Italian Studies has as its mission to maintain the traditions and study of the great classics as well as to provide a window on an increasingly complex and diverse contemporary Italian culture. It promotes the study of the Italian language through an excellent and rigorous language training program. It offers courses in Italian literature, both in Italian and in English, as well as in Italian film. The department periodically invites scholars specializing in contemporary politics, the Italian immigrant experience and social change, enabling students to gain both a broader and more critical understanding of various aspects of Italian culture, through contact with specialists in these areas.
Program Information
- Minor Concentration Italian Studies (18 Credits)
- Major Concentration Italian Studies (36 Credits)
- Honours Italian Studies (54 Credits)
- Joint Honours Component Italian Studies (36 Credits)
Minor Concentration Italian Studies (18 Credits)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Minor Concentration Italian Studies (18 Credits)
Offered by:Languages,Literatures,Cultures
Degree:Bachelor of Arts
Program Requirement:
This program may be expanded to the Major Concentration Italian Studies.
Complementary Courses (18 credits)
18 credits selected from three Italian course lists as follows:
Group A 鈥� Basic Language Courses and Group B 鈥� Courses taught in Italian (12-18 credits combined)
Group C 鈥� Courses taught in English (0-6 credits)
Group A - Basic Language Courses
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ITAL 205D1 Italian for Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Grammar, reading, dictation. Intensive practice in speech patterns and written structures. Conversation and composition. Visual material and selected readings will be used in describing the making of contemporary Italy.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- 3 hours and laboratory
- Students must register for both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Meghri Doumanian, Cristiana Furlan, Rania Metni
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ITAL 205D2 Italian for Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 205D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 205D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Meghri Doumanian, Rania Metni
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ITAL 206 Beginners Italian Intensive 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall or Winter
- 6 hours and 1 hour laboratory
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan, Anna Maria Tumino
- Cristiana Furlan, Anna Maria Tumino
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ITAL 210D1 Italian for Adv. Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Intended for students who have never studied Italian, but who have had some informal exposure to the language. Grammar, reading, conversation and composition. An outline of Italian civilization, oral presentations and discussions.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- 3 hours and laboratory
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2 or ITAL 206
- Students must register for both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 210D2 Italian for Adv. Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 210D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 210D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 215D1 Intermediate Italian 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Direct continuation of ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. Grammar, literary readings, conversation. Grammar exercises and composition. Reading of selected literary works, oral presentations and group discussion.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- Students must register for both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan
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ITAL 215D2 Intermediate Italian 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 215D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan
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ITAL 216 Intermediate Italian Intensive 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Course designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2. Direct continuation of ITAL 206.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall or Winter
- 6 hours
- Prerequisite: ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2 or ITAL 206 or permission of the Department
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 210
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Anna Maria Tumino
- Anna Maria Tumino
Group B - Courses Taught in Italian
* Note: Only one of ITAL 250 or ITAL 255 can count towards the program.
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ITAL 250 Italian Literary Composition 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Analysis and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century literary texts with a view to improving language and composition skills. Review of major grammatical difficulties.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- 3 hours seminar
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 300.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 255 Adv Reading & Composition 6 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The understanding of grammatical structures through a variety of exercises; paraphrasing, translating, composition and discussion. Particular emphasis will be placed on syntax through the study of contemporary texts.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 306.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 260 Reading Italian Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A selection of poetic, narrative and theatrical texts from different historical periods, providing students with advanced tools in textual analysis and close reading of Italian literary texts.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 270 Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An analysis of the historical novel "I promessi sposi", by Alessandro Manzoni: its political, social and intellectual role in the evolution of Italy towards nationhood (Risorgimento).
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 320.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 281 Masterpieces of Italian Lit 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A survey of Italian literature from Renaissance to the 20th century. Interdisciplinary approach.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 326.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 290 Commedia Dell'Arte 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte".
