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Italian Programs

To major in Italian: 



10 courses (30 credits) beyond the Introductory level of the language,* including at least two 400-level courses.
Students may use up to three credits from ITL 391, 392, or 395 toward the major. This typically means 10 from among the following courses:
  • Intermediate Italian (103, 104)
  • Conversation and Composition (205, 206)
  • Advanced Conversation and Composition (305)
  • Introduction to Italian Civilization (301, 302)
  • Introduction to Italian Literature (325, 326)
  • Studies in Italian Cinema (315)
  • Masterpieces of Italian Literature (in translation) (391, 392) (authors change)
    Betrayal and Redemption: Novels and Memoirs of Antonia Arslan, Primo Levi, Niccolò Ammaniti (example of course taught)
  • Dante’s Divine Comedy (395) (in translation)
  • Selected Italian Authors (455) (authors change; course can be taken up to 3 times)
         Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (example of course taught)
  • Topics in Italian Literature (465) (topic changes; course can be taken up to 3 times)
         Women Shaping Culture: Renaissance to the Enlightenment
         Writers of the ‘900: Vittorini, Pavese, and Calvino
  • Business Italian (480)
  • Works of Dante Alighieri (481)
  • Directed Study (497-498) (examples of recent Directed Studies)
         Il cinema italiano e il neorealismo
          Il Decameron di Boccaccio
         Una storia d’amore: “La nascita di Venere” di Sandro Botticelli
         Letteratura ed emigrazione
          Primo Levi e Se questo è un uomo

* i.e., beyond the ITL101 (Beginning Italian I), ITL 102 (Beginning Italian II) or ITL 111 (Accelerated Beginning Italian I & II) levels. You also need to satisfy the General Education requirements for a B.A. degree.


What do I have to do to get a minor in Italian at URI?

6 courses (18 credits) beyond the Introductory level of the language.* Students may use up to three credits from ITL 391, 392, or 395 toward the minor.

This typically means 6 from among the following courses:

  • Intermediate Italian (103, 104)
  • Conversation and Composition (205, 206)
  • Advanced Conversation and Composition (305)
  • Introduction to Italian Civilization (301, 302)
  • Studies in Italian Cinema (315)
  • Introduction to Italian Literature (325, 326)
  • Masterpieces of Italian Literature (in translation) (391, 392) (authors change)
         Betrayal and Redemption: Novels and Memoirs of Antonia Arslan, Primo Levi, Niccolò Ammaniti (example of course taught)
  • Dante’s Divine Comedy (395) (in translation)
  • Selected Italian Authors (455) (authors change; course can be taken up to 3 times)
         Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (example of course taught)
  • Topics in Italian Literature (465) (topic changes, course can be taken up to 3 times)
         Women Shaping Culture: Renaissance to the Enlightenment
         Writers of the ‘900: Vittorini, Pavese, and Calvino
  • Business Italian (480)
  • Works of Dante Alighieri (481)

* i.e., beyond the ITL101 (Beginning Italian I), ITL 102 (Beginning Italian II) or ITL 111 (Accelerated Beginning Italian I & II) levels.

 

For more information, please contact Dr. Catherine Sama