Courses

A study of Italian culture with special emphasis on its literature. LAN 306 will cover the origins of Italian literature to the seventeenth century. LAN 307 will include the seventeenth century to the modern period. Lectures and readings in English.

Introduction to key aspects of the Italian language. The course will provide basic linguistic tools and an overview of the historical development of the language and its dialects. Emphasis may be on such topics as Italian dialects, language use in contemporary society, Italian as an immigrant language.

From its local origins in Sicily, the Mafia has become a global phenomenon and a widespread model of organized crime that threatens and corrupts the international economy, political systems, and social environments. Although its power and underworld activities affect legal business, control illegal traffic, and trample human rights, a romanticized and even heroic vision of the Mafia nevertheless persists in film, television, and literature.

This course focuses on the Westerns produced in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s, and the ideological work that these films performed by examining the genre’s departure from the conventions and myths of the classic Hollywood Western.

Students examine the history of Japanese imperialism and colonialism in Asia may include settler colonialism in Korea, Taiwan, and Manchuria, Japan's militarization, trials.

This course, also known as the Jazz Voice Class, is designed to teach singers the unique characteristics of Jazz Singing and how to apply these characteristics to create an individual and very personal sound.

This course is a continuation of MU 222 Jazz Singer I, also known as the Jazz Voice Class. It is designed to continue to teach singers the unique characteristics of Jazz Singing and how to apply these characteristics to create an individual and very personal sound.

Analysis of the reestablishment of Jewish communities in western Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, followed by consideration of the broad societal changes that resulted in the emancipation and modernization of western European Jewry.

The history of medieval eastern-European Jewry, from the thirteenth century on, followed by consideration of the early modern period, including the persecutions of 1648-49, the effort at rebuilding Jewish life, and the development of Hasidism. The course will conclude with the rapid modernization of the late nineteenth century.

A study of medieval Jewish life in the Roman Catholic world. Attention will focus on the development of northern European Jewry, its alliance with the political powers, its communal organization, and its religious and intellectual vitality.