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 1TAL 330.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rania Metni
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ITAL 295 Italian Cultural Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A cultural studies approach to contemporary Italian society. Focus on distinctive traits of Italian popular culture through literature, film, television and other media.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/D2 or 216 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 328.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tania Zampini
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ITAL 310 The Invention of Italian Lit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The course presents Italian's major texts and authors over the ages, by critically exploring how the invention of Italian literature impacts the formation of a national identity.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ITAL 280.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 329 Italian Cinematic Tradition 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Italian films in original language. Films are examined from a wide historical and cultural perspective. Introduction to issues and preoccupations central to the Italian cultural tradition.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Note: Course taught in Italian
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 332 Italian Theatrical Traditions 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An overview of the major works and genres of Italian theatre from the Renaissance to the present, analyzing their reception and influence on Italian society.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- The course will be given in Italian.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 345 Romanticism in Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The course introduces key figures in early-19th century Italian culture (Leopardi, Foscolo, Manzoni), and problematizes both the notion of Romanticism in Italy, and its relationship to the movement for Italian unification.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite: ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 356 Medieval Discourses on Love 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Medieval ideas, attitudes and behaviour surrounding love as represented in literature: readings will include excerpts from early Italian love lyrics, Dante's Vita Nuova, Petrarch's Canzoniere, Boccaccio's Decameron.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 360 Contemporary Italian Prose 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of Italian fiction, docu-fiction and non-fiction published since 1990, examined in the context of the debates on post-modernism.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 210D1/D2, ITAL 215D1/D2, ITAL 216, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 362 Post-World War 2 Lit & Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of Italian prose fiction and non-fiction in the context of some of the events and issues that marked these years: the aftermath of Fascism, the economic boom, terrorism, the Mafia, the North-South question.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisites: ITAL 215D1/D2, ITAL 216 or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 371 The Italian Baroque 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An analysis of the Italian Baroque period through an interdisciplinary overview of its major figures (Caravaggio, Bernini, Galileo, Marino, Vico) and cultural genres (commedia dell芒鈥⑴絘rte, opera, still life)
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 383 Women's Writing since 1880 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Prerequisite: any 300 level course given in Italian or permission of the Department
- Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 400 Italian Regional Identities 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The course explores tensions between national and regional narratives in Italy's literature, culture, language, and society.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ITAL 327.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 410 Italian Modernism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of representative works of major Italian authors from the fin-de-si猫cle to WWII.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 560 Topics in 19th & 20th C Lit. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Exploration of individual authors, genres, and literary or cultural movements that have marked Italian culture in the 19th and 20th century.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite for Undergraduate students: permission of the Department
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Group C - Courses Taught in English
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ITAL 199 FYS:Italy's Lit in Context 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Maximum 25
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 230 Understanding Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An introductory critical perspective on a series of issues (North/South, Church/State, the family, regionalism, Fascism) related to contemporary Italy through novels, films and essays.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Course will be taught in English
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 307 Topics in Italian Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Selected topics in Italian culture (topics may vary and may concentrate on one or more of the following areas: geography, history, music, art history, political science, and/or literature).
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tania Zampini
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ITAL 355 Dante and the Middle Ages 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 363 Gender, Literature and Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Questions of gender identity and literary representation as they emerge from women's texts or from comparisons of women's and men's texts, in relation to specific social and historical conditions. May focus on any time period in Italian history, from medieval to contemporary.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 365 The Italian Renaissance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 374 Classics of Italian Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Key works in the history of Italian cinema; an in-depth analysis of a few exceptional works; emphasis on the complex web of relationship connecting each work to a wide range of cultural products and expressions, from literature to popular culture, in Italy and internationally.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Note: Course taught in English.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 375 Cinema&Society in Modern Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 450 Italy and the Visual Age 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of the emergence of a mass culture industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, through the survey of a variety of visual sources.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite: ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 464 Machiavelli 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Machiavelli, the political thinker and man of letters. A portrait of Machiavelli as political strategist, playwright and observer of his times. Reading of The Prince as well as selected plays, letters and other writings.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 465 Religious Identities in Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): This course examines the role played by religion in shaping Italian identities by looking at the works of Dante, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico, Galileo Galilei and other Early Modern authors in their cultural and institutional contexts. By looking at how these authors expressed their beliefs and interacted with religious institutions, students are invited to critically engage on the concept of "religion".
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 477 Italian Cinema and Video 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 377
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Cristina Carnemolla
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations.
Major Concentration Italian Studies (36 Credits)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Major Concentration Italian Studies (36 Credits)
Offered by:Languages,Literatures,Cultures
Degree:Bachelor of Arts
Program Requirement:
All students wishing to register for the Major Concentration Italian Studies are strongly urged to meet with a departmental adviser.
Complementary Courses (36 credits)
36 credits selected from the three Italian course lists as follows:
Group A 鈥� Basic Language Courses (0-12 credits)
- Students with no knowledge of the Italian language must take 12 credits in language.
- Students with some knowledge of the language may take 6 credits only selected from ITAL 210D1/ITAL 210D2, ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, or ITAL 216.
- Students with competency in the language may substitute courses from Groups B and C for Group A - Basic Language courses.
ALL students with some background must consult with the Department for proper placement.
