Program Requirements
Total units required: 18
Required Courses
- Students may count one of the following courses (3 units):
- Students may count Ital 201D Intermediate Italian in the Everyday World, Level III toward the major as an elective as well.
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| Ital 247 | First-Year Seminar: Italy's Invention of the Modern Museum | 3 |
| Ital 248 | First-Year Seminar: Italian Literary Culture: Identity, Subjectivity, Audience | 3 |
| Ital 249 | Refracted Light: How Others View Italy | 3 |
| Ital 280 | Sex in Italian Culture and Media | 3 |
| Ital 290 | The Culture of Food in Italy (The Culture of Food in Italy) | 3 |
- Students are required to complete one of the following courses (3 units):
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| Ital 307D | Advanced Italian in the Everyday World | 3 |
| Ital 309 | Transmedia Italian Culture: Stories, Interpretation, Performance | 3 |
- Students are required to complete one of the following courses (3 units):
- Students may count Ital 201D Intermediate Italian in the Everyday World, Level III, which is a prerequisite for Ital 323C and Ital 324C, toward the major as an elective as well.
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| Ital 323C | Italian Literature 1: Genre and Gender in Italy, 1200-1600 | 3 |
| Ital 324C | Italian Literature II: The Making of Modern Italy, Texts and Contexts | 3 |
| Ital 327 | History of the Italian Language | 3 |
Elective Courses
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| Ital 301 | Oral Communication I | 3 |
| Ital 319 | Advanced Conversational Italian | 3 |
| Ital 320 | Advanced Conversation (Advanced Conversation) | 3 |
| Ital 3221 | Topics: The Jewish Experience in Italy | 3 |
| Ital 3224 | Topics: From Basilisks to Botticelli: The Birth, Development and Politics of Museums in Italy | 3 |
| Ital 332 | Topics in Film Studies: Italian Cinema | 3 |
| Ital 334 | Topics in Italian Cinema | 3 |
| Ital 350 | Topics: Global Italy: Race, Gender, Migration and Citizenship | 3 |
| Ital 408 | Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style | 3 |
| Ital 428 | The New Sicilian School | 3 |
| Ital 430 | Divergent Voices: Italian Women Writers | 3 |
| Ital 433 | Literature of the Italian Enlightenment | 3 |
| Ital 437 | Caffe, Cadavers, Comedy, and Castrati: Italy in the Age of the Grand Tour | 3 |
| Ital 442 | Literature and Fascism | 3 |
| Ital 473 | Machiavelli and Guicciardini | 3 |
| Ital 481 | Dante | 3 |
| Ital 483 | Boccaccio: Decameron | 3 |
| Ital 485 | Ariosto: Orlando Furioso | 3 |
| Ital 491 | Postmodernism | 3 |
| Ital 492 | The Italian Detective Novel | 3 |
Additional Information
Students must maintain an average of B- or better, and they must maintain a B or better in Italian. Courses taken credit/no credit do not count toward the Italian minor.
Students are strongly encouraged to participate in a study abroad program. Please refer to the Italian page on the Romance Languages and Literatures website for more information about Italian study abroad programs.