Transfer Credit

Transfer Credit Guidelines

• To receive transfer credit for Italian 101 and 102, you must provide documentation of at least 70 hours of class time. Class size must not have exceeded 18 students.
• To receive credit for Italian 203, 204 or 301, you must provide documentation of at least 45 hours of class time. Class size must not have exceeded 15 students.

How we will evaluate transfer courses:

Teaching Methodology: Instruction in Italian. Communicative, content and task based approach; use of authentic materials, daily listening comprehension and informal writing assignments. Writing must be presented as a process. Cultural components must be integrated into teaching and testing formats

Writing:
Elementary courses (Ital 101, 102) must include 3 compositions with drafts, 2 of which must be rewritten as part of the writing as a process curriculum, weekly writing assignments (journals, paragraphs and reactions to class material)

Intermediate courses (Ital 203, 204) must include 3 compositions with drafts and rewrites, 1 research project on Italian culture and shorter weekly writing assignments in the form of reactions to course readings. Students in Advanced courses (301) must complete daily writing assignments, a minimum of 4 compositions of 5 pages each and a final lengthier paper. Instruction must emphasize writing as a process and developing competency in diverse registers and textual styles

Reading: students should be exposed to extensive readings. Elementary levels should including material from the textbook, short original news items from the web and print journalism and complete works in the form of easy readers or other adapted texts; For Intermediate and Advanced levels readings must include original articles as well as textbook readings that are integrated with associated grammar and comprehension exercises

Oral testing: formal oral testing must show a progression in oral skill level from the early to the latter portion of the course

Assessment: Students should be evaluated on all language modalities and cross tested, (i.e. writing about information received verbally or oral testing of written material) Minimum of 4 quizzes or 2 tests, a midterm and a comprehensive final; 3 compositions, 2 oral exams, testing of aural comprehension, and a research report on an aspect of Italian culture of interest to the student

Documentation: Students must provide documentation of their final grade, evidence of graded course work such as tests, homework, compositions and other assignments, as well as a signed report evaluating oral competence