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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2019 |
Registration ID | ITALB212001 |
Course Title | Italy Today-Bodies, Souls, Politics, Cultu |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Giammei,Alessandro |
Times and Days | TTh 02:25pm-03:45pm
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Room Location | OL102 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1393 This is a topics course. Course content varies. This bridge class, taught in Italian, is designed to familiarize students with the shifting cultural panorama of present-day Italy (and its metamorphosing language) through a variety of readings by living authors, journalists, comic-book artists, intellectuals, and politicians.; Current topic description: Who are the neo-fascists? What is the five star movement? How do ‘colf’, ‘zingaro’, ‘qualunquismo’, or ‘grillino’ translate? What does it mean to be a woman, an immigrant, or a queer person in the land of ultra-traditionalism, of the Pope, and the Camorra? This course will explore these questions through a variety of materials in Italian: stories, comic books, TV shows, poems, newspaper articles, public art, essays, videos, and songs. We will deal with issues of identity, historical memory, politics, and society. We will immerse ourselves in the culture and language of contemporary Italy through twelve key-themes. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI); Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) . |
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