4/25/2024 2:35:27 PM	ITAL 2 Course Outline as of Spring 2006	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ITAL 2	Title:  ELEMENTARY ITALIAN 2
Full Title:  Elementary Italian Part 2
Last Reviewed:4/13/2020

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	4.00	Lecture Scheduled	4.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	70.00
Minimum	4.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	2.00			Contact DHR	35.00
		Contact Total	6.00			Contact Total	105.00
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  140.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 245.00

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly: 

Catalog Description:

Continuation of Italian 1.  Elementary listening, speaking, reading and writing in Italian. Introduction to Italian-speaking culture.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Two years of high school Italian or Italian 1 or equivalent.

Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Part two of elementary Italian, continued introduction to Italian grammar and development of all language skills in a cultural context with special emphasis on communication.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Two years of high school Italian or Italian 1 or equivalent.
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Spring 1990	Inactive:
Area:	E	Humanities
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C2	Humanities		Fall 1990
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	3B	Humanities		Fall 1981
	6A	Language Other Than English
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Spring 1990	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Spring 1990	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Certificate Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Use Italian vocabulary and demonstrate comprehension of others' use of

  Italian vocabulary related to nearly all of the most common personal,

  everyday, commercial, cultural, and political topics.

2. Formulate Italian questions and declarative sentences; improvise

  brief paragraph-length statements on most common topics.

3. Read and discuss simplified passages on a range of cultural topics and

  read for general meaning authentic Italian texts.

4. Write with very few errors of spelling what he/she is able to say in

  Italian.

5. Pronounce Italian words and sentences accurately and with proper

  intonation.

6. Control with relative ease the following: subject, object and

  reflexive pronouns, present, passato prossimo, and imperfect tenses

  of all regular and most common irregular verbs, familiar and formal

  commands.

7. Identify and correctly utilize the subjunctive of regular and most

  irregular verbs.

8. Produce compound and complex sentences involving the most common

  conjunctions.

9. Demonstrate comprehension of the main idea when listening to Italian

  spoken at a natural speed.

10.Respond to frequently occurring situations in culturally appropriate

  ways.

11.Complete "real world" tasks such as comprehend or produce texts in ads,

  announcements, instructions, phone conversations, interviews etc.

Topics and Scope

Lecture and Lab material:

1. Italian vocabulary related to nearly all of the most common

  personal and societal topics.

2. Italian conversational formulas and the most common idioms.

3. Improvising paragraph-length personal statements.

4. Reading and analyzing readings in Italian.

5. Grammatical terminology.

6. Complexities of Italian sentence construction and its difference from

  English syntax.

7. Creating sentences containing more than one verb tense.

8. Listening to Italian spoken at a natural speed.

9. Continuation of introduction to Italian culture.

Assignments:

Assignments may include:

1.  studying lessons(s) from the textbook (averaging 15 pages per week).

2.  memorizing vocabulary and verb conjugations (averaging 75 words per

   week).

3.  completing exercises in textbook and workbook (averaging 10 exercises

   per week).

4.  working in the language laboratory and writing reports (averaging

   75 minutes per week).

5.  completing exercises connected to the Web or a CD-Rom (averaging

   20 minutes per week).

6.  reviewing for quizzes and tests (one hour per week).

7.  quizzes and tests.

8.  writing compositions (2 to 4).

9.  oral participation, group activities and projects.

10. reading assignments involving text-based or original materials.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 10 - 20%
Written homework, Reading reports, Lab reports, Compositions
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 10 - 20%
Group activities, projects
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 20 - 30%
In-class oral participation
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 40 - 50%
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion, Dictation, translation, essay exams
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 5 - 10%
Completion of semester's language lab hours

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

PREGO, Lazzarino, 6th edition, McGraw Hill, 2004.

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