The first level course will introduce you to the Italian language, covering the basic communicative tools that are useful for everyday interaction in Italy. You will be taught the linguistic system, and given strategies and techniques that facilitate the learning process.

This course builds on the linguistic skills covered in the previous levels, introducing new, more complex structures. You will be taught the linguistic system, and given strategies and techniques that facilitate the learning process.

This course builds on the linguistic skills covered in the previous levels, introducing the most complex structures of Italian language. You will be taught not only the linguistic system, but will also be given strategies and techniques that facilitate the learning process.

Building on skills learned at prior levels, this course is designed to develop language proficiency. You will be taught the linguistic system, and given strategies and techniques that facilitate the learning process.

This course provides review, synthesis, consolidation and elaboration of linguistic knowledge gained from lower-division courses. You will also explore some aspects of Italian culture and learn the Italian way of thinking and living by reading Italian newspapers.

This course focuses on Italian films after the Second World War as a mirror through which the student can penetrate Italian culture and way of life. Starting with the years following the Second World War (“Roma città aperta”, 1946), to more recent productions such as La Vita è Bella (1997), motion pictures will allow the student to become familiar with several aspects of Italian experience in the second part of 20th century. Lectures, film viewings, discussion of films and readings, student research and presentations will be relevant parts of class sessions.