Baton Rouge Community College
Academic Affairs Master Syllabus
Date Approved or Revised: May 30, 2012
Course Name: Elementary Italian I
Course Number: ITAL 101
Lecture Hrs. 3
Lab Hrs. 0
Credit Hrs. 3
Course Description: Develops basic proficiency of the Italian language and culture and explores
the basic grammatical structure of the Italian language. This course develops writing, reading,
listening, and speaking skills and instills an appreciation for the geography, food, music, values, and
customs of the Italian world.
Prerequisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Suggested Enrollment Cap: 24
Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
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Perform basic social exchanges in Italian;
Identify the geographical Italian speaking world and some cultural traits of different Italian
speaking groups;
Exchange information related to personal characteristics and interests and describe people,
things, events, and situations using the appropriate gender and number;
Express possession
Follow sentence structure and use subject-verb agreement with regular and irregular verbs, in
present and present perfect (passato prossimo) tenses in Italian.
General Education Learning Outcomes: This course supports the development of competency
in the following areas. Students will:
1. communicate in standard edited English, write and speak with clarity, coherence, and
persuasiveness;
3. think critically, independently, and creatively and make informed and logical judgments of the
arguments of others, arrive at reasoned and meaningful arguments and positions, and formulate and
apply ideas to new contexts.
Assessment Measures:
All students will be assessed on listening comprehension, oral communication, reading comprehension,
and vocabulary acquisition using the following tools:
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Departmental faculty-made mid-term and final exams graded by a common rubric;
Instructor-made assessment instruments: quizzes, pop quizzes, oral interviews;
Role playing;
Written and oral exercises from workbook and textbook
Information to be included on the Instructors’ Course Syllabi:
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Disability Statement: Baton Rouge Community College seeks to meet the needs of its
students in many ways. See the Office of Disability Services to receive suggestions for
disability statements that should be included in each syllabus.
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Grading: The College grading policy should be included in the course syllabus. Any
special practices should also go here. This should include the instructor’s and/or the
department’s policy for make-up work. For example in a speech course, “Speeches not
given on due date will receive no grade higher than a sixty” or “Make-up work will not
be accepted after the last day of class.”
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Attendance Policy: Include the overall attendance policy of the college. Instructors
may want to add additional information in individual syllabi to meet the needs of their
courses.
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General Policies: Instructors’ policy on the use of things such as beepers and cell
phones and/or hand held programmable calculators should be covered in this section.
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Cheating and Plagiarism: This must be included in all syllabi and should include the
penalties for incidents in a given class. Students should have a clear idea of what
constitutes cheating in a given course.
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Safety Concerns: In some programs this may be a major issue. For example, “No
student will be allowed in the safety lab without safety glasses.” General statements
such as, “Items that may be harmful to one’s self or others should not be brought to
class.”
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Library/ Learning Resources: Since the development of the total person is part of our
mission, assignments in the library and/or the Learning Resources Center should be
included to assist students in enhancing skills and in using resources. Students should
be encouraged to use the library for reading enjoyment as part of lifelong learning.
Expanded Course Outline:
I.
Perform basic social exchanges in Italian
A. Greet others in Italian
B. Ask and answer questions in Italian
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II.
Identify the geographical Italian speaking world and some cultural traits of different Italian
speaking groups
A. Name the Italian speaking countries
B. Locate on a map the Italian speaking countries
C. Identify Italian speaking significant groups in non Italian-speaking countries
D. Name different languages in Italian.
E. Identify and use different forms of addressing others: formal and informal, singular and plural
you: Lei, tu, Loro, and voi.
F. Name and describe sports, and pastimes and their practice in the Italian speaking countries
G. Identify famous Italian landmarks.
H. Identify some customs of the Italian world
I. Name numbers in Italian and ask basic questions such as how much it cost? what is your phone
number? And what is your address?
J. Express clock time: È ľ or sono le + time
K. Give date in Italian: day, month, year
L. Identify seasons of the year
M. Identify days of the week
III. Exchange information related to personal characteristics and interests and describe people,
things, events, and situations using the appropriate gender and number
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Use adjectives to describe people: adjective and noun agreement
Describe people and things according to gender
Identify people and things by number
Identify and use properly the definite and indefinite article
Talk about favorite activities
The verb essere
Describe adjectives of nationality
Use of direct object pronouns (i pronomi de oggetto diretto)
Express amounts using numbers up to one hundred
Order drinks and snacks
Conjugate Italian verbs in the present tense ending in –are, -ere and -ire
Name college courses.
Talk about the school system in Italy
Name family members in Italian
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Express possession
A. Express possession using possessive adjectives preceded by definite articles
B. Express possessive adjectives to refer to family members in the singular and in the plural.
C. Express possession with the verb avere
D. Use the verb avere in idiomatic expressions
V.
Follow sentence structure and use subject-verb agreement with regular and irregular
verbs, in present and present perfect (passato prossimo) tenses in Italian.
A. Express the present perfect tense (passato prossimo) with the verbs avere (to have) and
essere (to be)
B. Talk about future plans: andare + a + infinitive
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C. Express obligations using the verb dovere + infinitive
D. Use demonstrative adjectives to indicate a particular person, place or thing
E. Use of essere to express origin, characteristics, profession, or material
F. Distinguish the differences and uses of conoscere and sapere (to know)
F. Recognize and use appropriately the pronoun within the sentence
G. Recognize and use appropriately the adjective within the sentence
H. Recognize and use appropriately the verb within the sentence
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Recognize and use appropriately the conjunction within the sentence
J. Recognize and use appropriately the preposition and the formation of contraction of
preposition and article within the sentence
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