Group B 鈥� Courses Taught in Italian (a minimum of 12 credits, of which a maximum of 6 credits may be at the 200 level)
Group C 鈥� Courses Taught in English (0-12 credits)
Group A - Basic Language Courses
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ITAL 205D1 Italian for Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Grammar, reading, dictation. Intensive practice in speech patterns and written structures. Conversation and composition. Visual material and selected readings will be used in describing the making of contemporary Italy.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- 3 hours and laboratory
- Students must register for both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Meghri Doumanian, Cristiana Furlan, Rania Metni
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ITAL 205D2 Italian for Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 205D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 205D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Meghri Doumanian, Rania Metni
-
ITAL 206 Beginners Italian Intensive 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall or Winter
- 6 hours and 1 hour laboratory
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan, Anna Maria Tumino
- Cristiana Furlan, Anna Maria Tumino
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ITAL 210D1 Italian for Adv. Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Intended for students who have never studied Italian, but who have had some informal exposure to the language. Grammar, reading, conversation and composition. An outline of Italian civilization, oral presentations and discussions.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- 3 hours and laboratory
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2 or ITAL 206
- Students must register for both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ITAL 210D2 Italian for Adv. Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 210D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 210D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ITAL 215D1 Intermediate Italian 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Direct continuation of ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. Grammar, literary readings, conversation. Grammar exercises and composition. Reading of selected literary works, oral presentations and group discussion.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- Students must register for both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan
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ITAL 215D2 Intermediate Italian 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 215D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan
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ITAL 216 Intermediate Italian Intensive 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Course designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2. Direct continuation of ITAL 206.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall or Winter
- 6 hours
- Prerequisite: ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2 or ITAL 206 or permission of the Department
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 210
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Anna Maria Tumino
- Anna Maria Tumino
Group B - Courses Taught in Italian
* Note: Only one of ITAL 250 or ITAL 255 can count toward the program.
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ITAL 250 Italian Literary Composition 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Analysis and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century literary texts with a view to improving language and composition skills. Review of major grammatical difficulties.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- 3 hours seminar
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 300.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 255 Adv Reading & Composition 6 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The understanding of grammatical structures through a variety of exercises; paraphrasing, translating, composition and discussion. Particular emphasis will be placed on syntax through the study of contemporary texts.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 306.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 260 Reading Italian Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A selection of poetic, narrative and theatrical texts from different historical periods, providing students with advanced tools in textual analysis and close reading of Italian literary texts.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 270 Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An analysis of the historical novel "I promessi sposi", by Alessandro Manzoni: its political, social and intellectual role in the evolution of Italy towards nationhood (Risorgimento).
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 320.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 281 Masterpieces of Italian Lit 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A survey of Italian literature from Renaissance to the 20th century. Interdisciplinary approach.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 326.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 290 Commedia Dell'Arte 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte".
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 1TAL 330.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rania Metni
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ITAL 295 Italian Cultural Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A cultural studies approach to contemporary Italian society. Focus on distinctive traits of Italian popular culture through literature, film, television and other media.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/D2 or 216 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 328.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tania Zampini
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ITAL 310 The Invention of Italian Lit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The course presents Italian's major texts and authors over the ages, by critically exploring how the invention of Italian literature impacts the formation of a national identity.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ITAL 280.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 329 Italian Cinematic Tradition 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Italian films in original language. Films are examined from a wide historical and cultural perspective. Introduction to issues and preoccupations central to the Italian cultural tradition.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Note: Course taught in Italian
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 332 Italian Theatrical Traditions 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An overview of the major works and genres of Italian theatre from the Renaissance to the present, analyzing their reception and influence on Italian society.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- The course will be given in Italian.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 345 Romanticism in Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The course introduces key figures in early-19th century Italian culture (Leopardi, Foscolo, Manzoni), and problematizes both the notion of Romanticism in Italy, and its relationship to the movement for Italian unification.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite: ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 356 Medieval Discourses on Love 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Medieval ideas, attitudes and behaviour surrounding love as represented in literature: readings will include excerpts from early Italian love lyrics, Dante's Vita Nuova, Petrarch's Canzoniere, Boccaccio's Decameron.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 360 Contemporary Italian Prose 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of Italian fiction, docu-fiction and non-fiction published since 1990, examined in the context of the debates on post-modernism.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 210D1/D2, ITAL 215D1/D2, ITAL 216, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 362 Post-World War 2 Lit & Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of Italian prose fiction and non-fiction in the context of some of the events and issues that marked these years: the aftermath of Fascism, the economic boom, terrorism, the Mafia, the North-South question.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisites: ITAL 215D1/D2, ITAL 216 or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 371 The Italian Baroque 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An analysis of the Italian Baroque period through an interdisciplinary overview of its major figures (Caravaggio, Bernini, Galileo, Marino, Vico) and cultural genres (commedia dell芒鈥⑴絘rte, opera, still life)
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 383 Women's Writing since 1880 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Prerequisite: any 300 level course given in Italian or permission of the Department
- Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 400 Italian Regional Identities 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The course explores tensions between national and regional narratives in Italy's literature, culture, language, and society.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ITAL 327.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 410 Italian Modernism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of representative works of major Italian authors from the fin-de-si猫cle to WWII.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 560 Topics in 19th & 20th C Lit. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Exploration of individual authors, genres, and literary or cultural movements that have marked Italian culture in the 19th and 20th century.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite for Undergraduate students: permission of the Department
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Group C - Courses Taught in English
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ITAL 199 FYS:Italy's Lit in Context 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Maximum 25
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 230 Understanding Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An introductory critical perspective on a series of issues (North/South, Church/State, the family, regionalism, Fascism) related to contemporary Italy through novels, films and essays.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Course will be taught in English
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 307 Topics in Italian Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Selected topics in Italian culture (topics may vary and may concentrate on one or more of the following areas: geography, history, music, art history, political science, and/or literature).
