OVERSEAS STUDIES IN Florence

Opportunities to improve Italian language skills through activities at the Centro Linguistico including workshops, guided discussions, and meetings with Italian students. May be repeated for credit. (AU)

1 unit, Aut (Quercioli, F), Win (Quercioli, F), Spr (Quercioli, F)

OSPFLOR 21F. Second-Year Italian, First Quarter

Review of grammatical structures; grammar in its communicative context. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills practiced and developed through authentic material such as songs, newspaper articles, video clips, and literature. Insight into the Italian culture and crosscultural understanding.

4 units, Aut (Quercioli, F), Win (Quercioli, F), Spr (Quercioli, F)

OSPFLOR 22F. Second-Year Italian, Second Quarter

Grammatical structures, listening, reading, writing, speaking skills, and insight into the Italian culture through authentic materials. Intermediate to advanced grammar. Content-based course, using songs, video, and literature, to provide cultural background for academic courses.

4 units, Win (Quercioli, F)

OSPFLOR 31F. Advanced Italian Conversation

Refine language skills and develop insight into Italian culture using authentic materials. Group work and individual meetings with instructor.

4 units, Aut (Quercioli, F), Spr (Quercioli, F)

OSPFLOR 32. Service Learning in Italian

Oral and linguistic skills and increased cultural awareness through service to a local social work organization. Issues of contemporary Italian social change. Organizations include Caritas diocesana, Communita de S. Egidio, and Progetto Arcobaleno.

4 units, Win (Quercioli, F)

OSPFLOR 33. The Americanization of Italy

How cultural and social patterns from the U.S. shape everyday life in contemporary Italy. Popular culture and consumer culture as vehicles of penetration; role of supermarkets, malls, and new patterns of consumption. Are American models accepted or changed according to Italian culture? How global and local interact in this cultural encounter. GER:DB-SocSci

4 units, Spr (Scarpellini, E)

OSPFLOR 34. The Woman in Florentine Art

Influence and position of women in the history of Florence as revealed in its art. Sculptural, pictorial, and architectural sources from a social, historical, and art historical point of view. Themes: the virgin mother (middle ages); the goddess of beauty (Botticelli to mannerism); the grand duchess (late Renaissance, Baroque); the lady, the woman (19th-20th centuries). GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender

4 units, Aut (Verdon, T)

OSPFLOR 41. The Contemporary Art Scene in Tuscany: Theory and Practice

The ever-changing and multifaceted scene of contemporary art through visual and sensorial stimulation. How art is thought of and produced in Italy today. Hands-on experience. Sketching and exercises on-site at museums and exhibits, plus workshops on techniques. Limited enrollment.

3-5 units, Aut (Rossi, F)

OSPFLOR 42. Academic Internship

Mentored internships in banking, education, the fine arts, health, media, not-for-profit organizations, publishing, and retail. May be repeated for credit.

1-5 units, Win (Campani, E), Spr (Campani, E)

OSPFLOR 44. The Revolution in Science: Galileo and the Birth of Modern Scientific Thought

Galileo's life and scientific progress starting from his student years at the University of Pisa. Departure from traditional natural philosophy leading to radical reformation of cosmology and physics, emphasizing the science of motion. His innovative use of observation and measurement instruments, emphasizing the telescope. Cultural and social context. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Galluzzi, P)

OSPFLOR 46. International Monetary Economics

Balance of payments and exchange rates from theoretical and institutional point of views; relationships that operate in international exchange rate and financial markets, including interaction in standard models linking exchange rates with fundamental macroeconomic variables; and consequences of capital liberalization process of last twenty years, including institutional innovations such as the EMU and the Euro and empirical challenges of recent financial upheavals in Asia and Latin America. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Spr (Cifarelli, G)

OSPFLOR 48. Sharing Beauty: Florence and the Western Museum Tradition

The city's art and theories of how art should be presented. The history and typology of world-class collections. Social, economic, political, and aesthetic issues in museum planning and management. Collections include the Medici, English and American collectors of the Victorian era, and modern corporate and public patrons. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Win (Rossi, F; Verdon, T)

OSPFLOR 49. The Cinema Goes to War: Fascism and World War II as Represented in Italian and European Cinema

