SBU 102.144 (GLS 102): This course contains graphic language: Semiotics and comics.

Do we read comics, or do we watch them? How does the grammar of comics function? What is semiotics and what does it have to do with comics? How does this mode of simultaneous seeing and reading complicate conventional approaches to a text? We will be talking about narratives and the visual arts, using the form of comics as a pretext, and a text, to speak about the semiotic function. As a SBU 102 course, this class will focus on learning how to read a text.

1 credit, Letter Grading

HUI 231: Italian Cinema

The cinematic representation of gender, class, and sexual politics in post-World War II Italian films and the relationship of these themes to Italian history, society, and culture are discussed. Films by directors such as Bertolucci, Fellini, and Wertmuller are studied. Readings include selected works of film history, criticism, and theory.

3 credits

HUI 331: Lessons on Love from the Italian Lyric Tradition

3 credits

ITL 313: History of Italian Food

3 credits

ITL 441/552: The Roaring Twenties

3 credits