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tania Zampini
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ITAL 355 Dante and the Middle Ages 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 363 Gender, Literature and Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Questions of gender identity and literary representation as they emerge from women's texts or from comparisons of women's and men's texts, in relation to specific social and historical conditions. May focus on any time period in Italian history, from medieval to contemporary.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 365 The Italian Renaissance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 374 Classics of Italian Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Key works in the history of Italian cinema; an in-depth analysis of a few exceptional works; emphasis on the complex web of relationship connecting each work to a wide range of cultural products and expressions, from literature to popular culture, in Italy and internationally.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Note: Course taught in English.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 375 Cinema&Society in Modern Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 450 Italy and the Visual Age 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of the emergence of a mass culture industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, through the survey of a variety of visual sources.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite: ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 464 Machiavelli 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Machiavelli, the political thinker and man of letters. A portrait of Machiavelli as political strategist, playwright and observer of his times. Reading of The Prince as well as selected plays, letters and other writings.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 465 Religious Identities in Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): This course examines the role played by religion in shaping Italian identities by looking at the works of Dante, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico, Galileo Galilei and other Early Modern authors in their cultural and institutional contexts. By looking at how these authors expressed their beliefs and interacted with religious institutions, students are invited to critically engage on the concept of "religion".
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 477 Italian Cinema and Video 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 377
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Cristina Carnemolla
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations.
Honours Italian Studies (54 Credits)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Honours Italian Studies (54 Credits)
Offered by:Languages,Literatures,Cultures
Degree:Bachelor of Arts
Program Requirement:
Honours students must maintain a GPA of 3.30 in their program courses and, according to Faculty regulations, a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general.
Admission to the Honours program in Italian requires Departmental approval. Students wishing to register should consult with the Department as early as possible. Qualified students may begin Honours in Italian Studies in the first year, instead of the second, at the discretion of the Department.
Required Courses (6 credits)
One of the two honours thesis courses below:
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ITAL 471D1 Honours Thesis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Honours Thesis.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- Restrictions: Compulsory for Honours students. Not open to students who have taken ITAL 472.
- Students must register for both ITAL 471D1 and ITAL 471D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 471D1 and ITAL 471D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 471D2 Honours Thesis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 471D1 for description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite: ITAL 471D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 471D1 and ITAL 471D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 472 Honours Thesis (Intensive) 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Intensive Honours thesis.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall or Winter
- Restrictions: Compulsory for Honours students. Not open to students who have taken ITAL 471D1/D2.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Complementary Courses (48 credits)
48 credits, 9 of which must be at the 400 level or above, selected from the four Italian course lists as follows:
0-12 credits from Group A 鈥� Basic Language Courses.
30-48 credits from Group B 鈥� Courses Taught in Italian.
0-9 credits combined from Group C 鈥� Courses Taught in English and Group D 鈥� Courses Offered in Other Departments.
Note: Students with advanced standing in the language must replace language courses with courses from groups B, C, and D.
