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The instruction of the Italian language, backed up by specialized teaching experience, makes use of innovative methods that make the learning lively and effective. Students are placed in different study groups, according to their level of knowledge.

The course begins from the most elementary communicative needs, that is from salutations and personal identification. Questions and answers on information relative to the world in which each student finds him/herself, and thus indispensable for every primary need.

This work is backed up by in depth study of grammar to provide the student with a morpho-syntactical basis. Exercises will include reading of newspapers, games, texts, situational studies, instruments through which the student has the possibility to use the grammatical structures and the vocabulary acquired up until that moment.

Audio-visuals are used such as films and video clips to simulate typical situations and to stimulate conversation.
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Continuation of ITLN 101 Italian language.
Intermediate course in Italian language, grammar, vocabulary and conversation backed up by video presentation of topical situations for conversation and increasing comprehension.
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Continuation of ITLN 102 Italian language.
Advanced course in Italian language Advanced composition skills and conversation backed up by video presentation of topical situations for conversation and increasing comprehension. close

This course provides a solid introduction to the career and accomplishments of Michelangelo.

It focuses on the major works produced by Michelangelo during seventy years of activity, setting them into their cultural contexts, and analyzing their style. Attention will also be given to Michelangelo’s life and personality and to his impact upon contemporaries of different generations.

Biographies of the period and writings, above all the letters and poems by Michelangelo himself, will be considered, in order to separate fact from fiction in the Michelangelo “cult” which the artist generated. Works will be considered in chronological order. The one required textbook is Howard Hibbard’s monograph on the artist. Additional studies, old and new, from the ever-expanding critical literature on the artist (by scholars such as Panofsky, De Tolnay, Von Einem, Pope-Hennessy, Shearman, O’Malley, Hirst, Wallace, Brandt). close