ITAL 1837 is also offered in Spring 2025
ITAL 1837 is also offered in Fall 2024
ITAL 1837 is also offered in Spring 2024
ITAL 1837 is also offered in Fall 2023
ITAL 1837 is also offered in Spring 2023
ITAL 1837 is also offered in Fall 2022
ITAL 1837 is also offered in Spring 2022
ITAL 1837 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2022 | ITAL 1837 Section 001: Imagining Italy: Italian and Italian-American Culture, History, and Society through Film (56169)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
ITAL 3837 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 04:00PM - 06:00PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
Open (58 of 60 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Weekly guest lectures and critical readings expand from different disciplinary perspectives upon issues raised by films. Urban life, religion, nationalism, opera, violence, leisure, food, fascism, terrorism, family, emigration/immigration, ethnicity, Mediterranean culture.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ferli001+ITAL1837+Spring2022
- Class Description:
- Topics discussed will include but not be limited to Renaissance music, opera, fascism, mafia, contemporary Italian family relations, sexuality, fashion, and Italian American history and culture. Films include: The Name of the Rose, Dangerous Beauty, Il conformista/The Conformist, Death in Venice, La Strada, Allonsonfan, Amarcord, Farinelli, Strategia del ragno, Cinema Paradiso, Pane e Tulipani. Each week the class will have a similar format. The film screening on Mondays will be complemented by the lecture on Wednesdays given by faculty whose research and teaching focuses on the particular period of Italian culture represented in the films. Italian 1001-3015 students are strongly encouraged to enroll.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- anyone who is interested in the topic and wants to learn about a different culture. No Italian language skills are necessary
- Learning Objectives:
- learning about art, culture, the humanities through films on and about Italy
- Grading:
- short 10 posts. (20% each); Midterm and final each worth 40%.
- Exam Format:
- midterm and final will have some ID questions and short paragraph essay questions on the materials.
- Class Format:
- Films and lectures/discussions and some group work.
- Workload:
- 15-20 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56169/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 October 2021
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