Superior

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

OBJECTIVES

For the student to acquire a basic level of competence in expression and comprehension of the Italian language, as much in the spoken as in the written form.

GRAMMATICAL CONTENTS

Phonetic and graphic system; subject pronouns; indicative verbal tensesâ€"especially the present, preterit, and imperfect; the article; nouns, interrogative adverbs; possessives; affirmation and negation; demonstratives; c’è and ci sono; temporal locutions; prepositions and adverbs of place and temporal adverbs; indefinites; cardinal numbers; direct and indirect complement pronouns.

NOTIONAL-FUNCTIONAL CONTENTS

Saying hello and goodbye; asking one’s name; introducing oneself, asking and giving information; talking about free time; talking about the frequency with which one does something; speaking of tastes and likes; expressing opinions; expressing agreement or disagreement; expressing feelings; requesting information; requesting favors and things; complaining; making an appointment; describing a place or describing a trip; speaking of the motivation for a choice; apologizing; narrating events from the past; speaking about a typical day, about habits.

EVALUATION

The final exam will have 2 complementary parts, one written and the other oral, with it being necessary to have passed the first part in order to complete the second.