Group A - Basic Language Courses
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ITAL 205D1 Italian for Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Grammar, reading, dictation. Intensive practice in speech patterns and written structures. Conversation and composition. Visual material and selected readings will be used in describing the making of contemporary Italy.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- 3 hours and laboratory
- Students must register for both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Meghri Doumanian, Cristiana Furlan, Rania Metni
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ITAL 205D2 Italian for Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 205D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 205D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Meghri Doumanian, Rania Metni
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ITAL 206 Beginners Italian Intensive 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall or Winter
- 6 hours and 1 hour laboratory
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan, Anna Maria Tumino
- Cristiana Furlan, Anna Maria Tumino
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ITAL 210D1 Italian for Adv. Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Intended for students who have never studied Italian, but who have had some informal exposure to the language. Grammar, reading, conversation and composition. An outline of Italian civilization, oral presentations and discussions.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- 3 hours and laboratory
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2 or ITAL 206
- Students must register for both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 210D2 Italian for Adv. Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 210D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 210D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ITAL 215D1 Intermediate Italian 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Direct continuation of ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. Grammar, literary readings, conversation. Grammar exercises and composition. Reading of selected literary works, oral presentations and group discussion.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- Students must register for both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan
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ITAL 215D2 Intermediate Italian 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 215D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan
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ITAL 216 Intermediate Italian Intensive 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Course designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2. Direct continuation of ITAL 206.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall or Winter
- 6 hours
- Prerequisite: ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2 or ITAL 206 or permission of the Department
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 210
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Anna Maria Tumino
- Anna Maria Tumino
Group B - Courses Taught in Italian
* Note: Only one of ITAL 250 or ITAL 255 can count toward the program.
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ITAL 250 Italian Literary Composition 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Analysis and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century literary texts with a view to improving language and composition skills. Review of major grammatical difficulties.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- 3 hours seminar
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 300.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ITAL 255 Adv Reading & Composition 6 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The understanding of grammatical structures through a variety of exercises; paraphrasing, translating, composition and discussion. Particular emphasis will be placed on syntax through the study of contemporary texts.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 306.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ITAL 260 Reading Italian Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A selection of poetic, narrative and theatrical texts from different historical periods, providing students with advanced tools in textual analysis and close reading of Italian literary texts.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 270 Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An analysis of the historical novel "I promessi sposi", by Alessandro Manzoni: its political, social and intellectual role in the evolution of Italy towards nationhood (Risorgimento).
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 320.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 281 Masterpieces of Italian Lit 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A survey of Italian literature from Renaissance to the 20th century. Interdisciplinary approach.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 326.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 290 Commedia Dell'Arte 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte".
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 1TAL 330.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rania Metni
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ITAL 295 Italian Cultural Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A cultural studies approach to contemporary Italian society. Focus on distinctive traits of Italian popular culture through literature, film, television and other media.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/D2 or 216 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 328.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tania Zampini
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ITAL 307 Topics in Italian Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Selected topics in Italian culture (topics may vary and may concentrate on one or more of the following areas: geography, history, music, art history, political science, and/or literature).
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tania Zampini
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ITAL 310 The Invention of Italian Lit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The course presents Italian's major texts and authors over the ages, by critically exploring how the invention of Italian literature impacts the formation of a national identity.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ITAL 280.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 329 Italian Cinematic Tradition 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Italian films in original language. Films are examined from a wide historical and cultural perspective. Introduction to issues and preoccupations central to the Italian cultural tradition.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Note: Course taught in Italian
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 332 Italian Theatrical Traditions 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An overview of the major works and genres of Italian theatre from the Renaissance to the present, analyzing their reception and influence on Italian society.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- The course will be given in Italian.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 345 Romanticism in Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The course introduces key figures in early-19th century Italian culture (Leopardi, Foscolo, Manzoni), and problematizes both the notion of Romanticism in Italy, and its relationship to the movement for Italian unification.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite: ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 356 Medieval Discourses on Love 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Medieval ideas, attitudes and behaviour surrounding love as represented in literature: readings will include excerpts from early Italian love lyrics, Dante's Vita Nuova, Petrarch's Canzoniere, Boccaccio's Decameron.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 360 Contemporary Italian Prose 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of Italian fiction, docu-fiction and non-fiction published since 1990, examined in the context of the debates on post-modernism.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 210D1/D2, ITAL 215D1/D2, ITAL 216, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 371 The Italian Baroque 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An analysis of the Italian Baroque period through an interdisciplinary overview of its major figures (Caravaggio, Bernini, Galileo, Marino, Vico) and cultural genres (commedia dell芒鈥⑴絘rte, opera, still life)
