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2020-21 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

IT 231 The Mafia and Beyond

The course examines the Sicilian mafia and other criminal organizations (camorra and ‘ndrangheta) in their historical and social context in Italian culture: their origins, development into powerful criminal syndicates with political ties, and expansion to North America. The course looks at organized crime through the lens of literature, film, and popular media, to examine how the mafiosi have been alternatively a target of civic indignation and an object of endless fascination in Italian (and Italian-American) popular culture. Course taught in English.