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Italian Lower Division Required

All three courses required

• ITAL 2110 - Intermediate Italian Reading, Grammar, and Composition 1
• ITAL 2120 - Intermediate Italian Reading, Grammar, and Composition 2
• ITAL 2130 - Introduction to Literary Analysis
  (ITAL 2120 and 2130 may be taken concurrently -- see ITAL advisor.)

Italian 3000 Level Required Courses

Required course

• ITAL 3015 - Advanced Composition 1

Choose one from the following three courses (prerequsite ITAL 2130):

• ITAL 3025* - Introduction to Literary Writing: Advanced Composition 2
• ITAL 3030 - Storia dell'Arte
• ITAL 3040 - Italian Cinema

*Please note ITAL 3025 has a prerequisite of ITAL 3015 (or ITAL 3010 in catalogues prior to 2012-13).

Choose two from the following three courses (prerequisite ITAL 2130):

• ITAL 3140 - Literary and Artistic Cultures in Italy 3: 1900-present
• ITAL 3150 - Literary and Artistic Cultures in Italy 2: 1800-1900
• ITAL 3160 - Literary and Artistic Cultures in Italy 1: 1200-1800

Italian 4000 Level Courses

Â鶹ÒùÔº must take at least three 4000-level courses in the Italian department, of which one will be ITAL 4990, the Senior Seminar. Before registering for ITAL 4990, students must meet with the Italian advisor.

Â鶹ÒùÔº majoring in Italian are required to have an initial advising session with the departmental advisor and to meet with the advisor at each semester's registration. Â鶹ÒùÔº majoring in Italian must earn a grade of C- or higher in ALL courses required for the major and may NOT take major requirement courses Pass/Fail. Twelve hours of upper division ITAL credit must be completed on the CU-Boulder campus.

 Credits earned in Education Abroad programs may be applied to the Italian major as follows:

• Credits earned through a University of Colorado program in Italy may be applied to the Italian major. Â鶹ÒùÔº majoring in Italian must meet with the Italian advisor before going on an Education Abroad program to Italy to discuss their course of study and how courses will satisfy major requirements.
• Credits earned through other Education Abroad programs will be evaluated by the Italian advisor for application to the Italian major. Â鶹ÒùÔº may apply a maximum of 18 transfer credit hours to the Italian major -- only 15 hours can be applied at the upper division level. Â鶹ÒùÔº majoring in Italian must meet with an advisor prior to attending an Education Abroad program with an institution other than CU.
• Courses taken in all Education Abroad programs must be completed with a grade of C- or better in order to apply to the Italian major.

Â鶹ÒùÔº majoring in Italian may obtain Honors by meeting all of the regular requirements for the major plus the following:

• FREN 3200 - Introduction to Literary Theory -- 3 semester hours
  • Note: FREN 3200 is taught in English and presupposes no knowledge of French.
• ITAL 4980 - Italian Senior Honors Thesis -- 3 semester hours
  • Note: This semester of independent study is devoted to one-on-one work on the senior honors thesis with a faculty advisor. It does not run concurrently with required 4000-level courses. It is an additional 3 hours.

Double Major

All requirements described above must be fulfilled in the event that a student wishes to use Italian as part of the double major.