Italian Studies Courses
For Distribution Requirement purposes, all ITA courses are classified as HUMANITIES courses. |
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HUM199H1 HUM199Y1 Undergraduate seminar that focuses on specific ideas, questions, phenomena or controversies, taught by a regular Faculty member deeply engaged in the discipline. Open only to newly admitted first year students. It may serve as a distribution requirement course; Details here.. Guidelines for the selection of first-year language courses:
Students with an adequate knowledge of Italian may substitute for the language courses and half-courses in the First and Second years another course or half-course, subject to the permission of the Department. The Department reserves the right to place students in the language course appropriate to their level of language skill. ITA100Y1 An introduction to the main elements of the Italian language. The development
of speaking, reading, and writing skills. Introduction to linguistic analysis
of literary prose excerpts. ITA101Y1 Main elements of Italian grammar for students who have some passive knowledge
of Italian or an Italian dialect or some secondary school training in
Italian (but not at the senior OAC/4U level). Introduction to linguistic analysis
of literary prose excerpts. ITA135Y0
The course is designed to introduce students to Italian grammar and develop basic oral and comprehension skills. Elements of Italian culture, past and present, are also examined in the context of language and communication. To select the appropriate second-year follow-up course, students are asked to contact the Undergraduate Coordinator. (Offered in Siena only) ITA152Y1
A review of grammar, the writing of short compositions,
and oral practice. Linguistic analysis based on readings of contemporary
literary texts. ITA210Y1
An analysis of literary, social and artistic movements, whose aim is to better understand the conditions that prevail in modern Italy. This course includes a component designed to introduce students to methods of scholarly research appropriate to the field. (Given in English) ITA220H1 Reading of selections of Italian prose works,
with emphasis on linguistic and stylistic features. Texts to
be read in Italian;
both English
and Italian will
be used as language of instruction, as appropriate. This course
includes a component designed to introduce students to methods
of scholarly
research appropriate
to the field. ITA221H1 Reading of selections of Italian poetry,
with emphasis on linguistic and stylistic features. Texts to
be read in Italian; both English
and Italian
will be used
as language of instruction, as appropriate. This course includes
a component designed to introduce students to methods of scholarly
research
appropriate
to the field. JFI225Y1 A theoretical and practical consideration
of the ways we learn a second language, with a historical overview
and critical evaluation
of the
various methodologies
that have been developed; the role of cultural studies in language
learning, practical evaluation and development of syllabus, course
and textbook
materials. This course includes a component designed to introduce
students to methods
of scholarly research appropriate to the field. ITA233Y1 An examination of the Italian presence in Canada from the time of John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to the present through an analysis of literary and other texts and a consideration of sociological and linguistic phenomena. This course includes a component designed to introduce students to methods of scholarly research appropriate to the field. (Given in English)
This course is designed to enhance students’
oral proficiency in Italian, improve listening and reading comprehension
and develop
a broad lexical
base for more
effective communicating skills. Elements of Italian culture are
also examined in the context of language and communication through
a series
of topical
readings which form the basis of discussion. (Offered in Siena
only)
An overview of Italian cinema from its early
days to the present, which also offers a survey of Italian 20th
Century history and
culture. The
course features
films by masters Rossellini, DeSica, Fellini, Antonioni, Bertolucci,
Pasolini and works by younger filmmakers, such as Academy Award
winners Tornatore,
Salvatores and Benigni. This course includes a component designed
to introduce students
to methods of scholarly research appropriate to the field.
The main elements of Italian civilization
from the time of Dante until the present in literature, art,
and thought with reference
to political
history
where appropriate. This course includes a component designed
to introduce students to methods of scholarly research appropriate
to the field.
(Given in English)
The course focuses on two historical encounters of Italian civilization with imperial China: One made possible by the immensely popular book, II Milione, an account of several years of Asian travels by the Venetian merchant Marco Polo (1245-1324), the other by the writings by Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) and other Jesuits, Catholic Missionaries. This course includes a component designed to introduce students to methods of scholarly research appropriate to the field. (Given in English)
Grammar review, readings of Italian
authors and oral practice
to enhance comprehension and expressive skills.
A review of Italian grammar, readings of
Italian authors and one hour of oral practice.
study of fundamental grammatical structures
with special emphasis on vocabulary and syntax. Some attention
is paid
to stylistics.
