1. Course Title: 综合意大利语（1－4）
2. Course Title: Comprehensive Italian
3. Course Code: 1223013, 1223033, 1223043
4. Category: Compulsory course
5. Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, freshmen and sophomores
6. Course Description:
This course aims at systematically developing students’ overall competence in Italian pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. By imparting linguistic as well as socio-cultural knowledge to them, the course is expected to equip students with sufficient proficiency and language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. It is also expected that students will acquire, alongside language learning, their analytical and cultural knowledge so as to meet the demands of inter-cultural communication.
7. Textbooks:
Zhao, Xiuying. A Crash Course in Italian (Book I and II). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press.
8. Credit and Hours: 4 hours per week, 288 hours in total, 36 credits
9. Test Mode: Written examination
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1. Course Title: 意大利语口语（1－4）
2. Course Title: Oral Italian
3. Course Code: 1223073，1223083，1223093，1223103
4. Category: Compulsory course
5. Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, freshmen and sophomores
6. Course Description:
By means of various oral practices, the course will train students to conduct natural daily conversations and exchanges in Italian, and learn to express themselves in an appropriate and acceptable language. It will require students to talk about or discuss, in different situations, various topics concerning both daily and social life, such as interpersonal communication, friendship, appointments, hobbies and interests, and so on. Students will be encouraged to be engaged in different oral activities, including dialogues, speeches and performances, etc.
7. Textbooks:
Italian On-line (Book I and II). Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press.
8. Credit and Hours: 2 hours per week, 144 hours in total, 4 credits
9. Test Mode: Oral examination
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1. Course Title: 意大利语泛读（1－2）
2. Course Title: Extensive Reading
3. Course Code:--
4. Category: Compulsory course
5. Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, freshmen and sophomores
6. Course Description:
This course aims to increase students’ Italian vocabulary, widen their knowledge about Italian culture and society, and improve their language proficiency by providing them with large amounts of simplified Italian original reading materials, covering such areas as politics, economy, culture, history, science and technology, etc. Reading also includes different genres such as stories, drama, biographies, memoirs, popular science and essays. It is expected that students will better their reading comprehension, and more importantly, enhance their self-learning ability with the help of teachers.
7. Textbooks: Handouts
8. Credit and Hours: 2 hours per week, 72 hours in total, 4 credits
9. Test Mode: Written examination
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1．Course Title: 意语国家概况（1-2）
2．Course Title: Introduction to Italy：（1-2）
3．Course Code: 1223193，1223203
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, sophomore
6．Course Description:
This course includes Italian history, geography, politics, society, and cultural background information. It helps learners to extend their horizon and enlarge their vocabulary so as to better grasp the rich cultural content of the Italian language, thereby laying a solid foundation for future work.
7．Textbook:
Zhu,Longhua. 2004. Italian Culture Shanghai: Shanghai Social Sciences Academy Press.
8．Credit and Hours：2 hours per week, 72 hours in total, 4 credits
9．Test Mode：Written examination
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1．Course Title: 实用意语（1-2）
2．Course Title: Practical Italian（1-2）
3．Course Code: 1223173，1223183
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, junior
6．Course Description:
This course introduces Chinese scenic spots, folk customs, tourist information, enterprises, national economy, entrepreneurial management, and business talks. It helps learners to get acquainted with knowledge, vocabulary, and common expressions, as they are used in tourism and entrepreneurial commerce, so as to enable them to apply Italian language skills and know-how to practical use, thereby laying a solid foundation for their future work.
7．Textbook :
Luo, Sijing. 2001. A Travel Guide to Italy. Guangdong: Guangdong Cartographic Press.
8．Credit and Hours：2 hours per week，72 hours in total, 4 credits
9．Test Mode：Written examination, oral examination
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1．Course Title: 意语词汇学
2．Course Title: Italian Lexicology
3．Course Code: 1223213
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, junior
6．Course Description:
This course aims to offer a comprehensive review of Italian lexicology. It deals with the system of articles, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, and explores the lexical etymology. In doing so, it will help learners to classify lexical items and have a deeper understanding of their etymological roots so as to put them to accurate use.
