This is a beginners level unit in Italian intended for those with little or no knowledge of the language. It aims to introduce students to the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in elementary Italian. The unit includes a socio-cultural component which will examine aspects of contemporary Italy and its culture with a particular emphasis on the Italian community in Australia.

This is a post-beginners level unit in Italian intended for students with prior knowledge of the language. It aims to advance the development of the skills of aural comprehension, speaking, reading and writing acquired in Italian 1. The unit will provide students with the opportunity to extend their communication skills in Italian and provide them with additional lifelong language-learning strategies. It includes a continuation of the study of elements of contemporary Italy and its culture with a particular emphasis on the Italian community in Australia.

This is post-beginner unit for intermediate level study of modern Italian language suitable for Post HSC entry. It aims to develop all four core skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing, towards more sophisticated communicative transactions ranging from casual to formal styles of speech. However, the special focus of this unit is on developing, in particular, listening and speaking skills in the Italian language in relation to oral aspects of contemporary culture and society of Italian-speaking countries. Cultural and social understanding is also fostered through research projects on specific cultural or social aspects that are of interest to students. A range of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) activities are utilised for this unit.

This is a Level 2 unit in the Italian major within the Languages Key Program of the Bachelor of Arts. This unit is suitable for Post HSC entry. It aims to further develop all four core skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing, towards more sophisticated communicative transactions ranging from casual to formal styles of the language. However, the special focus of this unit is on developing, in particular, reading comprehension, and writing skills over a range of written registers. This unit also fosters cultural and social understanding by presenting aspects of contemporary cultures and societies that use the language as well as through research work on specific socio-cultural aspects that are of interest to the student. The content for reading and writing activities is selected from contemporary materials e.g., daily exchanges in writing, book/film reviews, mini dramas, magazines as well as websites in relation to textual aspects of contemporary culture and society of Italy. A range of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) activities are utilised for this unit. By the end of this unit, students can read and write approximately 3000 words.

This unit provides an overview of contemporary Italian culture and society and Italy's role within the European Community, as well as its cultural and trade relations with other areas of the world, specifically including Australia. These will be examined particularly through a critical appraisal of current print, radio and audio-visual media.

This unit provides simultaneously an introduction to the social and cultural history of Italy from the Napoleonic era to the present day, and to the principal literary movements of the modern period. The unit is based on the joint study of a selection of representative narrative and poetic texts and appropriate background readings.

This unit is an option within the Italian major program which provides an introduction to the social and cultural history of Italy from Roman times to the eighteenth century, and to the principal literary movements of this period. The study of classical Italian literature, beginning from the Middle Ages, is placed clearly in its historical context. The unit is based on the joint study of a selection of representative texts and appropriate background readings.

This is an elective unit for students with advanced language skills in Italian. Film is one of the most subtle and powerful means of communication in the twentieth and current centuries, and the moving image dominates popular consciousness on a global scale. This unit is designed to enable students to explore the different genres that are characteristic of Italian cinema, and to understand how these reflect the social, political and cultural changes in Italy in this and the last century.

This is an advanced Level 3 language and linguistics unit for students of modern Italian. Lectures for the grammatical concepts component are held in English for students of all languages while other activities are language-specific. The aim of the unit is twofold. On the one hand it aims, to develop a practical and theoretical understanding of the ways in which major concepts used in everyday speech and writing are mapped and organized in the lexicon and the grammar of human languages, and how these forms develop in learners and users. On the other hand, it aims to develop advanced comprehension and production skills in Italian language, including higher stages optional structures, through critical examination of contemporary and historical text and discourse samples from a variety of registers. An understanding of contemporary Italian culture and society is also fostered through comparative research projects on specific cultural, social and/or linguistic, aspects that are of interest to students. A range of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) activities are utilised for this unit.

This is an optional level 3 core unit for the major in Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Italian, within the BA Languages Key Program. It also constitutes part of the linguistics major and sub-major. It can also be taken as an elective. This is a language-specific unit intended to develop the students’ awareness of language usage issues which may have an impact on intercultural communication and, therefore, on cultural stereotyping as well as other real life interests, such as business relationships and professional performance. It covers issues such as the relationship between culture and language use, ingroup-outgroup relationships, speech acts across cultures, politeness in text and discourse, miscommunication and stereotyping.

This unit surveys contemporary world cinema in a range of languages in order to address a range of linguistic and cultural issues, including the role of subtitling and dubbing in cross-cultural communication. The unit allows students majoring in a Language other than English to enrol in a language specific tutorial (Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Japanese or Spanish) and other students to enrol in a tutorial conducted in English.

This unit surveys world literature written in a range of languages in order to address a range of literary and cultural issues, including the role of translation in cross-cultural communication. The unit allows students majoring in a Language other than English to enrol in a language specific tutorial (Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Japanese or Spanish) and other students to enrol in a tutorial conducted in English.