Summer 2022 Undergraduate Courses

Registration opened February 7th, 2022. You can register for courses via Albert.

 

Placement Exams

If you have previously studied Italian, we recommend you take the CAS Placement Exam prior to beginning your Italian language studies at NYU. Please see here to learn more about our language courses and language sequence. After taking the placement exam, foward your test results to italian.dept@nyu.edu so someone can assist you with registration. If you have general questions, contact italian.dept@nyu.edu for assistance.

 

Most courses can count toward the "Culture & Society" or "Literature" component of the Italian Studies major/minor, Romance Languages major, and Italian and Linguistic major. Contact italian.undergraduate@nyu.edu if you are unsure what requirements a course fulfills.

 

 

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

ITAL-UA 10: Intensive Elementary Italian

Summer Session 1 (5/23 - 7/6) ONLINE ONLY

MTWRF 9am-12pm

Instructor: TBA

ITAL-UA 1: Elementary Italian I

Summer Session 2 (7/7 - 8/17)

MTWRF 9am-12pm

Instructor: TBA

ITAL-UA 20: Intensive Intermediate Italian

Summer Session 2 (7/7 - 8/17)

MTWRF 9am-12pm

Instructor: TBA

ITAL-UA 173: Revolt! 1960s and 1970s Counterculture in Italy

Summer Session 2 (7/7 - 8/17)

TR 1-4 pm

Instructor: Matthew Zundel

From the shockwave of student and worker protests to the emergence of feminist, trans and queer politics, the period of the late 1960s and 1970s in Italy was a watershed moment in countercultural production. This course covers some of the main currents of Italy's tumultuous political years including the neo-avant garde writers of the "gruppo '63", films that addressed growing political unrest, the visual and poetic language of countercultural magazines, the rise of "arte povera" as a refusal of commercial art practice, and the performances and manifestos of the Italian feminist and gay liberation movements. In this course we will read and view these various expressions of counterculture to come to better understand what counterculture is and what we make of its connecting politics to aesthetic concerns.