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 383 Women's Writing since 1880 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Prerequisite: any 300 level course given in Italian or permission of the Department
- Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 400 Italian Regional Identities 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The course explores tensions between national and regional narratives in Italy's literature, culture, language, and society.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ITAL 327.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 410 Italian Modernism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of representative works of major Italian authors from the fin-de-si猫cle to WWII.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 560 Topics in 19th & 20th C Lit. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Exploration of individual authors, genres, and literary or cultural movements that have marked Italian culture in the 19th and 20th century.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite for Undergraduate students: permission of the Department
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Group C - Courses Taught in English
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ITAL 199 FYS:Italy's Lit in Context 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Maximum 25
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 230 Understanding Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An introductory critical perspective on a series of issues (North/South, Church/State, the family, regionalism, Fascism) related to contemporary Italy through novels, films and essays.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Course will be taught in English
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 355 Dante and the Middle Ages 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 363 Gender, Literature and Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Questions of gender identity and literary representation as they emerge from women's texts or from comparisons of women's and men's texts, in relation to specific social and historical conditions. May focus on any time period in Italian history, from medieval to contemporary.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 365 The Italian Renaissance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 374 Classics of Italian Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Key works in the history of Italian cinema; an in-depth analysis of a few exceptional works; emphasis on the complex web of relationship connecting each work to a wide range of cultural products and expressions, from literature to popular culture, in Italy and internationally.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Note: Course taught in English.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 375 Cinema&Society in Modern Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 450 Italy and the Visual Age 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of the emergence of a mass culture industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, through the survey of a variety of visual sources.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite: ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 464 Machiavelli 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Machiavelli, the political thinker and man of letters. A portrait of Machiavelli as political strategist, playwright and observer of his times. Reading of The Prince as well as selected plays, letters and other writings.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 465 Religious Identities in Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): This course examines the role played by religion in shaping Italian identities by looking at the works of Dante, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico, Galileo Galilei and other Early Modern authors in their cultural and institutional contexts. By looking at how these authors expressed their beliefs and interacted with religious institutions, students are invited to critically engage on the concept of "religion".
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 477 Italian Cinema and Video 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 377
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Cristina Carnemolla
Group D - Courses Offered in Other Departments
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ARTH 223 Intro Ital Renai Art 1300-1500 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Art History: Surveys the changing role of the artwork in Renaissance Italy in its social, political, and religious contexts.
Offered by: Art History & Communications
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Evgeniya Makarova
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ARTH 325 Vis Culture Renaissance Venice 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Art History: Distinctive visual culture in the context of Venice's singular topography and reputation for licentiousness and toleration.
Offered by: Art History & Communications
- Prerequisite: one 200-level Art History course recommended, or by permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Chriscinda Claire Henry
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CLAS 302 Roman Literature and Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Classics: An exploration of Roman texts written during the Republican and Imperial periods (200 BCE-400 CE) and the study of social contexts in which they were written.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 208.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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CLAS 404 Classical Tradition 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Classics: Examines the evolution of Classical Antiquity's social and cultural status from the 17th c. to the present day. Particular consideration is given to the processes of the ongoing professionalization of history and archeology as academic disciplines, the emergence of new political usages of the past, the transformation of cultural practices from the Grand Tour to the modern museum and tourism.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: CLAS 202 or related courses or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ENGL 447 Xcurrents/Eng Lit & Eur Lit 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:English (Arts): Comparative study of English and European literature. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: English
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
- Fall
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 345 Hist of Italian Renaissance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the economy, society, politics and intellectual developments in Italy from approximately 1300 to the early 16th century.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 380 The Medieval Mediterranean 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Thematic history of the Mediterranean during the Medieval period, covering elements of Latin, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations and their interactions.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 398 Topics in Italian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Topics in Italian history. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 401 Topics:Medieval Culture&Soc 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Selected topics in the intellectual and cultural history of the Middle Ages. Emphasis on modern critical approaches to medieval culture, including literature, the supernatural, religious experience.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUHL 387 Opera from Mozart to Puccini 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Mozart's operas and the seria, buffa, and Singspiel traditions. Ottocento opera, grand opera, and cross-fertilization between France and Italy. German Romantic opera. Wagner. Eastern European opera. Verismo and fin-de-si猫cle opera in Vienna and Paris. Sociology of opera. Emphasis on critical understanding of music's role in articulating drama.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations.
Joint Honours Component Italian Studies (36 Credits)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Joint Honours Component Italian Studies (36 Credits)
Offered by:Languages,Literatures,Cultures
Degree:Bachelor of Arts
Program Requirement:
Students who wish to study at the Honours level in two Arts disciplines may apply to combine Joint Honours program components from two Arts disciplines. For a list of available Joint Honours programs, see "Overview of Programs Offered" and "Joint Honours Programs".
