Reading List II

Catalog description

Italy holds a place of honor in the fields of art, literature, and culture, but it is mistakenly not perceived as a land of industry and commerce and one of the major economic powers on the planet. This course is divided into three parts: “Job Hunting” contains useful information on the overall process, explains how to read and answer a job opening, shows how to write a résumé, how to acquire job references and how to prepare for the initial interview. The second part, entitled “Business”, teaches students to correctly introduce themselves in a business setting, how to schedule appointments, proper phone procedures, deals with travel arrangements associated with business (i.e. reservation of a plane ticket, hotel room, or rental car), provides the description of the typical Italian firm and points out some differences in corporate etiquette between Italy and other EC countries, and finally illustrates the production process in Italy. The third part consists of a concise handbook dealing with business correspondence. This last section is an introduction to commercial writing. In each chapter of our textbook, there’s a language section with some relevant dialogues and exercises useful to become familiar with the target language and to improve the business Italian vocabulary.