Intensive course: the students can choose to attend only the course of Italian for special purposes without attending the standard course;  20 hours per week.

Extensive course: the course can be combined with the standard course  for a total of 10 hours per week.

programm:

Twentieth-Century texts and  Contemporary Italian Prose and Poetry: Pavese, Vittorini, Calvino, Pasolini, Sciascia, Tabucchi, Baricco, Umberto Eco, Montale, Quasimodo, Ungaretti

Modern Italian Literature: Svevo, Pirandello, Verga, Pascoli, D'Annunzio

Leopardi and the Italian Romanticism

Topics in Medieval Culture and Society: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Machiavelli, Petrarca, Boccaccio  and the Italian Novella 

Commedia dell'Arte and Drama from Goldoni to Pirandello

Italian NEOREALISM in literature and cinema (with projection of the most representative films of the Italian Neorealism)

Mediterranean Society and Culture (art, cinema, literature, folklore: through the anthropological analysis of the typical folk dance called PIZZICA)

Society and politics in Italy

Cinema and Society in Contemporary Italy