ITAL 101 Beginning Italian I

Beginning Italian I introduces students to the fundamentals of speaking, reading, listening, and writing in Italian. It fosters the development of survival-level communicative skills and the acquisition of basic proficiency in a cultural context. 

Credits

3

Offered

Spring

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Manage successfully a number of uncomplicated oral communicative tasks in straightforward social situations, such as introducing oneself and others, discussing school and work, and exchanging basic information.
2. Meet limited basic practical writing needs using short messages, postcards, and simple notes focusing on common elements of daily life and relying on practiced material.
3. Aurally recognize and understand short speech dealing with areas of practical need such as highly standardized messages, phrases, or instructions, if the vocabulary has been learned and if there is contextual or extra linguistic support.
4. Identify selected cultural topics pertinent to the Hispanic world. Retrieve a limited amount of information from highly predictable written texts in which the topic or context is veery familiar, such as brief test about Hispanic countries, email exchanges on basic personal topics, a hotel bill, a credit card receipt, or a weather map.
5. Identify selected cultural topics pertinent to the Hispanic world.