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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.
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.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Soranzo, Matteo (Winter)
Italian (Arts) : Joint Honours Thesis.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Soranzo, Matteo (Fall) Kroha, Lucienne (Winter)
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 – Basic Language Courses.
12-30 credits from Group B – Courses Taught in Italian.
0-18 credits combined from Group C – Courses Taught in English and Group D – 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.
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.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Wienstein, Jen; Prevedello, Michela; Sassi, Mauro; Garziano, Roberta (Fall)
Italian (Arts) : See ITAL 205D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Wienstein, Jen; Sassi, Mauro; Prevedello, Michela; Garziano, Roberta (Winter)
Italian (Arts) : Designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. The Summer term will also be given in Florence, Italy, as part of ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ's Summer courses in Italy program.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Falconi, Alessandra (Fall) Falconi, Alessandra (Winter) Quaroni, Enrica; Fonsato, Vanna Marisa; Garziano, Roberta; Giardino, Alessandro; Sassi, Mauro; Prevedello, Michela (Summer)
Italian (Arts) : The course is 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.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Myerson, Joyce (Fall)
Italian (Arts) : See ITAL 210D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Myerson, Joyce (Winter)
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.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Quaroni, Enrica; Giardino, Alessandro (Fall)
Italian (Arts) : See ITAL 215D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Quaroni, Enrica; Giardino, Alessandro (Winter)
Italian (Arts) : Course designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2. Direct continuation of ITAL 206. The Summer term will be given in Florence, Italy, as part of ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ's Summer courses in Italy program.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Myerson, Joyce (Fall) Myerson, Joyce (Winter) Quaroni, Enrica; Fonsato, Vanna Marisa (Summer)
*Note: Only one of ITAL 250 or ITAL 255 can count toward the program.
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.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Quaroni, Enrica (Fall)
Italian (Arts) : Course is given in Florence, Italy, as part of ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ's Summer Study in Italy program. 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.
Terms: Summer 2011
Instructors: Quaroni, Enrica; Fonsato, Vanna Marisa (Summer)
Italian (Arts) : A selection of narrative and theatrical works by 20th century authors, illustrating different facets of this century's social and literary experience.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Wienstein, Jen (Winter)
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).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : A survey of Italian literature focused on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Interdisciplinary approach.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : A survey of Italian literature from Renaissance to the 20th century. Interdisciplinary approach.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte".
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Wienstein, Jen (Fall)
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Course is given in Florence, Italy, as part of ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ's Summer Study in Italy program. 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).
Terms: Summer 2011
Instructors: Quaroni, Enrica; Fonsato, Vanna Marisa (Summer)
Italian (Arts) : Course is given in Florence, Italy, as part of ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ's Summer Study in Italy program. It focuses on the terminology, idiomatic expressions and syntax of Italian business language. Topics, such as workplace in Italy, credit institutions, chamber of commerce and its role, industrial associations, will be used to help develop and improve written and oral communication skills as they relate to the business world.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Italian literature from the perspective of Italy's marked regional divisions. Works studied may range from Medieval to contemporary.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Word formation in the Italian language. Syntactic and stylistic aspects of texts by Italian essayists.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Soranzo, Matteo (Fall)
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Reading and discussion of selected literary texts (Poliziano, Lorenzo, Alberti, Sannazzaro, Castiglione among others) will provide an opportunity to become familiar with the social and political conditions of literary production, the ideas and debates about language and literature, and the literary genres which emerged during the Renaissance.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : A study of the texts of Italian madrigals, canzoni, mottetti and librettos in relation to their musical setting from the Renaissance to the 19th century. Emphasis on the transformation of literary texts for their adaptation to music, and on the language of Italian Opera. No specialized knowledge of music is required.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : An overview of the Italian popular tradition, poetic and narrative, and of critical approaches to it, including Propp's Morphology of the Fairy Tale. The relationship between the Italian semi-popular medieval romance ("cantare") and popular tales.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Focus on pivotal narrative and cinematic works that illustrate the evolution of Italian realism from the late 19th century naturalism to post-WWII neorealism.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Quaroni, Enrica (Winter)
