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OSPFLOR 1A: Accelerated First-Year Italian, Part 1

Accelerated sequence that completes first-year Italian in two rather than three quarters. For students with previous knowledge of Italian or with a strong background in another Romance language. Prerequisite: advanced-level proficiency in another Romance language Prerequisite: Placement .
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 5

OSPFLOR 1F: First-Year Italian, First Quarter

All-in-Italian communicative and interactive approach. Emphasis is on the development of appropriate discourse in contemporary cultural contexts. Interpretation of authentic materials, written and oral presentations, and plenty of conversational practice. Language lab, multimedia, and online activities.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 5

OSPFLOR 2A: Accelerated First-Year Italian, Part 2

Continuation of ITALLANG 1A. Accelerated sequence that completes first-year Italian in two rather than three quarters. For students with previous knowledge of Italian or with a strong background in another Romance language. Prerequisite: Placement Test, ITALLANG 1A or consent of instructor. Fulfills the University language requirement.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: Language
Instructors: ; Campani, E. (GP)

OSPFLOR 2F: First-Year Italian, Second Quarter

Continuation of ITALLANG 1. All-in-Italian communicative and interactive approach. Emphasis is on the development of appropriate discourse in contemporary cultural contexts. Interpretation of authentic materials, written and oral presentations, and plenty of conversational practice. Language lab, multimedia, and online activities. Prerequisite: Placement Test, ITALLANG 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 5

OSPFLOR 3F: First-Year Italian, Third Quarter

Continuation of ITALLANG 2. All-in-Italian communicative and interactive approach. Emphasis is on the development of appropriate discourse in contemporary cultural contexts. Interpretation of authentic materials, written and oral presentations, and plenty of conversational practice. Language lab, multimedia, and online activities. Prerequisite: Placement Test, ITALLANG 2 or consent of instructor. Fulfills the University language requirement.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: Language

OSPFLOR 15: Italy through the Florentine Piazzas

This course aims to provide students with some fundamental skills to understand contemporary Italian society, using the city of Florence as a textbook. Each class will explore a different facet of Florentine culture as a way to introduce the broader and critical issues that Italy is facing today. All classes (except the first and last) will meet onsite in the city. A weekly breakdown for class meeting places and times is provided in the class calendar of this syllabus. In-class discussions, informed by the readings assigned for the day, will focus on the contemporary endurance and importance of what made Florence renowned in the medieval and early Modern times: politics, trade, religion, family allegiance, civic pride, and the crucial role played by foreigners and immigrants.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1

OSPFLOR 15M: Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Musicians coming to Florence who wish to continue their study can do so with private instructors at the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The Accademia offers one on one instruction in voice, piano, string and wind instruments, and percussion. Further information, deadlines and details on the application process can be found at: https://bosp.stanford.edu/explore/florence/academics/classes-local-institutions. Prerequisite: Intermediate-advanced level proficiency with a musical instrument or vocals, supported by previous musical and vocal training at public or private Institutions.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-3 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Campani, E. (PI)

OSPFLOR 19: Florence for Foodies: Discovering Italian Culture through Food

Through lectures at the Stanford Center focusing on Italian food history and culture, and three hands-on cooking classes with professional chefs, students will gain firsthand knowledge of the current food scene in Florence and Italy and look into the reasons why food has always been one of the most important, if not the most important, indicator of Italian national identity. The class will also provide students with an understanding of what and how Italians eat and what Italy and its cuisine have taken from and given to the rest of the world. Students will look at these questions also considering the many global intersections, contaminations, and encounters that have served to strengthen both Italian food culture and national identity.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 2 units total)

OSPFLOR 21F: Accelerated Second-Year Italian, Part A

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. Prerequisite: one year of college Italian or ITALLANG 21
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 5

OSPFLOR 22F: Accelerated Second-Year Italian Part B

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. Prerequisite: ITALLANG 21 within two quarters of arriving in Florence or ITALLANG 21A or OSPFLOR 21F
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 5

OSPFLOR 30F: Italy through the Eye of the Camera

This course is ambitious in its aim and scope. It has two main objectives. One, to analyze and discuss Italian cinema and its history; two, to develop your skills in cinematic formal analysis and in film theory. We will start with the cinema in the Fascist years (1922-1945), we will then focus on the revolutionary and heavily politicized practice by the Neorealists (Zavattini, Rossellini, De Sica), in the aftermath of WWII (1945-1949). We will turn to the great Italian auteurs such as Federico Fellini; Michelangelo Antonioni, and Bernardo Bertolucci. Further, we will analyze the so called "comedy Italian style," the "spaghetti westerns" as well as the politically committed films of the 1980s and 90s. Finally, we will explore the "new Italian cinema," with its many and sometimes contradictory forms. Studying and enjoying Italian cinema will help us to uncover the socio-political, economic and cultural developments in Italian life during the 20th and 21st century (the family, otherness, gender roles, politics, etc.).
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors: ; Campani, E. (PI)

