ITAL110
Italian Fashion Cultures Cross-listed with RMST100 In 2022, Italy’s newly-elected, right-wing prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, re-named a previous trade ministry as the “Ministry for Business and Made in Italy,” thereby invoking a key marker of Italian commercial, group, and cultural identity. Since the end of the WWII, the garment and accessories sector has been traditionally […]
FREN477
Contemporary Varieties of French This course explores different varieties of French and the societies that speak them. Its main objective is to develop awareness and appreciation of the different varieties of French around the world, situating them in their respective contemporary and historical contexts. Students will expand their knowledge on different issues related to French […]
RMST468
Romance Linguistics This course examines linguistics with an emphasis on the contemporary varieties of the Romance language family. Six main domains of linguistics will be covered: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, and sociolinguistics. This will provide a broad understanding of the major similarities and differences between the Romance languages. Although the focus will […]
ITAL430
Great Masters of Italian Cinema After the Neorealist Age Cross-listed with RMST452 This course aims at familiarizing students from diverse backgrounds with master- pieces by some of the most acclaimed Italian film directors from the 1950s to our day. The films studied are classic works which explore and critically delve into (the industry would probably […]
ITAL420
Pinocchio & Everything Else In this course we re-visit Pinocchio, the original educational story for children (the would-be Bildungsroman, if one will) authored in Italian by the Florentine Carlo Collodi (1881 and 1882-83), seeing it in the light of Jiddu Krishnamurti’s critical dictum «It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a […]
RMST355
Neorealism in Italian Cinema from Rossellini to Fellini and Beyond: Neorealist Masters and Their Legacy Does reality matter? Is it subjective – yes … no … to what extent? How do we construe it? Does how we construe reality not depend, to a large extent, on how we represent / (motion)-picture it? (And vice-versa?). Tough, […]
ITAL385
Neorealism in Italian Cinema from Rossellini to Fellini and Beyond: Neorealist Masters and Their Legacy Cross-listed with RMST355 Does reality matter? Is it subjective – yes … no … to what extent? How do we construe it? Does how we construe reality not depend, to a large extent, on how we represent / (motion)-picture it? […]
ITAL345
Types and Archetypes of Fascism in the Age of the Crisis of Liberal Democracy Cross-listed with RMST345 This course aims at offering students with diverse backgrounds some foundational knowledge about the phenomenon of “Fascism” as, in successive incarnations, it arose and ran its course in the context of neo-Latin societes and cultures. Since these tragic […]
RMST345
Types and Archetypes of Fascism in the Age of the Crisis of Liberal Democracy This course aims at offering students with diverse backgrounds some foundational knowledge about the phenomenon of “Fascism” as, in successive incarnations, it arose and ran its course in the context of neo-Latin societes and cultures. Since these tragic events were centred […]
FREN417
How Games Tell Stories: Fiction and Narrative in French Game Culture Games have never been a bigger part of mainstream culture: the video games industry is a behemoth that dwarfs most other fields of entertainment; the last decade has a seen a tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) renaissance with the rise of Actual Play shows like […]