Spring 2026

This intensive Beginning French course provides an accelerated introduction to Beginning French with intensive work on interpersonal communication and interpreting and producing language in written and oral forms. Students explore diverse facets of...

This second course in the Beginning French sequence will immerse you in the French language and Parisian life. You will discuss what it means to be Parisian from the point of view of diverse Parisians and compare real versus imagined perceptions of Paris...

This beginning French course addresses the theme of cross-cultural encounters in French through engagement in the discussion and interpretation of texts, art, images, and film. You will gain an introduction to the French language with emphasis on...

This course offers a concise yet complete survey of the most transformative poetic forms in Italian and Western literature, the sonnet. We will trace its evolution chronologically and thematically, using an anthology of approximately 70 sonnets to...

An exploration of the fraught connection between political engagement and textual innovation in poetry written in and about 20th Century Spain. Discussion of key texts by Aub, Castro, Cernuda, Conde, Darío, Lorca, Machado, Neruda, Vallejo, among others...

In the course of five hundred years, the region now referred to as Latin America went from being the target of one of the most comprehensive evangelizing projects ever attempted, to becoming the Catholic Church’s strongest bastion. Far from static or...

This course studies the literature of colonial Brazil. We will consider how texts and writing participate in empire and colonialism, and explore a range of primary texts that engage with the lands, resources, peoples, and legends of Brazil. We will also...

An introduction to ten most inspiring and much-discussed Italian films from Neorealism to today.

Current scholars in the field of Italian Studies present their books on literature, philosophy, art and architecture, music, history, politics, and the social sciences. Students also learn how to conduct video interviews and write book reviews. Course...

The French novelist Stendhal once described the novel as “un miroir qu’on promène le long d’un chemin,” a mirror we carry along the road. This course examines dystopian French novels (and some films) in order to explore what sort of reflection of reality...