ITALIAN 336: Italian Culture II
Location	Florence, Italy
Dates	January 1 - 24, 2006
Credits Offered	3* Italian Culture
Application Deadline	October 28. Balance due November 15. Download application here.
Financial Aid	Apply for STOCS, travel grants, student loan.
Program Fee	$2490 Includes airfare, shared room in hotel, travel insurance and various cultural events. $350 deposit due with application. *You must include this course in the CUNY Spring 2006 semester.  If you have 12 or more credits registered for Spring 2006, this intersession course can be added at no additional cost (full time in-state matriculated status only). All others pay their per credit rate.

TEXTS

1. The Oxford History of Italy, ed. By George Holmes. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997
2. The Italian Renaissance Reader, eds. Julia C. Bondanella and Mark Musa. New York: Penguin Meridian, 1987.
3. Course reader

SCHEDULE

M-F 9:30-12:00

Day I. General introduction.

Day II. Overview of the essential aspects of Italian culture from the 11th to the 15th centuries.

Day III. Boccaccio. Petrarch.

Day IV. The Humanistic movement. Pico della Mirandola. Leon Battista Alberti.

Day V. The High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci.

Day VI. The High Renaissance: Michelangelo.

Day VII. Politics and society in the Italian Renaissance: Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Castiglione.

Day VIII. Protestant and Catholic Reformations.The age of Baroque (Bernini, Caravaggio, Marino). Monteverdi, Caccini, Peri and the birth of Melodrama. Galileo ad the birth of modern science.

Day IX. The reaction against the Baroque. The "Arcadia". Vico's philosophy of history.

Day X. The Enlightenment. Beccaria and Parini. Neoclassicism and Antonio Canova, Napoleonic Italy. MID-TERM EXAM

Day XI. Italian theater: the "Commedia dell'Arte", Goldoni, Alfieri.

Day XII. Romanticism and the Risorgimento. Foscolo, Leopardi.

Day XIII. Towards a unified Italy. Manzoni, Verdi. Verga and "Verismo".

Day XIII. From Decadentism to Pirandello. Italy after World War II.

Day XV.   FINAL EXAM

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

50 multiple choice questions, presented in a quiz format (25%)

Mid-term exam: multiple-choice and short-answer questions (25%)

Final exam: essay questions (30%)

Active participation: (10%)

Final cultural journal: (10%)

Academic Inquiries: Prof. Paolo Fasoli, Depart. of Romance Languages
Phone: 212-772-5129, pfasoli@hunter.cuny.edu

Administrative Inquiries:
Nancy Santorelli, Education Abroad Interim Director,
HE1420, Monday - Friday 10:30-5:30.
Phone: (212) 772-4983/4 Fax (212) 772-5005. E-mail: nsantore@hunter.cuny.edu

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