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CATALOG INFORMATION
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Discipline and Nbr:
ITAL 2 | Title:
ELEMENTARY ITALIAN-2 |
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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 | 1.00 | | Contact DHR | 17.50 |
| Contact Total | 5.00 | | Contact Total | 87.50 |
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| Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| Total Out of Class Hours: 140.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 227.50 | |
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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Continuation of elementary Italian langasge and culture with the increasing development of communication skills. Continuation of Italian 1.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Italian 1 or two 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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Continuation of the introduction to Italian language and culture, with the increasing development of all language skills in a cultural context. Emphasis is on communication in the Italian language.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Italian 1 or two 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
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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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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Major Applicable Course
COURSE CONTENT
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Speak, ask, answer, read, and comprehend Italian at moderate speed
regarding most everyday topics.
2. Conduct a basic conversation about common daily life topics in Italian.
3. Describe simple Italian basic facts of current life, past experience,
and future plans/ predictions orally and in writing.
4. Communicate fundamental cultural information regarding the Italian-speaking
world and differences between American and Italian cultures.
Objectives:
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1. Use and demonstrate comprehension of others' use of Italian vocabulary related
to the most common personal and commercial topics.
2. Formulate questions and declarative sentences and improvise brief paragraph-length
statements on the most common topics, all in Italian.
3. Read and react in Italian to simplified passages on a range of cultural and daily life topics.
4. Write what he/she is able to say in Italian.
5. Correctly pronounce all Italian words that follow the regular phonological patterns
and most that do not.
6. Control with relative ease the following: frequently used pronouns (subject, object,
reflexive, and disjunctive pronouns); present, past, imperfect and future tenses of all
regular and most common irregular verbs; describing sequence of events and using
common time marker words.
7. Produce compound and complex sentences involving the most common conjunctions.
8. Demonstrate comprehension of the main idea when listening to Italian spoken carefully.
9. Discuss aspects of Italian-speaking cultures
Topics and Scope
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1. Italian vocabulary related to common personal, commercial, and social 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. Italian sentence construction and differences from English syntax.
7. Creating sentences containing more than one verb tense.
8. Listening to Italian spoken at a natural speed.
9. Italian cultural aspects contrasted to American culture.
10. History and culture of the Italian peninsula and its environs.
Assignments:
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1. Read and practice lessons from the textbook/ textbook website (averaging 15 pages per week)
2. Memorize vocabulary and verb conjugations (averaging 55 words per week)
3. Written exercises from the textbook/ textbook website (averaging 10 exercises per week)
4. Complete online exercises and/or videos for verb conjugation and
listening/speaking practice, etc. (averaging 1 hour per week)
5. A variety of increasingly complex readings in Italian, including dialogues, short narratives, and explanatory prose.
6. Quizzes and/or tests, including final
7. Written compositions
8. Oral participation in activities in Italian
9. Individual and/or group cultural projects may be assigned
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, 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% |
Oral participation | |
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams 40 - 50% |
Quizzes, tests, final exam: 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 - 15% |
Online/video assignments | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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STUDENTS PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT BUY TEXTBOOKS before checking with the SRJC Bookstore.
These titles are representative only, and may not be the same ones used in your class.
Representative Textbooks:
Parliamo italiano! A Communicative Approach, 4th Edition. Branciforte, Suzanne and Di Fabio, Elvira. Wiley: 2010
Sentieri: Attraverso l'Italia contemporanea. Cozzarelli, Julia M. Vista Higher Learning: 2011
Instructor prepared materials
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