2024-2025 Academic Year

Fall 2024

ITAL 102 Elementary Italian
Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent

ITAL 232 Reading/Performing Ital Texts
Designed to increase student's comprehension and command of spoken Italian, this course is also an initiation in everyday verbal transactions and cultural communication prevalent in contemporary Italy. Phonetics, oral comprehension, and verbal production are practiced through exposure to authentic documents usually of a non-literary nature, such as television news programs, documentaries, commercial advertisements, and excerpts from films. Two and a half hours classroom and one hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: 201 or the equivalent.

FDST 250 From Pasta to Pizza
Cross-listed with ITAL 323-01. Additional Time Slot: For students pursuing the Italian FLIC option only – Wednesdays 1:30-2:20 in Bosler 314. Italian food is certainly one of the most famous and appreciated types of cuisine in the world. Who does not love a good dish of pasta or a delicious slice of pizza? In this course, we will trace the development of Italian cuisine from the Middle Ages to the present, by considering both the internal geographical and cultural differences and the transnational factors that contributed to create such a diverse and rich food culture. This course is offered in English. Italian Studies majors, Italian minors, and INBM majors using this course to satisfy major/minor requirements will attend a discussion group in Italian and will write their papers in Italian. Upon successful completion of the work in Italian, students will receive a "FLIC: Italian" notation on their transcript. Prerequisites: 231 if taken as Italian FLIC; none, if taking the English only portion.

ITAL 323 From Pasta to Pizza
Cross-listed with FDST 250-01. Additional Time Slot: For students pursuing the Italian FLIC option only – Wednesdays 1:30-2:20 in Bosler 314. Italian food is certainly one of the most famous and appreciated types of cuisine in the world. Who does not love a good dish of pasta or a delicious slice of pizza? In this course, we will trace the development of Italian cuisine from the Middle Ages to the present, by considering both the internal geographical and cultural differences and the transnational factors that contributed to create such a diverse and rich food culture. This course is offered in English. Italian Studies majors, Italian minors, and INBM majors using this course to satisfy major/minor requirements will attend a discussion group in Italian and will write their papers in Italian. Upon successful completion of the work in Italian, students will receive a "FLIC: Italian" notation on their transcript. Prerequisites: 231 if taken as Italian FLIC; none, if taking the English only portion.

Spring 2025

ITAL 101 Elementary Italian
Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.

ITAL 231 Read/Writ Contemp Ital Culture
Designed to increase student's awareness of various rhetorical conventions and command of written Italian through analysis and imitation of model texts of a literary and non-literary nature. Two and a half hours classroom and one hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: 201 or the equivalent.