4: Advanced Italian

M-F 9-10 | Instructor: Mara Mauri-Jacobsen

Units: 5 Satisfies L&S International Studies breadth requirement.

Course conducted in Italian

In this course students will gain an appreciation for Italian culture through the analyses of literary texts, articles, films, and plays. Students will continue to build on the work done in Italian 3, striving for a higher level of sophistication and fluency in writing, reading, and speaking. Readings will be more challenging than in the previous semester, and will cover a wider range of topics. Excerpts taken from novels will be longer with a richer, more complex vocabulary and sentence structure.

Weekly written assignments, two midterms, an oral presentation, and a final exam.

Required texts:

Immagina, l’italiano senza confini, A Cummings, C. Frenquellucci, etc. Vista Higher Learning 2011. ISBN 978-1-60576-260-9

Io non ho paura by Niccolo` Ammaniti. Einaudi, 2011 ISBN 9788806207694

Recommended texts:

Webster’s New World Italian Dictionary Concise edition ISBN 9780139536397

Prerequisite: Italian 3 or consent of instructor.