7．Textbook: Handouts
8．Credit and Hours：2 hours per week，36 hours in total, 2 credits
9．Test Mode：Written examination
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1．Course title: 意语文体学
2．Course title: Italian Stylistics
3．Course Code: 1223223
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, junior
6．Course Description:
This course offers a comprehensive review of Italian syntax and aims to help learners to classify various syntactic phenomena. It includes basic grammar, analysis of simple sentences, and study of various types of clauses in complex sentences.
7．Textbook:
Zhao, Xiuying 2010. Italian Grammar. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press.
8．Credit and Hours：2 hours per week，36 hours in total, 2 credits
9．Test Mode：Written examination
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1．Course Title: 意国文学史（1-2）
2．Course Title: History of Italian Literature
3．Course Code: 1223233，1223243
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, junior
6．Course Description:
This course aims to provide learners with a systematic review of the history of European literature, Italian literature in particular, as well as the culture that it embodies so that they will gain new insights and broaden their horizon. It covers European literature from the Greco-Roman period to the end of 18th century: its historical background, philosophical thoughts, literary features, and important authors and their works, with an emphasis on Italian literature during the 19th and the 20th century.
7．Textbooks:
Li, Funing. 1999-2001. History of European Literature. Vol.1 & Vol.2. Beijing: Commercial Press.
Xu, Baogeng. 2003. Fifteen Lectures on Western Literature. Beijing: Peking University Press.
Wang, Zhongxiang & Nie Zhenzhao. 1999. History of Foreign Literature. Shanghai: Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press.
Wang Jun, 2007 History of Italian Literature. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
8．Credit and Hours：2 hours per week，72 hours in total, 4 credits
9．Test Mode：Written examination, oral examination, overall assessment, final exam
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1．Course Title: 意语写作
2．Course Title: Written Italian（1-4）
3．Course Code: 1223253，1223263，1223273，1223283
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, junior and senior
6．Course Description:
This course aims to build and reinforce leaner competence in writing through intensive practice. It covers a spectrum of genres: exposition, narration, outline, summary, review, and argumentation.
7．Textbook：Handouts
8．Credit and Hours：2 hours per week，126 hours in total, 7 credits
9．Test Mode：Written examination
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1．Course Title: 意语笔译
2．Course Title: Italian-Chinese Translation
3．Course Code: 1223293，1223303，1223313，1223323
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, junior and senior
6．Course Description:
This courses aims to help learners to learn about the nature, target, and principles of translation, as well as the techniques of Italian-Chinese translation through intensive practice. Learners will learn to make preparations for translation, and translate materials in politics, diplomacy, economy, science, and technology from Italian into Chinese, with an emphasis on accuracy, fluency, and lucidity. Learners will learn to prepare for topics, retrieve information, and review their translated work. Through practice, they will not only be able to comprehend Chinese accurately, but also familiarize themselves with expressions of Chinese politics, economy, and culture.
7．Textbook：Handouts
8．Credit and Hours：2 hours per week，126 hours in total, 7 credits
9．Test Mode：Written examination
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1．Course Title: 口译（1）
2．Course Title: Interpretation (1)
3．Course Code: 1223333
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, junior
6．Course Description:
This course aims to train students to translate Italian into Chinese orally. The course is designed to improve students’ Italian listening comprehension, enable them to master skills of note-taking, discipline their concentration and memory, increase the accuracy of their translation and help them develop a quick response and a deliberate manner in case of emergency. Other contents of the course include preparation work for interpretation, interpreters’ behavior patterns and mental state and their relationship with speech presenters as well.
