ITAL221 - Advanced Speaking, Writing, and Reading in Italian

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Academic Year 2000/2001

Advanced Speaking, Writing, and Reading in Italian
ITAL 221 FA

As a bridge between the four-semester grammar sequence -- ITAL101, 102, 111, 112 -- and literature courses taught in Italian, this course aims to help students further develop their speaking, writing, and reading skills in Italian. Though not required of those who have completed the grammar sequence, it is recommended to students who need more exercise in the language before going on to advanced work in Italian studies. The course is also suited to students returning from study in Italy whose experience with the language in either classroom or informal settings while abroad makes it difficult for them to then fit into one of the grammar sequence courses. We will use L'ITALIANO LE TECNICHE DEL PARLARE E DELLO SCRIVERE (Giuseppe Pattano and Serena Bersani) as our primary resource--it deals with topics such as interviews, personal and business letters, how to conduct a formal debate, using the telephone, how to write a CV, rhetorical and literary terminology, and idiomatic language. This reading and accompanying exercises will be supplemented with a course reader that encompasses readings in a number of diverse registers: newspaper and magazine articles, short stories, Italian translations of familiar American and English literature. We will also uti lize Italian television programs, film, and opera. The overall objective is for students to be as conversant as possible by semester's end with the full range of contemporary Italian usage.

MAJOR READINGS

Giuseppe Pittano and Serena Bersani, L'ITALIANO - LE TECHNICHE DEL PARLARE E DELLO SCRIVERE
Course Reader

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Regular written homework, one oral presentation, one group project, five essays.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Intended for students who have completed ITAL112 AND/OR those students returning from abroad who can demonstrate - normally through the placement exam - an equivalent level of competence in Italian. Other students may be admitted at the discretion of the professor.

Students will meed with the Course Assistant/Foreign Lang. TA once weekly for 50 minutes. This schedule will be devised the first week of class.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RLAN Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Bufano,Luca

Times: .M.W.F. 10:00AM-10:50AM; Location: FISK403

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 20)

SR. major: 1 Jr. major: 3

SR. non-major: 3 Jr. non-major: 10 SO: 1 FR: 2

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Speaking, Writing

Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001