ITAL 3837 is also offered in Spring 2025
ITAL 3837 is also offered in Fall 2024
ITAL 3837 is also offered in Spring 2024
ITAL 3837 is also offered in Fall 2023
ITAL 3837 is also offered in Spring 2023
ITAL 3837 is also offered in Fall 2022
ITAL 3837 is also offered in Spring 2022
ITAL 3837 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2023 | ITAL 3837 Section 001: Imagining Italy: Italian and Italian-American Culture, History, and Society through Film (54735)
- 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 1837 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 15 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+ITAL3837+Spring2023
- Class Description:
- Many of the films and lectures we will examine in this course center around the theme of what it means to be human. We will start with Disney's Pinocchio and compare it to Collodi's original story of the puppet that wants to become human and throughout the course return to questions about choice, responsibility, love, lust, and desire through a variety of films, lectures, and readings. While, our discussions will center on Italy and Italian culture there will be important excursions into contemporary and current questions about choice, autonomy, and puppets for example in The Social Dilemma. Lectures/discussions will also include opera in the 17th century, the centrality of Venice as a place of love and death, in the arts and literature; Rome, the Renaissance, and more. Films will be generally screened in class on Mondays and complemented by a lecture or discussion on Wednesdays. No Italian is needed for this section but Italian language students can take this for credit major/minor. This course is taught remotely
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- All students interested in an exciting course with a well paced variety of films/topics from faculty experts on Italian culture and the humanities.
- Learning Objectives:
- learning about art, culture, the humanities through films on and about Italy and thinking about the humanities and why they matter
- 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/54735/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 April 2022
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2023 Italian Classes