Undergraduate Bulletin
Spring 2025
HUI: Italian Literature and Culture Courses in English
HUI 216: Italian Civilization Through the Ages
The historical development of civilization in Italy with reference to literature and connection to artistic expression such as visual arts, music, and theatre.
Advisory Prerequisite: one D.E.C. B or HUM course
DEC: I
SBC:
GLO
3 credits
HUI 231: Italian Cinema
The cinematic representation of gender, class, and sexual politics in post-World War II Italian films and the relationship of these themes to Italian history, society, and culture are discussed. Films by directors such as Bertolucci, Fellini, and Wertmuller are studied. Readings include selected works of film history, criticism, and theory.
3 credits
HUI 234: Introduction to 20th-Century Drama
A study of avant-garde drama through the analysis of texts by Marinetti, Bontempelli, Pirandello, Betti, Beckett, Ionesco, and Tenessee Williams. Important questions such as identity and diversity are discussed from a variety of perspectives within the social, psychological, sexual, and multicultural context of our time.
Advisory Prerequisite: one D.E.C. B or HUM course or THR 101
3 credits
HUI 235: Love and Tragedy in Early Italian Literature
A study of the interactions between the sexes in contrast with humankind's spiritual needs in the major works of early Italian literature. Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio, Boccaccio's Decameron and Petrarch's poetry are analyzed.
Advisory Prerequisite: one D.E.C. B or HUM course
3 credits
HUI 236: The Italian-American Scene
Exploration of the phenomenon of Italian-American experiences, with emphasis on issues of immigration and ethnicity. Studies in anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and culture provide historical and theoretical backgrounds of the experience of Italians in North and South America and their contributions to American culture.
Advisory Prerequisite: one D.E.C. B or HUM course
3 credits
HUI 237: Images of Italian-American Women
Examination of the role of Italian-American women through literature, film, politics, and music. The specific ways they have contributed artistically and socially to the American cultural scene from the first wave of Italian-American immigration to the present is considered. This course is offered as both HUI 237 and WST 237.
Advisory Prerequisite: one D.E.C. B or HUM course
3 credits
HUI 239: Transnational Italies
The course explores notions of 'Italy' and 'Italian culture' through selected representations - including film, literature, visual arts, and material culture - produced both within and outside the country.
3 credits
HUI 306: Italian Renaissance Art
An introduction to art in Italy from the late 13th through the late 16th centuries, with special emphasis on major centers, such as Florence, Rome, and Venice, and major figures such as Masaccio, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. This course offered as both ARH 306 and HUI 306.
Prerequisite: U3 or U4 status
Advisory Prerequisite: ARH 204
DEC: ISBC: HFA+
3 credits
HUI 331: Italian Literature
A topics course given in English on a major Italian author or literary movement in relation to European or American literature. May be repeated as the topic changes. May be used to satisfy comparative literature major requirements with permission of major department.
Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing
Advisory Prerequisite: One literature course at the 200 level or higher
DEC: GSBC: HFA+
3 credits
HUI 333: The Italian-American Experience in Literature
Literary and historical perspectives on the experience of Italians in America and their contribution to American culture from the earliest wave of Italian immigration to the present day. Covers the Interdisciplinary topic for the English major. This course is offered as both EGL 333 and HUI 333.
Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing
Advisory Prerequisite: One literature course at the 200 level or higher
DEC: KSBC: HFA+
3 credits
HUI 336: Italian Americans and Ethnic Relations
Using resources and materials ranging from literature to cinema, visual representations and archival documents, the course follows the history of Italian Americans and analyzes their positioning in relation to other ethnic groups. The Italian American experience will be discussed both within the context of the USA's complex history of immigration and social transformation and in the light of Italy's changing relationship with its global diasporas.
Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing
DEC: K
SBC:
USA
3 credits
HUI 338: Images of Italian Americans in Film
Italian-American ethnicity as represented in mainstream and independent American cinema from the silent era to the present. Particular attention is paid to the origin and existence of the traditional stereotypes associated with these representations, how they reflect the changing role of immigrants from the Industrial Revolution to the present, and how Italian-American filmmakers respond to them.
Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing
Advisory Prerequisites: HUM 201; HUI 231
DEC: KSBC: HFA+
3 credits
HUI 390: Italian-American Studies in the Humanities
May be repeated as the topic changes.
Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing
Advisory Prerequisite: One literature course at the 200 level or higher
DEC: GSBC: HFA+
3 credits
HUI 392: Italian-American Studies in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
May be repeated as the topic changes.
Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing
DEC: F
SBC:
SBS+
3 credits
HUI 447: Directed Readings in Italian Studies
Individually supervised readings in Italian studies. Primarily for students who do not have the language proficiency to take ITL 447. May be repeated.
Prerequisite: Permission of department
1-6 credits
HUI 475: Undergraduate Teaching Practicum I
Work with a faculty member as an assistant in one of the faculty member's regularly scheduled classes. The student is required to attend all the classes, do all the regularly assigned work and meet with the faculty member at regularly scheduled times to discuss the intellectual and pedagogical matters relating to the course. In HUI 476, students assume greater responsibility in such areas as leading discussions and analyzing results of tests that have already been graded. Students may not serve as teaching assistants in the same course twice. This course does not count toward the major or minor in Italian.
Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing; permission of instructor and language coordinator
SBC: EXP+
3 credits, S/U grading
HUI 476: Undergraduate Teaching Practicum II
Work with a faculty member as an assistant in one of the faculty member's regularly scheduled classes. The student is required to attend all the classes, do all the regularly assigned work and meet with the faculty member at regularly scheduled times to discuss the intellectual and pedagogical matters relating to the course. In HUI 476, students assume greater responsibility in such areas as leading discussions and analyzing results of tests that have already been graded. Students may not serve as teaching assistants in the same course twice. This course does not count toward the major or minor in Italian.
Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing; permission of instructor and language coordinator
SBC: EXP+
3 credits, S/U grading
