Undergraduate Course: Italian 1 (ELCI08001)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | Tuition in written and spoken Italian. Language classes are streamed according to competence in Italian (from beginners to post-'A' level).
Study of aspects of Italian Culture - film, opera, literature - in their social and historical contexts.
Considerable private study is required in order to profit from this intensive course.
Auditing (Class only) is not allowed.
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| Course description |
Skills and competences:
By the end of the first year course, students will have acquired the following:
A. Language
- Structural competence: ranging from a basic grasp of Italian grammatical structures for students with no previous experience of Italian, to a
deeper understanding of grammatical concepts for more advanced students.
- Lexical competence: they will have acquired/developed a vocabulary of 800-1200 Italian words.
- Communicative competence: they will be able to communicate in Italian both in speaking and writing, within the range and context of the course.
- Receptive competence: they will read and understand short written texts of medium to high level of difficulty and listen with understanding to
5-8 minute sections of spoken Italian delivered at normal speed by a native speaker.
B. Italian Cultural Studies
- knowledge and understanding of the cultural developments of the periods studied and of the formal and thematic issues
raised by the selected works;
- familiarity with the recommended secondary material relevant to the period, authors, directors and composers studied;
- understanding of the relationship between the works studied and their social and historical context;
- ability to criticise, evaluate and interpret evidence.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is only open to Undergraduate University of Edinburgh and Visiting students. Postgraduate students must get the approval of the course organiser before enrolling. |
| Additional Costs | Language textbooks:
For beginners to Intermediate level:
Ciao! by Carla Larese Riga, Heinle, Cengage learning, International (8th) Edition 2014 (£39.99)
For advanced students (A level/ Advanced Higher +)
Nuovo Progetto Italiano 2. Corso multimediale di lingua e civiltà italiana, by T.Marin and S. Magnelli, IV edizione, 2009 (approx £ 35) |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 80 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Lecture Hours 20,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 75,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
294 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Continuous assessment plus examination. No exemption available. |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 3:00 | | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | | 3:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a good grasp of everyday Italian vocabulary, grammar and syntax, along with a broad and critical understanding of Italian literature and culture.
- Appraise straightforward spoken and written information about everyday study or work related topics, identifying both general messages and specific details.
- Communicate with reasonable accuracy on familiar topics both orally and in writing, expressing personal opinions, and comparing and contrasting those of others.
- Develop effective communication, presentation and interaction skills across a range of media.
- Demonstrate self-reliance, initiative, and the ability to work flexibly with others as part of a team
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Reading List
Cultural Studies reading list:
Baldassar Castiglione, "The Book of the Courtier", translated by George Bull, London, Penguin, 1976 (or any reprint of this edition)
Woodhouse, J. R. Baldesar Castiglione: A Reassessment of ¿The Courtier¿, Edinburgh University Press, 1978
Hanning, Robert W., and David Rosand (eds), Castiglione: The Ideal and the Real in
Renaissance Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press 1983
Burke, P., The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy, 2nd edn.
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999
Hale, J. R. (ed.). A Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance. London:
Thames and Hudson, 1980.
P. Bondanella, Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present (1983)
M. Liehm, Passion and Defiance: Film in Italy from 1942 to the Present (1984)
M. Kimbell, Italian Opera Cambridge University Press, 1991
W. Weaver, The golden century of Italian Opera, from Rossini to Puccini (1980)
G. Boccaccio, Decameron, ed. by J. Usher, Oxford World Classics, 1993
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | DELC Italian 1 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Carlo Pirozzi
Tel: (0131 6)50 4461
Email: |
Course secretary | Ms Marleen March
Tel: (0131 6)50 6949
Email: |
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