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ITAL3251B-L11

Intro to Contemporary Italy

An Introduction to Contemporary Italy

Intended for students at the intermediate level, this course will afford the opportunity to expand conversation, writing, and reading skills while consolidating knowledge of the more difficult points of grammar. The contextual focus of the course is modern Italian culture including history, politics, and literature among other things. Italian films, short stories and essays, will enhance and complete the learning experience.

Required Texts
Daniela Bartalesi Graf, L’Italia dal fascismo ad oggi, Guerra, 2005
ISBN 88-7715-769-0

Rossella Bozzone Costa, Viaggio nell’italiano, Torino, Loescher, 2004
ISBN 8820127504

Lia Levi, Una bambina e basta, Roma, E/O, 1994
ISBN: 8876411941 9788876411946

Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, Milano, Mondadori, 1993
ISBN: 8804375914 9788804375913

Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Voci dal Sud, (selezione in fotocopia)
Pap Khouma, Io venditore di elefanti, (selezione in fotocopia)

Dizionario di Italiano: www.garzantilinguistica.it

Film:
Gli studenti devono obbligatoriamente guardare i seguenti film in programma:

Concorrenza sleale (Ettore Scola,2001)
Ladri di biciclette (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
Buongiorno notte ( Marco Bellocchio,2003)
Vesna va veloce (Carlo Mazzacurati, 1996)
I cento passi (Marco Tullio Giordana, 2000)
Course Reference Number (CRN):
60131
Subject Code:
ITAL
Course Number:
3251
Section Identifier:
B

Course

ITAL 3251

All Sections in Summer 2011, LS 7 Week Session

Summer 2011, LS 7 Week Session

ITAL3251A-L11 Lecture (Spani)
ITAL3251B-L11 Lecture (Piovesana)