Undergraduate Bulletin 2012-2013 Table of Contents
THE FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS
VI. DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMS
ITALIAN
Major in Italian
The Italian major takes an integrative approach to prepare students to explore connections and understand the continuum from past to present. From the Gateway course to the Senior seminar, all courses are designed to introduce students to Italian culture in all its manifestations. Students develop their critical and analytical skills through intellectual dialogue in small class settings. Moreover, the program’s integrated overseas experience gives students new perspectives and approaches to world issues.
Italian Majors at Georgetown are required to complete 10 to 12 courses taught in the Italian language, depending on the results of the student’s placement exam (12 if they begin at the Intensive Basic Level and 10 if they begin at the Intensive Advanced Level) and 1 Gateway course taught in English. Italian Majors are also required to spend a semester or an academic year in Italy studying at an Italian University.
Italian majors can pursue a second major (or a minor) in areas such as Art, Music and Theatre, Business, Comparative Literature, Economics, English, Government, History, Linguistics, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology Theology, and the natural sciences to help prepare for successful careers in their chosen professions.
Required Courses
- 12 General Education courses
- 10 Courses in Italian (unless initial placement requires additional language study) + 1 Gateway course in English taken second semester of the first year. This course satisfies one of the two Humanities and Writing requirements of the College.
1. ITAL-042 Gateway to Italian Culture (taught in English)
- ITAL-111 Intensive Advanced Italian I
- ITAL-112 Intensive Advanced Italian II
- ITAL-231 Contemporary Italy (before overseas study) or another 200-level course
- ITAL-233 Writing: Literature/Culture
3. ITAL-460 Dante--The Divine Comedy
4. 3 Core Courses--1 from each of the following periods:
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a) From the Origins to the Renaissance
- b) From Baroque to the Age of Realism
- ITAL-358 Literature of United Italy
- ITAL-370 Modern Italian Theater
- ITAL-382 The Fantastic in Nineteenth & Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
- ITAL-384 Theater and Opera
- ITAL-385 Madness in Italian Literature and Theater
- ITAL-388 Sex and Politics in Italian Theater and Cinema
- ITAL-392 The Theater of Power: Dynasties, Politics, and Theater, 1500–1800
- ITAL-452 Theater of the Sacred: Between Faith and Politics
- ITAL-467 Italian Theater
- ITAL-473 Farewell to Realism: Decadence, Avant-Garde, Modernism
- c) From Modernism to the Present
- ITAL-315 Le Altre Italie: Italy and the Culture of Contemporary Ethnic Identity
- ITAL-321 Poetics of Lightness: Italo Calvino and Post-War Italian Culture
- ITAL-337 Italian Cinema: Adventurous Journey
- ITAL-359 Bella Ciao! Women’s Identity in Twentieth Century Italy
- ITAL-360 Giallo! Italian Detective Fiction
- ITAL-361 Novecento
- ITAL-380 Identity and Resistance in Fascist Italy
- ITAL-381 Italian Contemporary Poetry
- ITAL-390 Mafia: Realities and Fiction
- ITAL-393 Modern Italian: dialects and other varieties
- ITAL-404 The Twentieth-Century Italian Novel
- ITAL-411 From Novel to Film
- ITAL-425 From Mazzini to the Euro: The European Consciousness in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
- ITAL-426 Encounters with the Other: The Ethnographic Imagination in Italian Literature
- ITAL-445 The Betrayals of Translation
- ITAL-471 The Writing Factory: Science, Machines, and the Technology of the Word in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
5. One elective from any of the 3 periods
Overseas Studies
Italian majors are required to spend at least a semester in Italy. Georgetown sponsors academic programs at the University of Florence and in Milan through IES. For further information, consult the Office of International Programs website: http://oip.georgetown.edu.
Minor in Italian
Minors are required to complete 6 courses taught in Italian:
- ITAL-011 Intensive Basic Italian
- ITAL-032 Intensive Intermediate Italian
- ITAL-111 Intensive Advanced Italian I
- ITAL-112 Intensive Advanced Italian II
- ITAL-233 Writing and Culture/Literature
- ITAL-231 Contemporary Italy or o ne course at the 200 or 300-level.
Italian Major with Business Coursework
(See the Business Coursework section of this Bulletin.)
(For course listings for Italian see http://courses.georgetown.edu/)
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