The UCLA Department of Italian offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in English and Italian. For information about specific section times and locations please view the UCLA Schedule of Classes.
For a complete listing and description of department courses visit the UCLA General Catalog.
Lecture, five hours. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 1. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 2. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 3. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 4. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 5. Advanced grammar and composition course with readings from select literary works. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Comparative study of specific literary works and their adaptation into film and of different techniques in two media and forms of expression. Texts include literary works, screenplays, and works on literary and film theory. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 100. Taught in Italian. Selected modern works of Italian literature, theater, art, and culture from Enlightenment to present. Emphasis on critical methods and skills for analyzing and interpreting wide range of Italian texts and cultural formations in their historical context and in comparison to contemporary and transnational views. This course, taught in Italian, uses fictional short stories to invite students to enter into the real historical world of Italy. Stories will touch upon marriage, ritual, age, gender, sexuality, love, clerical misconduct and personal social identities. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 100. Taught in Italian. Study of medieval philosophy, religion, and politics in “La Divina Commedia,” greatest literary achievement of the age. P/NP or letter grading.
Seminar, three hours. Research seminar with focus on themes and issues outside uniquely Italian literature topics covered in regular departmental undergraduate courses. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. May be repeated once for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Italian cinema compared with other European countries’ and Hollywood’s cinema, with focus on its development from its origins through Fascist times to neorealism, its legacy, different genres, and contemporary scene. S/U or letter grading.
