The teaching contributes to the learning objectives of the undergraduate programme in Humanities, in particular along the following lines:
Skills and Understanding
On completion of the course students must:
-possess in-depth and wide knowledge from a bibliographical viewpoint of the historical phases of Italian literature, the authors and the most representative texts;
- be able to move with ease among the basic themes and stylistic features linked to specific periods or proper to individual authors, also in relation to the broader cultural context in which they are placed;
- be able to read and analyse an Italian literary text, recognizing its constituent elements and placing it correctly in its cultural context.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
On completion of the course students must:
-be able to carry out targeted analyses of literary texts on diversified methodological bases;
-be able to carry out bibliographical research in an exhaustive and updated manner, both with telematic and traditional tools, orienting themselves correctly in an archive and succeeding in correctly finding and examining the sources.
Independence of Judgement
On completion of the course students must:
-have developed autonomous abilities in analysis and interpretation of literary texts, as well as in research, collection and discussion of critical studies;
-be able to supply critically grounded but also personal interpretations of the themes and texts studied.
Communications Skills
On completion of the course students must:
-have achieved a good level of expounding and communicating the subjects of study. In particular they must employ precisely and appropriately an expressive register proper to the specific discipline.
Learning Ability
On completion of the course students must:
-have developed the ability to orient themselves autonomously in research and in-depth study in the humanistic field;
-have developed abilities of interaction at a good level in diversified cultural and linguistic contexts, using the knowledge and skills they have learnt.
