Program Course Descriptions

Internship Program at the C.L.I. Dante Alighieri
Nassau Community College Student Transfer Credit
Course Title: International Field Training, IWS 142
Credits: 3 credits

Purpose Of the Course

To afford students the opportunity to enrich their work experience, learn other methods of operation and to apply the concepts learned in the classroom and during the Practicum. Students will practice these skills while living in a foreign country among people of different cultures.

Course Objectives

• To provide the student with an active work experience abroad in their major field of interest.
• To provide an international work experience that will enrich students both academically and personally.
• To provide students with the opportunity to experience different cultures, to live and travel in foreign countries, making the students more rounded and well-informed individuals. To help them to be better able to make important life and business decisions throughout their lives.
• To provide students with the opportunity to become involved internationally through work experience, and to adjust to a new work environment, some involving U.S. branches.
• To provide a program that will bring to a U.S. employer an international aspect and influence befitting both the student and the employer.
• To provide students with a learning experience from mentors abroad both professional and academic.
• To give the students a new approach toward their chosen profession and employment. lationships and discuss new potential opportunities.

Evaluations

The work site supervisor and Program Director will complete student evaluations. Students will work a maximum of 360 hours.

Italian Language - 3rd Level
Nassau Community College Student Transfer Credit
Course Title: Advanced Italian, ITA 301
Credit: 3 credits

Course Description:

• Complex grammar
  
• Vocabulary enrichment,
  
• Development and understanding of fluent oral expressions,
  
• Reading and Writing using the proper syntax,
  
• Reading and discussing newspaper articles,
  
• Listening to radio announcements,
  
• Creating written and oral resumes,
  
• Buzzati, L'umilta, Congiuntivo, Pirandello,
  
• Uno, nessuno e centomila,
  
• Condizionale,
  
• Pronomi combinati,
  
• Tabucchi, il "Si" impersonale,
  
• Pratolini, congiunzioni che vogliono il congiuntivo

Textbook: Esercizi di Lingua Italiana No. 2 M. Vestuti, Robiglio, M. Mochi
Publisher: Ci. elle.i Florence

Duration:
4 weeks/ 80 hours of classes, (60 minutes each),
4 hours per day, 5 days per week, from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Italian Language - 4th Level
Nassau Community College Student Transfer Credit
Course Title: Advanced Italian 2, ITA 302
Credit: 3 credits

Course Description:

• Complex Grammar,
  
• Enrichment of specialized vocabulary,
  
• Development, enrichment, and comprehension of fluent oral expression,
  
• Reading and composition using the proper syntax,
  
• Reading, discussing, and writing about current newspaper articles,
  
• Listening and critiquing radio announcements,
  
• Creating written and oral resumes using advanced texts,
  
• Tutti gli usi del congiuntivo,
  
• Gli indefiniti,
  
• Uso dei modi e dei tempi,
  
• Imperativo positivo, negativo, pronominale,
  
• Approfondimento del gerundio e del participio,
  
• L'infinito,
  
• La forma passiva,
  
• Letture dai maggiori quotidiani,
  
• Letture di brani di autori contemporanei, (Moravia, Buzzati, Svevo,Cassola, Pratolini, Fenoglio),
  
• Discussione

Textbook: Esercizi di Lingua Italiana No. 2 M. Vestuti, R. Robiglio, M. Mochi
Publisher: Ci. elle.i, Florence

Duration:
4 weeks/ 80 hours of classes, (60 minutes each)
4 hours per day, 5 days per week, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Italian Business Language
Nassau Community College Student Transfer Credit
Course Title: Italian For Business, ITA 225
Credit: 3 credits

Course Description:

• This course offers practical written and oral experience using Italian Business terminology.
• Students will learn how to write messages, notes, faxes, and letters, and how to relay them orally.
• Students will learn how to prepare a professional Curriculum Vitae and how to respond during the interview process.

Textbook: Corrispondenza Commerciale Italiana, A. Toccafondi
Publisher: Ci. elle.i, Florence

Duration:
4 weeks/ 40 hours of classes, (60 minutes each)
2 hours per day, 5 days per week, from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.