Italian
ITAL1000 Italian I (Course Outline)This course provides a basic knowledge of the spoken and written language, oral practice for various everyday situation and essential grammatical structure, including articles, nouns, pronouns, verbs, prepositions and ways of saying. The linguistic syllabus includes also lessons on phonetics’ spelling and morphology. The learning process will be enhanced by group work and audio-visual aids and videos.
ITAL1100 Society and Culture in Contemporary Italy
This course offers information about Italian geography, modern history, political institutions, education, economics, and social and cultural life with special emphasis on Italian culture and artistic heritage. No knowledge of Italian is required.
ITAL2000 Italian II
This course provides a further knowledge of the spoken and written language, it is a continuation of the previous one and is based on studying the language used in everyday situations, and the linguistic syllabus includes lessons on past tense, direct and indirect object pronouns, some more irregular verbs in the present tense, a further overview on articled prepositions, adjectives in the superlative form, modal verbs and some common adverbs. The learning process will be enhanced by group work and audio-visual aids.oral practice for various everyday situation and essential grammatical structure, including articles, nouns, pronouns, verbs, prepositions and ways of saying.
ITAL2001 Italian III
This course aims to further enhance students' communication skills in the four language domains listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students are expected to communicate confidently in a wider range of social interactions including more formal situations and simple professional contexts as well as reporting past events and sharing experience. At the end of this course, students will have completed a proficiency level comparable to level A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
ITAL2050 Italian I & II
This is a summer intensive Italian language course for beginners, covering the full syllabus of ITAL1000 and ITAL2000.
ITAL2130 Society And Culture In Contemporary Italy
This course offers information about Italian geography, modern history, political institutions, education, economics, and social and cultural life with special emphasis on Italian culture and artistic heritage. No knowledge of Italian is required.
ITAL3000 Italian IV
This course aims at increasing students' communicative fluency in oral and written Italian. Using a variety of classroom activities and multimedia, students will build up their competence in the four language domains listening, speaking, reading and writing. Through intensive practice they will be able to communicate in a wide range of social situations with the appropriate awareness of the pragmatic rules involved. Students receive guidance in the process of composing longer texts displaying a range of registers and styles relating to past, present and future events.
ITAL3001 Italian V
This course focuses on the further development of communication skills in Italian with emphasis on the expression of personal views and the training of argumentative strategies. The course will also engage students in critical reflections on various aspects of life in Italian-speaking countries and their own social environment. Students will be guided to analyze various types of data to support their views. They will learn how to express their wishes and aspirations using the appropriate registers.
ITAL3002 Italian VI
This course builds on the knowledge acquired through previous Italian language courses. It aims at leading students to a proficiency level comparable to the threshold from A2 to B1 of the Common European Framework for Languages (CEFR), becoming “independent users” of Italian. To achieve this goal, students will be encouraged to work project-based through independent or collaborative work with their peers. At the end of this course students will have mastered the most important grammar features of Italian and be able to communicate effectively in a wide range of everyday situations and a number of professional contexts. They will be able to use their oral and written language skills to relate to, reflect on and analyze past and current issues involving the Italian-speaking societies.
ITAL3050 Italian III & IV
(Please read the Study Scheme Note.) This is a summer intensive Italian language course for beginners, covering the full syllabus of ITAL2001 and 3000 (2002).
(Please read the Study Scheme Note.) This is a summer intensive Italian language course, covering the full syllabus of ITAL3001 and 3002.