17 courses in Waterloo’s course catalog for 2020–21 (Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021), from UW Open Data. ucalendar asks programs not to read that year’s calendar, so this stands in for it. Original: ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/2021/COURSE/course-ITALST.html
The course studies the themes of family, sex, and tradition as well as violence and identity as they are addressed in the art, the cinema, and the literature of Italian women. [Note: Taught in English.]
LEC · Course ID 012274On ucalendarITALST 111 today
This course is a chronological survey of Italian literature from the 13th century to the 20th century. It will introduce the student to the most representative works in Italian literature. Special emphasis will be given to literary and cultural backgrounds of the authors and their works. [Note: Taught in English.]
Prereq: Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 011970On ucalendarITALST 260 today
The course analyzes the visual media representation of the Mafia in North America. It focuses on the manner in which North American visual culture often glorifies the Italian Mafiosi's lifestyle. As this characterization of both the Mafia and the Mafiosi began with the archetypal figures of the bosses, special attention will be given to the visual practices of the 1930s, to Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" trilogy, as well as to the television series "The Sopranos." The goal is to deconstruct the romanticized portrayal of the Italian and Italian-American gangster lifestyle created on visual media and television by analyzing the atrocities committed by organized crime. [Note: Taught in English.]
Antireq: ITALST 396 taken winter 2017
LEC · Course ID 015541On ucalendarITALST 265 today
An examination of the evolution of modern Italy from 1789 to the present. The events which transformed Italy from a "geographic expression" into a modern unified state, including economic, social, political, and cultural developments, will be studied. [Note: Taught in English.]
Prereq: Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 011972On ucalendarITALST 270 today
An examination of Canada's sixth largest ethno-cultural group, from the early colonial period to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the changing nature of immigration and the evolution of the Italian community since the late 19th century. [Note: Taught in English.]
Prereq: Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 011973On ucalendarITALST 271 today
A survey of developments in Italian culture - history, literature, and the arts - up to and including the Renaissance. [Note: Taught in English.]
Prereq: Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 006526On ucalendarITALST 291 today
A survey of developments in Italian culture - history, literature, painting, and music - in the post-Renaissance period, with emphasis on modern Italy. [Note: Taught in English.]
Prereq: Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 006527On ucalendarITALST 292 today
An introduction to the Italian literature of the Middle Ages, with special reference to selections from the major works by Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. [Note: Taught in English. Students registered in ITAL 311 will have additional Italian language requirements.]
Prereq: Level at least 2B
LEC · Course ID 006528On ucalendarITALST 311 today
An introduction to the Italian literary production of the 15th and 16th centuries, focusing on selections from the major works of the period, including some by Machiavelli, Ariosto, and Tasso. [Note: Taught in English. Students registered in ITAL 312 will have additional Italian language requirements.]
Prereq: Level at least 2B
LEC · Course ID 006529On ucalendarITALST 312 today
This course examines works of writers, artists, architects, and thinkers in the Western European tradition for whom all of reality participates in the larger mystery of God. The course focuses on figures who, from the early Italian Renaissance onward, gave expression to that mystical imagination. [Note: This course fulfils an Area 3 requirement for Religious Studies majors. This course is taught in Rome and incurs extra costs for the student above and beyond the registration fee in the form of travel, room and board, and incidental costs.]
Prereq: Level at least 2A. Antireq: RS 291 (LEC 001) taken fall 2017
SEM · Course ID 015863On ucalendarITALST 349 today
This course examines the various strands of what is one of the greatest works in Western literature, Dante's Divine Comedy. The course will engage students in a critical reading of the text's various layers of meaning, which emphasize perennial issues of our human condition. [Note: Taught in English.]
Prereq: Level at least 2B
LEC · Course ID 011898On ucalendarITALST 360 today
This course explores selected works by women writers of the Italian 16th century by focusing on their modes of adherence or challenges to the patriarchal literary and cultural canon of the day. It will examine early modern gender issues and innovative forms of self-expression as reflected in the writings of such women as Veronica Franco, Gaspara Stampa, Vittoria Colonna, Tullia D'Aragona, and Isabella di Morra. The course attempts to explore these writers' stances as both consumers and producers of culture, as well as their contribution to the debate on women fashionable at the time.
Prereq: Level at least 3A. Antireq: WS 370
LEC · Course ID 013233On ucalendarITALST 370 today
A survey of some of the principal novels of the 20th century in Italy in association with their cinematic versions by eminent Italian film directors. [Note: Taught in English. Students registered in ITAL 391 will have additional Italian language requirements.]
Prereq: Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 006530On ucalendarITALST 391 today
This course studies the works of major Italian poets and playwrights, modern and contemporary, paying special attention to works by women authors. [Note: Taught in English. Students registered in ITAL 392 will have additional Italian language requirements.]
Prereq: Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 006531On ucalendarITALST 392 today
Italian literature, art, culture, and history studied abroad in Italy. [Note: Normally offered in the spring term. Information about current offerings can be obtained from the department.]
FLD · Course ID 012273On ucalendarITALST 394 today
This course gives the student an opportunity to study authors and works of special interest which are not covered in other courses. [Note: Taught in English. Students registered in ITAL 396 will have additional Italian language requirements. This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of two times.]
Prereq: Level at least 3A
RDG · Course ID 006532On ucalendarITALST 396 today
Winter term of ITAL 396/ITALST 396. [Note: Taught in English. Students registered in ITAL 397 will have additional Italian language requirements. This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of two times.]
Prereq: Level at least 3A
RDG · Course ID 006533On ucalendarITALST 397 today