QUEC 1010 with Esther Poveda

TuTh 10:05AM-11:20AM

In this course, students acquire basic skills of Quechua within units on culture and history, focusing on conversational routines and forms. Cultural topics incricultural cycles, community practices, Andean spirituality, and multilingualism. Historical topics ranlude agge from food cultivation through Chavin, Recuay, Wari, and Inca cultures, colonization, independence, and agrarian reform. Introduction of these topics will enrich language learning within the field of Quechua studies.

PORT 1110 Beginning Intensive Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

MWF 11:00pm-11:50pm; 12:00pm - 12:50pm

PORT 2050 Intensive Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

MWF 1:00pm-1:50pm

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.

POTR 4270 Becoming Brazil with Eli Carter

TR 2:00pm-3:15pm

This seminar offers a broad overview of Brazilian history and culture from 1500 to the present. Through interdisciplinary readings, film screenings and class discussions, students will explore the sociopolitical and cultural formation of South America’s largest and most populous country

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

TuTh 04:00PM-05:15PM

This class is an introduction to the Nahualá dialect of K’iche’, a Maya language spoken in the western Highlands of Guatemala.  With about one million speakers, K’iche’ is one of the major indigenous languages in the Americas. This class aims to make the students competent in basic conversation and to introduce students to Highland Maya culture of Guatemala.

Virtual classroom:  The class is taught at Vanderbilt, but a new partnership with Duke, Vanderbilt, and UVa(link is external) allows students at consortium schools to study three important, less commonly taught languages: Haitian Creole, Maya K’iche’, and Tibetan. This is a virtual classroom, and it will be taught through the zoom platform.

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

TuTh 02:00PM-03:15PM

Class description: This class combines formal language instructions with the discussion of topics relevant to the K’iche’ culture and language in Guatemala. The goal and focus of this semester are on advanced grammar, learning to adapt speech to various environments and speech genres, examining oral histories and an introduction to a variety of written K’iche’ texts with a focus on contemporary texts. The class will incorporate exercises strengthening listening-comprehension, reading, and composition.

To achieve this goal students are expected to study and work on their own

Virtual classroom: The class is taught at Vanderbilt, but a new partnership with Duke, Vanderbilt, and UVa(link is external) allows students at consortium schools to study three important, less commonly taught languages: Haitian Creole, Maya K’iche’, and Tibetan. This is a virtual classroom, and it will be taught through the zoom platform.

K'iche' at UVA and Vanderbilt (https://iwl.virginia.edu/language/kiche)

ITAL 1010 Elementary Italian I with Francesco Fiumara, Nicole Bonino & Stella Mattioli

MoWeFr 9:00am - 9:50am; 10:00am - 10:50am; 11:00am-11:50am

TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm; 2:00pm - 3:15pm

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 is taught with inclusive language to show how Italian has been evolving alongside Italy’s society. On that note, students of Elementary Italian will also have many occasions to learn more about life in contemporary Italy as they study the country’s language. 

Taught in Italian.

ITAL 1020 Elementary Italian II with Sarah Annunziato 

TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Elementary Italian II is the second class in the four-course sequence that is necessary to complete the world language requirement. In this course, students will learn to narrate in all tenses of the indicative, express opinions, make hypotheses, and give orders. They will improve their writing skills by producing a number of original texts, including discussion posts, poems, comics, and short articles. Students will also develop their ability to understand spoken Italian by listening to songs, commercials, and movie clips, and they will read and study lyrics, newspaper headlines, poems, and some short stories. Students of Elementary Italian II will also have many occasions to learn more about life in contemporary Italy including the nation’s media, literature, and politics as they study the country’s language.

Taught in Italian.

ITAL 2010 Intermediate Italian I with Sarah Annunziato & Stell Mattioli 

MoWeFr 12:00pm - 12:50pm 

TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am; 2:00pm - 3:15pm 

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. Students will also have the opportunity to listen to songs, comment on works of art, watch commercials and short films, read newspaper articles and literary excerpts, and meet natives of Italy in your quest to become more confident and competent users of the Italian language and its culture. 

Taught in Italian.

ITAL 3010 Mastering Italian Language & Culture with Sarah Annunziato  

TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm 

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.

ITAL 3559 Travels in Italy: History, Culture, & Ecology with Enrico Cesaretti  

TuTh 11:00pm - 12:15pm

This course deals with the way that Italy has been perceived, imagined, and represented by those who have contributed to shaping the myth of the “Beautiful Country,” from the illustrious “Grand Tourists” and travelers of the 18th-century to today’s writers, visitors, artists, and local residents.  We will explore this topic by examining some famous and less well-known urban and rural landscapes in different Italian regions through the lenses of literature, art, film, and ecology. Counts towards the major and minor in Italian Studies. 

ITAL 4820 Italian Pop Culture from the 1960s to the Present with Enrico Cesaretti 

TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm 

This course examines the cultural and socio-political transformations that took place in Italy during its recent history. By discussing different cultural artifacts (films, essays, literature), we shall ultimately try to answer the following questions: does Italy still have space for works that resist populist and consumer culture? What are the ethical and political consequences of Italy’s present cultural condition? Is there an Italian identity? Counts towards the major and minor in Italian Studies and does not require the purchase of any materials.

Taught in English