INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN

Comprehensive grammar review through practice in writing and reading. Literary texts and cultural material will constitute the base for in-class discussions and compositions. Students taking ITL 220 are also strongly encouraged to take ITL 235 Advanced Conversation in the fall semester. Taking both courses will strengthen students' confidence and ability to become proficient in Italian. Prerequisite: ITL 110y or ITL 111 or permission of the department.

VALID & INVALID REASONING

Formal logic and its application to the evaluation of everyday arguments, the abstract properties of logical systems, the implications of inconsistency. Examples drawn from law, philosophy, economics, literary criticism, political theory, commercials, mathematics, psychology, computer science, off-topic debating, and the popular press. Deduction and induction, logical symbolism and operations, paradoxes, and puzzles. May not be taken for credit with PHI 202.
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