Bachelor’s degree in Humanities – Literature and Linguistics Curriculum (L-10)

The knowledge and practice of spoken and written varieties of the Italian language, perfected through constant work on texts of different kinds and the knowledge and practice of a second language to be acquired, at the end of the three-year period, at least a B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), will allow graduates in the Humanities to be able to place themselves and their theoretical and practical knowledge into a European perspective.

The course trains professionals corresponding to a more traditional humanities profile, with knowledge, skills and competencies focused mainly on the fields of history-literature, language (of Italian and English), history-geography and anthropo-psycho-pedagogy.

Overall, the graduate will enjoy basic and transversal skills and a wide cultural flexibility to successfully enter the world of work or continue studies in a specialized field, with particular reference to a master’s degree, such as LM 14, in which to acquire the remaining credits to be able to subsequently enter competitions for teaching literary subjects in high schools, or to master’s degree of I level of the field of communication or education.

This is achieved through a training program that consists of 108 obligatory credits but with the possibility of choosing between areas in the same field or between disciplines in the same field, for a better characterization of the two profiles. The pathway is aimed at providing a solid general preparation, both in the basic and in the characterizing disciplines and, more specifically, is articulated as follows:

• basic teachings of the area of Italian Literature (in the fields L-FIL-LET/10, L-FIL-LET/11);
• basic teachings of the field of Philology, general and applied linguistics (in the fields L-LIN/01 and /02, L-FIL-LET/12, M-FIL/05);
• basic teachings of the area of History, philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, anthropology and geography (M-STO/04, M-STO/02, M-STO/01, L-ANT/03, M-GGR/01);
• basic teachings of the area of Classical Languages and Literatures (in the area of L-FIL-LET/04);
• characterizing teachings of the area of Modern Literatures (in the fields L-FIL-LET/10, L-FIL-LET/11);
• characterizing teachings of the area of Philology, Linguistics and Literature (in the fields -LIN/01, L-FIL-LET/12, L-FIL-LET/04, L-LIN/12);
• characterizing teachings of the area of History, Archaeology and Art History (in the areas (M-STO/04, M-STO/02, M-STO/01, L-ANT/03).

The student will extend his or her education with an additional 36 specific credits, organized as follows:

• “Linguistic and Literary Subjects” curriculum integrates the basic and characterizing preparation and focuses on topics useful to complete the graduate’s cultural profile through teaching in the INF/01, ING-INF/05, L-LIN/12, M-DEA/01, M-GGR/01, M-PED/01, M-PED/03, M-PED/04, M-PSI/01, SPS/08 fields.

The training also includes 36 total credits of “Other activities” divided into “For knowledge of at least one foreign language,” which are obligatory, and “Additional training activities,” which can be chosen from:

• additional language skills;
• training and orientation internships;
• other knowledge useful for job placement;
• computer and telematics skills.

“Student’s choice” credits and the thesis complete the course.

The thesis, as well as Other educational activities, can be carried out either within the University, under the guidance of a lecturer, or at educational institutions and/or companies that have entered into an agreement with the University.

The expected learning outcomes mainly concern:

(1) mastery of the different varieties of the Italian language and the main varieties of a second language;

(2) a solid philological approach combined with analytical skills stimulated by the study of metalinguistic knowledge and Latin language;

(3) the ability to work on drafting texts in Italian and foreign languages, including in teams;

(4) the ability to combine disciplinary knowledge and the acquisition of linguistic-literary methodologies with the knowledge and skills required by the contemporary knowledge society;

(5) familiarity with the use of the main digital tools useful for the dissemination of knowledge.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding skills

Graduates in Humanities will acquire knowledge and ability to understand Italian linguistic and literary culture of ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary ages.

They will also acquire the ability to make use of analytical tools and methodologies that enable them to firmly root the contents of the humanistic tradition in modernity and critically interpret its cultural phenomena.

The examination of products of different textual types – verbal and/or nonverbal, as in the case of visual, musical, performance art works -, and the adoption of a contrastive methodology in the frontal lectures, which will take place in the virtual classroom as well as training in the critical reading of scientific texts and individual study of textbooks and in-depth studies, will allow students to extend and deepen their abilities to understand texts, to place them in their cultural context and to examine them strong also in the knowledge of what has been produced on them by critics.

To this end, the course of study stimulates experiences abroad and attempts to foster the development of independent comprehension skills, favouring, where possible, seminar teaching, also delivered through computer mediation.

The verification of the achievement of the expected results will be carried out through the examination and aptitude tests, and, in the final stage, through the final exam.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course the graduate will be able to:

• frame significant themes and authors, the history of Italian literature and deal with the above also in an interdisciplinary way, in its completeness and by scans;
• know structures and functions of languages in general and of Italian (and its varieties) more specifically and be able to understand the main changes that have determined them
• recognize the most significant phases of the linguistic history of Italian and their outcome on contemporary Italian;
• mature a critical and autonomous judgment on a text;
• research, identify and employ computer tools for researching and in texts and for their dissemination through the web;
• adjust one’s communicative production to the context and medium used;
• contextualize texts in time and space, including social;
• research and use the most useful sources for the analysis of a text;
• identify and use appropriate analysis methodologies for texts;
• possess a B2 level of the CEFR of languages.

In order for these abilities to apply knowledge and understanding to be achieved, the student will be offered, a continuous work of critical analysis of texts (of various types), disciplinary and interdisciplinary. practice throughout the duration of the course through participation in the courses (which will be delivered in a virtual classroom, whether face-to-face lectures or laboratory and seminar activities), and individual study of bibliography and multimedia materials (analog and digital).

