Curriculum and Courses

The Italian language curriculum offers six semesters of language instruction over three years—a total of approximately 240 contact hours. As our courses have been designed to develop students’ language skills progressively, students are required to take them in sequence:

  • Elementary Italian I (ITAL 1003)
  • Elementary Italian II (ITAL 1004)
  • Intermediate Italian I (ITAL 1113)
  • Intermediate Italian II (ITAL 1114)
  • *Conversation, Composition and Reading I (CCR1) (ITAL 2213)
  • *Conversation, Composition and Reading II (CCR2) (ITAL 2214)

*Conversation, Composition and Reading I and II (ITAL 2213 and 2214) are approved language courses for the major and minor in Italian Studies. See Language courses for the major and minor.

Elementary Italian I (ITAL 1003), Intermediate Italian I (ITAL 1113) and Conversation, Composition and Reading I (ITAL 2213) are offered only in the Fall semester.

Elementary Italian II (ITAL 1004), Intermediate Italian II (ITAL 1114) and Conversation, Composition and Reading II (ITAL 2214) are offered only in the Spring semester.

In addition to these courses, we offer practica in Elementary (Elementary Italian Practicum I ITAL 1021 and Elementary Italian Practicum II ITAL 1022) and Intermediate (Intermediate Italian Practicum I ITAL 1111 and Intermediate Italian Practicum II ITAL 1112). These optional, one-hour supplementary courses give students of the Elementary and Intermediate courses the extra practice they need to hone their Italian skills.

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