Linguistic analysis of
literary texts. One hour a week is devoted to oral practice.
An introduction to the problems of translation
from English into Italian and Italian into English. Specific
treatment
of common
difficulties and extensive exercises.
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details here.
This course provides a comprehensive view
of Italian literature from its beginnings to the Renaissance,
by focusing on
the major authors.
This course
includes
a component designed to enhance students’ research
experience. ITA301H1 This course provides a comprehensive view
of Italian literature from the Baroque period to the present
day, by focusing
on the major authors.
This
course includes
a component designed to enhance students’ research
experience. ITA310H1
The course illustrates Italy’s contribution
to the history of the trope during a time
when countries
became increasingly
interdependent
and
conscious of
each other’s cultures. Through literary
and social analysis the course traces the
most vital aspects of the journey motif.
This course includes a
component designed to enhance students’
research experience. ITA311H1 A study of the Vita Nuova and of the
Divine Comedy within the literary and
cultural
context of the
Middle Ages. ITA312H1 A study of the Petrarch’s Canzoniere
and of Boccaccio’s Decameron considered
in
relation to the later
Middle Ages. ITA320H1 Dante’s poetry and great Christian
epic of conversion explode
with the passions
of this
world. This
course focuses on
intertextual and rhetorical
strategies
used to fashion his complex
vision of contemporary society within
the framework
of providential
history. This course
includes a
component
designed to enhance
students’ research experience. ITA321H1 A continuation of ITA320H1,
this course examines the
Purgatorio and the Paradiso
in the context
of Dante’s
vision of contemporary
society.
This
course includes
a component designed to
enhance students’ research experience. ITA325H1 A comprehensive view
of the Italian lyric
tradition
focusing
on the
distinctive elements
of the genre, from
the establishment
of
the
canon with Petrarch
to its amplification
with Tasso. This course
includes
a component
designed
to
enhance students’ research
experience. ITA326H1 A chronological review
of the forms and
themes of the
lyric
tradition
from Marino,
who revised
the
genre
inherited from
the Petrarchists and
Tasso, to the numerous
variations
of the genre culminating
in the
love poetry
of D’Annunzio. ITA330H1 Italy’s foremost
writers’ conscious
attempt to
write the great
representative
(“epic”) work
of their age:
this course
explores
their struggle
to find the
appropriate language, style,
and genre to
express their
vision
of history.
This course
includes a component designed
to enhance
students’
research experience.
ITA332H1 An exploration
of the
theme of love
in the
Renaissance
and its
development
in
a variety
of literary
forms.
Analysis of treatises,
poetry,
short stories and
letters
with the purpose
of examining
intertextuality
and
the practice
of imitation,
as
well as
the social
and political
aspects
of love, such
as
marriage,
women’s
position in
society,
homosexuality
and
other issues.
This
course
includes a
component
designed
to enhance
students’
research
experience.
(Given
in English) ITA334H1 Works by first- and second-generation authors of Italian background. Among the themes explored: Italians as “pioneers”, the Italian perception of Canada, the immigrant experience, the immigrants’ encounter with a new world, their sense of discovery and the process of cultural adaptation. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. (Texts available in both Italian and English.) (Given in English) ITA340H1
An
analysis of
the neorealist
period in
Italian cinema,
and its
relation to
the political
and social
climate of
post-war Italy.
Screenings include
selections from
the major
exponents of
Italian neorealism:
Rossellini, DeSica,
and Visconti,
among others.
This course
includes a
component designed
to enhance
students’ research
experience. (Given
in English) ITA341H The evolution of Italian cinematic neorealism
and its historical heritage is examined in the early
films
of Fellini, Antonioni,
Pasolini and
others. This
course includes a component designed to enhance
students’ research experience. (Given in English) ITA343H1 For students who have completed ITA250Y1.
Discussion of problems of grammar and composition with
special emphasis on the noun
phrase. Language
analysis
based on readings of Italian authors. One
hour a week of
oral practice. This course includes a component
designed to enhance
students’
research experience. ITA344H1 Discussion of problems of grammar and composition
with special emphasis on the verb phrase.
Language analysis
based on readings
of Italian
authors. One hour a week of oral practice.
