“Modern Italy: Sicily” is an intermediate-level course, taught in Italian, that explores contemporary Sicily through its literature, film, and popular culture. At the same time, it aims to help students improve their Italian proficiency in all skills (oral and written production, oral and written comprehension). Course texts and discussions will help us to examine themes that are central to understanding Sicilian culture and society, such as Sicily’s position within Italian national discourses; emigration from and immigration to the island; and myths and popular/folk culture. ITAL 0110 is the Study Abroad counterpart--in goals, objectives, and levels--to Oakland-campus courses such as ITAL 0113 (Contemporary Italian Society), ITAL 0115 (Performing Italian), and ITAL 0117 (Italies). As such, it may be applied to the Italian minor or majors in the same ways as these analogous courses. Students wishing to enroll in this course must have completed ITAL 0103 with a B- or better before beginning the Pitt in Sicily program and may have already taken one or two of these intermediate-level courses.
Italian Program students on Pitt in Sicily must take either ITAL 0110 or ITAL 1111, but may not take both.