italian and French with the help of translations.

The course aims at providing students with a broad knowledge of the political and cultural issues affecting Italy in the crucial, dramatic years between 1922 and 1943. Against the backdrop of Mussolini�s politics, our investigation examines the complex, multifaceted ways the dictatorship has been portrayed in fiction and cinema. Our research will require the evaluation of written texts, visual artifacts, and films produced both during this period and after it. Starting with the cinematic portrayal given in Bertolucci�s Novecento, we will analyze some fundamentals of the fascist doctrine and the most prominent strategies through which Fascism succeeded in creating a popular consensus (i.e., social projects and sophisticated techniques of propaganda). Then we will proceed alternating the analysis of historical documents with literary and cinematic works authored by Marinetti, Moravia, Vittorini, De Cespedes, Camerini, Scola and Fellini.

This course examines Italy's Southern Question from the nineteenth century to the present, investigating the interrelations among cultural representation, geography, and power by focusing on three writers/artists who produced major representations and theorizations of the Southern Question in three different cultural forms: the fiction of Giovanni Verga, the theoretical writings of Antonio Gramsci; the films of Luchino Visconti. Readings and discussion in English. Optional additional readings in Italian. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor.

.A study of women writers working in Italy from the Unification to the 1930's. Examination of how they shaped and defined their status, how they mediated between their own experience and those dominant modes of representation and discourse that constituted the Italian literary tradition; and the fictional portrayal of the woman writer in male-authored texts. In Italian.

Prerequisite for W1002: HNGR W1101 or the equivalent. Introduction to the basic structures of the Hungarian language. Students with a schedule conflict should consult the instructor about the possibility of adjusting hours.

Lecture and lab. Enrollment limited. Prerequisite for V1102: ITAL V1101 or the equivalent. Introduction to Italian grammar, with emphasis on reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Lab: hours to be arranged.

Limited enrollment. Same course as ITAL V1101-V1102. Prerequisite for W1102: ITAL W1101 or the equivalent.

Limited enrollment. No previous knowledge of Italian required. An intensive course that covers two semesters of elementary Italian in one, and prepares students to move into Intermediate Italian. Grammar, reading, writing, and conversation. May be used to fulfill the language requirement only if followed by an additional two (2) semesters of Italian language. ITAL V1201-V1202, or ITAL V1203 and ITAL V3333, V3334, V3335, or V3336, for a total of three(3) semesters of Italian Language.

Prerequisite for W1201: HNGR W1202 or the equivalent. Prerequisite for W1201: HNGR W1201 or the equivalent. Further develops a student's knowledge of the Hungarian language. Students with a schedule conflict should consult the instructor about the possibility of adjusting hours.

Prerequisites: For V1201: ITAL V1102 W1102 or the equivalent; for V1202: ITAL V1201 or W1201 or the equivalent.

Limited enrollment. A review of grammar, intensive reading, composition, and practice in conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural material. Lab: hours to be arranged. ITAL V1202 fulfils the basic foreign language requirement and prepares students for advanced study in Italian language and literature.

Same course as ITAL V1201-V1202. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite for W1202: ITAL W1201 or the equivalent.

Prerequisites: ITAL V1102 or the equivalent.

Prerequisites: ITAL V1102 or equivalent, with a grade of B+ or higher. Limited enrollment. An intensive course that covers two semesters of intermediate Italian in one, and prepares students for advanced language and literature study. Grammar, reading, writing, and conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural materials. This course may be used to fulfill the language requirement if preceded by both V1101 and V1102. Students who wish to use this course for the language requirement, and previously took Intensive Elementary, are also required to take at least one of the following: ITAL V3333, V3334, V3335, or V3336, for a total of three (3) semesters of Italian Language.

Prerequisites: ITAL W1112 or sufficient fluency to satisfy the instructor.

Recommended parallel: ITAL V1201-V/W1202 or W1201-W1202. Conversation courses may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or fulfill major or concentration requirements. Intensive practice in the spoken language, assigned topics for class discussions, and oral reports.

Prerequisites: ITAL W1222 or sufficient fluency to satisfy the instructor. Recommended parallel: ITAL V3335-V3336

Conversation courses may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or fulfill major or concentration requirements. Practice in the spoken language through assigned topics on contemporary Italian culture.

Prerequisites: ITAL V1202 or W1202 or the equivalent.

Written and oral self-expression in compositions and oral reports on a variety of topics; grammar review. Required for majors and concentrators.

Students will develop advanced language competence while analyzing and discussing Italian film comedies and their reflection of changing Italian culture and society. Films by Monicelli, Germi, Moretti, Wertmuller, Soldini and others. ITAL V3335 is a prerequisite.

Prerequisite for W3340: HNGR W1201 or the equivalent. Prerequisite for W3341: HNGR W3340 or the equivalent. W3340 focuses on the more complex syntactic/semantic constructions in addition to vocabulary enrichment. Readings in literature, oral presentations, translations, and essays serve to enhance the grammatical material. W3341 has an emphasis on rapid and comprehensive reading of academic materials. In addition to weekly readings, oral presentations and written essays serve to improve flulency in all aspects of Hungarian.

Prerequisites: ITAL V1202 or W1202 or the equivalent.

V3334-V3333 is the basic course in Italian literature. V3334: Authors and works from the Cinquecento to the present. Taught in Italian.

A reading of the Canzoniere that explicates Petrarch not only as he fashions himself authorially in contrast to Dante, but brings to bear ideas on time and narrative from authors such as Augustine and Ricoeur in order to reconstruct the metaphysical significance of collecting fragments in what was effectively a new genre. We will consider this new genre-the lyric sequence-as well as read Petrarch's Secretum and Trionfi. Lectures in English; text in Italian, although comparative literature students who can follow with the help of translations are welcome.

An investigative overview of the Italian novel from the Risorgimento to the end of the 19th century, with special attention to the novelistic form, the shaping of the national identity, and the reception of the European novel in Italy. Authors include Manzoni, De Marchi, Verga, De Roberto, D'Annunzio, Svevo. In Italian.

The course examines the exceptional contribution of d�Annunzio to Italian literature as it moves from late nineteenth century symbolism to early twentieth century modernism. While all the genres illustrated by this prolific author will be sampled (newspaper article, short story, drama, novel, narrative notebook, memoir, private letter, critical and political essay, diary), special attention will be paid to his poetry. Lectures in English, texts in Italian.

Addresses women writers working in Italy from the postwar period to the 1990s. Analyzes the historical novel, fantastic fiction, and autobiography. Against the backdrop of the critical debate on the literary canon, explores the specificity of women's writing and the way these articulated their difference by subverting and altering dominant literary codes. In Italian.

The political, social, and cultural issues affecting Italy in the crucial, dramatic years between 1943 and 1945. More specifically, the canonical literary and cinematic representations of the war, the "Resistenza" and the Holocaust and the aesthetic issues related to the encounter between history and fiction, reality and imagination. Further examination of how the war has affected women: such an inquiry will require the evaluation of lesser-known women's texts.Topics to be addressed include: war and gender, women as subjects of history, the intersection of the political and the private. Authors to be examined include: Calvino, Fenoglio,Pavese, Levi, Rossellini, Wertmuller, Rosi, Vigano', Milli, Zangrandi, D'Eramo.