• Offered by School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
  • ANU College ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Classification Transitional
  • Course subject Italian
  • Areas of interest Art History, Contemporary Europe, European Languages, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, European Studies
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Katherine Mitchell
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in Second Semester 2017
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This course builds on basic knowledge and skills acquired in the ITAL 1002 course, or equivalent.  It is designed to broaden the knowledge and skills required to use Italian in a variety of contexts. The methodology employed adopts an intercultural perspective and integrates a communicative approach, aiming to develop all language skills, with linguistic reflection. Use is made of different media and authentic texts, in addition to the prescribed course materials, with particular attention to Italian films. Class time is divided between interactive language work, linguistic and cultural reflection and computer aided language learning.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
  1. Communicate in Italian in daily contexts including describing people, places, daily routines, and narrating events in the past.
  2. Comprehend written and multimedia Italian texts describing people, places and aspects of Italian life and culture.
  3. Describe Italy's geographical diversity and relevant aspects of Italian society and culture including places of cultural, historical or artistic significance.
  4. Describe and use a range of linguistic features of the Italian language (grammar and lexicon) using relevant meta-linguistic terminology.
  5. Explain and put into practice basic pragmatic aspects of Italian.

Indicative Assessment

Online (Wattle) and workbook activities, ongoing 1-2 hr per week, (10%) [Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 4]
Reading/Listening comprehension tests (in class), 30 min each, (35%)  [Learning Outcomes 2, 3]
Essay (in Italian), 250 words, (20%) [Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 4]
Oral test (recorded), 5 min, (15%) [Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 4, 5]
Research Essay, 1000 words (20%) [Learning Outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5]

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Workload

130 hours of total student learning time made up from:
a) 48 hours of contact: 4 hours of class time per week.
b) 82 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have successfully completed ITAL6501 or have equivalent level of language proficiency as demonstrated by placement test. Alternatively you may gain permission of the Course Convener to enrol in this course. Incompatible with ITAL1003.

Specialisations

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2017 $3216
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2017 $4590
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
8007 24 Jul 2017 31 Jul 2017 31 Aug 2017 27 Oct 2017 In Person N/A

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