Structural and ideological attributes of narrative cinema, and theories of visual and cinematic representation. How film directors have translated history into stories, and war journals into visual images. Topics: the role of fascism in the development of Italian cinema and its phenomenology in film texts; cinema as a way of producing and reproducing constructions of history; film narratives as fictive metaphors of Italian cultural identity; film image, ideology, and politics of style. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Campani, E)

OSPFLOR 50F. Introductory Science of Materials

GER:DB-EngrAppSci

4 units, Aut (Staff, 1), Win (Staff, 1), Spr (Staff, 1)

OSPFLOR 54. High Renaissance and Maniera

The development of 15th- and early 16th-century art in Florence and Rome. Epochal changes in the art of Michelangelo and Raphael in the service of Pope Julius II. The impact of Roman High Renaissance art on masters such as Fra' Bartolomeo and Andrea del Sarto. The tragic circumstances surrounding the early maniera: Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino and the transformation of early Mannerism into the elegant style of the Medicean court. Contemporary developments in Venice. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Verdon, T)

OSPFLOR 55. Academy of Fine Arts: Studio Art

Courses through the Academia delle Belle Arti. Details upon arrival. Minimum Autumn and Winter Quarter enrollment required; 1-3 units in Autumn. May be repeated for credit.

1-5 units, Aut (Staff, 1), Win (Staff, 1), Spr (Staff, 1)

OSPFLOR 56. University of Florence Courses

1-5 units, Aut (Campani, E), Win (Campani, E), Spr (Campani, E)

OSPFLOR 58. Space as History: Urban Change and Social Vision in Florence 1059-2008

A thousand years of intentional change in Florence. Phases include programmatic enlargement of ecclesiastical structures begun in the 11th century; aggressive expansion of religious and civic space in the 13th and 14th centuries; aggrandizement of private and public buildings in the 15th century; transformation of Florence into a princely capital from the 16th through the 18th centuries; traumatic remaking of the city's historic core in the 19th century; and development of new residential areas on the outskirts and in neighboring towns in the 20th and 21st centuries. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Spr (Rossi, F; Verdon, T)

OSPFLOR 60. North/South in Contemporary Italy

Italian unification between north and south: economic, social, cultural, and linguistic. History of conflict between north and south from the Risorgimento to the present, with a focus on prose fiction and film. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Win (Springer, C)

OSPFLOR 61. Europe and U.S. Foreign Policy

Relationship between Europe and U.S. foreign policy, with an emphasis on developments since 1990. Sources of conflict and cooperation in this relationship. Topics include: U.S.-European defense cooperation; role of Europe in American decisions to use force; European responses to U.S. power, especially since 9/11 and the Iraq war; sources and consequences of anti-Americanism in European publics; and the effects of U.S. foreign policy on European integration. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Aut (Schultz, K)

OSPFLOR 62. Resistance: 1943-45

Texts from the immediate postwar period to the present day documenting or re-imagining the partisan resistance. Novels, poems, songs, letters, diaries, and films. Visit to village of Sant' Anna di Stazzema GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Win (Springer, C)

OSPFLOR 67. Women in Italian Cinema: Maternity, Sexuality, and the Image

Film in the social construction of gender through the representation of the feminine, the female, and women. Female subjects, gaze, and identity through a historical, technical, and narrative frame. Emphasis is on gender, identity, and sexuality with references to feminist film theory from the early 70s to current methodologies based on semiotics, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. Advantages and limitations of methods for textual analysis and the theories which inform them. Primarily in Italian. GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender

4 units, Spr (Campani, E)

OSPFLOR 71. Becoming an Artist in Florence: Contemporary Art in Tuscany and New Tendencies in the Visual Future

Recent trends in art, current Italian artistic production, differences and the dialogue among visual arts. Events, schools, and movements of the 20th century. Theoretical background and practical training in various media. Work at the Stanford Center and on site at museums, exhibits, and out in the city armed with a sketchbook and camera. Emphasis is on drawing as the key to the visual arts. Workshops to master the techniques introduced. Limited enrollment.