This course includes a component designed
to
enhance students’ research experience. ITA346H1 In this course we consider how in nineteenth-
and twentieth century literature,
fantastic and monstrous
figures
reflect the anxieties
of the modern subject
over the social, economic and existential
transformations wrought by modernity.
The course may include
works by Tarchetti, Arrigo
Boito, Capuana, Marinetti,
Rosa, Bontempelli, Pirandello, Savino,
and Landolfi. This course includes
a component designed to enhance students’
research experience. ITA347H1 This course focuses on issues of
“genre” and “authorship” in the
context of
a general discussion
of Italian
film-making as a national
and popular
tradition.
This course includes a component
designed to enhance students’
research experience. ITA354H1 For students who have completed
ITA251Y1. Discussion of problems
of grammar
and composition with
special emphasis on the noun
and its derivatives.
Language analysis based on
readings of Italian authors.
One hour
a week of oral practice.
This course includes a component
designed to enhance students’
research experience. ITA355H1 Discussion of problems
of grammar, style and
syntax. Language
analysis based on
readings of Italian
authors. One hour
a week of oral practice.
This course
includes a component
designed to enhance students’
research experience. ITA356Y0 ITA357Y0 A survey of artists, writers, and thinkers from the time of Dante to the days of Leonardo. During field trips, the streets, squares, churches, and palazzi of many cities serve as living laboratories for a discussion of the topography of mediaeval and Renaissance cities. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. (Offered in Siena only.)
Exclusion: ITA245Y1/246H1/248Y1 ITA358Y0 ITA359Y0
Analysis of a selection of philosophical, artistic, musical, and literary works from the age of the Baroque to the present. The main topics of discussion include: Romanticism, Italian unification, theatre, opera, Futurism, fascism, Neorealism, regional differences, and industrialization. Field trips and viewing of movies included. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. (Offered in Siena only)
Exclusion: ITA245Y1/247H1/248Y1
ITA360H1 For students having a knowledge of Italian and/or Italian dialects but no background in linguistics. Concepts of general linguistics. Italy as a linguistic entity. The structure of contemporary Italian, with special regard to its sound system and grammatical categories. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA361H1 This course deals primarily with morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis, but also discusses the educational uses of linguistics. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA363H1 Starting with a survey of the sociolinguistic situation in Italy before Unification, this course deals with the complex relationship between regional languages and dialects on the one hand and Common Italian on the other. The recent rise of regional variants of Italian and its impact on the dialects are also discussed. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA364H1 Analysis and discussion of vocabulary and syntax with special emphasis on the noun phrase and Italian word derivation. Reading and linguistic analysis of selected Italian literary texts from the Middle Ages to the present. Special emphasis will be placed on individual stylistic problems. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA365H1 Analysis and discussion of vocabulary and syntax with special emphasis on the verb phrase and other syntactic structures. Reading and linguistic analysis of selected Italian literary texts from the Middle Ages to the present. Special emphasis will be placed on individual stylistic problems. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA370H1 Concepts of power and strategies for success in Renaissance texts including Machiavelli’s Il principe and Castiglione’s Il libro del cortegiano. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA371H1 A course designed for advanced students. Written translation of a variety of non-technical texts from English into Italian and Italian into English. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA372H1 A course designed for advanced students. Written translation of a variety of non-technical texts from English into Italian and Italian into English. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA381H1 Focusing on compelling themes arising from critical and theoretical debates in 20th-century culture, this course analyzes poetic, narrative and dramatic works by major Italian modern and contemporary authors. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA390H1 A study of the conventions of the Commedia dell’Arte tradition in the context of its performance history from the late Renaissance to the present. Issues examined include acting techniques, improvisation, masks and costumes, iconography and adaptation to film. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. (Given in English) ITA395Y0 The area of concentration will depend upon the instructor teaching the course in any given year. (Offered only during the summer through the Summer Abroad Program) ITA398H0 ITA399Y0 An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details here. ITA405H1 Centred around the poetic production of Leopardi, Pascoli, and D’Annunzio, the course explores the main literary, artistic and socio-political issues that characterize Italy’s cultural contribution within the context of the romantic movements in Europe. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA409H1 This course examines the impact of the theatrical works of Feo Belcari, Lorenzo de’ Medici, Machiavelli, Ariosto and others in the development of theatre in 15th and 16th century Italy. