24 courses with the subject ITTR, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ITTR 1150Living in Italy: Culture, Society, and Daily Life3
Effective Date 01/01/2027 This course integrates language learning with cultural analysis of contemporary Italy, helping students develop communicative proficiency while gaining insight into Italian society, identity, and everyday life through authentic materials and discussion.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Close reading of Dante’s masterpiece, The Inferno. Lectures focus on Dante’s social, political, and cultural world. Incorporates The World of Dante: A Hypermedia Archive for the Study of the Inferno, and a pedagogical and research website (www.iath.virginia/dante), that offers a wide range of visual material related to The Inferno.
ITTR 2630Italian History and Culture Through Film: 1860s - 1960s3
Effective Date 03/01/2009 This course uses the medium of film to discuss the developments in Italian culture and history over a period of one hundred years, from 1860 to 1960.
Effective Date 06/03/2016 This course traces the general history and culture of Italy from the Middle Ages to the present. It covers the Renaissance, the Baroque, the ‘Risorgimento,’ the new problems of post-unification, Fascism and the post-World War II Italian Republic. The aim is to provide historical background to comprehend both the complexity of Italian political and social evolution and the multifaceted nature of its cultural identity Taught in English.
ITTR 3107Evolution of Media in Italy: From Unification to the Present3
Effective Date 02/26/2015 The course will explore the specific features of Italian mass media from the Unification to the present, considering how the press, cinema, radio, television and the Internet have affected and shaped Italian society. It will trace the evolution of Italian media in relation to key events such as the Risorgimento, Fascism, both World Wars, reconstruction and industrialization, and the political rise of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi.
ITTR 3280Michelangelo: The Artist, The Man, and His Times3
Effective Date 10/10/2019 Michelangelo’s name conjures genius and a nearly superhuman achievement in the arts. Contemporaries elevated him as the supreme sculptor, painter, and architect of his age. This course examines Michelangelo’s creativity in all these media as well as his poetry and letters. The course investigates the extraordinary achievements of this Renaissance luminary through close analysis of his works, secondary studies, and contemporary reinventions. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ITTR 3559 topic #11 Michelangelo
ITTR 3580Sister Arts Literary Artistic Relations in the Italian Renaissance3
Effective Date 08/01/2010 This course focuses on the literary and cultural traditions that inform treatments of art and artists in the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Effective Date 08/01/2019 Students of this course will study the political theories of Dante, Machiavelli, Beccaria, and Gramsci through a close-reading of each author’s major works. We will also examine how their ideas influenced contemporary politics, literature, and the visual arts both in Italy and in the United States. These goals will be accomplished through regular reading assignments, short essays, and presentations.
ITTR 3660Italian American Cinema: The Immigrant Experience on Film3
Effective Date 11/05/2018 Following the unification of Italy in 1861, immigrants from that nation began coming to the USA in record numbers. While they arrived in search of better lives, they often faced many challenges. Through it all, their experiences have been documented on film. In this course, we will explore these cinematic representations of Italian Americana.
Effective Date 01/01/2027 At the turn of the 20th-century, many Italians immigrated to the United States in search of new opportunities. However, discrimination, poverty, and pressure to assimilate often met them upon arrival. Some eventually forged a path around these obstacles through sports changing the predominant view of their ethnic group in mainstream American society. This course will explore how they did so through film, television, music and literature. Requisites Students cannot enroll if they previously completed ITTR 3559 Topic #14 Goal! Sport and the Italian American Identity
ITTR 3670Contemporary Italian Cinema: From Canon to the Fringe3
Effective Date 09/28/2018 Examines the social, political and economic evolution of contemporary Italy through cinema and other visual culture forms; cinema is also examined from an aesthetic point of view, as its iconographic and stylistic developments are crucial elements of a visual culture that complements and references traditional modes of representation such as painting and sculpture, as well as architecture, literature and the oral folk tradition.
ITTR 3680Eve’s Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Women’s Writing Culture and Society3
Effective Date 05/01/2023 This course explores how Italian women writers have represented food in their short stories, novels and autobiographies in dialogue with the culture and society from late nineteenth century to the present. These lectures will offer a close reading of the symbolic meaning of food in narrative and the way it intersects with Italian women’s socio-cultural history, addressing issues of gender, identity and politics of the body.
ITTR 3685Italy on Screen: Sex, Gender, & Racial Identities3
Effective Date 01/30/2020 This course considers representations of sex, gender and racial identities in Italian films, television, advertisements and other forms of visual culture. With a focus on the contemporary Italian context, students will explore issues of intersectionality from a global perspective. What can Italian critically acclaimed and more mainstream works tell us about diversity and inclusion in the worldwide context? Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ITTR 3559 topic #10 Italy on Screen
ITTR 3690Mafiosi vs Goodfellas: Organized Crime on Film in Italy & The USA3
Effective Date 10/04/2017 Organized crime has long fascinated filmmakers from both Italy and the USA. But, how does each country portray this phenomenon and its effects on law, politics, and the individual? What socio-cultural and historical factors explain the different presentations? In this course, we will examine these questions through discussion and analysis of films from Italy and the United States, primary source documents, and novels.
Effective Date 11/20/2024 Throughout its storied history, Italian cinema has been most famous for its realism, which reached the height of its influence internationally with the neorealist classics of the mid-twentieth century. However, during the 1950s, filmmakers from the boot-shaped nation began experimenting with fantastical genres, such as horror, science fiction, and fairytale. In this course, we will explore these works and their relationship to media culture. This course will satisfy requirements for either the Italian major or minor.
ITTR 3758Love Affair with Tuscany: Utopias and Beyond3
Effective Date 05/19/2010 This course aims to examine the Anglo-American love affair with Tuscany/Florence, and deepen students’ understanding of it by providing richer, more complex knowledge of the region and its culture. The class will simultaneously explore notions of utopia and dystopia, against the background and actual lived experience of this sought-after destination.
ITTR 3760The Best of Youth: Italian Coming of Age Films3
Effective Date 01/01/2026 What does it mean to come of age? How has Italian cinema captured this process throughout its history? How do Italian films about this topic approach some of its more complex and controversial aspects? As the cinema has evolved both culturally and technologically, how has the genre changed? This course will explore these questions by studying how psychologists define the stages of child and adolescent development & how Italian films depict them.
ITTR 3880Reinventing Dante: Influence, Adaptation and Transformation3
Effective Date 03/04/2019 Dante’s Inferno has captivated the imagination of artists as diverse as Botticelli, Milton, Keats, and David Fincher. Artists, writers and filmmakers re-imagine Dante for their own purposes. This course will explore reinventions of Dante’s Inferno, the most enduring vision of the afterlife that has ever been created.
ITTR 4010Narrating (Un-)sustainability: Ecocritical Explorations in Italy & Mediterr3
Effective Date 03/05/2019 This course focuses on the potential narratives have to convey messages that are relevant to our ethical and environmental awareness, and to help us imagine alternatives to existing systems of knowledge and distributions of power. We shall learn about the origins and general objectives of ecocriticism, its relevant theories and methodologies, and various approaches to the notion of sustainability.
ITTR 4820Italian Pop Culture From the 1960s to the Present3
Effective Date 08/01/2010 This course examines the cultural and socio-political transformations that took place in Italy during its recent history. By discussing different cultural artifacts (films, essays, literature), we shall ultimately try to answer the following questions : does Italy still have space for works that resist populist and consumer culture? What are the ethical and political consequences of Italy’s present culutral condition? Is there an Italian identity?
