Methods and levels

Methods

The language courses are taught in Italian and follow a communicative approach. While grammar is introduced and learned, the emphasis is mostly on speaking.

Levels

Basic Italian 1
The grammatical structures include present tense of regular and some irregular verbs, articles, nouns, adjectives, and prepositions. Communicative goals include greetings and introducing oneself, asking for information, and describing people, objects, and places.

Basic Italian 2
The grammatical structures include present tense of some irregular verbs and past tense, and
direct and indirect pronouns. Communicative goals include describing oneself, talking about likes and dislikes, asking and answering questions about food, restaurants, shops, clothes, and
prices, asking and giving information, using the past tense, and talking about past events.

Basic Italian 3
The grammatical structures include past and future tenses, commands, ci and ne pronouns, and comparative and superlative adjectives. Communicative goals include talking about ongoing actions and habits in the past, future actions, and talking about cinema, TV, media, and health.

Intermediate Italian 1
The grammatical structures include formal commands, conditional tense, passato remoto, constructions with the infinitive, indefinite pronouns and adjectives, and relative pronouns. Communicative goals include talking about the environment, music, theater, art, and literature, and asking for information.

Intermediate Italian 2
The grammatical structures include subjunctive present and past. Communicative goals include talking about politics and social and multicultural problems.

Advanced Italian 1
Students will review the grammatical structures learned in Basic and Intermediate Italian and will be exposed to more sophisticated constructions. Discussion of texts including literary works and magazine and newspaper articles will follow.

Advanced Italian 2
This is an advanced course for students who have reached a high level of proficiency in Italian. This class will meet to read and discuss articles selected by the instructor. Students will have opportunities to apply their knowledge of the Italian language to literature and cultural and social topics.

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