Joint Honours students should consult an adviser in each department to discuss their course selection and their interdisciplinary research project (if applicable).
Joint Honours students must maintain a GPA of 3.30 in their program courses and, according to Faculty regulations, a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general.
Admission to Joint Honours requires departmental approval. Students wishing to register in the program should consult with the Department as early as possible. Students may register for Joint Honours in the first year, instead of the second year, if in the opinion of the departments they are found to be qualified.
Required Courses (6 credits)
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ITAL 355 Dante and the Middle Ages 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 470 Joint Honours Thesis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Research and completion of the Honours thesis on an approved subject.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall or Winter
- Restriction: Compulsory for Honours and Joint Honours students.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Complementary Courses (30 credits)
30 credits, 6 of which must be at the 400 level or above, selected from the four Italian course lists as follows:
0-12 credits from Group A 鈥� Basic Language Courses.
12-30 credits from Group B 鈥� Courses Taught in Italian.
0-18 credits combined from Group C 鈥� Courses Taught in English and Group D 鈥� Courses Offered in Other Departments.
Note: Students with advanced standing in the language must replace language courses with courses from groups B, C, and D.
Group A - Basic Language Courses
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ITAL 205D1 Italian for Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Grammar, reading, dictation. Intensive practice in speech patterns and written structures. Conversation and composition. Visual material and selected readings will be used in describing the making of contemporary Italy.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- 3 hours and laboratory
- Students must register for both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Meghri Doumanian, Cristiana Furlan, Rania Metni
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ITAL 205D2 Italian for Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 205D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 205D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Meghri Doumanian, Rania Metni
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ITAL 206 Beginners Italian Intensive 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall or Winter
- 6 hours and 1 hour laboratory
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan, Anna Maria Tumino
- Cristiana Furlan, Anna Maria Tumino
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ITAL 210D1 Italian for Adv. Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Intended for students who have never studied Italian, but who have had some informal exposure to the language. Grammar, reading, conversation and composition. An outline of Italian civilization, oral presentations and discussions.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- 3 hours and laboratory
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2 or ITAL 206
- Students must register for both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 210D2 Italian for Adv. Beginners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 210D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 210D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 215D1 Intermediate Italian 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Direct continuation of ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. Grammar, literary readings, conversation. Grammar exercises and composition. Reading of selected literary works, oral presentations and group discussion.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall, Winter
- Students must register for both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan
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ITAL 215D2 Intermediate Italian 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): See ITAL 215D1 for course description.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Cristiana Furlan
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ITAL 216 Intermediate Italian Intensive 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Course designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2. Direct continuation of ITAL 206.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall or Winter
- 6 hours
- Prerequisite: ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2 or ITAL 206 or permission of the Department
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 210
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Anna Maria Tumino
- Anna Maria Tumino
Group B - Courses Taught in Italian
* Note: Only one of ITAL 250 or ITAL 255 can count toward the program.
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ITAL 250 Italian Literary Composition 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Analysis and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century literary texts with a view to improving language and composition skills. Review of major grammatical difficulties.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- 3 hours seminar
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 300.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 255 Adv Reading & Composition 6 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The understanding of grammatical structures through a variety of exercises; paraphrasing, translating, composition and discussion. Particular emphasis will be placed on syntax through the study of contemporary texts.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 306.
- Symbols:
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- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 260 Reading Italian Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A selection of poetic, narrative and theatrical texts from different historical periods, providing students with advanced tools in textual analysis and close reading of Italian literary texts.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 270 Manzoni: Novel and Nationhood 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An analysis of the historical novel "I promessi sposi", by Alessandro Manzoni: its political, social and intellectual role in the evolution of Italy towards nationhood (Risorgimento).
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 320.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 281 Masterpieces of Italian Lit 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A survey of Italian literature from Renaissance to the 20th century. Interdisciplinary approach.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 326.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 290 Commedia Dell'Arte 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte".
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 1TAL 330.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rania Metni
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ITAL 295 Italian Cultural Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A cultural studies approach to contemporary Italian society. Focus on distinctive traits of Italian popular culture through literature, film, television and other media.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/D2 or 216 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 328.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tania Zampini
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ITAL 307 Topics in Italian Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Selected topics in Italian culture (topics may vary and may concentrate on one or more of the following areas: geography, history, music, art history, political science, and/or literature).
