Italian Studies and Italian American Studies, Minor in

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The Italian and Italian American Studies minor offers an extensive, ever-expanding array of exciting courses covering essential and unexpected aspects of Italian culture and history—from modern politics, culinary traditions, and cinematic masterpieces to regional folklore, iconic mafiosi, contemporary literature, and graphic novels.

Minoring in Italian Studies is a great way to enhance your intercultural competence. In doing so, you may use this minor to support your major in related fields such as Business, Economics, Communication, Journalism & Public Relations, Linguistics, Marketing, Arts and Media, as well as Global Studies, History and Anthropology. Finally, even majors in STEM fields will find that a minor in Italian Studies provides the humanistic background to make them more rounded.

All coursework in this interdisciplinary and highly customizable program is in English. No Italian language proficiency is required.

Minor Requirements - Total Semester Hours: 18

The program consists of the successful completion of 18 semester hours of required and elective courses listed below and 9 semester hours in-residence.

A. Required

12 s.h. chosen from the following, with a minimum of 6 s.h. in ITST and ITLT:

ITST 014F - First-Year Seminar Semester Hours: 3-4
ITST 014S - First-Year Seminar Semester Hours: 3-4
ITST 116 - Independent Study in Italian Studies and Italian American Studies Semester Hours: 1-6
ITST 131 - (IS) Italian Cultural Studies I: From Unification to World War I Semester Hours: 3-4
ITST 132 - (IS) Italian Cultural Studies II: From World War I to the Present Semester Hours: 3-4
ITST 140 A-Z - Topics in Italian and Italian American Cultural Studies Semester Hours: 3
ITST 141 A-Z - (AA) Italian Film Highlights Semester Hours: 3
ITST 142 - (IS) The Italian Mafia: Historical Reality and Fictional Representations Semester Hours: 3
ITST 143 - (IS) Italian Comic Book Culture Semester Hours: 3
ITST 144 - (IS) Italian Food Culture Semester Hours: 3 s.h.
ITST 161 - (LT) Italian Migrations Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 030 - (LT) Italian American Identity Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 040 - (LT) Love and Eros in Italian Literature Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 041 - (LT) To Hell and Back: Dante’s Inferno Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 042 - (LT) Lie, Cheat, and Steal: Short Stories of Decameron Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 050 - (LT) Writing Women in Early Modern Italy Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 068 - (LT) Short Story & Novel in Italy Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 069 - (LT) Italian Stage & Theater Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 090 - (LT) 20th- and 21st-Century Women Writers Semester Hours: 3

B. Electives

6 s.h. chosen from the following:

AFST 047 - (LT) Africa, Greece, and Rome Semester Hours: 3
AH 106 - (AA) Italian Renaissance Art Semester Hours: 3
AH 109 - (AA) The Global Baroque Semester Hours: 3
ANTH 132 - Contemporary Italy: An Anthropological View Semester Hours: 3
CLL 040 - (LT) Literature of the Emerging Europe Semester Hours: 3
CLL 047 - (LT) Africa, Greece, and Rome Semester Hours: 3
CLL 154 - Doubles, Doppelgängers and Masks in Venice and Japan Semester Hours: 3
CLL 161 - (LT) Renaissance Semester Hours: 3
CLL 191 - (LT) Romanticism Semester Hours: 3 or 4
ECO 115 - Economics of European Integration Semester Hours: 3
ECO 139 - Economic History of Europe Semester Hours: 3
GEOG 003 - (BH) The Geography of a Globalizing World Semester Hours: 3
GEOG 107 - Urban Geography of Western Europe Semester Hours: 3
GEOG 122 - (BH) The Geography of Western Europe Semester Hours: 3
GS 001 - (IS) Introduction to Global Studies Semester Hours: 3
GS 002 - (CC, IS) Cultural Globalization Semester Hours: 3
HIST 107 - (HP) Medieval Europe Semester Hours: 3
HIST 108 - (HP) Renaissance Europe Semester Hours: 3
HIST 136 - Culture and Ideas in Modern Europe Semester Hours: 3
HIST 177C - Special Topics in European History Semester Hours: 3
JWST 036 - (HP) The Holocaust: Memory and Representation Semester Hours: 3
LAT 001 - Elementary Latin Semester Hours: 3
LAT 002 - Elementary Latin Semester Hours: 3
LAT 002A - Intensive Elementary Latin Semester Hours: 4
LING 101 - (IS) Introduction to Linguistics Semester Hours: 3
MUS 129 - (AA) Opera Semester Hours: 3
MUS 175A - Italian, English, and Latin Diction for Singers Semester Hours: 1
PHI 010G - (HP) Wondering and Wandering: An Historical Tour of Western Philosophy Semester Hours: 3
PSC 132 - European Politics Semester Hours: 3
RLLT 102 - (LT) Postmodern Fiction in Romance Languages Semester Hours: 3

Note

Substitutions for, and additions to, the list of courses in category B may be made with the approval of the Italian Studies faculty advisor.
No more than 6 s.h. of course work taken as part of the student’s major may be applied toward the Italian Studies and Italian American Studies Minor.