CULP: Italian Upper-Intermediate through Stories and Film

Prerequisites£

A language course for students who have an upper-intermediate command of the Italian Language (completed B2), ideally suited to those students who have completed the CULP Intermediate 2 course or have taken Italian at AS Level. The level is upper-intermediate/advanced.

For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.

• Please note students need to contact CULP Administrator on culp@langcen.cam.ac.uk for the link to make a payment.

• University staff and students
• Further details regarding Language Centre eligibility criteria are available

• CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference): B2

Short stories (graded at B2) and films (and shorts) will be used in this course to discuss topics revolving around Italian identity, history and culture.

By the end of the course students will be able to:

• Listening/Speaking: Contribute effectively to discussions about cultural, historical and geographical topics as portrayed in the literary tradition and film and keep up a casual conversation with a good degree of fluency, coping with narrative and some idiomatic expressions.
• Reading: Read graded written works and film reviews with a good degree of understanding, enough to cope with an advanced course, to read the media for information as well as to understand some non-standard pieces.
• Writing: Construct a short narrative/descriptive piece or commentary about a story or a film and/or other topics covered.

The Course will introduce students to the following upper-intermediate learning skills:

• Achieve spoken fluency whilst using appropriate vocabulary and descriptive/narrative grammatical structures;
• Apply their language skills effectively to story-telling;
• Acquire an understanding of the main aspects of historical, political and cultural events connected with Italy;
• Get introduced to some colloquial Italian and regional varieties of Italian through the audio-visual input;
• Improve their reading and writing skills, with an emphasis on the narrative/descriptive styles;
• Improve their delivery of oral presentations and debate in Italian.

• Presentations, practicals and online learning

• Raven access is required
• Further information regarding Raven is available

• Students Fees: £150 to be paid online. Please select ‘Concessionary’ under the course fee when you make your booking.
• Staff Fees: £165 to be paid online. Please select ‘All charged’ under the course fee when you make your booking.
• Links to the online store will be provided with your confirmation email.
• Payment is required within 24 hours of your booking to secure your place.
• Refunds available after the first lesson only.
• Payment for the courses is made on the Online Store (CULP General Purpose courses), (Raven log in).
• Course materials can be found on Moodle (Raven log in), once the course has started.

This course will not be formally assessed and students who attend regularly (80% of sessions) will receive a Certificate of Attendance.

• Students are required to attend 80% of sessions
• Full details of all Language Centre programmes can be found on the Language Centre website and Language Centre Online website.

• Eight taught sessions of two hours plus online learning

• Three times per year (subject to demand)

• CULP: Italian Advanced
• CULP: Italian Basic 1
• CULP: Italian Basic 2
• CULP: Italian Intermediate 1
• CULP: Italian Intermediate 2