4/26/2024 3:23:56 AM	ITAL 1 Course Outline as of Spring 1990	New Course (First Version)
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ITAL 1	Title:  ELEM ITAL-PT 1
Full Title:  Elementary Italian-Part I
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:

Intensive instruction in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing elementary Italian. Basic grammar, regular and some irregular verbs in indicative mood. Daily practice in speaking and writing. 2-hour lab. Basic Italian culture.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Not open to students with 2 years HS Italian or 1 semester college Italian with "A" or "B" or equivalent within past 3 years.

Recommended Preparation:
Memorization of grammatical patterns, vocab., idioms. 2 hrs aural/oral exercises in lab weekly for class performance. Eligibility for ENGL 100B or ENGL 100.

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Intensive instruction in understanding, speaking, reading & writing elementary Italian.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Not open to students with 2 years HS Italian or 1 semester college Italian with "A" or "B" or equivalent within past 3 years.
Recommended:Memorization of grammatical patterns, vocab., idioms. 2 hrs aural/oral exercises in lab weekly for class performance. Eligibility for ENGL 100B or ENGL 100.
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:
	6A	Language Other Than English		Fall 1981
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:

  VOCABULARY:

 The student should memorize, express, translate, relate, construct,

 and value both active and passive abilities with such vocabulary

 as greetings, the alphabet, school related items and activities,

 the family members, clothes, days, months, weather, clock times,

 numbers (1-100), basic foods, colors, and cognates.

 COMPREHENSION:

 Student should be able to recognize and understand basic classroom

 instructions and simple declarative sentences which host the

 vocabulary listed above, and which are limited in their verbal

 usages to the present tense. Short, coherent paragraphs or

 anecdotes using high frequency or cognate vocabulary, or brief

 stories should also be understandable. Items for aural

 comprehension should be presented at deliberate speed with clear

 (but not distortedly so) pronunciation.

 SPEAKING:

 Student should be able to answer, identify, and interpret simple,

 direct yes/no and content questions in a simple way, but will show

 less skill in formulating such questions. Student may have

 difficulty producing compound sentences or sentences which require

 subordination, but should be able to express such practical items

 as where he/she lives, how old he/she is, his/her name, the date,

 his/her date of birth, and describe, say, a family member or a

 familiar place. In other words, students ability to speak will be

 to a large degree a function of the questions asked of him/her.

 Student can answer questions on readings.

 READING:

 Student should be able to read with full comprehension short

 passages which deal with everyday topics or dialogues concerning

 daily life. Items selected for reading could be heavily laden with

 cognates and not involve heavily subordinated or lengthy sentences.

 Literary passages or readings in which the element of personal

 style are involved should not be used. Readings which are heavily

 culture laden should also be avoided. Depending upon their

 difficulty, newspaper items, or editorials might be used. Readings

 should confine themselves essentially to the present indicative

 tense.

 WRITING:

 Of all the skills, this one will probably end up being the least

 well developed. Student should be able to write, with minimum

 errors in spelling and accentuation, whatever he is able to say.

 Brief declarative paragraphs may also be within the grasp of the

 student, as long as they are confined to the present tense, deal

 with a highly familiar topic, use only the vocabulary the student

 controls actively, and do not involve subordination. Student might

 practice such writing by attempting short letters or descriptions

 of persons, places, or things.

 PRONUNCIATION:

 Student should have been grounded in the basics of Italian

 pronunciation, in letter/sound correspondences, but will be

 lacking in the "fine tuning" of pronunciation which will come only

 with more study, exposure, and practice. Student will realize that

 some sounds of Italian e.g., do not exist in English, and that

 other, e.g., are somewhat differently pronounced in Italian and

 English. Pronunciation will not be stressed to the point to which

 it "cows" the student into thinking that he pronounces badly and

 is, therefore, afraid to say anything. Student will always be

 understandable to a native, but may still have an American accent

 much of the time. Student will stress words correctly the majority

 of the time.

 GRAMMAR:

 Students should control the following grammatical items in a more

 or less active fashion;

 1.  Gender and number of adjectives and nouns, and correct

     position of adjectives.

 2.  Subject pronouns.

 3.  Present tense of all verbs (reg., irreg., and rad.).

 4.  Yes/no and content question form.

 5.  Ser vs Estar (in its entirety).

 6.  Contradictions.

 7.  Telling time.

 8.  Weather expression.

 9.  Indef. subject.

10.  Idioms.

11.  Present progressive.

12.  Possessive and demons. adjs.

13.  Prepositional obj. pronoun.

14.  Comparisons of equality and inequity.

15.  Affirmative words and their negative counterparts.

16.  The personal.

17.  Direct object pronouns.

        a. actively with a simple conjugated verb.

        b. passively with dependent infinitives and -ndo.

