Italian Studies
2012-13 General Catalog
Department of Literature
303 Humanities 1
(831) 459-4778
Program Description
Students interested in an interdisciplinary approach to Italian culture through the combined study of language, literature, history, art history, and other subjects may pursue a major or minor in Italian studies. The guidelines for the completion of the major may be obtained from Professor Deanna Shemek of the Literature Department. There are several options for study in Italy through the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP), either for a year (Bologna, Milan, Padova), for an intensive semester (Bologna, Florence, Milan, Padova, Rome), or for the summer (Florence). The Italian studies program is administered by the Literature Department.
Requirements of the Major
Each student must complete the lower-division language sequence (Italian 1–6, or equivalent). In addition, students are required to take 10, five-credit courses (one of which may be lower division), including a core unit of five courses which must be taken at UCSC: two Italian literature courses, Italian 106 (Italian Culture Through Film), one course in Italian history, and one course in Italian art history. A course featuring the work of Dante is recommended. A minimum of five courses must be taught substantially in Italian. Five may be approved elective courses, which may feature Italy in a European or global context. Up to five elective courses may be approved from UC EAP’s yearlong study abroad in Italy. All students in the major must satisfy the Italian Studies senior exit requirement by writing a senior essay focused on Italian literature, history, or art history. This essay may be produced within an approved seminar, or (with faculty permission) by enrolling in a one-credit Italian Literature 191 course in conjunction with another upper-division course in Italian literature, history, or history of art and visual culture. This combination must be approved by a faculty advisor in Italian Studies.
Disciplinary Communication (DC) Requirement
Students of every major must satisfy that major’s upper-division Disciplinary Communication (DC) Requirement. Italian Studies majors satisfy the DC Requirement through satisfactory completion of the senior essay, as described above. Please refer to updated information at http://registrar.ucsc.edu/catalog/html/disciplinarycommunicationchart.html.
Minor Requirements
Each student must complete the lower-division language sequence (Italian 1–6, or equivalent). Students must also complete five upper-division courses in Italian studies: two Italian literature courses, Italian 106 (Italian Culture Through Film), one course in Italian history, and one course in Italian art history. A course featuring the work of Dante is recommended. Three of the five upper-division courses must be completed at UCSC; three must be taught substantially in Italian. A maximum of two courses may be transferred from EAP.
Honors
Honors in the Italian studies major are awarded to graduating seniors who have earned a 3.70 to 3.89 grade point average in their upper-division Italian studies courses. Highest honors in the Italian studies major are awarded to graduating seniors who have earned a 3.90 or higher grade point average in their upper-division Italian Studies courses. Honors are not awarded in the minor.
2012-13 Italian Studies Curriculum
Fall 2012
Film 168, National Cinema and Culture, Staff
Italian 1, Instruction in the Italian Language, Staff
Italian 4, Intermediate Italian, Staff
HAVC 154, Byzantine Visual Culture: Politics and Religion in the Empire of Constantinople, 330-1453 A. C., Evangelatou
HIS 62B, Classical World: Rome, Hedrick
LTIT 180, Women in Italy: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Shemek
LTMO 144H, Jewish Writers and the European City: Venice, Baumgarten
Winter 2013
Italian 2, Instruction in the Italian Language, Staff
Italian 1A, Intensive Elementary Italian, Staff
Italian 5, Intermediate Italian, Staff
HAVC 137B, Italian Renaissance: Art and Architecture, Langdale
HAVC 191N, Topics in Renaissance Art and Visual Culture, Langdale
HIS 164A, Late-Medieval Italy, c. 1200-1400, Polecritti
HIS 196D, City of Rome, Polecritti
LTIT 130D, Dante’s "Divine Comedy," Brose
LTPR 150B, Early Modern Italian Women Writers, Shemek
Spring 2013
Italian 1B, Intensive Elementary Italian, Staff
Italian 3, Instruction in the Italian Language, Staff
Italian 6, Intermediate–Advanced Italian, Staff
LAAD 80, Italian Culture Through Cinema, Centineo
Italian 106, Italian Culture Through Film, Centineo
HAVC 155, Constructing Cleopatra: Power, Sexuality, and Femininity Across the Ages, Evangelatou
HIS 164B, Renaissance Italy, c. 1400-1600, Polecritti
LTIT 165,Studies in Italian Culture: Roma, citta oscura: Filming, writing, building, and fighting the Italian metropolis, Williams
Please note: Courses in bold require completion of Italian 6 or equivalent proficiency.
Revised: 8/31/12
