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The Italian Language Program offers the possibility of completing all MAT course requirements in Italian in three consecutive summers, or of earning credit for professional development or continuing education. The Program is designed for individuals already teaching Italian, but also is open to prospective teachers at the K-12 school level. Credits acquired through the Italian Language Program may be accepted for state certification. While not mandatory, teachers are invited to apply for the MAT after the successful completion of two Italian courses in the World Languages Institute. Details of the MAT program are available at the Department of Italian or its web site at http://italian.rutgers.edu.

SPRING 2023

Additional Course Offerings: See Core Curriculum

APPROACHES TO LITERATURE (CR. 3)
16:560:512:01:12551
T 4:30-7:10PM, AB-5050
DR. PAOLA GAMBAROTA

Conducted as a workshop, this course introduces different approaches to our fields, as selected by the students themselves, with the aim of developing and deepening the theoretical frameworks necessary to place individual students’ research within the broader discussions that are happening in literature and cultural programs today. Students will reflect on the discipline’s frameworks and engage in self-reflective critique while addressing the practical question about how to turn a paper into an article or into a talk. Each three weeks (or longer, depending on enrollments) we will focus on one approach (e.g., ecocriticism, mobility and diaspora studies, gender studies, etc.) chosen by individual students, according to their focus of interest. In consultation with the instructor, students will select seminal texts that articulate the specific approach they wish to explore in order to revise their paper for publication in a journal or to be presented as a talk at a professional conference. In the first two weeks of class each student is required to bring one paper or project, while we will begin our discussion by reading Culler on literary theory and Berger on ways of looking. In the first week we will also plan our course calendar.


DIGITAL HUMANITIES: METHODS, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, AND SUSTAINABILITY
16:560:670:01:12553
TH 4:30-7:10PM, AB-5050
DR. LISA TAGLIAFERRI

In this seminar, participants will learn and practice technical tools and methodologies in order to develop and workshop a digital humanities project that intersects with their research agendas and goals. This course will introduce and examine a variety of digital approaches to doing humanities research, and will review successful examples of digital humanities projects. We will consider how to develop viable and sustainable projects that are well-scoped, maintainable, and accessible to the target audience (whether that audience consists of experts or the general public). Participants are invited to begin with a humanistic research question that can be explored through digital methods, manage a project through testing and feedback, release the project to the public, and create a longevity strategy.


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