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ONLINE LANGUAGE COURSE
Passaporto: Italian Language, Conversation, and Culture

Course Description:

This is a three-week language and culture course for students of all levels who wish to broaden their understanding of Italian. Each lesson will include a vocabulary theme, a grammar lesson, and a presentation of an Italian city. The grammar covered in this course will include the difference between the two most prevalent past tenses– the passato prossimo and imperfetto– adjectives and adverbs, and the impersonal “si” constructions (si impersonale and si passivante) that are commonly used in Italian. An optional 15-minute speaking practice session will be available for anyone interested after each lesson. All are welcome!

Instructor:

Erin McCarthy King, Ph.D. has been teaching Italian Language and Literature since 2004. Erin earned a combined B.A. and M.A. in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University in 1998 and then her Ph.D. from Yale in 2009. She has taught Italian as a Lector at Yale and as an Instructor at Sacred Heart University, Southern Connecticut State University, Quinnipiac University, The Hopkins School, and is currently an affiliate faculty member at Fairfield University. Erin has published several articles, including “The Voyage of Columbus as a ‘non pensato male’: The Search for Boundaries, Grammar, and Authority in the Aftermath of the New World Discoveries” © 2012, and has presented several conference research papers including “The Logic of the Clock: Dante’s Similes of the Horologe in Paradiso X and XXIV” and most recently, “Language and the Expansion of the Ecumene in the Mondo nuovo of Tommaso Stigliani.” Erin serves as an alumna interviewer for Yale College Admissions and as a member of the Yale Alumni Schools Committee. In her spare time, Erin and her husband are very busy parents to their four children.

Virtual Classroom: Full access to an online educational platform with discussion forum, videos of recordings, syllabus, and exercises.

Location: LIVE INTERACTIVE ON-LINE LANGUAGE CLASSES

Complete syllabus will be provided upon registration.

• ALL LECTURES WILL BE RECORDED AND AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING AT YOUR CONVENIENCE IN OUR VIDEO LIBRARY FOR THE DURATION OF THE COURSE

Schedule

WEEK 1

– Tuesday, October 11

Vocabolario: La tecnologia

Grammatica: Parliamo del passato! The difference between the  imperfetto and the passato prossimo

Nota culturale: Il triangolo industriale: Milano, Torino, Genova

WEEK 2

– Tuesday, October 18

Vocabolario: I membri della famiglia e gli aggettivi descrittivi

Grammatica: Adding color to your speech: Adjectives and Adverbs

Nota culturale: San Marino

WEEK 3

– Tuesday, October 25

Vocabolario: Fare le spese: Shopping!

Grammatica: Cosa si fa? The impersonal “si” constructions

Nota culturale: Napoli

Instructor

Erin McCarthy King, Ph.D. has been teaching Italian Language and Literature since 2004. Erin earned a combined B.A. and M.A. in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University in 1998 and then her Ph.D. from Yale in 2009. She has taught Italian as a Lector at Yale and as an Instructor at Sacred Heart University, Southern Connecticut State University, Quinnipiac University, The Hopkins School, and is currently an affiliate faculty member at Fairfield University. Erin has published several articles, including “The Voyage of Columbus as a ‘non pensato male‘: The Search for Boundaries, Grammar, and Authority in the Aftermath of the New World Discoveries” © 2012, and has presented several conference research papers including “The Logic of the Clock: Dante’s Similes of the Horologe in Paradiso X and XXIV” and most recently, “Language and the Expansion of the Ecumene in the Mondo nuovo of Tommaso Stigliani.” Erin serves as an alumna interviewer for Yale College Admissions and as a member of the Yale Alumni Schools Committee. In her spare time, Erin and her husband are very busy parents to their four children.