7．Textbooks: Handouts
8．Credit and Hours: 2 hours per week, 36 hours in total, 2 credits
9．Test Mode: Oral examination
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1．Course Title: 口译 （2-3）
2．Course Title: Interpretation (2-3)
3．Course Code: 1223343，1223353
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, senior
6．Course Description:
The course aims to develop students’ Chinese-Italian interpretation skills and improving their language proficiency. In this course, students are trained to acquire an accurate understanding of Chinese sentence structures and then highlight the key points in their translation. Their translations in target language are required to be understandable, fluent and in accordance with the rules of Italian language. The interpretation exercises mainly deal with the following topics, namely politics, foreign affairs, economy, finance, culture and arts, etc.
7．Textbooks: Handouts
8．Credit and hours: 2 hours per week, 54 hours in total, 3 credits
9．Test mode: Oral examination
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1．Course Title: 意大利语视听说（1- 6）
2．Course Title: Italian Audio-visual (1-6)
3．Course Code: 1223113，1223123，1223133，1223143，1223153，1223163
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, sophomore, junior and senior
6．Course Description:
This course is to improve students’ listening comprehension and introduce them to Italian society and culture by watching videos and listening to news broadcast made by Italian TVs. The course also aims to foster their ability of getting the general meaning and the key information through the training of summarizing and retelling stories. As a result, they can learn authentic Italian language.
7．Teaching Materials: Handouts
8．Credit and Hours: (1-2)8 hours per week, (3-6) 6 hours per week, 340 hours in total, 6 credits
9．Test Mode: Audio examination
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1．Course Title:意大利语报刊阅读
2．Course Title:Italian Newspaper and Magazine Reading
3．Course Code: 1223363
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, senior
6．Course Description:
This course is to provide students an access to different public opinions of Italian society centering on social and cultural topics and current affairs, improve students’ reading comprehension and increase their reading speed. The course also aims to enlarge students’ Italian vocabulary, help them keep track of the latest development of Italian language and enrich their general knowledge of Italian-speaking nations.
7．Teaching Materials: Handouts
8．Credit and Hours: 2 hours per week, 36 hours in total, 2 credits
9．Test Mode: Written examination
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1．Course Title: 意大利语高级阅读（1-2）
2．Course Title: Italian Advanced Reading
3．Course Code: --
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, senior
6．Course Description:
This course teaches extracts from original Italian literary works of modern and contemporary times. After they have learned, understood and appreciated these rigorously selected works, students are expected to achieve a good command of language and culture knowledge, a refined literary taste, enhanced language competence and a better understanding of Western cultures.
7．Textbooks:
Li, Funing(ed.). 2003. A History of European Literature, Third Volume. Beijing: Commercial Press.
Zhang, Shihua(ed.). 2003. A History of Italian Literature, Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
8．Credit and Hours: 2 hours per week, 54 hours in total, 3 credits
9．Test mode: Written examination
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1．Course Title: 专题讨论课
2．Course Title: Topic Discussion
3．Course Code: --
4．Category: Compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, senior
6．Course Description:
The course aims to develop students’ command of oral communication in Italian. Other purposes of the course include the cultivation of quick response, logical reasoning, and a confident and deliberate manner while presenting a speech. Students are encouraged to air their views and opinions on a wide range of hot issues, covering globalization, bilateralism, EU, global and local economy, the Game Rules of world trade, cultural diversity, democracy and human rights, Taiwan issue, Tibetan issue, environmental pollution on a global scale, Middle East issue and terrorism, etc.
7．Textbooks: Handouts
8．Credit and Hours: 2 hours per week, 36 hours in total, 2 credits
9．Test Mode: Oral examination
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1．Course Title: 拉丁语初步
2．Course Title: Basic Latin
3．Course Code: 1223373
4．Category: compulsory course
5．Students: Undergraduates of Italian major, senior
6．Course Description:
This course aims to provide students some fundamental information on Latin and the evolution of Italian and lay a sound foundation for their further research into the language.
Textbooks: handouts adapted from Italian texts in the original
7．Textbooks: Handouts
8．Credit and Hours: 2 hours per week, 36 hours in total, 2 credits
9．Test Mode: Written examination
