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Italian Studies Program
The Italian Studies program is an interdisciplinary program based in the Department of French and Italian, with academic links to several other Emory College of Arts and Sciences departments. The program takes pride in the close faculty/student teaching and mentoring relationships fostered. We offer a wide range of excellent study abroad programs in Italy, both during the summer as well as during the Fall and Spring semesters.
- Academic Program Website
- http://italian.emory.edu
Concentrations
Faculty
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Simona Muratore
Courses
Italian 100-Level Courses
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This introductory course is for students who have no prior study of the Italian language. ITAL101 is designed to help students build basic communication skills in Italian. We emphasize all four language skills:speaking, listening, reading, and writing as well as cross-cultural competency.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course focuses on elementary communication skills through a systematic introduction to the basic grammatical patterns and vocabulary of the Italian language. The goal is to widen the fundamental skills of listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing within a cultural context.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Innovative eBook Italian Virtual Class: engaging approach to language learning, full immersion in Italian culture, literature and art with authentic materials; development of analytical, critical skills, cross-cultural competency and higher than norm linguistic fluency.
- Credit Hours
- 8
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Interdisciplinary survey II: Humanism to 21st century. Investigating variety of Italian culture topics course examines intersections of Liberal Arts perspectives to enhance global understanding of others and self, critical reasoning skills. cross-cultural awareness fostered. In English, no pre-req.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Interdisciplinary survey II: Humanism to 21st century. Investigating variety of Italian culture topics course examines intersections of Liberal Arts perspectives to enhance global understanding of others and self, critical reasoning skills. cross-cultural awareness fostered. In English, no pre-req.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Seminar designed to engage freshmen in aspects of inquiry and research into areas of Italian culture through mutual exploration of subject matter. Primary mode of classroom discourse is dialogue and group projects.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- FSEM
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Italian 200-Level Courses
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This course is a continuation of Elementary Italian sequence.This intermediate-level Italian language course provides students with new perspectives on Italian culture while building writing, reading, speaking and listening skills in a cultural context.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Utilizing authentic texts, this engaging content-based approach to language learning focuses on a historically sequenced in-depth study of Italian art, history, and literature, developing analytical-critical skills, cross-cultural competency and higher than norm linguistic fluency.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Development of cultural-linguistic fluency in the spoken language through discussions of contemporary issues in Italian culture. Emphasis on increasing vocabulary and ease in the manipulation of grammatical structure. Also used to designate language classes taken on semester programs in Italy.
- Credit Hours
- 3 - 8
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Intermediate supervised study in the reading of literary texts or other aspects of Italian culture. Course may be repeated with a new research focus.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Italian 300-Level Courses
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Chronological survey of Italian literature from 13th through 21st centuries that introduces students to representative Italian authors and their significant writings contextualized within genre and literary-historical-cultural background. In Italian. Prereq: Instructor???s approval or Ital 302.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Utilizing authentic texts, this engaging content-based approach to language learning focuses on a historically sequenced in-depth study of Italian art, history, and literature, developing analytical-critical skills, cross-cultural competency and higher than norm linguistic fluency.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Utilizing authentic texts, this engaging content-based approach to language learning focuses on a historically sequenced in-depth study of Italian art, history, and literature, developing analytical-critical skills, cross-cultural competency and higher than norm linguistic fluency.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Utilizing authentic texts, this engaging content-based approach to language learning focuses on a historically sequenced in-depth study of Italian art, history, and literature, developing analytical-critical skills, cross-cultural competency and higher than norm linguistic fluency.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Utilizing authentic texts, this engaging content-based approach to language learning focuses on a historically sequenced in-depth study of Italian art, history, and literature, developing analytical-critical skills, cross-cultural competency and higher than norm linguistic fluency.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Reading of Vergil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy in English translation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 317
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Reading of Vergil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy in English translation.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 317W
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Development of linguistic and communication skills needed to initiate a conversation with Italian speaking businesses and prospective employers, combined with an introduction of Italian business culture, practices and etiquette.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- ITAL 202/ITAL_OX 202 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Development of linguistic and communication skills needed to initiate a conversation with Italian speaking businesses and prospective employers, combined with an introduction of Italian business culture, practices and etiquette.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Requisites
