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ITALIAN 101-1: ELEMENTARY ITALIAN
(1ST SESSION)
ITALIAN 101-2: ELEMENTARY ITALIAN
(2ND SESSION)
ITALIAN 102-2INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN
ITALIAN 133-2/134-2:INTENSIVE ITALIAN
ITALIAN LANGUAGE COURSES
MTWF 12:00-12:50P MTWF 9:00-9:50AMTWF 2:00-2:50PMTWF 3:00-3:50P
MTWF 2:00-2:50PMTWF 3:00-3:50P
MTWF 11:00-12:50P
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ITALIAN 275: THE DIVINE COMEDY
Professor Davis
MW (Lec.) 10:00-10:50AF (Dis.) 9:00-9:50AF (Dis.) 10:00-10:50A
An introduction to Dante’s
masterwork on human error, punishment and redemption
through a careful reading of the Inferno.
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19681970s
ITALIAN 304: POLITICS AND MASS CULTURE
Professor Torlasco
TTh 11:00-12:20P
This course will explore the role that mass media have played in shaping Italian political culture from the end
of World War II to the present. In particular, we will focus on the 1948 general elections, which were heavily influenced by the Cold War; the global upheaval of 1968; the turmoil of the 1970s, the so-called Years of Lead; and the rise to power of Silvio Berlusconi, the media tycoon
and populist politician who has prompted more than one comparison with Donald Trump. While drawing from
the fields of cultural and media studies, we will analyze how film, television, and social media have
simultaneously reflected and constructed our sense of belonging to a political community. Finally, we will pay specific attention to questions of gender and sexuality and to the ways in which spectacle and politics have joined forces at different junctures in Italian history.
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ITALIAN 350: FOOD ART AS COUNTERCULTURE
Professor D’ayala Valva
MWF 11:00-11:50A
In this class, the student will be introduced to an alternative approach to the history of modern and contemporary art, in its
relation both to material culture and to aesthetic taste. Food art is proposed for both its craftsmanship (food as an ingredient/artistic material) and its subversive potential (challenging the traditional hierarchies of the senses, of artistic genres and the spaces of art production and display). Great attention will be given to artists’ writings (manifestos, interviews, recipes, diaries) documenting the theoretical aims and the everyday practice and trials with
food since the Manifesto of Futurist Cooking (1931) through some significant case studies (Fluxus, Feminist art, Beuys) to today’s
farming and relational art projects.
Through lectures, class discussions, readings, films and individual research projects, students will have the opportunity not only to explore an important aspect of art history, but also to be aware of the role of food as ‘counterculture’, seen through the opposition to
or the acquisition of different models.
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