Lecture 5 hours per week.
Students learn to function in the language within a limited context of vocabulary and structures.
The course includes a general introduction to culture. The student will understand content referring to basic personal background and needs, social conventions and routine tasks, such as getting meals and receiving simple instructions and directions. Within these limitations, the student can perform such tasks as introducing self, ordering a meal, asking directions, and making purchases. Reading The student will read and understand messages with social purposes or information for a wide audience, such as public announicements and short straightforward instructions dealing with public life. The student will be able to learn the structure of the Italian language in a prescribed sequence beginning with the simplest structures and writing toward the more complex.