First-Year Courses in Italian These pages are no longer maintained. Consult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 12:34 PM on Wed, Apr 28, 2004. Fall Academic Term, 2004 (September 7 - December 23) Search Only the First-Year LS&A Course Guide (Advanced Search Page) Search the Full LS&A Course Guide (Advanced Search Page) Students should review the current Romance Languages department policy regarding overrides and waitlists, available online at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/rll/langinstruct/overrides.html. ITALIAN 101. Elementary Italian. Elementary Language Courses Instructor(s): Sandra Palaich (spalaich@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Students with any prior study of Italian must take the Placement Test. Only the placement score and not language coursework completed at a previous school will determine placement (Prerequisites enforced at registration). (4). (LR). May not be repeated for credit. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in ITALIAN 100, 103, 111, or 112. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is task- and content-based and incorporates grammar in a functional use of language through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Vocabulary and structures are practiced in class through communicative activities. Cultural awareness and listening skills are further developed through audio-visual materials. Evaluation criteria include: regular attendance, oral participation, in-class work, homework assignments, quizzes, a midterm, and a final examination. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 3 Waitlist Code: 4 ITALIAN 103. Accelerated Italian. Elementary Language Courses Instructor(s): Sandra Palaich (spalaich@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Students with prior study of Italian must take the placement test. Only the placement score and not language coursework completed at a previous school will determine placement (Prerequisites enforced at registration). (4). (LR). May not be repeated for credit. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in ITALIAN 100, 101 or 102. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. ITALIAN 103 is an accelerated course for those students who wish to develop their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills at a rapid pace, while being introduced to various aspects of Italian culture. It is particularly appropriate for students who have studied another Romance language, such as French or Spanish. The material covered in this one-term course is equivalent to that taught in two terms of elementary ITALIAN 101 and 102. Evaluation criteria include: regular attendance, oral participation, in-class work, homework assignments, quizzes, a midterm, and a final examination. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 3 Waitlist Code: 4 ITALIAN 150. First Year Seminar in Italian Studies. Courses Taught in English Translation (without language prerequisites) Section 001 — Letters from the Italian Renaissance. Taught in English. Instructor(s): Alison Cornish (acorn@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. Taught in English. (3). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. First-Year Seminar Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In this course we will investigate the origins of education in the humanities by focusing on the genre of the letter, or epistle. We will study the history of the art of letter-writing (an Italian invention), its importance in the didactic program of the early humanists, and examples of letters written by some of the most famous personalities of the Italian Renaissance. We will read letters written by women and men, popes and painters, saints and scoundrels, whores and widows, educated people and uneducated, and we will also try our hand at writing letters back. Readings will include letters by Catherine of Siena, Pope Pius II, Lorenzo de Medici, Alessandra Strozzi, Christopher Columbus, Laura Cereta, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Niccolò Machiavelli, Francesco Petrarca, Pietro Aretino, Veronica Franco. The final project for the course will be a letter on an aspect of education in the humanist style. Work preparatory to this project will include exercises derived from Renaissance methods of teaching rhetoric, including pre-composition skills involving imitation and rhetorical analysis, practice composition focused on various rhetorical figures, devices, and strategies, and the preparation of a personal "commonplace book." Exercises will be done individually, as well as in groups, providing frequent occasion for peer review. In addition to a knowledge of the Italian Renaissance, some of its major figures and its revolutionary educational aims, the course is also designed to improve students rhetorical skills and written eloquence. One midterm, no final. Course is taught in English; no prior knowledge of Italian is necessary. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: 1 These pages are no longer maintained. Consult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 12:34 PM on Wed, Apr 28, 2004. 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