| 4/24/2024 6:47:10 PM |
| Changed Course |
| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ITAL 3 | Title:
INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN-1 |
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| Full Title:
Intermediate Italian-Part 1 |
| 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 | 17.5 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 4.00 | | Contact Total | 70.00 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 140.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 210.00 | |
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:
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Speaking, reading and writing in Italian with discussions and essays to develop linguistic skill and cultural knowledge. Review of first-year linguistic and cultural content.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
ITAL 2 or three years of high school Italian or equivalent
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Speaking, reading and writing in Italian with discussions and essays to develop linguistic skill and cultural knowledge. Review of first-year linguistic and cultural content.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:ITAL 2 or three years of high school Italian 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
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | C2 | Humanities | Fall 1990 | |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | 3B | Humanities | Fall 1981 | |
| | 6A | Language Other Than English | | |
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Spring 1990 | Inactive: | |
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| UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Spring 1990 | Inactive: | |
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| C-ID: |
Certificate/Major Applicable:
Major Applicable Course
Approval and Dates
| Version: | 05 | Course Created/Approved: | 3/27/1990 |
| Version Created: | 6/10/2019 | Course Last Modified: | 7/12/2023 |
| Submitter: | Sami Lange | Course Last Full Review: | 4/13/2020 |
| Version Status: | Approved Changed Course | Prereq Created/Approved: | 4/13/2020 |
| Version Status Date: | 4/13/2020 | Semester Last Taught: | Spring 2023 |
| Version Term Effective: | Fall 2021 | Term Inactive: | |
COURSE CONTENT
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Speak, write, read, and listen at the intermediate level in Italian
2. Demonstrate comprehension of Italian spoken by native speakers on most common topics.
3. Conduct conversations in Italian on a wide variety of topics, including expressing preferences, opinions, fears, and desires.
4. Explain the contents of pieces of journalism and literature both orally and in writing.
Objectives:
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At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Compose essays of 500 words in Italian on topics of general or societal interest.
2. Converse and speak extemporaneously on a wide range of personal topics.
3. Comprehend Italian spoken naturally on a wide range of common topics.
4. Comprehend the general meaning of short fiction and non-fiction written in Italian
with the help of a dictionary.
5. Discuss and answer questions about short fiction and non-fiction orally and in writing.
6. Produce and employ with relative ease most regular and irregular verb conjugations.
7. Correctly use and place pronouns (subject, reflexive, direct, indirect object and disjunctive).
8. Produce and employ with relative ease most everyday Italian vocabulary words, common
idioms, and some theme-specific vocabulary extracted from readings.
9. Correctly pronounce Italian words.
Topics and Scope
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I. Italian Vocabulary at an Intermediate Level
II. Idiomatic Expressions and Traditional Sayings in Italian, including Proverbs
III. Selections of Short Fiction and Non-Fiction
IV. Complex Sentences in Italian
V. Regular and Irregular Verbs
A. Past
B. Present
C. Future tenses
D. Conditional, imperative and subjunctive moods
VI. Italian Poems, Songs, and Short Stories
VII. Issues in Contemporary Italy
Assignments:
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1. Read and study lessons from the textbook/ textbook website/handouts
(averaging 15 pages per week)
2. Read short fiction, poetry, or articles of cultural interest (averaging 7 pages per week)
3. Memorize vocabulary and verb conjugations (averaging 75 words per week)
4. Complete written exercises in textbook/ textbook website and/or workbook
5. Review for quizzes and exams (averaging 1 hour per week)
6. Spoken and written answers to questions on readings (15 minutes per week)
7. Written essays in Italian of 500 words (2 per semester)
8. Class performances and activities (group or individual), such as listening comprehension and
dictation exercises
9. Oral participation in discussions and activities in Italian
10. Quizzes, tests, chapter tests, final exam which include reading, writing, and comprehension
of spoken Italian
11. Individual and/or group cultural projects may be assigned
12. Performance exams
Online Assignments:
1. Online exercises and/or video assignments
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
20 - 30% |
| Written homework, written exercises, essays | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 20% |
| Group activities, individual and/or group projects | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
20 - 30% |
| Class performances, performance exams | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
30 - 40% |
| Quizzes, tests, final exam | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
5 - 15% |
| Online exercises and/or video assignments | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Immagina: L'italiano senza confine. Cummings, Anne and Frenquellucci, Chiara and Pastorino, Gloria. Vista Higher Learning. 2016 (classic)
Ponti: Italiano terzo millennio. 3rd ed. Tognozzi, Elissa and Cavatorta, Giuseppe. Cengage Learning. 2013 (classic)
Instructor prepared materials
OTHER REQUIRED ELEMENTS
| Student Preparation |
| Matric Assessment Required: | E | Requires English Assessment |
| Prerequisites-generate description: | U | User Generated Text |
| Advisories-generate description: | A | Auto-Generated Text |
| Prereq-provisional: | N | NO |
| Prereq/coreq-registration check: | Y | Prerequisite Rules Exist |
| Requires instructor signature: | N | Instructor's Signature Not Required |
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| BASIC INFORMATION, HOURS/UNITS & REPEATABILITY |
| Method of instruction: | 02 | Lecture |
| | 71 | Internet-Based, Simultaneous Interaction |
| | 72 | Internet-Based, Delayed Interaction |
| Area department: | WLANG | World Languages |
| Division: | 71 | Language Arts & Academic Foundations |
| Special topic course: | N | Not a Special Topic Course |
| Program Status: | 1 | Major Applicable Course |
| Repeatability: | 00 | Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP |
| Repeat group id: | | |
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| SCHEDULING |
| Audit allowed: | Y | Auditable |
| Open entry/exit: | N | Not Open Entry/Open Exit |
| Credit by Exam: | N | Credit by examination not allowed |
| Budget code: Program: | 0000 | Unrestricted |
| Budget code: Activity: | 1101 | Modern and Classical Languages |
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| OTHER CODES |
| Disciplines: | Foreign Languages |
| Basic Skills: | N | Not a Basic Skills Course |
| Level below transfer: | Y | Not Applicable |
| CVU/CVC status: | Y | Distance Ed, Not CVU/CVC Developed |
| Distance Ed Approved: | Y | Either online or hybrid, as determined by instructor |
| Emergency Distance Ed Approved: | N | |
| Credit for Prior Learning: | N | Agency Exam |
| N | CBE |
| N | Industry Credentials |
| N | Portfolio |
| Non-credit category: | Y | Not Applicable, Credit Course |
| Classification: | Y | Liberal Arts and Sciences Courses |
| SAM classification: | E | Non-Occupational |
| TOP code: | 1104.00 | Italian |
| Work-based learning: | N | Does Not Include Work-Based Learning |
| DSPS course: | N | NO |
| In-service: | N | Not an in-Service Course |
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