Program Requirements
Total Units Required: 18
Grade Requirement: Students must complete courses taken for the minor with a grade of B– or higher, and they are expected to maintain a B average or better in all Italian courses. Courses taken Pass/No Pass do not count toward the Italian minor.
Required Courses
- Students are required to complete one of the following courses (3 units):
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| ITAL 3070 | Advanced Italian in the Everyday World | 3 |
| ITAL 3090 | Transmedia Italian Culture: Stories, Interpretation, Performance | 3 |
- Students are required to complete one of the following courses (3 units):
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| ITAL 3230 | Italian Literature 1: Genre and Gender in Italy, 1200-1600 | 3 |
| ITAL 3240 | Italian Literature II: The Making of Modern Italy, Texts and Contexts | 3 |
| ITAL 3270 | History of the Italian Language | 3 |
Elective Courses
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| ITAL 3010 | Oral Communication I | 3 |
| ITAL 3190 | Advanced Conversational Italian | 3 |
| ITAL 3220 | Topics | 3 |
| ITAL 3221 | Topics: The Jewish Experience in Italy | 3 |
| ITAL 3222 | Topics: Fascism and Resistance: Past and Present | 3 |
| ITAL 3224 | Topics: From Basilisks to Botticelli: The Birth, Development and Politics of Museums in Italy | 3 |
| ITAL 3320 | Topics in Film Studies: Italian Cinema | 3 |
| ITAL 3340 | Topics in Italian Cinema | 3 |
| ITAL 3500 | Topics: Global Italy: Race, Gender, Migration and Citizenship | 3 |
| ITAL 4080 | Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style | 3 |
| ITAL 4100 | Mamma Mia! Motherhood, Maternity, & the Female Reproductive Body in the Italian Cultural Context | 3 |
| ITAL 4280 | The New Sicilian School | 3 |
| ITAL 4300 | Divergent Voices: Italian Women Writers | 3 |
| ITAL 4330 | Literature of the Italian Enlightenment | 3 |
| ITAL 4370 | Caffe, Cadavers, Comedy, and Castrati: Italy in the Age of the Grand Tour | 3 |
| ITAL 4420 | Literature and Fascism | 3 |
| ITAL 4730 | Machiavelli and Guicciardini | 3 |
| ITAL 4810 | Dante | 3 |
| ITAL 4830 | Boccaccio: Decameron | 3 |
| ITAL 4850 | Ariosto: Orlando Furioso | 3 |
| ITAL 4910 | Postmodernism | 3 |
| ITAL 4920 | The Italian Detective Novel | 3 |
- Students may count only one of the following courses as an elective (3 units):
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| ITAL 1100 | First-Year Seminar: Italy's Invention of the Modern Museum | 3 |
| ITAL 1101 | First-Year Seminar: Italian Literary Culture: Identity, Subjectivity, Audience | 3 |
| ITAL 1102 | Refracted Light: How Others View Italy | 3 |
| ITAL 2800 | Sex in Italian Culture and Media | 3 |
| ITAL 2900 | The Culture of Food in Italy | 3 |
| ITAL 2910 | A Taste of Italy: Food and Culture | 3 |
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Students may count ITAL 2010 Intermediate Italian in the Everyday World, Level III — which is a prerequisite for ITAL 3230 Italian Literature 1: Genre and Gender in Italy, 1200-1600 and ITAL 3240 Italian Literature II: The Making of Modern Italy, Texts and Contexts — toward the minor as an elective as well.
Additional Information
- 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.
- The Italian minor requires the completion of 18 units, 12 of which must be taken in residence.