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA410H1 An analysis of the most representative works of 20th-century Italian dramatists, from Pirandello to Fabbri to Fo. ITA415H1 An in-depth study of two plays, one of which is studied in the context of its production history and against the background of contemporary performance theory and theatre technology, while the other is examined from the dramaturgical perspective of current theatre practice and in the context of modern theories of directing. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. (Given in English) ITA420H1 The short story genre and its development from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. In addition to Boccaccio’s tales, included are some of the most famous stories of Western literature, which later inspired masterpieces in all art forms, such as Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Puss in Boots. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA421H1 The short story genre and its development fROM 1800 to the present. Authors to include Pratesi, Verga, Negri, Landolfi. ITA430H1 The historical formation of the Italian language and of its dialects. Historical phonology and morphology, and problems of syntax and lexicon. Reading and linguistic analysis of early Italian texts. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA436H1 A study of the different concepts of man and his place in society, as exemplified in Italian literature from the late 15th to the 18th century. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA441H1 An analysis of the process of adaptation in an exploration of the ideological and narratological perspectives as well as the stylistic elements of literary and cinematic discourse. Selections include novels by Verga, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Moravia, Bassani and their filmic adaptations by directors such as Visconti, De Sica, Bertolucci. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. (Given in English) ITA451H1 A study of the more complex aspects of Italian syntax, stylistics and semantics. Discussion of problems and difficulties relating to syntax, vocabulary and style as they arise from individual compositions or essays. Reading and linguistic analysis of selected Italian literary texts. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA452H1 A continuation of the study of the more complex aspects of Italian syntax, stylistics and semantics. Discussion of problems and difficulties relating to syntax, vocabulary and style as they arise from individual compositions or essays. Reading and linguistic analysis of selected Italian literary texts. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA455H1 Cultural movements and feminist issues as reflected in the writings of various periods. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA470H1 Focusing on Galileo Galilei, this course examines the development of the language of science in Renaissance Italy using a variety of tools such as literary and scientific texts, overheads, multimedia programs, and the Internet. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA471H1 Written translation of literary, administrative, business, and semi-technical texts from English into Italian and Italian into English. ITA472H1 Written translation of literary, administrative, business, and semi-technical texts from English into Italian and Italian into English. ITA475H1 This course traces the development of erotic discourse in Italian culture. Course material is drawn from poetry, prose, and plays on love, focusing both on the literary and psychoanalytic language of love. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA489H1 An opportunity to pursue at THE 400-level an independent course of study not otherwise available. A written proposal, co-signed by the instructor, must be submitted on the appropriate proposal form for approval by the Department of Italian Studies. Application deadline: April 30 for F courses, November 30 for S courses. ITA490Y1 In exceptional circumstances, students may request to pursue at THE 400-level an independent course of study not otherwise available. A written proposal, co-signed by the instructor, must be submitted on the appropriate proposal form for approval by the Department of Italian Studies. Application deadline April 30. ITA491H1 This course traces the debate on the relationship between writing and reality in contemporary fiction from the early 20th century to neo-realism and post-modernism. Texts studied are by such prominent writers as Pirandello, Svevo, Gadda, Vittorini, Calvino, Morante, and Eco. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA492H1 What function can the aesthetic experience play in capitalist society? This course examines how, through irony, humour, pathos, lyricism, or detachment, twentieth century poets sought to provide an answer, and to renew the poetic tradition. The course may include works by Gozzano, Marinetti, Palazzeschi, Montale, Luzi, Caproni, and Sanguineti. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. ITA493H1 Critical investigation of works by Italian-Canadian authors, focusing on themes linked to the second-generation experience, such as intergenerational conflict, gender relations, the return journey, and the quest for identity. Special attention is given to the most recent production, new narratives and artistic forms. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. (Texts are available in Italian and English) ITA494H1 Writings by Italian artists through the ages , including Michelangelo in the Renaissance. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. (Given in English) ITA495H1 Based on a professor’s research project currently in progress, this course will enable an undergraduate student to play a useful role in the project while receiving concrete training in research. This course is mandatory for all students enrolled in the specialist’s program. ITA496H1 This course, linked to the instructor’s research project, will provide training in a variety of research methods. |
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