Italian (ITAL)
Grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills.
Carolina Core: GFL
Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills.
Carolina Core: GFL
Practice and rapid development of accurate skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Features BBC television course.
Practice and further rapid development of accurate skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Features BBC television course.
Oral practice with advanced protocols of Italian conversation, focusing on perfecting rhythms and tonalities, and on a clear presentation of meaning.
Introduction to letter, short essay, and creative writing, and to newspaper reports and selected essays as models of self-expression.
Intensive language practice, emphasizing oral proficiency skills and advanced conversational protocols. Classroom instruction by native speakers, extensive contact with native environment, field trips. May be repeated for credit by permission.
Intensive study of selected literary and cinematic topics of the Italian world. May be repeated for credit as topic varies by title. Taught in English.
Contract approved by instructor, advisor and department chair is required for undergraduate students.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research
Italian writers, focusing on the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, with additional selections from later authors.
Italian films of high esthetic value that present major cultural concerns of post-WWII Italians. Skills in film criticism and analysis. Films are subtitled. Taught in English.
Directed independent research project, with a formal presentation and public discussion.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research
Special topics in Italian literature.
Special topics in Italian literature.
Graduate students fulfill their foreign language reading requirement with successful completion of the course. Undergraduates may take the course as an elective only.