learning outcomes
After completing levels 1–3, students will be able to:
- Engage successfully in basic conversation (e.g. ask and answer questions in everyday social situations).
- Read and understand simple texts.
- Write short compositions using past, present, and future tenses appropriately.
Students graduating with a language/literature major or minor are expected to be able to:
- Converse with other speakers of the target language on a variety of topics.
- Read and understand expository prose.
- Write coherent, grammatically correct essays on a variety of topics.
- Be familiar with the culture, history and literature of the countries whose language is under study.
- Engage in literary analysis (using the correct literary terminology, grammar, stylistic requisites) by writing clear and well-organized compositions.
Students graduating with an Italian Studies Minor, German Studies Minor, or Asian Studies Minor will be able to:
- Converse using the present, past, and future tenses in everyday situations.
- Demonstrate satisfactory reading and writing skills.
- Engage the target culture through various disciplines, including politics, economics, anthropology, history, literature, and art.
