Italian

This course is for students with some basic knowledge and experience of the target language (TL). The course enables students to understand key information and to communicate effectively in the TL, sometimes spontaneously, in less routine situations, at a standard level, provide opportunities, across a variety of topics, for practice of understanding and communication in the TL using the four language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing, at a standard level, consolidate and develop the range of key elements of TL language structures, vocabulary, syntax and pronunciation, to allow progression in the TL, and present the background culture and society of the TL through a variety of contextualized activities and materials, in a range of media (e.g. text, audio, audio-visual, digital).

The course investigates how the cultural and creative industries (CCI) work and their capacity to generate economic value for all the stakeholders involved in conceiving, financing, producing, valorizing, releasing, and preserving the cultural goods. The analysis of the CCI business models and organization is integrated by the analysis of the public policies (at supranational, national, and local level) that regulate and support culture and the companies working in this sector.

The class includes meeting with professionals working in cultural companies or institutions and group work with final presentations during the final lectures. Student groups are asked to develop a crowdfunding campaign for a cultural initiative. At the end of the course, the student: knows the principles that regulate the demand and the supply of culture in the contemporary scenario; knows the mechanisms of private and public financing of culture; and is able to reconstruct the policies of support for cultural activities. 

This is a beginner level French language course for students who have previously completed one or two semesters of French. It focuses on the four skills of listening comprehension, spoken production, reading comprehension, and written expression. It develops skills to understand audio and video with multiple speakers, talk about events that happened in the past, describe objects and images, conduct a simple discussion and give an opinion, read and understand short texts, write a short informal letter or email. It covers adjectives, comparatives, superlatives, pronouns, adverbs, indefinites, prepositions, verbs, vocabulary for real-life situations, phonetics and spelling. 

This is a beginner level Italian language course for students with no prior Italian language background. It teaches listening comprehension, spoken production, reading comprehension, and written expression in Italian. It focuses on understanding instructions and following a very simple conversation that relates to everyday life, introducing and talking about ones self, asking questions about someone else, understanding a very simple text relating to daily life, writing a dialogue, short text or email. The course covers articles, nouns, adjectives, demonstratives, possessives, pronouns, adverbs, numbers, prepositions, interrogatives, verbs, vocabulary for real-life situations, and phonetics and spelling.