Italian Courses

AP/IT 1000 6.00
ELEMENTARY ITALIAN

This course is designed for students with no previous formal training in standard Italian. This course teaches speaking and writing skills through the study of elementary grammar, the practice of vocabulary, intonation and pronunciation.

AP/IT 1751 6.00
Italian Culture: The Great Ideas and the Masterworks

CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP HUMA 1751 This interdisciplinary course examines Italy's contribution to the development of Western culture from the Middle Ages to the Age of Romanticism. We study representative works which illustrate three main aspects ...

AP/IT 1761 9.00
ITALIAN CINEMA, LITERATURE AND SOCIETY

CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP HUMA 1761 The course focuses on 12 of the most significant films since the Second World War in the context of the radical changes that have taken place in Italy from the ...

AP/IT 1791 6.00
Italians in North America

This course investigates the effects North American culture and language has on the lives of Italian immigrants and their descendants.PRIOR TO FALL 2014: Course credit exclusions: AP/IT 2791 9.00, AP/SOSC 2960 9.00.

AP/IT 2000 6.00
INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN

This course is intended for students with background knowledge of Italian. Emphasis is placed on oral competence and writing skills. Note: Departmental Course Entry Authorization slip required PRIOR TO ENROLMENT. Prerequisite: Level 4 U/M High ...

AP/IT 2030 6.00
Intermediate Italian Language and Culture in Italy: Examining Bologna, a City at the Crossroads of Italy and Europe

An intensive immersion intermediate Italian language and culture course taught in Italy applying language structures and vocabulary appropriate to the advanced level in context around three major cultural themes focusing on the city of Bologna ...

AP/IT 2100 3.00
INTRODUCTION TO ITALIAN LINGUISTICS

This course deals with linguistic descriptions of the Italian language: its sounds, morphosyntactic features, lexicon, texts and varieties. It provides an overview of linguistic theories as applied to Italian. It requires students to engage in ...

AP/IT 2200 3.00
GATEWAY TO ITALIAN LITERATURE

General historical and thematic survey from the medieval period to the present. The basic tools of literary analysis are emphasized.Students enrolled in a Major or Minor in Italian Studies may be required to complete some ...

AP/IT 3000 6.00
Advanced Italian, Level I

This course develops the students' command of Italian through the further study of difficult areas of morphology and syntax. Readings from contemporary sources expose students to Italian cultural trends and provide a basis for discussions ...

AP/IT 3030 6.00
Advanced Italian Language and Culture in Italy: Examining Bologna, a City at the Crossroads of Italy and Europe

An intensive advanced Italian language and culture course taught on the York campus, followed by a stay at the University of Bologna, covering language structures, vocabulary, language functions and Italian culture and civilization. Excursions complement ...

AP/IT 3360 3.00
Petrarch: Love, Women and Power

An exploration of Petrarch's Canzoniere and its influence on European poetry. This courses analyzes the way the life of women at the end of the Middle Ages is represented by Petrarch and by the different ...

AP/IT 3370 3.00
Boccaccio

The study of Boccaccio's Decameron, and selections from some of the minor works; their link with the new bourgeois culture and their importance in the context of humanistic literature. Students enrolled in a Major or ...

AP/IT 3371 3.00
The Italian Short-Story

This course examines the development of the Italian novella from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period. Among the authors studied are: Boccaccio, Bandello and Basile. Prerequisite: AP/IT 2200 6.00, AP/IT 2200 3.0, or permission ...

AP/IT 3550 3.00
19th-Century Italian Literature

The main trends in Italian literature of the 19th century from the Pre-Romantics to Verismo. Works by major authors such as Foscolo, Leopardi, Manzoni, Carducci and Verga are studied in depth. Prerequisite: AP/IT 2200 6.00, ...

AP/It 3750 6.00
Modern Italian Culture (in translation)

Introduces students to cultural, social and political issues which form the fabric of Italian civilization from unification to the present. Note: Students who are taking Italian as a major or minor subject are required to ...

AP/IT 3761 3.00
Italian Medieval and Renaissance Civilization

This course examines the main aspects of the Italian Renaissance focusing on the Florentine contribution to the great transformation in literature and the arts in the context of the social and political changes taking place ...

AP/IT 3771 3.00
Modern and Contemporary Italian Culture

CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP HUMA 3611 Key issues of Italian culture, with a  focus on unification and national identity;Fascism and the Resistance; political parties and intellectuals; the role ofthe Church; the economy and the shifts in ...

