A writing-intensive course that aims to strengthen writing skills though varied genres, including literary analysis, journalism, and biography, and through multiple revisions. The course is a prerequisite for all upper division courses.

Taught in Italian. Required of majors and minors. This is a content-based, writing intensive course. Its thematic content changes every semester. In Spring 2023, we will look at Italy as a multicultural society, taking into consideration not only the various minority groups who have lived in its territory for centuries, but also the social and cultural changes that recent migrations have been bringing to the country and to its culture in the past thirty years or so. We will thus learn of the different ethnic and linguistic minorities living both along the borders with other European countries in the North and in several areas in the South. We will read about the “Italiani 2G” or second-generation Italians, who, despite being born and having grown up in Italy are not automatically granted Italian citizenship. We’ll address issues of cultural integration and of social estrangement. In the end, we’ll discuss and analyze how being a multicultural country has benefitted Italy in the past and how it could benefit it in the future as well. The purpose of Italian 101 is to help students strengthen and refine their writing skills in Italian, by expanding their vocabulary and experimenting with more complex grammatical structures. Emphasis is given on refining writing skills through a process of writing, reviewing, and re-writing. You will be exposed to texts from a variety of different genres and writing styles (newspaper and magazine articles, essays, personal narratives, etc.). Grammar will be reviewed in the context of the texts analyzed. This course is writing intensive. You will write several types of texts of different length and purpose: letters, film reviews, personal narratives, argumentative texts, etc. You will also review your peers’ work and have your own work read and commented by your peers. Re-writing will be required for most of the texts you’ll create for this class. At the end of the semester, you will have created a portfolio of about 20-30 pages in Italian. The course is entirely and exclusively taught in Italian.

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