Spring 2012

SPRING QUARTER 2012 COURSES

 

ITALIAN 2. ELEMENTARY ITALIAN (5 Units)

Course Description: The syllabus for Italian 2 comprises Chapters 7 to 10. More emphasis on moods and tenses of the verb will increase the students' linguistic awareness with contrastive study of past perfect and present perfect, future perfect, and "simple" future. The conditional (present and perfect), the present of the subjunctive, the passive form and the impersonal constructions of the verb, superlative and comparative structures, suffixes in nouns and adjectives, more uses of prepositions with nouns and verbs will complete the basic knowledge of Italian and increase the students' ability in reading, understanding, speaking and writing, short compositions. Daily class attendance is indispensable in this course.

Attendance and participation: The study of a foreign language is different from the study of other disciplines and is based on some specific requirements of which the most important is students' involvement. Students enrolled in Italian 2 need to come to class on a daily basis in order to benefit from the exposure to the language. They also need to come to class prepared, i.e., having done the assigned homework, but especially ready to participate in the daily activities, be they games, role-playing, conversation, drills, etc. For this reason, after three unjustified absences, any further unjustified absence will cause a student's participation grade to drop, and his/her overall grade will suffer accordingly (see below for grading system and grading scale). Laboratory is required. Instructors will collect the lab work (i.e., Esercizi Orali) as scheduled in the Syllabus. Failure to comply with the lab requirements will result in a failing lab grade.

Prerequisite: Italian 1 or Consent of Instructor.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 5 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

Texts:

• Janice Aski & Diane Musumeci, Avanti: Beginning Italian (Textbook)
• Janice Aski, Diane Musumeci, & Carla Wysokinski, Avanti: Beginning Italian (Workbook/Laboratory Manual)

 

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ITALIAN 3: Elementary Italian (5 Units)

Course Description: The syllabus for Italian 3 comprises Chapters 13 to 18. More emphasis on moods and tenses of the verb will increase the students' linguistic awareness with contrastive study of past perfect and present perfect, future perfect, and "simple" future. The conditional (present and perfect), the present of the subjunctive, the passive form and the impersonal constructions of the verb, superlative and comparative structures, suffixes in nouns and adjectives, more uses of prepositions with nouns and verbs will complete the basic knowledge of Italian and increase the students' ability in reading, understanding, speaking and writing, short compositions. Daily class attendance is indispensable in this course.

Attendance and participation: The study of a foreign language is different from the study of other disciplines and is based on some specific requirements of which the most important is students' involvement. Students enrolled in Italian 2 need to come to class on a daily basis in order to benefit from the exposure to the language. They also need to come to class prepared, i.e., having done the assigned homework, but especially ready to participate in the daily activities, be they games, role-playing, conversation, drills, etc. For this reason, after three unjustified absences, any further unjustified absence will cause a student's participation grade to drop, and his/her overall grade will suffer accordingly (see below for grading system and grading scale). Laboratory is required. Instructors will collect the lab work (i.e., Esercizi Orali) as scheduled in the Syllabus. Failure to comply with the lab requirements will result in a failing lab grade.

Prerequisite: Italian 2 or Consent of Instructor.

Texts:

• Janice Aski & Diane Musumeci, Avanti: Beginning Italian (Textbook)
• Janice Aski, Diane Musumeci, & Carla Wysokinski, Avanti: Beginning Italian (Workbook/Laboratory Manual)

 

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ITALIAN 9: Reading Italian (3 Units)

Course Description: This course focuses on reading and and discussion of modern Italian prose, including selections from creative, scientific and journalistic writings and also introduces students to contemporary Italian literature and culture. The main goal of this course is to strengthen the student's command of the language

Prerequisite: Italian 5 or Consent of Instructor.

Texts:

• Francesca Italiano and Irene Marchegiani, Crescendo! (Textbook)
• Francesca Italiano and Irene Marchegiani, Crescendo! (Workbook, Lab Manual)

 

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ITALIAN 115C. ITALIAN DRAMA FROM MACHIAVELLI TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT (4 Units)
Prof. Juliana Schiesari, jkschiesari@ucdavis.edu

TR 10:30-11:50, 102 Hutchison
CRN 93448

Course Description: This course will study the development of comic and tragic forms as critical representations of their societal and historical contexts, i.e. Machiavelli and the logic of power, Baroque dramatists in the service of counter-reformation Italy, Goldoni's comedies and bourgeois social consciousness. .

Prerequisite: Italian 9.

GE Credits (Old): ArtHum.
GE Credits (New): Oral Skills.

Texts:

• (TBA)

 

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ITALIAN 121. NEW ITALIAN CINEMA (4 Units)
Prof. Margherita Heyer-Caput, mheyercaput@ucdavis.edu

CRN 93449

Lecture/Discussion: TR 1:40-3:00, 217 Art
Film Viewing: T 6:10-9:00, 1130 Hart

Course Description: This course will explore the thriving Italian cinema of the twenty-first century in relationship with the deep cultural and social changes that Italy has experienced in the last two decades. We will witness how a young generation of Italian filmmakers, from Marco Tullio Giordana to Emanuele Crialese, has overcome a paralyzing sense of “afterness” and infused Italian cinema with a new vitality. These directors-writers-producers-lead actors have successfully coped with the inspiring but also challenging legacy of the great auteurs of Italian Neorealism of the ‘40s and ‘50s (Rossellini, De Sica, etc.) and of the art cinema of the ‘60s and ‘70s (Antonioni, Fellini, etc.), and with the disillusions suffered by the political cinema of the ‘80s and ‘90s (Rosi, Petri, the Tavianis, etc.). The movies analyzed revisit classic genres of Italian cinema, from the commedia all’italiana to historical productions, and reinvent film as a powerful art form with a social reference and a moral accountability.

Note: 

• Knowledge of Italian is NOT required.
• This course counts toward the Film Studies major/minor.
• This course counts toward the Italian major/minor as an elective course.
• This course counts toward the International Relations major, under the Area Studies Requirement (Western Europe).

 

This course is same as Film Studies 121.

Prerequisite: Film Studies 1 and upper division standing, or consent of instructor.

GE Credits (Old): ArtHum, Wrt, Div
GE Credits (New): ArtHum, Wrt, Oral Skills, Visual Literacy, and World Cultures.

Texts:

• A Course Reader
• Timothy Corrigan, A Short Guide to Writing about Film, 8th Edition (Longman, 2011)

 

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Other Courses Related to Italian Studies

ART HISTORY 178B. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART (4 Units)
Jeffrey Ruda, Professor of Art History
@ucdavis.edu

TR 12:10-1:30, 217 Art
CRN 93672

Course Description: This course will ..

Prerequisite: None.

GE Credits (Old): ArtHum, Wrt.
GE Credits (New): (TBA).

Texts:

• (TBA)