Language, literature and cultural communication
Class: L-11 R - & L-12 R -
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The interclass undergraduate program in Languages, Literatures and Cultural Mediation aims to train students with solid linguistic (oral and written, expressive and translative), literary, cultural and mediation skills in two languages other than Italian.
Characteristics and objectives:
The three-year course leads to the acquisition of advanced oral and written skills in at least two languages other than Italian, with an educational project oriented, contextually, to the construction of a good knowledge of the literatures and cultures of which the languages of study are an expression. The basic and characterizing subjects provide linguistic, philological and literary tools instrumental to the acquisition of a high level of proficiency in the chosen languages, as well as an effective method of textual and pragmatic analysis propaedeutical to the understanding and mediation of the historical and sociocultural specificities of the contexts of interest. Students can choose from the following languages and literatures: Czech, French (French literature, Francophone literatures), English (English literature, Anglo-American literature), Polish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian and Croatian, Slovenian, Spanish (Spanish literature and Hispano-American literature), German, Hungarian. In addition, it is also possible to study a third language and literature, selecting it as a free subject or extra credit.
The Course presents a single curriculum, with a choice of degree class (L-11 or L-12) in the third year (see Appendix 2). The common curriculum includes 12 free-choice CFUs and 6 CFUs of 'Other Activities' (Internships, internships, seminars, laboratories).
Occupational opportunities:
Undergraduates will be able to work in interdisciplinary, multilingual and multicultural settings. Depending on the construction of the curricula, they will be able to exercise professional activities in business (business services, foreign correspondence, cultural and linguistic mediation); in public or private, national and international organizations and institutes; in extra-school language education; in cultural services, tourism and communication; in library and archival institutions; in publishing and journalism; in diplomatic and consular contexts; in support of operators in international cooperation and interethnic mediation or intercultural welcoming within the territory.
Undergraduates can also continue their studies with a Master's degree.
From undergraduate to Master's degree:
The course provides direct access to the following Master's degree programs within the Italian public system:
- LM 37, class of LM in Modern European and American Languages and Literatures (LM Unipd: European and American Languages and Literatures)
- LM 38, class of LM in Modern Languages for Communication and International Cooperation (LM Unipd: Modern Languages for Communication and International Cooperation)
Through a targeted choice of non-characterizing disciplines, it also provides access to:
- LM 39, class of LM in Linguistics (LM Unipd: Linguistics)
- LM 94, class of LM in Specialist Translation and Interpreting
- LM 52, class of LM in International Relations (LM Unipd: Human Rights - Human Rights Governance)
- LM 87, class of LM in Social Service and Social Policy (LM Unipd interclass LM 85: Cultures, Education and Global Society)
- LM 14, class of LM in Modern Philology (LM Unipd: Modern Philology: French and Italian Studies).
