Critical engagement with complex global issues that provides an effective approach to promoting linguistic proficiency and social responsibilityMastering Italian through Global Debate is a onesemester textbook designed for students with Advancedlevel Italian language skills moving toward Superior and above. Over the course of each chapter students gain linguistic and rhetorical skills as they prepare to debate on broad timely topics including environmental consciousness immigration wealth distribution surveillance and privacy cultural diversity and education. Discussion of compelling issues promotes not only linguistic proficiency but social responsibility through critical engagement with complex global challenges. Each chapter includes topicspecific reading texts and position papers giving students insight into issues being widely discussedand debatedin Italy today. In addition to pre and postreading activities students benefit from lexical development exercises rhetorical methods sections and listening exercises with audio available on the Press website. Online resources for instructors include pedagogical recommendations and an answer key.