- ITAL 202/ITAL_OX 202 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course introduces translation theory and hands-on practice in multiple contexts. It is theoretical, methodological, creative. Students engage in multiple forms of translation (inverse, intra and inter-lingual) and meet regularly both as a whole class and in individual language-specific groups.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 336
- KRN 336
- CHN 336
- GER 336
- SPAN 336
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A survey of Italian cinema, with emphasis on its relationship to literature. Examines how a text is put into film and how cultural references operate with respect to issues of style, technique, and perspective. Course may be repeated with a new syllabus.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Introduction to the historical period, major works, innovations, and lasting influence of the three most significant authors of Italian literature during the Middle Ages: Dante, Petrarca, and Boccaccio.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Introduction to the historical period, major works, innovations, and lasting influence of the three most significant authors of Italian literature during the Middle Ages: Dante, Petrarca, and Boccaccio.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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General introduction to some of the major issues and trends of this cultural era as well as the contributions and principal works of the writers involved in the development and crisis of Renaissance culture in Italy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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General introduction to some of the major issues and trends of this cultural era as well as the contributions and principal works of the writers involved in the development and crisis of Renaissance culture in Italy.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course will examine ways in which food shapes contemporary Italian society. We will focus on the art of cuisine through the analysis of texts, films and cultural events. We will also examine the concepts of sustainability and the history and principles of the "Slow Food Movement"..
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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There are unmistakable similarities between Italian and Chinese cultures regarding the noodle. In fact, the noodle evokes family traditions, rituals, symbolism, and emotional connection in both cultures. Our class explores how identity, assimilation and cultural integration are manifested in food.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 370
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There are unmistakable similarities between Italian and Chinese cultures regarding the noodle. In fact, the noodle evokes family traditions, rituals, symbolism, and emotional connection in both cultures. Our class explores how identity, assimilation and cultural integration are manifested in food.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 370W
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Summer. Offered through Emory Summer Abroad Program in Bologna. Cultural topics to be announced each summer. Course taught in Italian. May be repeated for credit when syllabus changes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- ITAL 102 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Summer. Offered through Emory Summer Abroad Program in Bologna. Cultural topics to be announced each summer. Course taught in Italian. May be repeated for credit when syllabus changes.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Requisites
- ITAL 102 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Topics to be announced each semester. Course taught in English. May be repeated for credit when syllabus changes. Focus on developing critical analysis and reasoning skills.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Topics to be announced each semester. Course taught in English. May be repeated for credit when syllabus changes. Focus on developing critical analysis and reasoning skills.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Topics to be announced each semester. Course is offered in English. Course content will vary, including topics of literature, history, culture, art history, political thought, current trends, and more. May be repeated for credit when syllabus changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Topics to be announced each semester. Course is offered in English. Course content will vary, including topics of literature, history, culture, art history, political thought, current trends, and more. May be repeated for credit when syllabus changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Credit is variable. Advanced supervised study in the reading of literary texts or other aspects of Italian culture. Course may be repeated with a new research focus.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 12
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Italian 400-Level Courses
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In Italian. Intensive study of a single author, genre, literary movement, or period. Topic to be announced in advance. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Prerequisite: Italian 302 or permission of program director.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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In Italian. Intensive study of a single author, genre, literary movement, or period. Topic to be announced in advance. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Prerequisite: Italian 302 or permission of program director.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HALW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Course engages in critical methods in analysis and interpretation of literature and cultural studies, bibliographic materials and methods of independent research. Course culminates in an honors thesis, written in Italian, demonstrating the application of principles learned. Course carefully follows the College guidelines for writing requirement.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Critical methods in analysis and interpretation of literature and cultural studies, bibliographic materials and methods of independent research; honors thesis demonstrating the application of principles learned. Course carefully follows the College guidelines for writing requirement.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- HALW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Independent research for students majoring in Italian Studies. Advanced directed studies in Italian literature and culture. Course may be repeated for a different project.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 16
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None