ITALIAN FILM

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the major directors, genres, movements and technological developments that have shaped the history of Italian cinema Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Contextualize Italian film within cultural, socio-political and industrial developments at the national, European and global levels Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify major theories of film aesthetics impacting the development of Italian cinema Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop research skills and write persuasively, elegantly, and with precision about the narrative structure, style, and cultural context of Italian films Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Conduct research and engage critically with the historiographical, theoretical, and methodological practices of scholarship in Italian film studies. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the major directors, genres, movements and technological developments that have shaped the history of Italian cinema Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Contextualize Italian film within cultural, socio-political and industrial developments at the national, European and global levels Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify major theories of film aesthetics impacting the development of Italian cinema Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop research skills and write persuasively, elegantly, and with precision about the narrative structure, style, and cultural context of Italian films Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Conduct research and engage critically with the historiographical, theoretical, and methodological practices of scholarship in Italian film studies. Audience: Graduate