OSPFLOR 31F: Advanced Oral Communication: Italian

Refine language skills and develop insight into Italian culture using authentic materials. Group work and individual meetings with instructor. Minimum enrollment required. Prerequisite: ITALLANG 22A, 23 or placement.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 3

OSPFLOR 35F: Migrants, radicals, and dictators: Italy & the Middle East in the modern era

In this class we explore Italy's long-standing, intimate, and often contradictory ties to the Middle East. The course is divided into three parts, the first of which begins with the unification of Italy in the nineteenth century and extends through the Second World War. Here, we examine the role played by North African countries and the Ottoman Empire in the creation of modern Italy, give an overview of Italy's (mostly failed) colonial ventures, and study the role of imperialism in the rise of Italian fascism in the 1920s. The second section of the course focuses on the region during the Cold War, and we devote particular attention to the economic and political alliances which grew between Italy and Middle Eastern countries. We will see how the former frequently sought to balance its own economic interests with the political aims of its allies in the Western Bloc. The last part of the course shifts the focus to the contemporary period by taking up issues of immigration, geopolitical conflicts in the Mediterranean, and minority communities in Italy today. During the course, we will be engaged in an ongoing discussion regarding the benefits and drawbacks of the notions of "Europe" and "the Middle East" in relation to Italy. How can we productively use these terms given their historical and political connotations, and what can Italy's relations with its Middle Eastern neighbors teach us about these simplistic geopolitical categories?
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

OSPFLOR 36: Form and Function: Anatomy and Biomechanics of Italian Renaissance Art

This course will examine Italian art history from the perspectives of an anatomy and physics. Students will learn how humans and animals produce movement through study of anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics. We will see how knowledge of anatomy and physics gained during the Renaissance changed the way the human form and human movement were depicted in art. This will make it clear why masters of the time were driven to discover how the body works so that they could bring vitality and reality to their art. A course project will allow students to pursue one element of the course in depth through a project.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Delp, S. (PI)

OSPFLOR 61: Rinascimento conteso: Florence's Early Modern Art Reframed

Against the persistent myth of a triumphant Renaissance and the teleological interpretations of a supposedly optimistic period, this course focuses on the artistic production of fifteenth to sixteenth-century Florence as paradigmatic of the tensions, anxieties, and eccentric trends that emerged in Europe's visual culture during the Early Modern Age. If traditional conceptualizations of the Florentine Renaissance described it as the rebirth of naturalism, which set the canon of Western classicism, recent critical voices have revealed the tensions, ruptures, and erosions that were active underneath that surface, with profound consequences on artmaking and the world of images. Building on such debate, through direct experience and close observation of the context, these classes will propose a different narrative of mainstream Renaissance Florence. By looking with fresh eyes to painted, sculpted, and architectural works, they will reframe early modern Florentine art as a profoundly polyphonic one, which sheds light on many unsettling aspects of modernity: materialism, and the germs of historical pessimism; technology and capitalist modes of production; the fragility of nature; sensuality, tactility, and the private life of objects; the otherness of uncanny bodies; religious tensions as the expression of the individual's anxiety; the colonial appropriation of a newly expanded world. With an interest for the contaminated and the intermediate, by privileging continuities over oppositions, the course will thus offer a new understanding of the period in order to deconstruct any elitist interpretation and instead reveal its lively, diverse nature.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II

OSPFLOR 88: Made in Italy: Heritage, Creativity, Sustainability

This class will provide students with knowledge on the complex and evolving nature of sustainability as implemented in two industries: fashion and tourism. In both industries the last decade has witnessed a growing awareness of the need for business models and approaches to production and consumption that are ethically, economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable. Their motivation to "go green" stems from ethical, social, and legal questions and also represents an opportunity to increase competitiveness and profitability. The course will discuss contemporary perspectives on sustainability with a specific (but not exclusive) focus on Italian cases.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI

OSPFLOR 90: Ma(s)king Race in Contemporary Post and Decolonial Italy

The course aims to introduce students to contemporary academic debates on race and racism in Italy. Issues of race, ethnicity and belonging will be explored through a sociological approach and an intersectional lens. Gender and class, as well as other particular - systemic and not - oppressions, will be taken into account in order to define how they interlock with each other in 2020 Italy. Instructor: Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfau'
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
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