Summer 2025 Course Offerings
The most up-to-date list of course offerings is always available via View Schedule of Classes on BuckeyeLink.
Note on New GE Program
The University will roll out a new General Education program for new students beginning in Autumn 2022. These GE requirements will be called "General Education - New" or GEN.
Requirements for students under the previous General Education program will not change. They will continue to complete the same GE program — now called the "General Education – Legacy" or GEL.
FRIT Graduate Associates should work with their faculty advisors and the Academic Program Coordinator if enrolling in 8303 (teaching apprenticeship), 8998 (pre-candidacy), 8999 (dissertation research), or 8899 (dissertation workshop) hours.
Please refer to the Schedule of Classes via BuckeyeLink to view days and times of these offerings.
French Introductory Language - GEL Foreign Language; GEN: World Languages
French 1101.01, 1102.01, 1103.01 - Beginning French I, II, and III Classroom (4 credit hours)
French 1101.21, 1102.21, 1103.21 - Beginning French I, II, and III Distance Learning (4 credit hours) 1101.21 also offered as an Asynchronous Distance Learning option (4 credit hours)
French 1103.61 - Beginning French I, II, and III Individualized Distance Learning (4 credit hours) 1101-1102 students interested in asynchronous should enroll in the appropriate .21 section.
French 1155.01 - Beginning French Review Classroom (4 credit hours)
French 1155.21 - Beginning French Review Distance Learning (4 credit hours)
Italian Introductory Language - GEL Foreign Language; GEN: World Languages
Italian 1101.03, 1102.03, 1103.03 - Beginning Italian I, II, and III Blended (4 credit hours)
Italian 1101.71, 1102.71, 1103.71 - Beginning Italian II and III Online (4 credit hours)
French 2803.01 - Paris - GEL: Cultures & Ideas; GEN Theme: Lived Environments
Dr. Ryan Joyce, 6W2, TR 1:00pm-2:10pm, ONLINE, 3 credit hours, taught in English
What was the city of Paris like in 1789, and how have its geography and society evolved over the last two centuries? By reading and viewing representations of Paris in a variety of media (maps, paintings, photographs, films, and literary and historical texts), we will explore both how the city’s landscape has shaped its society and how its increasingly diverse society has in turn shaped and transformed its landscape to suit Parisians’ evolving needs, desires, and caprices. Each two-week unit will treat representations of a specific event or era in Parisian history that had a significant impact on the city’s organization, architecture, and/or demography, and together the units will give us a general understanding of Parisian history over the last 230 years and of the multiple ways in which that history has been represented, and thus manipulated for various purposes.
Italian 2055 - Mafia Movies - GEL: Visual & Performing Arts; GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual, & Performing Arts
Dr. Michela Bertossa, 4W2, MWF 11:25am-1:15pm, ONLINE, 3 credit hours, taught in English
*This class is fully online. Distance synchronous with asynchronous components
The Mafia in Italy is referred to as an octopus as the organization pervades almost every facet of Italian cultural life. Tony Soprano, Don Vito and Michael Corleone, Lucky Luciano, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, or Christopher Moltisanti are some of the figures that contribute to the myth of the Italian and Italian-American Mafias. Others, such as Jonas Carpignano, Peppino Impastato, and Roberto Saviano explore a new cinematic wave about organized crime. In this course we watch Italian and American mafia movie and television hits, and explore the myth of the Mafia that is so widespread in American popular culture, and trace its histories and receptions as it passes across time and through a variety of cinematic styles. We will question whether there exists a unique American or Italian cinema and television treating Mafias, in its polymorphic nature, and explore how filmmakers from the two countries approach the subject in dissimilar fashions, especially in terms of stereotyping, gender, politics, and representations of violence and alluring criminals.
This course can count as a course taught in English toward the Italian minor and the Italian or Italian Studies majors.
French 6571 - French Reading for Research
Dr. Darrell Estes, 6W1, MWF 12:30pm-1:45pm, ONLINE, 3 credit hours, taught in French
Designed primarily for students who have no formal preparation in French; covers basic grammar and vocabulary and develops students' reading skills. Credit does not apply to the minimum number of hours required for the master's or doctoral degrees.
*Though this is a graduate-level course, it is offered for undergraduate credit. Please consult your home program before enrolling.
FRIT Graduate Associates should work with their faculty advisors and the Academic Program Coordinator if enrolling in 8303 (teaching apprenticeship), 8998 (pre-candidacy), 8999 (dissertation research), or 8899 (dissertation workshop) hours.