ITALIAN 42B
Italy through Ages in English: Modern and Contemporary Italy
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Cultural and political developments from 18th century to present. Topics include Beccaria and opposition to death penalty and absolutism; Garibaldi, Italian Risorgimento, national liberation, and unification; Lombroso and criminology in new Italy; Mussolini and Fascism; Gramsci and Communism; Italian Catholicism; Berlusconi and media; migration and today's multiethnic Italy. Assigned works include relevant literature and memoirs, music, and film, futurist and fascist art, and organized crime fiction and film. P/NP or letter grading.
Course statistics
- Predicted GPA
- 3.87
- n = 21 · 1 term · ± 0.094
- A range
- 100%
- of letter grades
- Taken P/NP
- 0%
- — of those passed
- D / F / W
- 0.0%
- incl. withdrawals
Sections in Fall 2026
Grade distribution
- A+ 18 · 85.7%
- A 3 · 14.3%
Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted | Raw | n | Terms | A range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAVAGNINO, CLAIRE G | 3.95 | 4.00 | 21 | 1 | 100% |
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
By term
- 221 4.00 n=21