SEMINAR-STUDIES IN ITALIAN LITERATURE
Advanced seminar. Topics vary.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate thorough knowledge of conceptions of love between 10th and 14th centuries. Audience: Graduate 2. Master methods of literary and cultural analysis through analyzing and explaining texts in class. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate critical understanding of the works studied, synthesize and define a field of inquiry in a persuasive and coherent manner. Audience: Graduate 4. Undertake advanced bibliographical research: identify, select, retrieve, and make effective use of primary and secondary sources pertaining to questions in this course. Audience: Graduate 5. Write competent critical and analytical essays about texts studied. Audience: Graduate 6. Lead a well-informed discussion of medieval literature and culture utilizing an adequate proficiency of Italian and English. Audience: Graduate 7. Demonstrate, in class discussions and in the writing of their final papers, an originality of thinking and insight that reaches beyond the current boundaries of knowledge in the field. Audience: Graduate 8. Communicate and defend complex ideas in a clear and understandable manner, in both Italian and English. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate thorough knowledge of conceptions of love between 10th and 14th centuries. Audience: Graduate 2. Master methods of literary and cultural analysis through analyzing and explaining texts in class. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate critical understanding of the works studied, synthesize and define a field of inquiry in a persuasive and coherent manner. Audience: Graduate 4. Undertake advanced bibliographical research: identify, select, retrieve, and make effective use of primary and secondary sources pertaining to questions in this course. Audience: Graduate 5. Write competent critical and analytical essays about texts studied. Audience: Graduate 6. Lead a well-informed discussion of medieval literature and culture utilizing an adequate proficiency of Italian and English. Audience: Graduate 7. Demonstrate, in class discussions and in the writing of their final papers, an originality of thinking and insight that reaches beyond the current boundaries of knowledge in the field. Audience: Graduate 8. Communicate and defend complex ideas in a clear and understandable manner, in both Italian and English. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027