THE FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS

ITALIAN

(New requirements will take effect with the class of '08)

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 of our courses are designed to introduce students to Italian culture in all its manifestations. In doing so they develop their critical and analytical skills through intellectual dialogue in small class settings. The program's integrated overseas experience gives students new perspectives and approaches to world issues.

Italian Majors at Georgetown are required to complete 10-12 courses taught in the Italian language, depending on their initial placement and 1 Gateway course taught in English. 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. Italian majors are required to study a second language unless they are pursuing a second major, Business Coursework or Pre-Med. Italian Majors are also required to spend at least a semester or an academic year in Italy studying at an Italian university.

Required Courses

4 Second Language courses (intensive track recommended) except if a student pursues a double major, pre-medical studies, or business coursework.

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-033 Gateway (to the major; taught in English)
2. Foundational Courses:
• ITAL-111 Intensive Advanced Italian I
• ITAL-112 Intensive Advanced Italian II
• ITAL-231 Contemporary Italy (before overseas study)
• ITAL-233 Writing: Literature/Culture
3. ITAL-460 Dante--The Divine Comedy
4. 3 Core Courses--1 from each of the following periods:
1. From the Origins to the Renaissance
• ITAL-311. Italian Art, Literature and History 1200-1500
• ITAL-362. Italian Literature and Society 1200-1600
• ITAL-368. Politics, Society & Culture in Renaissance Italy
• ITAL-373. Women & Writing in Medieval and Renaissance Italy 1200-1600
• ITAL-383. Love, Religion, and War
• ITAL-379. Poetry of Courtly Love in Italy
• ITAL-391. History of the Italian Language
• ITAL-412. Boccaccio
• ITAL-466. Petrarch: The Theme of Love and the Image of Woman
2. 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-392. The Theater of Power: Dynasties, Politics, and Theater, 1500-1800
• ITAL-467. Italian Theater
• ITAL-473. Farewell to Realism: Decadence, Avant-Garde, Modernism
3. 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-381. Italian Contemporary Poetry
• ITAL-393. Modern Italian: dialects and other varieties
• 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
6. ITAL-489 Senior Seminar

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: www.georgetown.edu/programs/oip/os.

Italian Minor

Minors are required to complete 6 courses taught in Italian:

1. ITAL-011 Intensive Basic Italian (unless exempted)
2. ITAL-032 Intensive Intermediate Italian (unless exempted)
3. ITAL-111 Intensive Advanced Italian I (unless exempted)
4. ITAL-112 Intensive Advanced Italian II (unless exempted)
5. ITAL-233 Writing and Culture/Literature or
6. ITAL-231 Contemporary Italy or one or more courses at the 300-level

Italian Major with Business Coursework

(See section on this topic in the Bulletin.)

(For course listings for Italian see http://explore.georgetown.edu/courses/)

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