ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN ITALIAN PAPERS 1&2

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1 ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN ITALIAN PAPERS 1&2 DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI W.E.F

2 PAPER I SYLLABUS Communication The course develops skills like commenting, expressing one s point of view clearly, evaluating alternative proposals, making and responding to hypotheses, providing relevant explanations, arguments and comments, participating effectively in discussions, giving opinions about a short story, article, talk, discussion, etc. Topics deal with novels, magazines, literature, music, cinema, theatre, politcs and history, economics and sociology etc. The course will enable the students to speak naturally and spontaneously in any situation with a rich and extensive vocabulary, to understand literary or technical texts and to write essays on different subjects. Grammar Beyond what is already included in the Syllabi of the previous levels, the course will enable the students to understand and use the following structures of the Italian language. Conjugation of the active and reflexive form of regular and irregular verbs in the following tenses and modes: indicative trapassato remoto, subjunctive past and past perfect, conditional perfect, gerund perfect and present, infinitive perfect; participle present and perfect. Different uses of subjunctive. Use of the infinitive with prepositions. Use of verbs and adjectives with infinitive. Complete use of passive form in all tenses and modes. Use of venire and andare for passive forms. Passive structure with si. Impersonal si and other forms of impersonal structures. Pronominal, defective and phraseological verbs. Irregular comparatives and superlatives. Modifying nouns and adjectives. Direct and indirect speech. The multiple clause sentence: hypothetical sentences (1, 2, 3 kind, explicit and implicit), of purpose (explicit), of result (implicit), of concession/contrast (with the subjunctive); relative (with the subjunctive), modal, adversative, parenthetic, exclusive, of limit (all implicit and explicit).

3 Appropriate use of the most common conjunctions and of the tenses and modes required for these sentences. Vocabulary The students should be able to read texts including words of vocabolario di base della lingua italiana, but even of other lexical levels (about 15% - 20%). In oral and written production the students should be able to use words from lessico fondamentale and lessico di alta disponibilità, and also words belonging to lessico di alto uso, too. TEXTBOOKS Mezzadri - Balboni, Rete! 3 Libro di Classe and Libro di Casa (+ CD audio), Guerra, Perugia, Mezzadri, Grammatica essenziale dell italiano con esercizi, Guerra, Perugia, RECOMMENDED READING Patota-Romanelli, Piccola grammatica per stranieri, De Agostini - Dante Alighieri, SCHEME OF EXAMINATION The 100 marks of the Paper I as follows: - 80 marks for the written component, which will test the following skills: IV) I) Grammar II) Reading comprehension III) Translation from English to Italian (a newspaper/magazine article) and from Italian to English (a commercial letter) Composition (a short essay)

4 - 20 marks for the oral component, which will test the following skills: I) Listening comprehension II) Conversation (about aspects of Indian and/or Italian contemporary daily life, society and culture) III) Monologue on 1 from 3 different topic options given by the examiner STANDARD OF PASSING In order to qualify for the Advanced Diploma exam a candidate must obtain in Paper I a minimum of 40 out of 80 marks in the written component and a minimum of 10 out of 20 marks in the oral component PAPER II SYLLABUS 1. History: major historical events in Italian history from 1815 to nowdays. a) Risorgimento and Unità d Italia ( ); b) Italia postunitaria and Età giolittiana ( ); c) First World War and Fascism ( ); d) Second World War, foundation of the Republic and Ricostruzione ( ); e) economic boom, Contestazione and terrorism ( ); f) the Eighties, the political crisis of the Ninties, the Seconda Repubblica ( ). 2. Introduction to Italian culture. a) Literature. The origins (XIV cent.): Dante Alighieri; the Commedia.

5 European Romanticism and Italian Romanticism (XIX cent.): Alessandro Manzoni; I Promessi sposi. From XIX to XX century: Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio Luigi Pirandello, Novelle The literature after the II World War: Carlo Cassola, La ragazza di Bube Natalia Ginzburg, Le voci della sera, Caro Michele Dario Fo, Mistero buffo Leonardo Sciascia, Porte aperte Alda Merini, Vuoto d amore b) Art. The origins (XIV cent.): Giotto. The Italian Renaissance (XVI-XVI cent.): Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo. The realism in the XVII century: Caravaggio. The avant-gardes: (XX cent.): De Chirico The rationalist architecture during the Fascism: the quartiere EUR. c) Music and cinema. Cinema ( ): Italian cinema: an outline Cinema and nation Counterfactual and conspiracy theories of history Questions of gender and history Cinema genre and history Films: - Cabiria (1914) (1934) - Roma città aperta (1945) - Un americano a Roma (1954) - I soliti ignoti (1958) - La ragazza di Bube (1963) - Sedotta e abbandonata (1964) - Porte aperte (1990) - La meglio gioventù (2003) - Buongiorno notte (2003) - Romanzo criminale (2005)

6 - Mio fratello è figlio unico (2007) - Il divo (2008) Music ( ): An outline of the history of the music composed by the Italian cantautori from Domenico Modugno to Lorenzo Jovanotti. 3. Italy today: overview of major social, cultural, political, economic issues in Italian society. 4. Commercial Italian: business and administrative Italian. TEXTBOOKS AND RECOMMENDED READING Extracts from the following books: Mezzadri - Pederzani, Civiltà punto it. Civiltà e cultura italiana per ragazzi, Guerra, Balboni - Santipolo, Profilo di Storia italiana per stranieri, Guerra, Balboni - Cardona, Storia e testi di letteratura italiana per stranieri, nuova ediz. riveduta e corretta, Guerra, Angelino - Ballarin, L italiano attraverso la storia dell arte, Guerra, Polizza Mezzadri, L italiano in azienda, Guerra, 2002.

7 SCHEME OF EXAMINATION The 100 marks will test the competence in the following areas I) History II) Literature III) Art IV) Cinema and music V) Italy today: social, cultural, political and economic aspects of contemporary Italy VI) Commercial Italian STANDARD OF PASSING Students must obtain a minimum of 50 out of 100 marks.