All Summer 2021 courses will be conducted online.

Summer 2021

ITAL-UA 1.001: Elementary Italian I

Summer Session 2 (7/6 - 8/15)

Instructor: Valeria Castelli
MTWR 10am-12:30pm

Note: ITAL-UA 1.060 is open to pre-college students

ITAL-UA 10 Intensive Elementary Italian

Instructors: Serena Moscardelli and Maria Zilla

Summer Session 1 (5/24 - 7/5)

MTWRF, 9am-12pm

ITAL-UA 20 Intensive Intermediate Italian

Instructors: Alfonso Gonzalez Aguado and Marco Battaglia

Summer Session 2 (7/6 - 8/15)

MTWRF, 9am-12pm

ITAL-UA 173.001: The Clue to Everything: Southern Italy in Italian Literature and Film

Summer Session 1 (5/24 - 7/5)
TR 1-4pm 
Instructor: Emily Antenucci

Goethe famously called Sicily “the clue to everything” and claimed one could “see Naples and then die.” Why and how is the South, Italy’s “internal other”, viewed with alternating fascination and revulsion? Southern Italy is variously depicted as pastoral idyll, social and economic backwater, archaeological repository, land of mafia denizens, and locus of modern migration crises. As the site of intersecting, contradictory, and too-often limiting figurations, southern Italy has a prominent and highly contested position in the modern Italian cultural and artistic imagination. This course interrogates these depictions and stereotypes in literature and film through the careful unpacking of a broad range of texts and images from the 19th century to the present day.