FRIT Upcoming Courses
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Spring 2027 Electives
Take your French beyond the classroom and into your future career! Looking for a way to connect your French language skills directly with your major? Turn your language learning into a competitive advantage for the global job market! Whether you want to study, live, and work in France, or collaborate with French-speaking partners globally, this course will help you build a standout professional profile.
Explore and debate strains of feminist thought primarily from the 20th and 21st centuries, remaining informed by the much longer history that has shaped our recent times (including pre-Revolutionary, Revolutionary and Colonial-era thinkers). Ask about what it means to do feminism, what forms such doing takes, and what role theorizing and philosophizing should play in a feminist agenda.
Analyze film and media as cultural expressions shaped by history, politics, and society. Explore how cinematic representations of two iconic European capitals—Rome and Paris—construct particular experiences of space, place, community, and history, and why these representations matter both locally and globally.
Italian and Italian-American culture, history and society through film. Weekly guest lectures and critical readings expand from different disciplinary perspectives upon issues raised by films.
Analyze film and literature as cultural forms shaped by — and actively shaping — history, politics, and society. Examine how "Italy" has been constructed, contested, and reimagined from the postwar period to the present, with particular attention to race, gender, migration, and global interconnections.