Italian Writing and Culture
This course is designed to help students of Italian who have reached an advanced level of competence in the language practice and refine their writing skills through intensive work on a variety of texts that deal with culturally salient topics in modern Italy. Such topics range from the representation of value systems and cultural attitudes typical of the Italian people to reflections on the history and development of their language. The focus of the course is on the process of writing and on the strategies that can be used to improve it. Students are exposed not only to different topics but also to different writing genres: from literary narrative texts to academic texts, to argumentative or informative texts taken from Italian newspapers and periodicals. Students will produce different types of texts: from descriptions to letters, to film or book reviews, to argumentative texts, in order to build the skills necessary to write academic papers. This course (ITAL 233) was taught by Laura Benedetti as a Doyle Seminar in spring 2020. Please refer to the current course catalog for an up-to-date description of the course.
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Department of Italian