• Italian Faculty
  
  
• Courses and requirements for minors
  
  
• Study Abroad Program: Rome, Italy
  
  
• Fall Semester courses, 2008
  
  
• Upcoming course projections
  
  

Italian Faculty:

Peter Checca, Assistant Professor and Counselor, Rome Program Office

Nancy L. D'Antuono, Professor of Italian and Coordinator of Italian Program

Umberto Taccheri, Associate Professor of Italian

Demetrio Yocum, Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian

Robert Morse, Instructor of Italian

Lecturers:

Betta LoSardo

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Requirements for Italian Minors and Majors:

Minor in Italian (12 hours)
Required courses:

MLIT 210 Italian language and Literature
MLIT 310 Advanced Italian Grammar
Two additional Italian courses from the following:
303, 304, 306, 320, 350, 360, 362

Major in Italian (24 hours)
Required courses: (total 6 credits)

MLIT 210 Italian language and Literature
MLIT 310 Advanced Italian Grammar

Four of the following courses: (total 12 credits)
MLIT 303 Introduction to Italian Literature I
MLIT 304 Introduction to Italian Literature II
MLIT 306 Advanced Italian Conversation
MLIT 320 Italian Cinema 1945 - 1965
MLIT 350 Italian Short Story (14th - 20th Centuries)
MLIT 360 Italian Cultural Studies (19th - 20th Centuries)
MLIT 362 Italian Theater (16th - 20th Centuries)

Two of the following courses: (total 6 credits)
MLIT 410 Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
MLIT 420 Renaissance and Baroque Masterpieces
MLIT 430 Italian Novel (19th – 20th Centuries)

Upper division courses envisioned for the future
1) Women in Italian Cinema
2) Italian Women Writers (19th - 20th Centuries)
3) Italian History Through Film
4) Italian Cinema 1965 - 2005

For information regarding the Saint Mary’s College Rome Program,
please visit our Web site: www.saintmarys.edu/~rome

To further enhance our program, language clubs and foreign study opportunities are available as well. Study at Saint Mary's campus in Rome is strongly encouraged for students considering a minor in Italian.

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Courses Scheduled for Fall Semester, 2008

MLIT 101: Introductory Italian I: Designed to give beginning students a basic knowledge of the language. The language laboratory is an essential tool in the learning process. College credit will not be given for this course if units in Italian have been earned in high school. Required for prospective students of the Saint Mary's College Rome Program.

MLIT 103: Italian Conversation and Reading I: Designed to develop simple Italian everyday conversation and to introduce the student to Italian culture. Required for prospective students of the Saint Mary's College Rome Program.

MLIT 111: Intermediate Italian: Review of basic Italian grammar with concentration on more advanced grammatical structures, vocabulary building, conversation and written expression.

MLIT 123: Intermediate Italian Conversation I: Practical dialogues for daily life in Italy.

MLIT 310: Advanced Italian Grammar: The primary objective of this course is to review the most salient and difficult points of Italian grammar.

MLIT 350: Italian Short Story: An introduction to short stories of representative 20th-century Italian writers.

MLIT 430: ItalianNovel: 19th/20th Century: This course focuses on the major Italian novels that exemplify the distinctive literary movements from Romanticism to Neorealism (1820-1960).

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Course Projection:
Spring 2009-Fall 2009

Note: These courses are subject to change

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