Passages to Rome

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The analysis of the most complex structures of grammar and syntax will be performed through reading a selection of contemporary Italian literature and by writing a short story in different controlled stages. This course aims at developing a better knowledge and understanding of the Italian language and at building a competence on basic narrative techniques towards the creation of a "personal" style. Grammar topics include: the structure of transitivity and intransitivity in the relationship between prepositions and verbs, subtle features of the subjunctive, temporal shifts in modal auxiliaries, phraseology and conjunctions in compound constructions. Taught in Italian.