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.
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 1101.61, 1102.61, 1103.61 - Beginning French I, II, and III Individualized Distance Learning (2-4 credit hours) *.61 Individualized Instruction sections are open only to students who need variable credit options to finish the language requirement. All other 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.
French 2804 - Rebels & Runaways - GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity
Dr. Ryan Joyce, 6W2, TR 3:00pm-4:10pm, ONLINE, 3 credit hours, taught in English
From the early modern period to today, the maroon, or “runaway” fugitive slave, has played a vital leading role in shaping U.S. and Caribbean history, literature, and culture. Historically defined as the temporary or sustained flight of enslaved subjects from plantation zones and colonial centers, marronage has since flourished as a site for the flights, fights, and community-building practices of Afro-diasporic peoples throughout the Americas. Building from historical sources, fugitive slave narratives, 19th and 20th-century art, film, and literature, and contemporary Black social and political movements, this course will introduce students to the enduring, path-breaking activities of maroons and their descendants in the U.S. and the Caribbean.
This course can count as a course taught in English toward the French minor and the French major
Italian 2055 - Mafia Movies - GEL: Visual & Performing Arts; GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual, & Performing Arts
Instructor TBD, 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.
Italian 2056 - Love & Difference on the Italian Screen - GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GE Foundation: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts, GE Foundation: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity
Professor Jonathan Mullins, 4W3, MWF 2:20pm-4:10pm, ONLINE, 3 credit hours, taught in English
Love has long been a theme that has dominated Italian film and television. But how have such representations of love been conditioned by questions of identity including race, gender, sexuality and ethnicity? This course explores this question through representations of eros, romance and friendship in a variety of moving images. We will engage with silent film that looks at what it means to be a Southern Italian woman (Assunta Spina) to more recent film on cross-cultural friendship between migrants in Shun Li and the Poet, ands interracial romance in Summertime. We study how the theme of love condenses a variety of concerns and anxieties about racial, gender, sexual and ethnic identity, with attention to how these forms of identity emerge in the context of 20th and 21st century Italy. Students will reflect on what it means to study such forms of identity in the Italian context, and also on their own experiences and biases that they bring to the study of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality as students in Ohio.
Never study cinema before? No worries. A crucial component of the course will be dedicated to studying the aesthetics of narrative cinema, and also understanding it as a complex industrial product with its own systems of production and reception.
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.