A continuation of the study of Italian at the intermediate level. Emphasis on strengthening the students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Conversation, compositions, reading of texts, and expanded grammar study to include more advanced structures, including the conditional, the subjunctive, and the imperative.
Athena Title
Intermediate Italian
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ITAL 2001E
Prerequisite
ITAL 1110 or ITAL 1002 or ITAL 1003
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will speak spontaneously about themselves and familiar topics, maintain a simple conversation with someone who speaks only the target language, and influence the course of a conversation by asking questions and proposing topics.
Students will understand most of what they hear in the classroom and understand narration, conjecture and opinion about events in the present, past and future.
Students will read simple short stories, short excerpts or ads from newspapers and magazines on familiar and practical topics with some preparation and glosses.
Students will write expository prose consisting of description or an opinion about very familiar topics.
Students will practice expressing their own opinions about travel, navigating physical environments, and the workforce. Through cultural topics, they help their peers construct a deeper understanding of the world around them.
Students will continue to build upon the grammar and structures they learn in ITAL 1001 and ITAL 1002 by practicing moods (conditional present, subjunctive present) and comparatives and superlatives.
Topical Outline
In-class conversation and discussions to develop speaking and listening skills. Readings from magazine articles, literary works, and a variety of other sources on a variety of topics which will provide students with information for in-class discussions and compositions. Writing in Italian to further knowledge of oneself, one's culture, and of Italian speakers and their cultures. Review of principles of Italian grammar.
