What exactly am i 'learning'?

LOTS!! And I love all my classes and teachers. I think I am going to learn more this semester then any other, sad but true.

My weekly class schedule:

Monday:

10:50- 11:55 Beginning Italian
12:00- 1:20 Iconogrphy

Tuesday:

10:50- 11:55 Beginning Italian
3:00-5:45 Sport and Culture in Italy

Wednesday:

10:50-11:55 Beginning Italian
12:00-1:20 Iconogrphy

Thursday:

10:50-11:55 Beginning Italian
12:00- 2:45 The Culture of Food and Wine in Italy

Course Descriptions:

Beginning Italian:
Pretty self explainatory, learning Italian starting from the basics.

Sport and Culture in Italy:
This course analyses the role of sport in contemporary Italian society and the relationship between sport and culture in Italy. A focus on the interrelationship of politics, media, and sport will create a wider understanding of social and political issues in Italy from nineteenth century unification, through the Fascist regime leading up to the Second World War, and the Republican era that continues today.

Iconography: The secret language of Italian Renaissance Art
This course provides an overview of the signs and symbols that help to decipher the main artworks produced in Florence during the late 14th century until the beginning of the 16th century. The Italian Renaissance is rich in meaningful imagery, firmly rooted in both classical and Christian heritage, whose meanings and messages are not always immediately apparent.

The Culture of Food and Wine in Italy:
This course will introduce you to the textured cultural histories of Italian food and wine. Your approach will be a mixture of first-hand experience (field trips, guided visits and several tastings) and interpretative analysis (through the examination of selected food texts, your own written assignments, in-class debates and your entries in a personal food journal). Through a multi-disciplinary approach to food and wine you will address a broad variety of key contemporary issues including slow-food, organic foods and the origins (and preservation) of regional variations. You will also develop an awareness of more sophisticated ways of looking at food in the fields of food anthropology, the psychology of food consumption, the symbolic aspects of food and the social construction of its meaning.