College of Arts and Sciences
Departments
Modern Languages, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics
Italian Courses
- ITAL-M 100 Elementary Italian I (4 cr.) Introduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that develop grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Cultural topics and simple cultural comparisons are introduced.
- ITAL-M 150 Elementary Italian II (4 cr.) P: ITAL-M 100. Continued introduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that build grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Practice with new cultural topics and basic cultural analysis.
- ITAL-M 200 Intermediate Italian I (3 cr.) P: ITAL-M 150 or equivalent. Building on Elementary Italian I-II, students further study and practice fundamental concepts and structures in Italian grammar. Through a variety of assignments and activities, they strengthen proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, writing, cultural analysis and understanding. Includes an introduction to brief literary texts.
- ITAL-M 250 Intermediate Italian II (3 cr.) P: ITAL-M 200 or equivalent. The study of more complex concepts and structures in Italian grammar. Through a variety of texts, media, and assignments, students practice listening, speaking, reading, writing, and they analyze cultural topics and situations in greater depth. Increased attention to short literary texts.