Verification of the achievement of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding will take place at the end of the course by means of examination and proficiency tests and in itinere through oral and/or written and/or practical intermediate tests. the degree of competence achieved will be measured through the ability to independently analyse and produce innovative texts compared to those considered in the courses.

Linguistic and textual area of the first and second language

Knowledge and comprehension

At the end of the course graduates will have achieved knowledge and skills in understanding and producing texts relevant with the context and communicative medium, in the first and second language.

They should also have acquired an adequate methodology of textual and metatextual analysis and interpretation.

Achievement of the objective will be facilitated through the activities given in the virtual classroom and verified through oral and/or written examinations and in midterm tests.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course, graduates should be able to apply linguistic, metalinguistic, textual and metatextual knowledge in both production and comprehension; they should also be comfortable in any field and medium of knowledge dissemination.

Achievement of the objective will be verified through the critical analysis and active production of texts of a heterogeneous nature in terms of type, period, geographical, cultural and social context and medium of dissemination, which will take place as part of the midterm and final examinations.

Historical-Literary Area

Knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course, graduates will have attained knowledge and ability to understand and critically analyse literary texts of various periods, form and content. They should also have acquired an adequate methodology of historical-literary and critical analysis of the text.

Achievement of the objective will be facilitated through activities given in the virtual classroom and verified through oral and/or written examinations and in midterm tests.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course, graduates will be expected to be able to recognize and frame, with an increasing degree of autonomy, including on the basis of its textual invoice, any literary text produced in the Italian language. They will also know how to guide themselves in the translation and analysis of Latin texts.

Achievement of the objective will be verified through the critical analysis of synchronic and diachronic literary texts proposed as part of the midterm and final examinations.

Historical-geographical area

Knowledge and understanding

By the end of the course, graduates will have achieved knowledge and ability to guide themselves in time and space and recognize and describe at least the most significant phenomena of each period and area. They should also have gained familiarity with reading and understanding historical and geographical texts, including physical, political and historical maps.

Achievement of this objective will be verified in itinere, in the course of lectures conducted in the virtual classroom, in midterm tests, where provided, and through the final examination.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course, graduates will be expected to be able to place in a territory, in synchrony and in diachrony, the main facts that characterize it.

Achievement of this objective will be verified by subjecting the student to texts other than those covered in the course of lectures at the intermediate tests, where provided, and the final examination.

Socio-psycho-pedagogical area

Knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course graduates will be able to identify and describe the main connections between the texts analysed and the cognitive processes that originated them, together with the learning and cultural contexts in which they were produced.

They should also have acquired the main methodologies used for research in pedagogy, anthropology and sociology of cultural processes.

Achievement of this objective will be verified through midterm tests, where provided, and at the final written and/or oral examination.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course, graduates will be able to identify and describe the main connections between a text other than those analysed and the cognitive and/or cultural processes that originated it. They will also be able to make assessments of the learning and/or sociocultural contexts of production.

Achievement of this objective will be verified through practical and/or written and/or oral tests administered in the course of the lectures, carried out in the virtual classroom, in the midterm tests, where scheduled, and at the final written and/or oral and/or practical examination.

Making judgment

Graduates in the Humanities should be able to frame, critically examine and motivate, including through the methodology acquired, their judgment on texts related to the knowledge fields under study.

Depending on a text (regardless of the text type, format and constituent languages: e.g. literary, historical, geographical, analog, digital, multimedia, etc.) they will have to be able to: search and collect bibliographic sources on it in the relevant literature; show critical spirit towards knowledge and sources relevant with the text to be analysed reachable through the web; relate the data offered by the text with the body of knowledge acquired, also in an interdisciplinary key.

To facilitate the acquisition of autonomy of judgment, the student throughout the course will be trained to detect and comment on the formal and content aspects of heterogeneous texts of increasing difficulty, contextualizing them also in a (socio)linguistic-cultural and historical-geographical key.

Supplementary seminar activities of the frontal courses, the one and the other delivered through the virtual classroom, will support the progressive acquisition of critical autonomy, which must be demonstrated in the setting up and conduct of the final exam.

Verification of the acquisition and level of autonomy will take place through

• the administration, progressive and continuous during the lectures and other activities carried out in the virtual classroom, of texts to be interpreted critically, motivating the reason for one’s choices;
• the intermediate tests carried out as part of the individual teachings;
• the final test (examination) of each individual teaching.

Communicative skills

Graduates in Humanities will have to achieve a high level of communicative efficacy and relevance in both spoken and written production, to be pursued and refined also through the attendance of theoretical-practical activities that will be offered among the Other Educational Activities.

They will also know how to identify the most functional environments and tools for the digital communication of what they produce.

The verification of the progress of skills will take place in the context of the in itinere and final tests of the language courses and in the suitability tests of the Other Formative Activities.

Learning skills

Graduates will learn basic knowledge and skills referring to different areas of knowledge, together with the ability to use, and critically, digital tools and techniques of effective communication.

Thanks to the plurality of approaches, they will be able to start on a process of understanding the complexity of the contemporary knowledge society, a process which, however, in order to materialize in a more stable ability to learn how to learn, should be completed through a subsequent path.

The competence related to learning to learn will be evaluated through the ability to solve problems posed by heterogeneous texts administered in the course of lectures and exercises, carried out in the virtual classroom, in itinere tests, where provided, and final exams.

Final Examination

The final examination scheduled for the degree in Humanities consists of the public discussion, in the presence of a special Commission, of a written paper (thesis), in which criteria of procedural rigor, substantive relevance, disciplinary specificity and linguistic precision must be achieved.

In the writing and discussion of the paper, the expected learning objectives specified in the descriptor system will be verified.

The Degree Committee evaluates the student’s paper and discussion of the thesis, assigning the final paper a score consistent with the provisions of the Regulations of the Course of Study.

 

 

 

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