CRP 3720

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CRP 3720
Contemporary Italy: Politics and Society

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

This course provides background on contemporary Italian politics and society, as an essential foundation to students with various disciplinary interests, from planning to architecture, from the fine arts to sociology and anthropology. This course provides a comprehensive survey of Italian society today, starting with Italy's geography and the historical forces that shaped the nation. It examines tensions between north and south, and such broad features of Italian social life as community structure, urban development, and family forms. The course also reviews selected institutional issues, such as gender, the system of education, problems of criminality and justice, economic reform, social class, religion, and politics.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: Cornell in Rome participants only.

Course Attribute (CU-ITL)

Comments URS majors must take course for letter grade; S-U grading-basis available only to non-majors.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5497 CRP 3720   LEC 020

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  • Taught in Rome, Italy. Enrollment limited to: Rome Program students.