Italian Studies

Department of Literature
303 Humanities 1
(831) 459-4778
http://literature.ucsc.edu

Program Description

Students interested in an interdisciplinary approach to Italian culture through the combined study of literature, history, politics, art history, music, and film may pursue a major or minor in Italian studies. The guidelines for the completion of the major may be obtained from Professor Deanna Shemek at Cowell College. There are numerous opportunities for study in Italy through the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP), either for a year (Bologna, Milan, Padua) or for an intensive semester (Milan, Padua, Rome, Siena). The Italian studies program is administered by the Literature Department.

Major Requirements

Each student must complete the lower-division language sequence (Italian 1–6, or equivalent). In addition, students are required to take 10 courses (one course may be lower division), including a core unit of five courses to be taken at UCSC: three Italian literature courses, one course in Italian history, and one course in Italian art history. A course on Dante is required. A minimum of five courses must be taught principally in Italian or through Italian language texts read in the original. Five courses may be approved elective courses. One course may focus on Italy in a European or global context. One Italian literature course may be replaced by an Italian culture course. Up to five elective courses may be approved from UC EAP’s yearlong study abroad in Italy. All students must complete a senior seminar course focused on Italian literature, history, or art history.

Students of every major must satisfy that major’s upper-division Disciplinary Communication (DC) requirement. The DC requirement will normally be met within one to three courses already required for the major. For detailed information on this major's DC requirement, consult your major adviser or see the 2010-11 UCSC General Catalog.

Minor Requirements

Each student must complete the lower-division language sequence (Italian 1–6, or equivalent). Students must also complete five upper-division courses in Italian studies: three Italian literature courses, one course in Italian history, and one course in Italian art history. A course on Dante is required. One Italian literature course may be replaced by an Italian culture course. Three of the five upper-division courses must be completed at UCSC; three must be taught principally in Italian. A maximum of two courses may be transferred from EAP.

2009-10 Italian Studies Curriculum

Fall 2009

Italian

1 Instruction in the Italian Language
Centineo, Prencipe

4 Intermediate Italian
Prencipe

History of Art and Visual Culture

104A Byzantine Visual Culture: Politics and Religion in New Rome, 300-1453 A.D.
Langdale

115 Italian Renaissance: Representation and Institutions
Langdale

Italian Literature

180 Women in Italy: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Shemek (taught in Italian)

Pre- and Early Modern Literature

148 The Beloved in Medieval Poetry
Godzich (comparative context course)

World Literature

190A Topics in World Literature and Cultural Studies: Medieval Mediterranean
Kinoshita (senior seminar; comparative context course)

Winter 2010

Italian

1A  Intensive Elementary Italian, Part 1
Prencipe

2 Instruction in the Italian Language
Centineo, Mohammed

5 Intermediate Italian
Prencipe

History of Art and Visual Culture

168 High Renaissance
Staff

History

183 A Nineteenth-Century Italy
Polecritti

Italian Literature

130D Dante’s Divine Comedy
Brose (taught in Italian)

World Literature

126 Metamorphoses: Pre/Post Modern Transformations
Freccero (comparative context course)

Spring 2010

Italian

1B Intensive Elementary Italian, Part 2
Prencipe

3 Instruction in the Italian Language
Centineo

6 Intermediate–Advanced Italian
Prencipe

106 Italian Culture Through Film
Centineo (taught in Italian; also taught as LAAD 80)

History of Art and Visual Culture

10F The Nude in Western Tradition
Hunter

189V Art of the Venetian Renaissance
Langdale

191E Renaissance Prints and Print Culture
Langdale (senior seminar)

History

183B Fascism and Resistance in Italy
Polecritti

196Y Saints and Holiness in Medieval Europe
Polecritti

Italian Literature

165 Italian Literature and Culture: The Novella
Shemek (taught in Italian)