Fall 2008

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LOWER DIVISION COURSES
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ITALIAN 1: Elementary Italian
Gustavo Foscarini in charge

5 units: 5 hours in class sessions and one hour in language lab. Students attending these courses will learn the language with an emphasis on communicative, interactive classroom activities. Students will come into contact with the language not only through drills and exercise, but also via games, role-playing, and active class participation. The overall goal of these courses is to provide the students with "survival" skills in the target language and, at the same time, acquaint them with Italy and its culture. Also, these courses emphasize listing and speaking, and employ specific proficiency guidelines in determining the students' oral level during their coursework and at the end of the courses.

The syllabus for Italian 1 comprises the Preliminary chapter and chapters 1 through 6 of the textbook, and the related chapters in the Workbook/Lab manual.In this course you will learn pronunciation, and formal and familiar use of the language in introduction.  You will also learn how to ask and answer questions and ask for simple directions. Definite and indefinite articles, nouns and adjectives, plural formation, indicative present of the verbs, numbers, days of the week, months, seasons, how to tell times, weather-related expression, use of the prepositions, and many idiomatic expressions will give you the ability to communicate at the basic level. Short dialogues, daily practice, conversation and use of videos make class attendance indispensable.

Texts: J.M. Aski and D. Musumeci, Avanti! Beginning Italian, McGraw Hill, J.M. Aski and D. Musumeci, Avanti! Workbook/Laboratory Manual, McGraw Hill 2nd Edition.

 

CRN Days/Time Location

68804

M-F 9-9:50am

125 Olson

68805

M-F 10-10:50am

235 Wellman

68806

M-F 11-11:50am

103 Wellman

68807

M-F 12:10-1pm

103 Wellman

68808

M-F 9-9:50am

235 Wellman

68809

M-F 1:10-2pm

205 Wellman

ITALIAN 3: Elementary Italian
Antonella Bassi
3 units

 

CRN Days/Time

Location

68810

M-F 1:10-2:00pm

235 Wellman

 

Course Description:
The syllabus for Italian 3 comprises chapters 11-16. More emphasis on moods and tenses of the verb will increase the students' linguistic awareness with contrastive study of past perfect and present perfect, future perfect, and "simple" future. The conditional (present and perfect), the present of the subjunctive, the passive form and the impersonal constructions of the verb, superlative and comparative structures, suffixes in nouns and adjectives, more uses of prepositions with nouns and verbs will complete the basic knowledge of Italian and increase the students' ability in reading, understanding, speaking and writing, short compositions. Daily class attendance is indispensable in this course.

Texts: J.M. Aski and D. Musumeci, Avanti!, McGraw Hill

ITALIAN 4: Intermediate Italian
Antonella Bassi
4 units
Prerequisite: Italian 3 or consent of instructor

 

CRN Days/Time

Location

68811

68812

MWF 11:00-11:50am

MWF 10-10:50am

27 Wellman

27 Wellman

 

Course Description:
Review of grammar and syntax through written exercises and readings of short prose works. Intended to develop the linguistic foundations of students who have completed the first year language classes.

Texts: F. Italiano and I. Marchegiani Jones, Crescendo! Crescendo! Quaderno degli esercizi manuale d'ascolto

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UPPER DIVISION COURSES
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ITALIAN 101: Advanced Conversation, Composition, and Grammar
JoAnn Cannon
4 units
Prerequisite: Italian 9 or the equivalent by consent of instructor

CRN Days/Time Location

68818

MWF 9-9:50am

 

251 Olson

 

Course Description:

Texts: Italiano, Incontri Attuali.

ITALIAN 115A: Cinquecento
Juliana Schiesari
4 units
Prerequisite: Italian 9 or the equivalent by consent of instructor

CRN Days/Time Location

83425

MWF 1:10-2:00pm

 

207 Olson

 

Course Description:

Texts: Tasso's, Jerusalem Deliveredand la gerusalemme liberata ed caretti.

ITALIAN 120A: 20th Century Novel
JoAnn Cannon
4 units
Prerequisite: Italian 9 or the equivalent by consent of instructor

 

CRN Days/Time Location

83427

MWF 11:00-11:50pm

 

1020 Wickson

 

Course Description:

Texts: Sciascia, a ciascuno il suo; Calvino, le cosmicomiche; Levi, il sistema periodico.

ITALIAN 192: Italian Internship
Antonella Bassi, Coordinator
405 Sproul, &#97abassi

@ucdavis.edu
3-12 units

Place: Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco; Italian Cultural Society, Sacramento
Days/Time: TBA
CRN: TBA

Prerequisite: ITA 9 or consent of the instructor

The Italian Program offers two internships in conjunction with the Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, and the Italian Cultural Society, Sacramento. The internships are officially recognized by the UC Davis Internship and Career Center. While at the Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, interns will collaborate with the Director and her assistants in organizing and advertising a variety of cultural events offered throughout the year, at the Italian Cultural Society, Sacramento, interns will be engaged in administrative and instructional activities related to the teaching of Italian language and culture.

Both internships are unpaid but transportation costs will be reimbursed. The internships are variable-unit courses. However, in accordance with the guidelines of the ICC a minimum of ten hours per week for ten weeks, equivalent to three units, is required. Therefore, it is essential that students begin their internships in the first week of instruction!

Interested students are strongly encouraged to contact Antonella Bassi for information about the application procedure no later than September 23, 2008.

Grading:
Pass/No Pass

 

ITALIAN 197T: Tutoring in Italian
Antonella Bassi, Coordinator
405 Sproul, &#97abassi

@ucdavis.edu
1-4 units

Place: 424 Sproul
Time: TBA
CRN: TBA

Prerequisite: ITA 9 or consent of the instructor.

The tutor will assist elementary and intermediate students of Italian with grammar review and improvement of writing and speaking skills. Tutoring in Italian is a variable-unit course. Typically tutors offer two to four office hours per week. Two hours are equivalent to one unit, four hours to two units. It is essential that students begin their tutorships in the first week of instruction. Interested students are strongly encouraged to contact Antonella Bassi for information about the application procedure no later than September 23, 2008.

Grading:
Pass/No Pass

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OTHER COURSES TAUGHT BY ITALIAN FACULTY
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Film Studies 189 (4 units): New Italian Cinema
Margherita Heyer-Caput, CRN: 83339
LECTURE: TR 4:40 - 6:00, FILM VIEWING: T 7:10 - 10:00

Course Description: This course will explore the thriving Italian cinema of the twenty-first century in relationship with the deep cultural and social changes that Italy has experienced in the last two decades. We will witness how a young generation of Italian film-makers, from Marco Tullio Giordana to Gabriele Muccino, has overcome a paralyzing sense of "afterness" and infused Italian cinema with a new vitality. These directors-writers-producers-lead actors have successfully coped with the inspiring but also challenging legacy of the great /auteurs/ of Italian Neorealism of the '40s and '50s (Rossellini, De Sica, etc.) and of the art cinema of the '60s and '70s (Antonioni, Fellini, etc.), and with the disillusions suffered by the political cinema of the '80s and '90s (Rosi, Petri, the Tavianis, etc.). The movies analyzed revisit classic genres of Italian cinema, from the /commedia all'italiana/ to historical productions, and reinvent film as a powerful art form with a social reference and a moral accountability.

N.B.: 1) This course counts toward the Italian Major as a course in Related Fields. 2)FMS 189 may be repeated three times for credit when topics differ.

Course Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Film viewing - 3 hours.

Prerequisite: Course 1, upper-division standing, or consent of instructor.

Texts: Timothy Corrigan, A Short Guide to Writing about Film. A reader will also be used, New Italian American Cinema.