6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 1015599BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
The lectures will first outline Italian cultural and urban polycentrism and its influence on the development of Italian literature. The geographical fact is therefore a useful angle to approach Italian literary history and different periods from it. Secondly, mainly 20th- and 21st-century works will be closely examined in their connection with the modern urban culture from which they emerged. The literary representation of the urbane as well as spatial aspects will not be overlooked.
The lectures will start on the basis of extracts from literary works or will extensively comment book chapters read previously by the students, who will also receive assignments (exercises on narrative and poetic topics, discussed during the lectures).
Two to four hours of additional guest lectures by a guest lecturer may also be included in the lectures.
Through this course unit students acquire a substantial knowledge (facts, movements, geographic distribution) and insight (internal relations) of the 20th and 21th century Italian literature. They can recognise, analytically describe and explain functions of basic literary techniques and concepts during the lectures and in assignments, relying for some aspects on scientific essays: structure and form of texts in prose and in verse, stylistic, rhetorical, metrical processes.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Practical Exam determines 10% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 40% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Weekly preparation of the text extracts and weekly attendance at the lectures is essential to understand the discussion about the texts. Text preparation and student collaboratiuon during the lectures is evaluated by the teacher.
Students have to succeed in all parts of the evaluation procedure in order to obtain a pass mark for the whole course.
Student who fail to participate in all the parts of the evaluation procedure will be automatically marked as "absent".
Students can transfer to the next exam session the results of those parts of the evaluation process for which they have obtained a pass mark. These results can not be transferred to the following academic year.
At the oral exam, the students are granted with preparation time
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: French-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Spanish-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Italian-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: English-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: German-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: French-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Italian-Spanish
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literary Studies: Default track (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in Interpreting: Trajectory after non-linguistic bachelor programme (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in Translating: Trajectory after professional bachelor Communication Management or Office Management or Teacher Training Secondary Education with 1 foreign language the same as the chosen language in the master program. (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Teaching in Languages: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)