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ITL 312L -
primavera 2009 - Descrizione del corso
Class is conducted
in the language of instruction: ITALIAN. Please arrange to meet
your
instructor outside of class if you must speak to him or her
in English.
"The University
of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic
accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information,
contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-4641 TTY."
Texts:
REQUIRED
In viaggio: Moving towards Fluency in Italian. Olson, Edwards, Foerster.
Available at the University Co-Op on Guadalupe.
Workbook/Laboratory Manual Part B to Accompany In viaggio. Olson, Edwards.
Available at the University Co-Op on Guadalupe. THE COVER IS WHITE AND
LIGHT GREEN.
NOTE that a
corrected version of the answer key to the Workbook/Lab Manual
is available online.
We will go
over the exercises from the "Pratica
scritta" sections of
the Workbook/Lab Manual as per the Syllabus. Your instructor may at
times assign exercises from the workbook that are not specifically
listed on the Syllabus
and may collect workbook/lab manual pages that have been assigned and
your completion of these exercises will contribute to your
course
grade (preparation/class participation).
Completion
of the exercises from the "Pratica orale" sections is also
required. Students may complete them in the Liberal Arts Computer Media
Lab, MEZ 2.104,
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/its/medialab.html
or via the web at
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/itsaud/
If you think that the audio file you have accessed does not match
its label on the list or the appropriate exercise in the Laboratory
Manual,
then
please notify
your instructor.
Students may
also purchase a CD containing the audio (recorded in mp3 format)
for these exercises from the Liberal Arts
Instructional
Technology
Media
Store in MEZ 2.302A. Information is available at
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/its/mediastore.html
Our goal is
to spend as little time as possible in class explaining grammar
that you
have already encountered in the first-year courses
or that is
thoroughly explained in the "spiegazioni grammaticali" in
the back (le pagine verdi) of In viaggio. But please do not hesitate
to let your instructor know
when these grammatical concepts are not clear to you after you
have worked on them in these materials.
ITL 312L is
the fourth course in a two-year sequence:
. . . ITL
506: First-Year Italian Language & Culture I
. . . ITL 507: First-Year Italian
Language & Culture II
. . . (ITL 118: Practice in
Spoken Italian; may be taken more than once; prerequisite
is ITL 507)
. . . ITL 312K: Second-Year
Italian Language & Culture I
. . . ITL 312L: Second-Year
Italian Language & Culture II
Students must
receive a grade "C" or above in any of these courses
in order to enroll in the next course in the sequence.
If you received a "D" or
a lower grade in ITL 312K or the equivalent, you may not
take this course.
In the first-year
courses students were introduced to most of the basic grammatical
structures of the
Italian language
and
acquired
a limited,
basic vocabulary
with limited time available for speaking practice.
In the second-year courses, students begin moving toward
fluency in Italian by focusing on seven major communicative
functions:
describing, comparing,
recommending
and expressing opinions, narrating in the past, expressing
likes and
dislikes, hypothesizing and talking about the future.
Grammar from
the first-year courses is reviewed, and new grammar points are
presented, always with the intention
of developing
and strengthening
students'
abilities
to use these seven communicative functions. A wide
range of cultural topics is explored in the second-year courses,
as
each chapter
of our text focuses
on a
different region of Italy.
IMPORTANTE!
It is the sole responsibility of each student to be
aware of and to meet the various deadlines imposed
by the University
and its
Schools and Colleges
concerning
the adding and dropping of courses, payment of tuition
and fees, changing
grade basis (letter grade, credit/nocredit) and withdrawing
from the university.
If you find
that personal or family emergencies or illness prevent you from
attending
class or from
completing a
significant number
of required
assignments,
you should
DROP THIS COURSE. The method for calculating your
course grade will be the same for all students
and under no
circumstances will your
instructor apply
different
criteria for calculating your course grade. Neither
should you expect your instructor to violate university
or departmental
policies in
assigning your course grade.
Grading: Your grade in this course will be calculated
as follows:
. . . 20% Quizzes
. . . 15% Componimenti (compositions--writing assignments)
. . . 20% Tests (Chapter 4 & 5 Tests)
. . . 15% Attendance / Preparation / Class Participation
. . . 10% Oral Performance
. . . 20% Esame finale
(Final examination)
Quizzes: There
are no makeups on quizzes for any reason. Seven quizzes will
be
given; the best five
of your
quiz scores will
represent 20%
of your grade
in
the course. The quizzes will contain both written
and listening comprehension exercises. The quizzes
will
test mastery
of the seven main communicative
functions, recently covered grammatical structures
and vocabulary, and will feature short
essay questions over readings and other material
covered in class. Be very careful in following
instructions on the listening
comprehension
exercises:
you must
write down only your answers; you must not write
down
any part of the questions or of the texts over
which you may
be answering
questions.
Again, there
are no makeups on quizzes for any reason.
Componimenti
(Compositions). There are three writing assignments (componimenti)
to be turned
in during
the semester. You
can always turn in an assignment
early, but only one of these assignments may
be turned in late. These assignments must be
typed
and double-
or triple-spaced.
No e-mail
submissions are accepted.
Your instructor
will mark errors on your first submission of the first two componimenti
that
you turn in and
will give you
a deadline
for
turning in
a second, corrected
draft on which you will receive a somewhat
higher grade provided you make appropriate
corrections.