Italian (Arts) : A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : A study of representative works of major Italian authors from the fin-de-siècle to WW II.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Selected readings from Pirandello's essays, short stories, novels and plays in the light of his ideological rejection of the literature and society of his time.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : An overview of the major poets and poetic movements of the 20th century, from the major turn-of-the-century poets to the new directions of the contemporary avant-garde. Poets and movements emphasized may vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : The major early 19th century poets in the context of Italian and European Romanticism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Ariosto's chivalresque poem in the context of the Italian Renaissance.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : A study of Tasso's poem in the context of the Counter Reformation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : The structure and intellectual background of the Divine Comedy: a reading and interpretation of the poem; a discussion of the main trends in contemporary Dante scholarship.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : A historical survey of the intense debate on the problem of literary language in Italy, from Dante to the present time, as caused by the variance between spoken and literary languages; followed by an in-depth examination of the theoretical and literary texts of one particular period.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : A study of Boccaccio's "Decameron" and of Italian narrative prose up to the 16th century.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Gittes, Tobias (Fall)
Italian (Arts) : Exploration of individual authors, genres, and literary or cultural movements that have marked Italian culture in the 19th and 20th century.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Kroha, Lucienne (Fall)
Italian (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Topics in the literature of the 13th to the 16th Centuries.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Soranzo, Matteo (Winter)
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.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Kroha, Lucienne (Winter)
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.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Soranzo, Matteo (Winter)
Italian (Arts) : Major prose works of Italian literature as they reflect the reactions of writers to the social, cultural and political dilemmas facing Italian society in the second half of the 20th century.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Soranzo, Matteo (Fall)
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Futurism is essentially a multidisciplinary movement. Using textual and visual material, its various manifestations - in literature, "paraliterature", painting, photography, theatre, film, sculpture, architecture, music, dance and performance - will be examined from a double perspective: the futurist theory/practice relationships on the one hand and, on the other, the multiple links between Italian futurism, the "historical" avant-garde outside Italy and the neo-avant garde movements of the 60s and 70s.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : .
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Topics in twentieth-century Italian literary and cultural history. The focus may be on a movement, a theme, a genre, a specific writer, or a specific period.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Anthropology : An exploration of Mediterranean ethnography, with special attention to southern Europe. Cultural patterns, such as "honour and shame'', social patterns such as "patron/client relations'', and current issues, such as "development'', shall be explored.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Art History : Surveys artistic production in Italy from the new urban institutions of the communes to the demise of the Florentine republic (c. 1250-1512). Introduces art historical concepts through an exploration of the uses if visual imagery to forge civic, religious, political, and social identities.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Art History : Investigation of the arts during a pivotal century of conflict and an expanding image of the world. In this early modern context of state formation and religious reform, the course focuses on patronage of the Italian courts, the rising status of the artist, and new uses for visual imagery.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Art History : Distinctive visual culture in the context of Venice's singular topography and reputation for licentiousness and toleration.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Art History : The Italian architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries witnessed a revival of architectural forms from Roman antiquity. According to their different social as well as political status, the centres of Italy - Florence, Rome, Venice, Mantua etc. - developed individual approaches in dealing with the reception of classical forms which was to influence the architecture of Europe.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Classics : Life and society in the Roman Empire as reflected in contemporary authors of varying genres (epic, history, philosophy, satire and the novel).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Classics
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Classics : Some episodes from the long history of the transmission and reception of the Classics in later times. Students will choose periods or times for special study.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Kilgour, Margaret A (Winter)
History : An introduction to the economy, society, politics and intellectual developments in Italy from approximately 1300 to the early 16th century.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Clarke, Paula C (Winter)
History : History of Western Europe from the later Roman Empire through the 15th century: sub-roman and Carolingian civilization, feudal monarchy; the Church and the laity; domestic life and social institutions; cultural developments.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Partner, Nancy F (Fall)
History
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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-siècle opera in Vienna and Paris. Sociology of opera. Emphasis on critical understanding of music's role in articulating drama.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Political Science : Analysis of modern Italian political development in comparison to other Western and Mediterranean countries. What makes Italian politics unique, what makes it resemble that of other countries.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.