Italian Studies

Courses Offered

ITAL-1001/6 Introductory Italian
This course is designed for students who have little or no previous knowledge of Italian and who wish to acquire a solid base in the written and spoken language. An effort is made to place equal emphasis on reading, writing, aural comprehension, and oral expression. To this end, one hour of language laboratory/small-group work supplements classroom work each week. Restrictions: Native speakers of Italian or students who have standing in Italian 40S or equivalent are not eligible to take this course.

ITAL-2001/6 Intermediate Italian
The aim of this course is to enable students to increase their proficiency in the following skills: reading, writing, aural comprehension, and oral expression. Students review and build on grammar essentials, discuss readings and related topics of current interest, write compositions, and practice the spoken language. One-hour of language laboratory / small-group work provides additional practice each week.
Pre-requisites: Introductory Italian or Italian 40S or permission of the department.

In addition to Italian Studies, we offer courses in French Studies, German Studies and Spanish Studies. For program details, please go to the Modern Languages and Literatures webpage.