18.  Contrast.

Topics and Scope

  SCOPE:

 Scope of what is covered in Italian 1 is at a significantly

 accelerated pace to a course teaching the same materials as in

 high school (This course covers in a semester what is covered in

 two semesters at the high school level). This range also

 corresponds to about half of our college level representative text.

 CONTENT (Speaking):

 Self-identification, personal information; Nationalities,

 occupations; Money denominations, banking; Basic classroom objects;

 Colors; Numbers 1-100; Clothing and shopping; Telling time;

 Calendar, holidays, celebrations; Weather, seasons; Family members;

 Simple greetings and courtesy expressions; Giving directions;

 Expressing feelings and emotions; Health and body; House and home;

 Food and drink; Travel and transportation; Job search; Alphabet;

 Cognates; Pronunciation; Interrogatives.

 CONTENT (Listening):

 Self-identification, personal information; Nationalities,

 occupations; Basic classroom objects, structures and classes;

 Colors; Numbers 1-1,000,000; Money denominations, buying; Clothing,

 shopping; Telling time; Calendar, dates, holidays, celebrations,

 seasons, weather; Family members; Simple greetings and courtesy

 expressions; Understanding directions; Interpreting feelings,

 emotions, and body language; House, home, and society; Food and

 drink; Travel, transportation; Health, body; Job search, alphabet;

 Cognates; Pronunciation; Interrogatives.

 CONTENT (Reading):

 Introductory material on general topics such as: Basic classroom

 objects; Colors; Numbers 1-100, Telling time, Clothing; Dates and

 money denominations; Weather and seasons; Family members; Self

 identification; Simple greetings and courtesy expressions; Personal

 and place names, street signs, office and shop designations; Simple

 labels; Simple geographical information; Travel and registration

 forms; Adapted readings (1000 word vocabulary level); Unadapted

 readings of an appropriate nature, such as bus or movie schedules;

 Dialogues; Job search; Alphabet; Cognates; Pronunciation;

 Interrogatives.

 CONTENT (Composition):

 House and home; Basic classroom objects; Colors; Numbers; Clothing;

 Names; Family members; Dates; Nationality and biography; Weather

 and seasons; Money; Parts of the body; Holidays and celebrations;

 Customs; Feelings and emotions; Cross-cultural communication;

 Job search; Alphabet; Cognates; Pronunciation; Interrogatives.

 CONTENT (Grammar):

 Students will be expected to recognize and use: Various simple

 tense of the most frequent regular and irregular verbs: present,

 future, progressive, and verb compliment; Various types of

 questions (yes/no and why), long and short answers, and simple

 commands; Pronouns: personal, indefinite, possessive, direct,

 indirect; Simple subordinators and coordinators; Auxiliaries

 BE/DO and their negatives; Simple modals; Nouns: common, proper,

 count, non-count, singular, plural, gender, and gerunds; Direct

 and indirect objects; Negation; Simple clause markers and noun

 clauses; Articles; Indefinite and possessive determiners;

 Demonstratives; Frequency adverbs and time expressions;

 Prepositions of time and place; Contractions; Has to, needs to,

 wants to; Comparatives.

Assignments:

  In preparation for 50 minute lecture class, student is expected to

 have:

 1.  intensively studied from 5-10 pages from class text.

 2.  completed from 5-10 pages from workbook, and prepared 5-10

     pages of written tasks from class text, and reviewed 5-20

     pages of class text for projected exams.

 3.  listened and completed 30-50 minutes of language lab material.

 4.  spent 25-50 minutes practicing and memorizing vocabulary and

     phrases.

 In preparation for lecture class, students are recommended to have:

 1.  worked 10-15 minutes cooperatively with a fellow Italian

     student or a speaking friend.

 2.  worked 10-15 minutes with a Italian tutor or other Italian

     language specialist.

 3.  listened or viewed 10-50 minutes or Italian language media

     (videos, radio, T.V., slides, magazines, newspaper,

     dictionaries, etc.).

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, Essay exams
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 0 - 0%
Class performances, Performance exams
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 30 - 50%
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 20 - 30%
1. DAILY ORAL RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS IN ITALIAN. 2. ROUTINE SHORT WRITTEN TESTS ON GRAMMATICAL PATTERNS, VOCAB., AND IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS.

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

  BEGINNING ITALIAN by Vincenzo Cioffari.  3rd Ed.

 PAROLA E PENSIERO by Vincenzo Traversa.  3rd Ed.

 BASIC ITALIAN by Charles Speroni & Carlo L. Golino.

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