Course Description
Intensive elementary and beginning intermediate Italian emphasizing speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.
Athena Title
Intensive Italian
Non-Traditional Format
Satisfies Romance Language graduate research skills requirement, but not the undergraduate language requirement. Successful completion allows undergraduates to enroll in Intermediate Italian or Italian Conversation and Composition, depending on proficiency. Open only to students with knowledge of another foreign language.
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The main objective of the course is to provide students with a fairly broad background in the fundamentals of pronunciation, conversation, reading, writing, and listening comprehension so that students can develop these skills further if they decide to continue studying Italian. At the end of the course, students should be at the same level as students who have completed Intermediate Italian.
Topical Outline
1) Performing certain functions in the target language such as ordering a meal, making reservations at a hotel, sustaining a simple conversation with someone who only speaks Italian, etc. 2) Learning some of the formal structures of the language through grammatical paradigms. 3) Learning basic vocabulary that will facilitate communication in the target language. 4) Learning important aspects of Italian culture which would affect the student if s/he were in Italy.
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global Culture