Winter 2013

WINTER QUARTER 2013 COURSES

Course

Title

Units

CRN

Days/Times

Location

Instructor

ITA 002-1

Elementary Italian

5

58972

M-F 9:00-9:50

 103 Wellman

 A. Bassi

ITA 002-2

Elementary Italian

5

58973

M-F 10:00-10:50

 251 Olson

 E. Ferraro

ITA 002-3

Elementary Italian

5

58974

M-F 11:00-11:50

 251 Olson

 E. Ferraro

ITA 002-4

Elementary Italian

5

58975

M-F 12:10-1:00

 105 Olson

 J. Grossi

ITA 002-5

Elementary Italian

5

58976

M-F 1:10-2:00

 105 Olson

 J. Grossi

ITA 002-6

Elementary Italian

5

73860

M-F 10:00-10:50

 103 Wellman

 J. Grossi

ITA 005-1

Intermediate Italian

4

58977

MWF 10:00-10:50

 217 Olson

 A. Bassi

ITA 005-2

Intermediate Italian

4

58978

MWF 11:00-11:50

 217 Olson

 A. Bassi

ITA 101-1

Advanced Conversation, Composition, and Grammar

4

73862

TR 9:00-10:20

 1128 Hart

 M. Heyer-

 Caput

ITA 105-1

Introduction to Italian Literature

4

73864

TR 12:10-1:30

 207 Olson

 M. Heyer-

 Caput

ITA 120-1

Italian-American Cinema

4

55003

TR 3:10-4:30

T 5:10-8:00

 1150 Hart

 J. Schiesari

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 LOWER DIVISION COURSES  
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ITALIAN 2: Elementary Italian (5 Units)

Course Description:  Italian 2 is the second course of Elementary Italian.  Students in this course will continue learning the language in a setting that emphasizes communicative and interactive class activities, e.g., games and role-playing, while focusing also on form (grammar exercises).  The syllabus for Italian 2 comprises Chapters 6 to 11 of the textbook, and the related chapters in the Workbook/Lab Manual (which is available online).  More emphasis on moods and tenses of the verb will increase the students' linguistic awareness with contrastive study of present perfect, imperfect, and past perfect.  The future tenses will also be introduced. Students will continue to explore both the language and culture of Italy and increase their reading, understanding, speaking and writing skills. Since the study of a foreign language is different from the study of other disciplines, daily class attendance is indispensable in this course. Unjustified absences will cause a student’s participation grade to drop, and his/her overall grade will suffer accordingly. Just as important as daily class participation are homework assignments.  Laboratory is required, and instructors will collect and grade the lab work as scheduled in the Syllabus. Failure to comply with the lab requirements will result in a failing lab grade.
    Italian 2 is the second course of Elementary Italian.  Students in this course will continue learning the language in a setting that emphasizes communicative and interactive class activities, e.g., games and role-playing, while focusing also on form (grammar exercises).  The syllabus for Italian 2 comprises Chapters 6 to 11 of the textbook, and the related chapters in the Workbook/Lab Manual (which is available online).  More emphasis on moods and tenses of the verb will increase the students' linguistic awareness with contrastive study of present perfect, imperfect, and past perfect.  The future tenses will also be introduced. Students will continue to explore both the language and culture of Italy and increase their reading, understanding, speaking and writing skills. Since the study of a foreign language is different from the study of other disciplines, daily class attendance is indispensable in this course. Unjustified absences will cause a student’s participation grade to drop, and his/her overall grade will suffer accordingly. Just as important as daily class participation are homework assignments.  Laboratory is required, and instructors will collect and grade the lab work as scheduled in the Syllabus. Failure to comply with the lab requirements will result in a failing lab grade.

Prerequisite: Italian 1.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 5 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

GE Credits (Old): None.
GE Credits (New): World Cultures.


