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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ITAL 50C | Title:
INTERMED ITAL CONV, PT 1 |
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| Full Title:
Intermediate Italian Conversation, Part 1 |
| Last Reviewed:3/26/2012 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
| Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 1.00 | | Contact DHR | 17.50 |
| | Contact Total | 4.00 | | Contact Total | 70.00 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 2.00 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 35.00 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | 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
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Catalog Description:
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A beginning intermediate conversational Italian course designed to improve fluency through expansion of active vocabulary, attention to verb tense usage and oral practice.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Course Completion of ITAL 50B OR Course Completion of ITAL 2
Recommended Preparation:
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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A beginning intermediate conversational Italian course designed to improve fluency through expansion of active vocabulary, attention to verb tense usage and oral practice.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Course Completion of ITAL 50B OR Course Completion of ITAL 2
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 2004 | Inactive: | Fall 2020 |
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| UC Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Not Certificate/Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Converse in Italian on a wide range of topics and in varied social contexts.
2. Share opinions, express intentions, describe, summarize, give and
follow directions, tell stories, plan and organize events, communicate
feelings--all in Italian and with minimal use of the dictionary.
3. Speak Italian with minimal accent and without undue hesitation.
4. Comprehend Italian spoken clearly at normal pace.
Objectives:
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Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate mostly accurate Italian pronunciation and intonation.
2. Create original dialogues and short presentations on a variety of
common topics of interest.
3. Demonstrate familiarity with aspects of typical Italian lifestyles, including
common social relationships, daily life activities, geography
and natural features of the country and the role of the arts and history.
4. Formulate comparisons of people, places, and objects.
5. Speak Italian using vocabulary needed for the great majority of common
circumstances and basic grammar required for comprehensibility.
6. Identify the main ideas when listening to Italian spoken by native speakers
on typical cultural topics such as politics, cultural events, and people of note.
Topics and Scope
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Topics will vary and reflect intermediate communication skills required to
function in social, academic and career-related situations, and will include:
1. The language of common social relations -- friendship, love, enmity,
collegiality, cooperation, disagreement, etc.
2. Common modes of expression arising from making plans, negotiating problems,
describing people, places, things and circumstances, expressing preferences,
imagining, and speculating, communicating feelings, questions, confusions -- all
very specific situations that might occur in business, leisure, shopping,
travel, etc.
3. Narration of personal experience, witnessed events, and news events.
4. Key aspects of Italian history, geography and culture, including personalities,
contributions to Western and world culture, art, architecture, literature, history,
politics, etc.
Specific elements of grammar include:
1. Future tense
2. Various pronouns, including: double object, "ne," "ci," relative and indefinite
3. Present and past conditional
4. Comparatives and superlatives
5. Recognition of "passato remoto" (historical past)
6. The progressive
7. Present and past subjunctive
8. Verb tenses based on main and dependent clauses ("concordanza dei tempi")
9. Common suffixes
Assignments:
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1. Reading from textbook and/or instructor-assigned materials (averaging
5-12 pages per week).
2. Memorizing phrases and/or vocabulary, including verb conjugations
(averaging 30-65 terms per week).
3. Completing assigned exercises (averaging 10-20 items per week)
from a variety of assigned materials.
4. Writing and presenting short assignments, such as: task/activity summaries,
scripts, dialogs, projects, and class presentations.
5. Completing web-based exercises in listening comprehension, summarizing
and interpretation of authentic Italian-language material (averaging 1 hour per week).
6. In-class assignments and activities including individual, pair and small group work,
such as role-plays, interviews, problem-solving activities, dialogues and skits.
7. Reviewing material for in-class participatory assignments and/or quizzes
and tests (averaging half- to one-hour per week).
8. Quizzes and exams as assigned by instructor.
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 - 30% |
| Written homework; lab exercises; task/activities summary; scripts and/or dialogues | |
| 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
20 - 40% |
| Class performance; projects and presentations; role-plays | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
20 - 40% |
| Situational problem-solving; vocabulary and other quizzes and exams; final exam | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
25 - 35% |
| Class attendance, oral class participation, completion of semester's language lab hour (web-based assignments) | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Nuovo Progetto Italiano, Parte 2. Book and CDs, T. Marin and S. Magnelli, Edilingua, 2008.
Buongiorno Italia! Book and CDs, Cremona, BBC Publishing, 2005.
Instructor prepared materials.
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