Luca Zipoli presents "Italian Through Culture I" and “Philadelphia the Global City"

Presentation of the courses "Intermediate Italian - Italian Through Culture I" (ITAL B101) and “Philadelphia the Global City: the Italian Legacy across Time” (ITAL B240) by Luca Zipoli (Bryn Mawr College). These courses will be taught in Fall 2025 and offered by the Department of Transnational Italian Studies at Bryn Mawr College.

00:00-00:24 Introduction
00:24-01:50 ITAL B101 "Italian through Culture I" (Tuesday and Thursday, 10:10-11:30 am, Dalton Hall 212A)
01:50-03:28 ITAL B240 “Philadelphia the Global City: the Italian Legacy across Time” (Monday, 12:10-3:00 p.m. at the Friends Center, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia)
03:28-04:04 Conclusion

Abstract ITAL B101:
This course is the first half of a two-semester sequence and provides students with a broader basis for learning to communicate effectively, accurately, and comfortably in an Italian-speaking environment. This course builds on the students' existing skills in Italian, increases their confidence and their ability to read, write, speak, understand the language, and introduces them to more refined lexical terms, more complex grammatical structures, and more challenging cultural materials. While the principal aim of the course is to further develop language abilities, the course also imparts a foundation for the understanding of modern and contemporary Italy. Students will be exposed to newspaper and magazine articles, literary and cinematic texts, Italian songs and internet materials which will facilitate a transition towards content courses. By the end of the first semester, students will have gained an appreciation for many aspects of Italian culture in its broad spectrum and will be able to communicate orally and in writing about a wide variety of topics. Prerequisite: ITAL B002 or placement.

Abstract ITAL B240:
This course investigates the history and evolution of Philadelphia as a globalized and multi-ethnic city, using as a case study for this analysis the impact and legacy of transnational Italian culture across the centuries. By adopting a cross-cultural, trans-historical, and interdisciplinary approach, the course explores the influence that — along with and in intersections with many other cultural inputs — also Italian arts and cultures have exerted on the city, making it become the cosmopolitan and transnational urban environment that it is today. Throughout the centuries and way before Italy even started existing as a state, Philadelphians traveled to the peninsula and brought back objects to display in emerging cultural institutions or studied the country’s art and architecture styles to shape the evolving aspect of the city. Simultaneously, incoming immigration formed new neighborhoods — such as South Philly, home to the Italian Market — and Italian figures came to prominence and became part of the social fabric of the city. Nowadays, many non-profit organizations work to preserve the traces that Italian migrants left within Philadelphia’s multi-ethnic urban environment as well as to extend the city's global profile and celebrate its heritage and diversity. Through specific field trips, on-site experiential activities, and forms of civic engagement this course highlights both the enduring fascination of Philadelphians with Italy (or with the idea thereof) across the centuries and the role that the Italian Diaspora played in the development of the city. The course ultimately challenges geographical, chronological, and cultural boundaries by showing how places, arts, identities that today are perceived as ‘American’ have in most cases an intersectional, multi-ethnic, and cross-cultural history to tell. All readings and class discussion will be in English, and no knowledge of Italian is required. Students seeking Italian credits will complete their assignments in the target language.

More info:
https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/academic-information/departments-programs/transnational-italian-studies/courses#ITALB101

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