ITAL 2201 - Italian III

Satisfies Option 1.

Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: ITAL 1202, ITAL 1401, LPI score of 49 or higher.

M. Baraldi.

An intermediate-level course that aims to further develop intercultural, reading, listening, speaking, and writing abilities. Students will be guided in perfecting their communications skills, improving their cultural proficiency, and developing a critical eye toward printed and visual material drawn from literature, history, politics, arts in the Italophone world. Conversation skills will be practiced in daily discussions and in individual or group projects and presentations. A variety of written assignments will help students increase the range, accuracy, and stylistic appropriateness of their writing. Review of select grammar topics is part of this course, as is reading parts of contemporary novels.