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Foreign Languages
Italian LANG1301 Beginning Italian I Beginning Italian I is a language immersion course designed for students with little or no prior knowledge of Italian. Its objective is to introduce the language and culture of Italy while developing basic comprehension, speaking, reading and writing skills. The course emphasizes oral communication, encouraging students to verbally communicate in Italian with one another and with the instructor. Fall semester. 4 credits
Course Descriptions for Liberal Arts and Sciences
LANG1302 Beginning Italian II Beginning Italian II is a continuation language immersion course designed for students with prior knowledge of Beginning Italian I. Its objective is to continue to introduce the language and culture of Italy while developing basic comprehension, speaking, reading and writing skills. The course emphasizes oral communication, encouraging students to verbally communicate in Italian with one another and with the instructor. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG1301 or equivalent LANG2301 Intermediate Italian I This course offers a language immersion program that further develops basic comprehension skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. A primary objective of the course is to help students acquire a good command of spoken and written Italian, and an appreciation of the culture of Italy. Students will engage in a variety of inter personal activities, will study the structure of the language and will be introduced to literary readings. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG1302 or permission of instructor LANG2302 Intermediate Italian II This language immersion course, which follows LANG2301, continues to develop Emmanuel Emmanuel College College
listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Italian language. The development of strong communication skills and an appreciation of the culture of Italy will remain at the center of the program. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG1302 or permission of instructor LANG2315 Today’s Italy: A Journey through Literature, Cinema and Everyday Life (AI-L) Students will analyze and discuss some masterpieces of Italian literature and some movies inspired by them. The course is comprised of two parts of four weeks each. The first four weeks will be at Emmanuel, the second four weeks will be in Milan (Italy). During the first part of the course, students will be reading and discussing some of the masterpieces of Italian literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific focus on Milan. The readings will include two plays by Nobel Prize winners Luigi Pirandello and Dario Fo, Primo Levi’s masterpiece “If This Is a Man,” and Calvino’s “The Invisible Cities.” The cultural voyage will culminate in Milan, during the second part of the course, where students will visit some of the actual sites described in their readings and will view movies inspired by the works they read. The virtual images from the literary pages and the “real” ones from the movies will help them discover how modern city life in Italy is strictly intertwined with and deeply rooted into the nation’s historical, artistic and cultural background. This course, taught in English, travels to Milan, Italy during the summer where students will complete the coursework started at Emmanuel, as well as take 4 credits in intensive Italian language at the Università Cattolica. Program is open to COF students. Prerequisites: None Spring semester, alternate years, expected spring 2013. 4 credits