Your grade
on the componimento
will be
your grade
on the second,
corrected draft. If you fail to turn in the
corrections on or before the date indicated,
your grade will
be the grade
you received
on
the first
draft. When
you turn in your second, corrected draft,
you
will hand it in together with the first draft.
The third
componimento
will be
submitted
only once.
Your instructor
will provide you with specific topics and instructions for each
componimento.
Chapter Tests: Chapter tests are given
following Chapters 4 and 5 according
to the syllabus.
Makeups on Chapter
Tests are
possible
only under extreme
circumstances; please do not request
a makeup on a Chapter Test unless
you have in fact experienced
a serious emergency. The tests will evaluate
mastery of the seven main communicative
functions, recently
covered grammatical
structures
and
vocabulary, and will
feature
short essay questions over readings and
other material covered in class. Be very
careful
in following
instructions on the
listening comprehension
exercises:
you
must write down only your answers; you
must not write down
any part
of the questions or of the texts over
which you may be answering questions.
Attendance
/ Preparation / Class Participation.
Attendance:
Attendance is mandatory. Each absence in excess of four will
result in
the loss of
points from
your final
course grade:
. . . 5th absence - loss of 1 point
. . . 6th absence - loss of 2 points
. . . 7th
absence and each absence thereafter
- loss of 3 points
Since we have
built in the possibility
of four unpenalized absences, we
do not distinguish
between "excused" and "unexcused" absences.
Therefore it is unnecessary to
explain your absences.
Students
should attend every class,
arriving for class on time and
staying in class
for the full
fifty minutes.
Tardy
arrivals
(and
early departures)
are disruptive
and distracting. Your instructor
and your fellow students consider
them
rude and
annoying.
Preparation
and Class Participation. We have only 150 minutes of class
time per
week;
therefore it
is critical
that students
arrive
in class
prepared to participate
in the day’s exercises
and activities. Your mere presence
in class is not sufficient
to merit a satisfactory grade
in
this component; the quality
as well
as the quantity of your participation
will be evaluated.
N.B. Unless
your instructor states otherwise,
responses
in class
are to be made without
reading previously
prepared texts. You
may consult
notes
in
class but
we are interested in conversation
rather than in reading to
each other.
Oral Performance:
Your oral performance in this course
will be evaluated
on comprehension, pronunciation,
use of appropriate
vocabulary, and
ability to
perform the seven
communicative functions
(punti chiave). Oral
performance will also be
evaluated on special Oral
Performance
Evaluation activities.
Your instructor
will
provide you with information
concerning the format and
scheduling of these
in-class activities. Students
will prepare for
these by creating
a scheda di vocabolario
(see In viaggio, "To
the Student", page
xv, "Parlando
del tema") which they
may refer to during the
activity. Reading a text
prepared ahead
of time for this activity
does not qualify for evaluation
as "oral performance".
Each student should count
on being evaluated twice
during the semester on
these OPE activities.
The
FINAL EXAMINATION:
The Final Examination
is a written
exam.
There is no "oral
part" of the final
exam. The final exam for
ITL 312L is a “uniform
final,” i.e., all
sections of the course
have their final exam on
the same date at the same
time. If you look up our
final exam in the Course
Schedule according
to the days and time that
the course meets, you will
find INCORRECT information.
We have already requested
Thursday 14 May at 7:00
pm as our final examination
time for this course, and
typically our requests
are honored. Many factors
affect the scheduling of
final exams and all of
these factors are dynamic.
You should
not have any plans whatsoever
to be out of town during
the examination period
until the date of the final
examination has been confirmed
by University Scheduling.
This confirmation will
not be made until late
in the semester. The Office
of
the Registrar states: “The
complete schedule of final
examinations, including
exam times and places,
is available about a month
before the end of each
long-session semester.”
http://utdirect.utexas.edu/rgexam/getyys.WBX
When it is
announced, please write down the
date and
time of your
final examination
in
more than
one place.
The final
exam will test mastery of the
seven
main communicative
functions, all
grammatical
structures,
vocabulary and
cultural topics,
including supplemental readings
and video presentations,
that
have been
covered during the
semester.
WEB RESOURCES
The
web pages for ITL 312L are found
at
http://www.geocities.com/itl312L/
On these pages
you will find
the Course
Description
(the
document you
are reading
now), the
Syllabus,
any necessary
addenda or
corrections
to the textbook,
links to other
sites
where
you can find
additional
information about geographical
and cultural
topics covered
in class, a
corrected version of the
answer
key to the
Workbook/Lab
Manual,
and other information.
Please
consult with your instructor
as
to how
he or she
plans to use BlackBoard in
communicating
with your
class.
The
Italian Club at the
University
of Texas
at
Austin
is the Circolo
italiano,
whose web
pages
are found
at
http://www.geocities.com/circolo_italiano/
You can
also
find information
on
our Department's
summer
Rome
Study
Program at
http://www.geocities.com/rome_study_program/
Policy
on
Scholastic Dishonesty:
Students
who
violate
University
rules
on
scholastic
dishonesty
are
subject
to
disciplinary
penalties,
including
the
possibility
of
failure
in
the
course
and/or
dismissal
from
the
University.
Since
such
dishonesty
harms
the
individual,
all
students
and
the
integrity
of
the
University,
policies
on
scholastic
dishonesty
will
be
strictly
enforced.
For
further
information,
please
visit
the
Student
Judicial
Services
web
site
at
http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/
Please
turn off
your phones
and other
noisemakers before
class begins,
and please
do not
eat your
snacks or lunches in class. |
