Italian Language in Context: Novice Abroad III Intensive

This course is designed to meet the needs of highly motivated beginner students who want to enhance their experience abroad through a full immersion language course. The course will introduce the students to the most frequent everyday situations to facilitate their ability to communicate and function in a new environment. Grammar and vocabulary will always be presented, analyzed and practiced in a context which is meaningful to the students. Oral skills will be emphasized while a grounding in grammar will consolidate the understanding and use of the language structures. Vocabulary is based on everyday situations. It is a demanding, challenging and participatory course, with a quick pace: by the end of the course students will realize they are better assimilated into everyday Italian life and culture.

This course corresponds to two semesters of Italian, thus fulfilling the language requirements.

Student Profile

This course is designed for students with little or no prior knowledge of Italian, but with an interest in an intensive language development experience.  Students who have studied another Romance language may be interested in entering this level.

By the end of the course, the successful student will have built a solid foundation in the five skills: intercultural communication, reading, writing, listening, and speaking to accomplish a variety of everyday needs in the host culture as described in the learning outcomes below and should be capable of entering the Emerging Independent Abroad level.