PORT 1110 Beginning Intensive Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM

PORT 2050 Intensive Portuguese for Speakers of Spanish and other Romance Languages with Lilian Feitosa

MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM

Portuguese 2050 is an accelerated Portuguese language and culture course that condenses two semesters (PORT 1110 and PORT 2120) into one. PORT 2050 is designed specifically for UVA undergraduate and graduate students who already possess an advanced level of fluency in one of the Romance languages. The pedagogical approach to PORT 2050 is both proficiency-oriented and task-based and the class will be conducted completely in Portuguese.

PORT 3010 Portuguese Advanced Grammar & Composition​ with Lilian Feitosa

MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM

POTR 4270 The Civilization of Brazil with Eli Carter

TR 02:00PM-3:15PM

KICH 1010 Introduction to K'iche' I with Esther Poveda Moreno

TuTh 04:00PM-05:15PM

KICH 2010 Intermediate K'iche' I with Esther Poveda Moreno

TuTh 02:00PM-03:15PM

ITAL 1010 Elementary Italian I with Nicole Bonino, Stella Mattioli, Francesca Calamita

MoWeFr 11:00AM-11:50AM; 12:00PM-12:50PM

MoWe 02:00PM-03:15PM

TuTh 02:00PM-03:15PM; 03:30PM-04:45PM

Elementary Italian I is the first class in the four-course sequence that is necessary to complete the world language requirement. In this course, students will learn basic survival skills to assist them when they travel to Italy, however they will also learn to describe people and places, ask questions, narrate in the present and simple past tenses, as well as write short texts describing themselves, their families, and their impressions of Italy. Students will also develop their ability to understand spoken Italian by listening to songs, commercials, and movie clips, and they will begin reading advertisements, song lyrics, and some poems. Elementary Italian I includes experiential learning activities such as role-plays, games, and interaction with multi-media to allow learners many opportunities to practice Italian in real-world contexts. Students of Elementary Italian will also have many occasions to learn more about life in contemporary Italy as they study the country’s language.    

ITAL 2010 Intermediate Italian I with Sarah Annunziato and Stella Mattioli

MoWeFr 02:00PM-03:15PM

TuTh 09:30AM-10:45AM; 12:30PM-01:45PM

ITAL 2010 Intermediate Italian I is the third class in the four-course sequence which fulfills the language requirement. Students will further develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills as well as deepen their cultural literacy in Italian. You will accomplish these goals with the guidance of your professor, through review of grammar, short readings, compositions, and listening and speaking activities. We will also examine current events as they unfold in Italy relating to contemporary politics, the arts, the environment, and more. Students will have the opportunity to listen to songs, comment on works of art, watch commercials and short films, read newspaper articles, watch television series, and meet natives of Italy in your quest to become more confident and competent users of the Italian language and its culture. 

ITAL 3010 Mastering Italian Language & Culture with Sarah Annunziato

TuTh 02:00PM-03:15PM

Mastering Italian Language and Culture I (ITAL 3010) is the first of two courses that are required to complete either a major or a minor in Italian Studies.  Students of this class will enhance their mastery of the five skills essential to learning a world language (speaking, listening, reading, writing, and cultural competency) by applying them to various real-world settings such as: dialogues, presentations, informal conversations, debates, interviews with native speakers, and book clubs, among other possibilities. We will accomplish these goals through viewing and discussing contemporary Italian cinema and television. Our course will examine films from 21st-century Italy to give students a glimpse of present-day Italian society, while placing particular emphasis on further development of conversational and writing skills. Films to include: Benvenuti al sud, Il rosso e il blu, Il ragazzo invisibile, Corpo Celeste, Terraferma, La mafia uccide solo d’estate, Io e lei, Noi e la Giulia, Scusate se esisto, and Quo vado.

ITTR 3685 Italy on Screen with Francesca Calamita

TuTh 5:00pm - 6:15pm

ITTR 4010 & 6010 Narrating (Un-)sustainability​ with Enrico Cesaretti

TuTh 11:00AM-12:15PM