Texts:

  • Janice Aski & Diane Musumeci, Avanti: Beginning Italian - 2nd Edition (Textbook)  (McGraw Hill, 2009)
  • Janice Aski, Diane Musumeci, & Carla Wysokinski, Avanti: Beginning Italian - 2nd Edition(Workbook/Laboratory Manual)  (McGraw Hill, 2009)

 


ITALIAN 5: Intermediate Italian (4 Units)

Course Description:
 This is the second course of Intermediate Italian. The purpose of this course is to review and practice 1st year skills while introducing new grammar structures and expanding vocabulary in a communicative and task-oriented classroom, where language and culture are inseparable.  Students will strengthen their language skills through a variety of class activities (oral presentations, collaborative exercises to critically understand written and spoken Italian) and homework assignments (online lab and workbook).  Students will also engage in writing activities (compositions) and receive individualized feedback through tutoring sessions.  Movie clips, videos and music are fundamental learning tools in this course.  Italian 5 covers chapters 5-8 of the textbook, and the related chapters in the Workbook/Lab Manual.  First-year grammar review includes: the verb “piacere” and similar verbs, contrast of future and conditional.  New language structures include:  the remote past, the subjunctive mood, and relative pronouns.

Prerequisite: Italian 4.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Term Paper.

GE Credits (Old): None.
GE Credits (New): World Cultures.


Texts:

  • Elissa Tognozzi, et al, Ponti: Italiano Terzo Millennio - 3rd Edition (Textbook) (Heinle Cengage Learning, 2013)  
  • Elissa Tognozzi, et al, Ponti: Italiano Terzo Millennio - 3rd Edition (Workbook / Lab Manual) (Heinle Cengage Learning, 2013) 
     

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 UPPER DIVISION COURSES
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ITALIAN 101: Advanced Conversation, Composition and Grammar (4 Units)
Prof. Margherita Heyer-Caput, mheyercaput@ucdavis.edu

Course Description:  This course is aimed at improving oral and written proficiency through group discussions and oral presentations in class and weekly compositions and grammar review exercises at home.  Students work on linguistic structures in context through close readings of short, modern and contemporary literary texts included in the course textbook. Participants expand vocabulary and enhance conversational skills while discussing cultural changes in today’s Italy, with particular attention to human relationships.  Audiovisual materials (songs, film-clips, etc.) will regularly complement class activities.  ITA 101 is required for the Italian Major/Minor and will be conducted in Italian.

Prerequisite: Italian 9 or consent of instructor.

Format: Lecture - 3 hours.

GE Credits (Old): None.
GE Credits (New): ArtHum, Oral Literacy, World Cultures, and WritExp.


Texts:

  • L. Bresciani, Amicizia, Affeto, Amore (Farinelli)

 


ITALIAN 105: Introduction to Italian Literature (4 Units)
Prof. Margherita Heyer-Caput, mheyercaput@ucdavis.edu

Course Description: This course provides an introduction to the principal movements, authors, and works of Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present.  We will focus on close readings of representative excerpts from masterpieces of medieval, renaissance, baroque, romantic, and modern authors within their historical and cultural context. ITA 105 is required for the Italian Major/Minor and will be conducted in Italian.  The format will combine lectures and group discussions.  Students will contribute to class activities with oral presentations on an author or an aspect of Italian cultural history.

Prerequisite: Italian 101 or consent of instructor.

Format: Lecture/discussion - 3 hours; term paper.

GE Credits (Old): ArtHum
GE Credits (New): ArtsHum, Oral Literacy, and World Cultures.


Texts:

  • Paolo Balboni, Litteratura Italiana per Stranieri (Guerra Edizioni Guru, 2009)

 


ITALIAN 120: Italian American Cinema (4 Units)  [Cross-listed with FMS 120]
Prof. Juliana Schiesari, jkschiesari@ucdavis.edu

Course Description: The main focus of this course will be the cinema of Martin Scorsese. We will study his "gangster" films not only in the context of his Italian-American experience in New York but also through the lens of marginalized ethnicities ( Irish and Italian). We will also analyze his other films which depict the struggles of isolated individuals whose only answer to life's events seems to be violence and brutality (Taxi Driver and Raging Bull) and, yet, seem to find redemption in the most contorted of situations. We will also consider how gender is constructed and manipulated in a world of hyper-masculinity. And while the main focus will be the cinema of Scorsese, we may also consider other films by Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, and others.

Prerequisite: Italian 1 and upper division standing, or consent of instructor.

Format: Lecture/discussion - 3 hours; Film viewing - 3 hours.

GE Credits (Old): ArtHum, Div, and Wrt.
GE Credits (New): ArtHum, Oral Literacy, Visual Learning, World Cultures, and WrtExp.


Texts:

  • Mark Nicholls, Scorsese's Men: Melancholia and the Mob (Pluto Press Australia, 2005)
  • David Thompson, Scorsese on Scorsese: Revised Edition (Faber & Faber, 2004)