3-5 units, Spr (Rossi, F)

OSPFLOR 73. On the Way to Fascism

Intellectual construction of Fascism through some focal novels, political essays and films. Novels by Gabrielle D'Annunzio, F.T. Marinetti, Curzio Malaparte, Emilio Lussu; Mussolini's political speeches; and Ezra Pound's notorious radio broadcasts. Giovanne Pastrone's 1914 film Cabiria and Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 film Novecento. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Spr (Resina, J)

OSPFLOR 74. Italy in the Foreign Imaginary

How Italy became in the 18th and 19th centuries the symbol of a decadent world where the vestiges of ancient civilization offered insight into Western identity and a counterpoint to modernity. Addison's Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, Goethe's Italian Travels, Stendhal's Rome, Naples, and Florence, Washington Irving's Tales of a Traveler, Henry James' The Aspern Papers, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, and texts by Freud, Benjamin, and Pound. Theories of tourism and the anthropology of travel. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Spr (Resina, J)

OSPFLOR 78. An Extraordinary Experiment: Politics and Policies of the New European Union

Institutional design of EU, forthcoming changes, and comparison of the old and new designs. Interactions between the EU, member states, organized interests, and public opinion. Major policies of the EU that affect economics such as competition or cohesion policies, market deregulation, and single currency. Consequences of the expansion eastwards. The role of institutions as a set of constraints and opportunities for the economic actors; relationships between political developments and economic change in the context of regional integration; lessons for other parts of the world. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Aut (Morlino, L)

OSPFLOR 79. Migrations and Migrants: The Sociology of a New Phenomenon

Interdisciplinary approach to the study of immigration. Typology of forms of migration through politics put into action by the EU and within single nations. Related cultural and religious questions which elicit symbolic borders, territorialization of cultural identities, and the often spatial differentiation of immigrants and locals. The politics of integration and the instruments necessary to manage it. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Win (Allam, K)

OSPFLOR 94. Photography in Florence

Introduction to the functioning of the camera, exposure, and b/w film processing and printing. Emphasis is on perceptive imagery and the development of technical proficiency. 35mm camera required. Limited enrollment.

4 units, Win (Loverme, C)

OSPFLOR 97. Human Rights, Justice and Terrorism: Is the World Community Prepared to Prevent a Catastrophe?

Roosevelt's four freedoms, problematic notions of human rights, concept of fair trial, the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Guantanamo detainees, current international protection against torture and rape. Is current international protection satisfactory? Did victors' justice at Nuremberg serve any purpose? Is a jury necessary to establish guilt or innocence? What is genocide? How should post-conflict situations be handled? Why is the U.S. opposing the International Criminal Court? GER:DB-SocSci, EC-EthicReas

4 units, Spr (Vierucci, L)

OSPFLOR 106V. Italy: From Agrarian to Postindustrial Society

Italian history from the Risorgimento to the present. Society, crises, evolution, values, and the relation to the political institution in different periods. The ideologies, political doctrines, and historical events which contributed to the formation of modern Italy's predominant subcultures: Catholic and Socialist. In Italian. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

4 units, Aut (Mammarella, G)

OSPFLOR 111Y. From Giotto to Michelangelo: Introduction to the Renaissance in Florence

Lectures, site visits, and readings reconstruct the circumstances that favored the flowering of architecture, sculpture, and painting in Florence and Italy, late 13th to early 16th century. Emphasis is on the classical roots; the particular relationship with nature; the commitment to human expressiveness; and rootedness in the real-world experience, translated in sculpture and painting as powerful plasticity, perspective space, and interest in movement and emotion. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Win (Verdon, T)

OSPFLOR 115Y. The Duomo and Palazzo della Signoria: Symbols of a Civilization

The history, history of art, and symbolism of the two principal monuments of Florence: the cathedral and the town hall. Common meaning and ideological differences between the religious and civic symbols of Florence's history from the time of Giotto and the first Guelf republic to Bronzino and Giovanni da Bologna and the Grand Duchy. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Aut (Verdon, T)

OSPFLOR 134F. Modernist Italian Cinema

As the embodiment of modernity, cinema develops in the wake of modernism proper, but can be understood as one of its technological and aesthetic expressions. Topics: cinema's archaeology in futurist texts and theories with their nationalistic political flavor and their iconoclastic, radical, and interdisciplinary rethinking of the language and form of all the arts (Marinetti, Pirandello, D'Annuzio). GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Campani, E)

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OVERSEAS STUDIES IN Florence