Below you'll find some of the courses we've previously featured on our website. This is just a taste of all the great content you'll get with CU French & Italian!
Modern Paris - Fall 2021
Taught in-person Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:40-1:30pm
Discover Paris as experienced by foreigners and locals alike
Main Currents of French Lit - Fall 2021
Taught in-person Tuesday, Thursday 12:45-2:00pm
French thinkers understood early on that literature and the arts could be persuasive tools in consolidating the power and prestige of France
21st Century French Novel - Fall 2021
Taught in-person Wednesday 3:00-5:30pm
Participate in a vigorous debate about what the novel is as a cultural form
Fast Track Italian - Fall 2021
Taught in-person Monday-Thursday 10:20-11:10am
Designed for students who enjoy learning at a fast pace, have studied other languages, or have had previous exposure to Italian
Italian Conversation Through Cinema - Fall 2021
Taught in-person Tuesday Thursday 9:35-10:50am
Watch Italian films and learn about Italian culture while practicing conversation and writing!
(taught in Italian)
Literary and Artistic Cultures in Italy 1: 1200-1800 - Fall 2021
Taught in-person Tuesday Thursday 12:45-2:00pm
What does literature written 700 years ago in Italy have to do with our 21st Century? Everything!!!
(taught in Italian)
19th Century Literature and Artistic Cultures - Spring 2021
Enjoy the classic story - I promessi sposi
Game of Thrones - Fall 2020
Medieval Epic and Romance, through the lens of Game of Thrones
Encountering Animals - Fall 2020
Encounter animals in their habitats and in the texts of our Western authors
Kant, Hegel, and the Invention of Aesthetics - Fall 2020
Naturalism, Idealism, and the Dialectics of Art
Readings in Italian 20th and 21st Century Literature - Fall 2020
Explore the development of Italian identity in the 20th and 21st century
That's Amore - Fall 2020
Italian culture including art, literature, language, history, and film
Business: Italian Style - Spring 2020
Have you ever dreamed of working for Ferrari, Prada, Gucci, Eataly, or actually beginning your own Start Up in Italy?
Enlightenment Self-Fashionings - Spring 2020
Philosophy, Sex, and Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century
Medieval 'Special Victims Unit' - Spring 2020
Medieval and Renaissance Readings
Contemporary French Novel - Spring 2018
Recent innovations in the French novel, and upon the postmodernist literary aesthetic
Regime Change - Spring 2021
From the Ancien Régime to the French Revolution
Multiculturalism in Italy - Spring 2021
The history and cultural productions of culturally diverse groups shaping today’s idea of Italianness
Ecological Cultures and Literatures of Contemporary France - Spring 2021
French perspectives on ecological & environmental issues