Courses

Focuses on close reading of Dante's Inferno. Examines the specific sites and art in Florence and nearby cities that Dante references in the Inferno, as well as visual representations of Hell created both before and after Dante's poem. Taught in English. Offered through the CU Study Abroad Program. Credit not granted for this course and HUMN/ITAL 4140 or ITAL 4145. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.

Analyzes the rise of realism in the 13th and 14th century Italian literature and parallel manifestations in the visual arts. Focuses on Boccaccio's Decameron and contemporary realistic prose and poetry with emphasis on gender issues and medieval cultural diversity. Taught in English. Prereq., junior standing or instructor consent. Same as HUMN 4150. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts or human diversity.

Topics vary each semester. Consult the online Schedule Planner for specific topics. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours for different topics.

Studies the literary expression of French-speaking peoples of Africa, the Caribbean, and French Canada. Gives special attention to oral tradition, identity question, and cultural conflict. Prereqs., FREN 3100, 3110, and 3120, or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomore, Junior or Senior) only.

Topics vary each semester. Consult the online Schedule Planner for specific topics. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics.

Through a wide variety of texts and audio-visual documents, students learn the structures of contemporary French society and study the cultural phenomena of that society. Prereqs., FREN 3050 and 3060.

Taught in English. Topics vary. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics.

Explores the complex and evolving cultural and historical contexts of medieval and Renaissance French. Introduces the masterpieces of French medieval and Renaissance literature, including the Chanson de Roland and Arthurian romance. Also focuses on the work of Marie de France, Guillaume de Lorris, and Jean de Meun, Christine de Pisan, Machaut, Villon, Louise Labe, and the poets of the Pliade, Rabelais, and Montaigne. Prereqs., FREN 3100, 3110, and 3120 or instructor consent.

Survey of political, social, and intellectual history of Italy and its people. Taught in English. Same as HIST 4313.

Examines different aspects of Italian cinema from the origins of neorealism to the present. May focus on a particular director, the culture of a specific period, or certain themes (e.g., the representation of women, the relationship between cinema and literature, or socio-aesthetic movements like Futurism or Fascism). Taught in English. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics.

Examines the representations of Italian culture through its Cinema. Focusing especially on post-World War II cinema, we will examine how Italian filmmakers have portrayed Italian history and specific aspects of its culture (i.e., Fascism, post-war reconstruction, the Mafia, patriarchy) in the past fifty years. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum:contemporary societies. Taught in English.

Readings of plays by Corneille, Moliere, and Racine introduce students to theatre's role as a mirror of the multifarious tensions shaping modern Western experience. Taught in English with English translations. Approved for arts and sciences CORE curriculum: literature and the arts.

Focuses on multiculturalism and difference in contemporary Italian society. The readings assigned for this course explore the experience and co-existence of ethnic and religious minorities in Italy. Students will study how specific minorities live in a major Western-European country and will investigate the connotations that the concept of 'multiculturalism' takes in the Italian context. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Close readings of farces and comedies of Moliere in context with selected comedies by Corneille, Rotrou,and Cyrano de Bergerac and selected satires by Boileau and La Fontaine. Themes include comedy as a form of social criticism and the sociocultural significance of such episodes of Moliere's career as the scandalous quarrels of L'ecole des Femmes and Tartuffe. Prereqs., FREN 3100, 3110, and 3120 or instructor consent.

Studies fiction, essays, theatre, and philosophical tales. Emphasizes the Enlightenment in France through the texts of its major representatives: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Marivaux, Diderot, and Rousseau. Prereqs., FREN 3100, 3110, and 3120, or instructor consent.

Exposes students to the history of Italian immigration to the United States. By studying how Italians and Americans negotiated different ideas concerning identity, traditions and community, it helps students understand how Italians transformed themselves from a despised and marginalized minority into active participants in the success of the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. Taught in English. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: U.S. Context.

Close readings of texts by Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais. Focuses on the evolution of literary genres and the influence of philosophy, politics, and social change on belles lettres. Prereqs., FREN 3100, 3110, and 3120, or instructor consent.

Examines fiction, poetry, and theatre in 19th century France. Focuses on developing and changing literary styles and subject matter throughout the century in historical, philosophical, and social context. Prereqs., FREN 3100, 3110, and 3120, or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomore, Junior or Senior) only.

Close readings of plays from the turn of the century to the contemporary period introduce the principal themes and techniques of modernist and postmodernist French theatre. Students are encouraged to consider problems commonly evoked by these texts, and to compare the positions that each text takes on such problems as the status and uses of language, the function and limits of the theatre, and the dialectic of appearance and reality. Prereqs., FREN 3100, 3110, and 3120, or instructor consent.

Close readings of novels from the 1930s to the contemporary period introduce the principal themes and techniques of the modernist and postmodernist French novel. Students are encouraged to analyze a variety of questions commonly evoked in these texts, such as the problem of representation, the uses and abuses of writing, the relation of fiction and history, and the status of the subject in the world. Prereqs., FREN 3100, 3110, and 3120 or instructor consent.

Covers various topics in the French and some other Francophone cinemas (Belgian, Swiss, Quebecois) from 1895 to the present. Focuses on periods, schools, themes, and directors from Melies to Duras, and the critical approaches by which they are studied. Varies from year to year. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. Prereqs., junior standing and 6 hours in French literature, other literature, or film studies.

Examines the evolution of the Italian fairy tale from the 1500s to the 2000s in literature, theater, and film. Considers the tales and their authors in their social-historical context. Restricted to juniors/seniors. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).

Studies Italian women writers, artists, and filmmakers. Literary and visual texts are analyzed in dialogue with readings of leading Italian gender theorists. Italian history and culture is reread by following the development of a discourse about women. Taught in English; readings in Italian for Italian majors. Same as HUMN 4730. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Presents current methodology and techniques for teaching foreign language for proficiency. Areas of study include ACTLFL guidelines, National Standards, assessment, classroom activities, curriculum, and syllabus design. Prereqs., FREN 3100, 3110 or 3120, an additional course above FREN 3060, and admission to the teacher certification program or instructor consent. Restricted to juniors/seniors.

Focuses upon recent innovations in the French novel, and upon the postmodernist literary aesthetic. Students will examine a variety of avant-garde novels, and analyze the kinds of literary experimentation that those novels propose. They will be asked to consider a series of questions concerning the changing nature of literary representation and the status of the novel as a cultural form. Taught in English. Restricted to juniors/seniors. Cannot be used for major or minor credit. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).