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tania Zampini
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ITAL 310 The Invention of Italian Lit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The course presents Italian's major texts and authors over the ages, by critically exploring how the invention of Italian literature impacts the formation of a national identity.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ITAL 280.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 332 Italian Theatrical Traditions 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An overview of the major works and genres of Italian theatre from the Renaissance to the present, analyzing their reception and influence on Italian society.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- The course will be given in Italian.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 356 Medieval Discourses on Love 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Medieval ideas, attitudes and behaviour surrounding love as represented in literature: readings will include excerpts from early Italian love lyrics, Dante's Vita Nuova, Petrarch's Canzoniere, Boccaccio's Decameron.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 360 Contemporary Italian Prose 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of Italian fiction, docu-fiction and non-fiction published since 1990, examined in the context of the debates on post-modernism.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 210D1/D2, ITAL 215D1/D2, ITAL 216, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 383 Women's Writing since 1880 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Prerequisite: any 300 level course given in Italian or permission of the Department
- Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 400 Italian Regional Identities 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The course explores tensions between national and regional narratives in Italy's literature, culture, language, and society.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ITAL 327.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 410 Italian Modernism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A study of representative works of major Italian authors from the fin-de-si猫cle to WWII.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 560 Topics in 19th & 20th C Lit. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Exploration of individual authors, genres, and literary or cultural movements that have marked Italian culture in the 19th and 20th century.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite for Undergraduate students: permission of the Department
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Group C - Courses Taught in English
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ITAL 199 FYS:Italy's Lit in Context 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Maximum 25
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 355 Dante and the Middle Ages 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 365 The Italian Renaissance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Matteo Soranzo
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ITAL 375 Cinema&Society in Modern Italy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 464 Machiavelli 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Machiavelli, the political thinker and man of letters. A portrait of Machiavelli as political strategist, playwright and observer of his times. Reading of The Prince as well as selected plays, letters and other writings.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Fall
- Given in English
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ITAL 477 Italian Cinema and Video 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Italian (Arts): Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Winter
- Given in English
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 377
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Cristina Carnemolla
Group D - Courses Offered in Other Departments
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ARTH 223 Intro Ital Renai Art 1300-1500 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Art History: Surveys the changing role of the artwork in Renaissance Italy in its social, political, and religious contexts.
Offered by: Art History & Communications
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Evgeniya Makarova
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ARTH 325 Vis Culture Renaissance Venice 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Art History: Distinctive visual culture in the context of Venice's singular topography and reputation for licentiousness and toleration.
Offered by: Art History & Communications
- Prerequisite: one 200-level Art History course recommended, or by permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Chriscinda Claire Henry
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CLAS 302 Roman Literature and Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Classics: An exploration of Roman texts written during the Republican and Imperial periods (200 BCE-400 CE) and the study of social contexts in which they were written.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 208.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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CLAS 404 Classical Tradition 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Classics: Examines the evolution of Classical Antiquity's social and cultural status from the 17th c. to the present day. Particular consideration is given to the processes of the ongoing professionalization of history and archeology as academic disciplines, the emergence of new political usages of the past, the transformation of cultural practices from the Grand Tour to the modern museum and tourism.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: CLAS 202 or related courses or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ENGL 447 Xcurrents/Eng Lit & Eur Lit 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:English (Arts): Comparative study of English and European literature. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: English
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
- Fall
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 345 Hist of Italian Renaissance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the economy, society, politics and intellectual developments in Italy from approximately 1300 to the early 16th century.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 380 The Medieval Mediterranean 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Thematic history of the Mediterranean during the Medieval period, covering elements of Latin, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations and their interactions.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 398 Topics in Italian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Topics in Italian history. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 401 Topics:Medieval Culture&Soc 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Selected topics in the intellectual and cultural history of the Middle Ages. Emphasis on modern critical approaches to medieval culture, including literature, the supernatural, religious experience.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUHL 387 Opera from Mozart to Puccini 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Mozart's operas and the seria, buffa, and Singspiel traditions. Ottocento opera, grand opera, and cross-fertilization between France and Italy. German Romantic opera. Wagner. Eastern European opera. Verismo and fin-de-si猫cle opera in Vienna and Paris. Sociology of opera. Emphasis on critical understanding of music's role in articulating drama.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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Program Advisors
Undergraduate Program Advisor
Prof. Matteo Soranzo
680 Sherbrooke West
Montreal, QC 聽H3A 2M7
matteo.soranzo [at] mcgill.ca
Office hours: By appointment
Language Programs Advisor
Ms. Cristiana Furlan
680聽Sherbrooke West
Montreal, QC 聽H3A 2M7
cristiana.furlan [at] mcgill.ca
Office hours: By appointment
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