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French in the Community
Tuesdays & Thursdays - 10-10:50 am, 1028 Lincoln Hall. Introduction to French-speaking communities in the Champaign-Urbana area. Students collaborate with community partners who serve French-speaking populations, developing contextualized oral proficiency and civic engagement and reflecting on the various cultures, practices, perspectives, and influences of French in our local community of Urbana-Champaign and the American Midwest. Class requires a service-learning component in addition to the regular class times. Students must arrange 20 hours of service learning outside of the classroom over the semester in coordination with the instructor. Taught in French.
Practical Review of Italian
Mondays - 2-3:20 pm in G18, LCLB Wednesdays - online (arranged). Reviews challenges in Italian grammar, with emphasis on the verb system. Students enhance their ability to understand, speak, and write Italian through practice of the main grammatical structures of Italian. The review is integrated with contemporary print, audio, and visual materials that provide a comprehensive analysis of the language in practice, embedded in knowledge about Italian society, culture, and history. Some of these texts focus on the status and role of women in Italy.
Techniques in Translation
Tuesdays - online (arranged) Thursdays - 3-4:20 pm, 325 Gregory Hall. Practical introduction in the theories and techniques of translating technical, commercial, scientific, and literary texts from English into French and vice versa. This course may be taught in English or in French; check with the instructor. Same as TRST 419.
Masterpieces in Italian Literature
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3:20 pm, G46 LCLB. The course explores the boundaries between human and non human animals as they emerge from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century in Italy and Southern Europe. Through reading literary texts such as Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, Moderata "Fonte’s Floridoro," Luigi Pulci’s "Morgante," and medical texts such as Girolamo Fracastoro’s "On Contagion," we will trace the formation of distinctions between species. Investigative categories will include the distinctions between humans and non humans include metamorphosis, contagion, education, taxonomy, subjugation, hunting, representation, anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, wilderness, misogyny, and promiscuity. Taught in English. Readings in Italian for Italian Majors and graduate students in Italian Studies.