Introduzione alla letteratura italiana

3 ECTS credits
90 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1023808ANR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Enrolling for this course means that you simultaneously take 'Lingua italiana I ' or have successfully passed ‘Lingua italiana I ’. If you are enrolled in a preparatory programme you can register this course without restrictions.

Taught in

Italian

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Educational team

Chiara Zampieri
Dirk Vanden Berghe (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Lecture
12 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
12 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

The lectures are devoted to texts in Italian narrative prose and poetry from 1950 to the present. Concepts taught in "Foundations of Literary Analysis" are also illustrated through appropriate Italian literary texts.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Dispense e antologia "Introduzione alla letteratura italiana", Dirk Vanden Berghe, 2025

Additional info

Two to four hours of additional guest lectures by a guest lecturer may also be included in the lectures.

Learning Outcomes

General Competences

Students acquire an initial knowledge (trends, works, authors) and understanding (interrelationships) of Italian literature, with a specific focus on central works of the contemporary period. At the same time, in lectures and exercises on texts, they can recognise and describe basic literary concepts and phenomena and explain their function in texts: structures and forms from narrative as well as verse texts.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 10% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 20% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Mondeling examen with a relative weight of 70 which comprises 70% of the final mark.

Note: Mondeling examen literatuurgeschiedenis en teksten.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Andere examen with a relative weight of 10 which comprises 10% of the final mark.

Note: Medewerking tijdens de colleges en specifieke taak.

Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Paper with a relative weight of 20 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

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 collaboration 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.

Generative AI may not be used to generate output related to the evaluation task.

At the oral exam, students are granted with preparation time.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context