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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2020 |
Registration ID | ITALB001001 |
Course Title | Beginning Italian I |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Italian and Italian Studies |
Instructor | Benetollo,Chiara Troncelliti,Gabriella |
Times and Days | MF 08:10am-09:00am
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2212 The course is for students with no previous knowledge of Italian. It aims at giving the students a complete foundation in the Italian language, with particular attention to oral and written communication. The course will be conducted in Italian and will involve the study of all the basic structures of the language—phonological, grammatical, syntactical—with practice in conversation, reading, composition. Readings are chosen from a wide range of texts, while use of the language is encouraged through role-play, debates, songs, and creative composition; This course is designed to make you able to: (1) autonomously speak and write in Italian at an elementary level; (2) use Italian to effectively communicate with other Italophones about practical aspects of life; (3) produce authentic artifacts (audiomessages, letters, social media posts, reviews, etc.) in Italian; (4) understand and comment on aspects of Italian culture directly in Italian. It is based on five weekly sessions in class, and you are strongly encouraged to spend a minimum of one hour of study outside of class each day on the material presented in class. During synchronous classes, we will only speak in Italian—if you are lost, you are very welcome to gesticulate, mime, draw: find a way to communicate! You can always ask for clarifications in English during office-hours, by e-mails, or at the end of classes. Learning languages is all about trying, practicing, and inhabiting the language itself, as if it was a place. Our classroom will be a little corner of Italy in the middle of campus. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach; Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) Enrollment Cap: 16; Freshmen Spaces: 10; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Major/Minor/Concentration; Freshman; Students who are on campus will have the option of participating in socially-distanced in-person classes for the first four weeks of the semester. This will give us the opportunity to meet and get to know each other face to face before switching to online instruction towards the beginning of October. |
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