Undergraduate Studies: Undergraduate Minor in Italian

Course Requirements

Students choosing to minor in Italian must complete the following requirements:

Prerequisites

(not credited toward the undergraduate major)

• Italian 104

Minor Program

The minor consists of 20 hours of course work beyond 104. Courses in English do not count toward the minor. With the exception of Italian 104 courses used for the minor may not be used for any other curricular requirement (LAC,LAR,BER,major.)

a) Language Courses:

• 202: Contemporary Italian society


• 206: Business Italian
• 293: Individual Studies (Permission of instructor)


• 401: Modern Italian media (prerequisite: 202)(repeatable up to 10 cr.)
• 402: The sounds of Italian (prerequisite: 202)
• 420: Italian culture through the ages (prerequisite: 202)
• 421: Reading Italy: Italian literature and culture (prerequisite: 202) (repeatable up to 10 cr.)
• 423: The Italian language yesterday and today (prerequisite: 202)
• 450: Italian theater workshop (prerequisite: any 400-level course or permission of the instructor)


• 601: Structures of the Italian language (prerequisite: two 400-level courses)
• 602: Italian translating (5 cr. hrs. of Italian beyond 202)
• 613: Italian cinema (prerequisite: 420, 421, or 423)
• 614: Survey of Italian literature (prerequisite: 420, 421, or 423)
• 615: Italian identities (prerequisite: 420, 421, or 423)


• 621: Dante (10 cr. hrs at the 400-level or above or permission of instructor)
• 622: Petrarch and Boccaccio (10 cr. hrs at the 400-level or above or permission of instructor)
• 625: Italian literature of the Renaissance (10 cr. hrs at the 400-level or above or permission of instructor)
• 626: Italian literature of the 17th and 18th centuries (10 cr. hrs at the 400-level or above or permission of instructor)
• 627: Modern Italian fiction (10 cr. hrs at the 400-level or above or permission of instructor)
• 628: Modern Italian poetry (10 cr. hrs at the 400-level or above or permission of instructor)
• 693: Individual Studies (Permission of instructor)
• 694: Group Studies (Permission of instructor)
• 697: Study at a Foreign Institution
• 699: UG Research (Permission of instructor)

Minor requirements

1. Italian minors must take Italian 202 and at least one 400-level courses on the OSU campus.
2. After taking a 400-level class, it is not permitted to enroll in a 200-level class.
3. Up to 15 credits of Italian 697 (Study at a foreign institution) may be counted toward the minor. However, all minors must take 202 and at least one 400-level course on campus.

Contact Heather Webb, the Italian Minor Advisor.

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