In term 1, students will follow IT105 Working Italian for three hours per week. The course uses the following textbooks:

Federica Colombo, Cinzia Faraci, and Pierpaolo De Luca, Arrivederci! Vol. 1 for English Speakers + CD audio + DVD Video 'Corso multimediale di italiano 1', Edilingua, 2013 (ISBN 978-960-693-121-5)

and

Federica Colombo, Cinzia Faraci, and Pierpaolo De Luca, Arrivederci! Vol. 2 for English Speakers + CD audio + DVD Video 'Corso multimediale di italiano 2', Edilingua, 2013 (ISBN 978-960-7706-67-6)

These books are all available from the University Bookshop.

In term 2, students will continue to follow Working Italian and will also study literature for 1 hour per week, on Thursdays from 1-2 pm in H1.03.

The literature component uses the following texts:

Mengaldo, Pier Vincenzo, Poeti italiani del novecento (Milan: Mondadori, 1978)

Roberts, Nick (ed.), New Penguin Parallel Texts: Short Stories in Italian (London: Penguin, 1999).

These are both available from the bookshop.

A further selection of poems, not included in the Mengaldo text, will be supplied by the tutor.

 In term 3, students follow a four-week translation course. Texts will be provided.