Century Italian Cultural History

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course is designed to offer an historical overview of 20th Century Italian Cultural History with focus on film, design, music, and fashion. Students will be provided with chronologically ordered articles, documents, images, videos, etc. demonstrating the role that each of these arts and industries played in the formation of what we now call contemporary Italian culture. By the end of the course students will have acquired the ability to recognize, analyze and fully understand the influence that contemporary Italian culture, its brand names and manufacturers, have had on the rest of the world.