Italian Language Courses for Adults

Level 101 (Beginner) (Offered only on Wednesday night)
Students acquire basic grammar, pronunciation and simple vocabulary. The student will learn basic grammatical and lexical structures through the most the introduction of frequent situations in everyday life. Upon completion the student is able to satisfy elementary needs of communication

Level 102 (Beginner) (Offered Tuesday or Wednesday night)
Students learn more complex grammar. The course is aimed at the student who already understands basic language structures. This level attempts to progressively broaden and complete the student’s grammatical and lexical knowledge

Level 103 (Beginner) (Offered Tuesday or Wednesday night)
This level is open to students who have passed the 102 level or have an equivalent knowledge. The purpose of the course is to offer a deeper insight into grammatical structures and oral and written communications skills.

Level 104 (Intermediate) (Offered only on Tuesday night)
Conducted in Italian, this course is designed for developing listening and speaking skills through the reading of adapted contemporary material. Particular emphasis is also given to writing skills.

Level 105 (Intermediate) (Offered only on Tuesday night)
This course is for those who have an advanced knowledge of the language and intend to perfect it. There will be analysis of complex syntactical structures, literary genres, and techniques of written presentation.

Level 106 (Intermediate) (Offered only on Tuesday night)
This course is the advanced level of the Intermediate phase of our courses. The student will read more complex literary selections and write compositions.

Lingua Viva (Offered only on Tuesday night)
This course is for students who already have a satisfactory knowledge of Italian grammar and offers an opportunity to read and discuss Italian literature and articles from Italian newspapers and magazines. The course is conducted entirely in Italian.

Architecture (Offered only of Wednesday night)
This course will give a detailed overview of five urban settings in Central/Northern Italy. The class will focus on the relationships between the architectural significance of their public spaces and buildings and the socio-economic, technological, political, religious and traditional forces, which have contributed, over the course of several centuries, to establish them as place holders both in the personal and in the collective memory.

About the Instructor for the Architecture Course:
Umberto Guarracino is an Italian-born architect. He got his doctoral degree in Architecture from the University of Naples, Italy in 1976 and his Master in Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1979. He has been a licensed architect in Massachusetts since 1985 and is a Senior Project Architect with a large national Environmental engineering firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Between 1980 and 1986 he has taught classes in Architectural Design and History, and in Architectural Theory and Criticism at the Boston Architectural College (formerly known as Boston Architectural Center)
 

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