AP/IT 3775 6.00
Media and the Idea of Italy

CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP HUMA 3612 ThisThis course examines the history of the idea of Italy by studying the role of media in the evolution of Italian cultural and national identity from the Renaissance to the ...

AP/IT 4120 3.00
Written Translation, Italian-English/English-Italian

Translation from and into Italian of non-literary texts on a variety of topics (politics, economics, arts, music, psychology, travel). Prerequisite: AP/IT 2000 6.00 (with a minimum grade of C) or equivalent, or permission of the ...

AP/IT 4150 3.00
ITALIAN REGIONAL LINGUISTIC VARIETIES

This course deals with the complex linguistic situation of Italy. Its aim is to acquaint students with methods and issues in dialectology in Italy. The main phonetic, morphological, syntactic and lexical features of the dialects ...

AP/IT 4170 3.00
THE LANGUAGE OF FOOD IN ITALY

Italy, a land rich in linguistic diversity from north to south and on its islands, is also world renowned for its exquisite cuisine. This course focusses on the ""linguaggio del cibo"" (the language of food) ...

AP/IT 4171 3.00
Food in Italian Literature

This course focuses on food culture in Italian literature and examines its historical, social and symbolic value from the Middle Ages to the present.  Food is an important element in Italian culture and, as such, ...

AP/IT 4180 3.00
Selected Topics in Italian Linguistics

The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with a selected number of topics in Italian linguistics. Topics may include selected areas of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, English-Italian contrastive grammar and pragmatics.Prerequisites: AP/IT 2100 ...

AP/IT 4190 3.00
THE HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE

This course traces the history of the Italian language from its Indo-European roots to the present. Topics analyzed include, among others, linguistic aspects of pre-Roman Italy, the transformation of Latin, the 16th-century linguistic controversy ("la ...

AP/IT 4300 3.00
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

This course examines the main authors and literary trends from the age of Lorenzo de' Medici to the death of Tasso. This may include the revolutionary political concepts elaborated by Machiavelli and Guicciardini, as well ...

AP/IT 4330 3.00
The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri

Selected cantos from Dante's Divine Comedy, the supreme poetic expression of the Middle Ages and of Italian literature; its ethical and political vision, and its meaning in the context of the medieval and classical theological/philosophical ...

AP/IT 4350 3.00
Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance

In this course emphasis is placed on the self-awareness of 16th-century women writers in a predominately male world, and their intellectual and social self-understanding in relation to the Renaissance concept of the individual.Pre-requisites: None. Course ...

AP/IT 4400 3.00
Orlando Furioso: Renaissance Bestseller

This course examines Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso in the context of Italian Renaissance culture. Following an interdisciplinary approach, we will consider the poem's place in the chivalric tradition, investigate the material conditions of its reception, ...

AP/IT 4620 3.00
20th Century Italian Poetry

Modern and contemporary Italian poetry from well-established figures of the turn of the century to emerging younger poets. Great works by D'Annunzio, Ungaretti, Montale and Quasimodo, Pasolini, Sanguineti, Zanzotto, Rosselli, Niccolai and others.Prerequisite: AP/IT 2200 ...

AP/IT 4651 3.00
LANDMARKS OF MODERN ITALIAN NARRATIVE:1900-1950

Masterpieces of Italian narrative from the turn of the 1900s to 1950s. Personal identity, social conditioning, and political aspirations explored through the novels of Pirandello, Svevo, Moravia, Vittorini, Pavese.Prerequisite: AP/IT 2200 3.00 or AP/IT 2200 ...

AP/IT 4652 3.00
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN NARRATIVE:1950-Present

This course focuses on the Italian narrative from the 1950s to the present. Shifts in cultural and ideological paradigms, consumer society, feminism, technology, globalization, identity and cognitive issues are discussed. Works by Pasolini, Calvino, Maraini, ...

AP/IT 4653 3.00
The Family of the Feminine: Women Writers of Modern Italy

Explores the writings of some of the most prominent women authors from 1960 to the present addressing their voices and experiences within the family, whether as mother, wife, or daughter. The works of both feminist ...

AP/IT 4750 6.00
Modern Italian Culture (in translation)

Introduces students to Italian culture and its transformations from unification to the present. National identity and regional differences, the influence of the Church, Fascism and Resistance, industrialization, mafia and the southern problem, youth revolts and ...

AP/IT 4775 6.00
MEDIA AND THE IDEA OF ITALY

This interdisciplinary course examines the history of the idea of Italy by studying the role of media in the evolution of Italian cultural and national identity from the Renaissance to the present. Course credit exclusion: ...