Italian Language in Tuscany
(ITAL S116)
Prof.ssa Eleonora Buonocore
Eleonora.buonocore@yale.edu
Regular meeting times (unless otherwise noted)
1. Italian Language: 9:30-10:45am
Testi
1. Suzanne Branciforte & Elvira G. Di Fabio, Parliamo italiano! (4th edition)
2. Parliamo italiano! Student Activities Manual
3. a good Italian-English dictionary
date
June 23
Italian Language
afternoon events
Benvenuti!
Screening: Room with a View
Unità preliminare: 2-16: Le
presentazioni; I saluti;
L’alfabeto; I numeri da 0 a 100.
24
Unità 1: 18-32; La geografia;
La città.
Unità 1: 33-50; I mesi
dell’anno; La data
Esame 1
Unità 2: 62-68; La lezione;
100-102; vocabolario.
Unità 2: 69-86; La casa dello
studente; L’università
25
26 @11
27
30
WB: Unità preliminare-Unità
Unità 2: 87-93; La vita scolastica.
July 1st
Esame 2
Unità 3: 104-120: La famiglia,
La casa
2
Tema 1a
Unità 3: 121-133: Il tempo, In
centro, Unità 3: 143-144; vocabolario.
Esame 3
3
Screening: Tea With Mussolini
San Gimignano
2:00 (Piazza Gramsci)
Screening: The Sky Is Falling
The Palio!
Screening: Life Is Beautiful
4 @11
7
8
9
10
11-13
14
15
16
17
Unità 4: 146-155: Al mercato
all’aperto
Tema 1b.
WB: Unità 3-4
Unità 4: 156-180: I soldi; Le
commissioni; I negozi
Unità 5: 188-205: Al bar; In
trattoria
Tema 2a.
Unità 5: 206-221: Al
ristorante; In cucina
Esame 4
Unità 6: 232-238: Il tempo libero
Unità 6: 239-249; Lo sport.
Florence Trip, the Uffizi, Overnight
stay (July 5th )
Screening: La prima cosa bella
Screening: Sandra
3:30 -5. Unità 6: 249-261; La passeggiata; Al mare e in montagna
Partenza per Roma!
Wb: Unità 5-6
Unità 6: 269-270; vocabolario
ripasso generale;
ripasso Unità 6
Tema 3a
Esame 5
Unità 7: 272-280: Il corpo, la
salute
Unità 7: 281-299:
L’abbigliamento; Fare acquisti
Unità 7: 300-306; La moda;
316-318; vocabolario. Ripasso
18 PISA
19-20 FREE
21
Tema 4a
Esame 6
Unità 8: 320-338; Le professioni; I mezzi di trasporto
22
Unità 8: 339-353; L’industria;
Il colloquio di lavoro
23
ripasso per l’esame finale
24
Wb: Unità 7-8
Esame finale
25
Tema 4b
Presentazioni
Screening: Night of the Shooting
Stars
Field trip: WWII Tuscany
Screening: Good Morning Babylon
Screening: Fiorile
Screening: Stealing Beauty
Italian Language
Requirements:
1. Italian only: Italian S-116 is conducted entirely in Italian.
You will be expected to speak only Italian in class. As you
become more proficient, you will also speak in Italian with
classmates, other Yale students, and instructors.
2. Attendance: Class attendance is mandatory and will be marked
each day. Italian S-116 is an intensive and highly interactive
course and requires a strong commitment from the student in
terms of attendance, homework assignments and participation.
Students will be allowed one absence from the language
component during the summer session (1½ hours total of class
time). More than one absence/1½ hours of class time, and/or
excessive tardiness, will adversely affect a student’s grade, and
may result in his/her being asked to withdraw from the course.
Absences for religious holidays are excused.
3. Three tardies (five to ten minutes late to class) will count as
one absence.
4. Exams: There are six 60-minute exams over the course of our
five-week session. Your lowest exam score will be dropped
and only five will be counted toward the exam component of
your semester grade. Make-up exams are not allowed.
5. Compositions: Rough draft compositions (“a”) are due as
indicated on the syllabus; rewritten compositions (“b”) are due
on Fridays, including travel days. The rough draft counts for
one-half of the grade on your compositions. Write your rough
drafts carefully.
6. Your Student Activities Manual has three sections: a
Workbook, a Lab Manual, and a Video Manual. You are
responsible for the Workbook section only, given the vagaries
of internet access in Siena. Workbooks (“Wb” on the syllabus)
must be turned in, two units at a time, as indicated on the
syllabus. Make sure to correct your Wb units using the
Answer Key distributed via email in May (and also available
on classes*v2).
Grade Breakdown
15%
Class attendance and participation
20%
Compositions
10%
Workbook (timely completion,
self-correction)
35%
Exams
20%
Final Exam
Cinema in Tuscany
Requirements:
1. Attendance: Same as for the course on Italian
Language
2. Weekly response papers: Brief (minimum 500
words) critical responses to the films presented in
a given week. Due on Mondays. These essays
will then provide the framework for informal,
student-led discussions.
3. Class participation: Serious and lively student
engagement in class discussion is vital to the success of our seminar.
4. Comprehensive final exam involving definitions, identifications, and essay question(s).
5. Final project—student-made films (don’t be
intimidated, reassuring details to be discussed in
class), to be screened on the last day of class.
The fifth of the short essays will be an account of
your filmmaking process.
Grade Breakdown
Participation
Essays
Final Exam
25%
50%
25%
N.B. Failure to receive a passing grade on any
one component of the final grade will result in an
F for the course as a whole.
N.B. Failure to receive a passing grade on any one component of
the final grade will result in an F for the course as a whole.