An Introduction to Contemporary Italy



Intended for students at the intermediate level, this course will afford the opportunity to expand conversation, writing, and reading skills while consolidating knowledge of the more difficult points of grammar. The contextual focus of the course is modern Italian culture including history, politics, and literature among other things. Italian films, short stories and essays, will enhance and complete the learning experience.



Required Texts: Daniela Bartalesi Graf, L’Italia dal fascismo ad oggi, Guerra, 2005 ISBN 88-7715-769-0



Rossella Bozzone Costa, Viaggio nell’italiano, Torino, Loescher, 2004 ISBN 8820127504



Lia Levi, Una bambina e basta, Roma, E/O, 1994 ISBN: 8876411941 9788876411946



Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, Milano, Mondadori, 1993 ISBN: 8804375914 9788804375913



Marco Paolini, Il racconto del Vajont. 9 ottobre 1963. Milano, Garzanti, 1997 ISBN: 8811620309 9788811620303



Mario Rigoni Stern, Racconti di guerra, Torino, Einaudi, 2006 ISBN: 8806181157 9788806181154