Course Description
Accelerated course of the Italian language for students with a
knowledge of another foreign language or with two entrance
units of high school Italian taken within the past three years.
This course covers the material in Elementary Italian. Given in
Italian.
Athena Title
Accelerated Elementary Italian
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ITAL 1002, ITAL 1003, ITAL 1110E
Non-Traditional Format
This course includes one hour per week of online coursework.
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will express ideas in written/oral form using target language with increased clarity and attention to detail.
- Students will formulate more complex constructions in the target language in a wider range of temporal contexts (present, past, and future).
- Students will tailor communication strategy, style, and register for a variety of audiences and/or contexts.
- Students will navigate interpersonal communication with respect, maturity, and/or awareness of cultural differences.
- Students will express linguistic competency in ways that highlight student strengths and individual background knowledge.
- Students will explore and utilize various multimodal means of language production both synchronously and asynchronously.
Topical Outline
- Pronunciation: Rhythm, consonants, vowels, diphthongs, stress, and intonation.
- Basic tenses for communication: Present, imperfect, present perfect, future.
- Regular verb conjugations: -are, -ere, and -ire.
- High frequencey irregular verbs: essere, avere, stare, andare, venire, uscire, fare, sapere, conoscere, dare, fire, dovere, potere, and voletere.
- Vocabulary of useful items: personal possessions, food, family members, clothing, shopping, holidays, and celebrations.
- Pronouns: Subject, direct and indirect objects, reflexive, and interrogative pronouns.
- Moods: Indicative and imperative.
- Vocabulary and structure of conversational topics: Numbers, time, weather, calendar, coursework.
- Readings and culture: Italian language, literature, art, cinema, and popular culture.
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global Culture
