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

Accelerated development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills to obtain the Basic Proficiency Level in Italian. Credit may be received only for one of the following: ITAL 121 and ITAL 122, or ITAL 130.

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.

Accelerated development of intermediate level listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills in Italian. Credit may be received only for one of the following: ITAL 221 and ITAL 222, or ITAL 230.

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

Significant values in the Italian cultural heritage, as presented in native print and visual media.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Selected plays, short stories, novels and poems which characterize quality achievements by Italians, and which promote a better understanding of Italian life.

Italian love poetry, beginning with the "Dolce Stil Nuovo" of the late Middle Ages and ending with post-WWII avant-garde poetry.

Selected literature from the Italian business world, such as correspondence, brochures, specialized newspapers and magazines, biographies of businessmen, prospectuses, and annual reports.

Prepares students for making lengthy formal reports in Italian, both written and oral, on topics of importance for success within an Italian environment.

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.