LIT 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar

Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.

Fall 2012 topic:

LIT 180: FS:Understanding Contemporary Italian Culture (3). First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. This seminar, taught in English, investigates the development and nature of Italian culture through the analysis and discussion of selected representative texts, films, and artworks. The objective of the course is to familiarize students with cultural and political phenomena that are specific to contemporary Italy and to discuss these phenomena critically, historically and comparatively in order to acquire an understanding of Italy’s complex and evolving cultural identity. Special attention is devoted to the last 100 years. Students read, discuss and analyze literary works by some of the most important Italian authors, including Carlo Levi, Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Collodi, Luciano Bianciardi. (HL) Bini.