Undergraduate Course: Foundation Italian Language 1 (ELCI07007)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	A course for beginners with no previous knowledge of Italian, designed to give absolute beginners a basic, working knowledge of spoken and written Italian. The course is not suitable for students with previous knowledge of Italian. All students take all elements of assessment, including the examination. This course runs both in semester 1 and semester 2. On successful completion of the course students will have the option of taking Foundation Italian Language 2 (ELCI07006) (20 credits), which follows on from Foundation Italian Language 1.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	No previous knowledge of Italian is required.
Additional Costs	A course book A bilingual dictionary

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None
High Demand Course?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: 81
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 21, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 20, Formative Assessment Hours 2, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 151 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 50 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Coursework 50% (two in-class assessments and homework assignments) Degree exam 50% (A two-hour written paper) All students take all elements of assessment, including the examination.
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	Foundation Italian Language 1		2:00
Resit Exam Diet (April/May Sem 1 resits only)	Foundation Italian Language 1		2:00

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: 80
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 21, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Formative Assessment Hours 2, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 151 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 50 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Coursework 50% (two in-class assessments and homework assignments) Degree exam 50% (A two-hour written paper) All students take all elements of assessment, including the examination.
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)	Foundation Italian Language 1		2:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)	Foundation Italian Language 1		2:00

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: At the end of the course students should reach approximately level A1/1+ on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The acquisition of a basic language competence and a vocabulary of 600/700 words should be expected to allow the oral and written production of simple phrases, and to understand short passages where the context is clear and identified. Students will be able to communicate at an elementary level in situations of daily routine.

Reading List
Italian 1 (Palgrave Foundations) by Benetti, Murtas, Varchetta, 2nd edition, ISBN 798-0-230-53782-8 A pocket dictionary. These books are available from Blackwell's bookstore, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1YS

Additional Information
Course URL	http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/open-languages
Graduate Attributes and Skills	Not entered
Special Arrangements	This course is open to all students as a credit bearing course, or over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course. Please note that auditing this course is not allowed. You must be enrolled as CE (Class and Assessment including centrally arranged exam). DELC students may only take this course if it is over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course. Visiting Students may only take this course for credits.
Additional Class Delivery Information	IMPORTANT: Students must attend pairs of classes. See Web Timetable. The first class meeting will be the second class of the first week (week beginning 21st September) in the normal teaching room at the normal teaching time for each group.
Keywords	OLFITAL1SEM1&2