ITALIAN MAFIAS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze ways Italian literary texts engage with the social issue of mafia. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and apply methods for literary analysis in close reading of different literary genres (fiction, non fiction, poetry, testimony). Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze adaptation of literary texts for the screen and examine transmedia storytelling. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Develop analytical and critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify and analyze the relation between Italian history, literature and culture from 1861 to the present. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Recognize differences in cultural representation of Italian mafias in Italy and in the US and think critically about Italian and global cultures. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze ways Italian literary texts engage with the social issue of mafia. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and apply methods for literary analysis in close reading of different literary genres (fiction, non fiction, poetry, testimony). Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze adaptation of literary texts for the screen and examine transmedia storytelling. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Develop analytical and critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify and analyze the relation between Italian history, literature and culture from 1861 to the present. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Recognize differences in cultural representation of Italian mafias in Italy and in the US and think critically about Italian and global cultures. Audience: Undergraduate