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Class number:
3310
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Title: Italian History in Four Keys |
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Department: History |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 20 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM, SH - S204 |
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Instructor(s): Cocco, Sean |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
Even if the modern Italian nation has a brief history dating to the nineteenth century, Italians are part of peninsular, regional, and urban histories that reach back many centuries. The vibrant and contradictory features of today’s nation reveal the existence of ancient substrates. This reading- and writing-based seminar examines four environmental features – stones, water, plants, and animals – that are threads connecting Italy’s national history to much older regional and local pasts, as well as to the future. Students will examine national history through four perspectives that complicate myths of nationhood. Students should expect to read from history, literature, and science, to examine historical documents, and to develop interpretations in classroom discussions and writing assignments. |