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 and writing intensive course. Its thematic content changes every semester. In Fall 2021, we will focus on environmental issues, sustainability and social commitment in a post-industrial and largely urban society like Italy. Both global and local issues will be addressed. We will learn of the degradations suffered by the Italian landscape and environment often in the name of private and even criminal interests, but we will also focus on the efforts towards environmental preservation and protection. Thus, for instance, we’ll look at local initiatives like Libera Terra, which, through organic and sustainable farming co-ops, aims at repurposing land previously owned by the mafia, or at the development of grassroots programs to protect public water resources, or at the Slow Food movement, founded in Italy and then spread globally. 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.) focusing on relevant topics in Italian culture and society. Grammar will be reviewed in the context of the texts and genres analyzed. This course is writing intensive. You will write several different 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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