Modern philology
Class: LM-14 - Modern philology
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A course that allows students to establish direct contact with the most important names of Western literary production, particularly Italians, and to immerse themselves with knowledge of the facts in the linguistic, cultural, and historical context in which they operated. From the Middle Ages to the contemporary, passing through the modern sphere, students will learn to move between strong literary and philological skills so as to be able to interpret the texts with an autonomy of criticism and judgment. Students will reflect on the relationships between literary genres or on the conditionings of the client and of the ideological coordinates. Students can pursue to work within the public and private bodies in the sectors of culture, publishing, cultural information, advertising, and entertainment, and after passing all legislative qualification students will be ready to teach in secondary school.
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Characteristics and objectives
The master program in Modern Philology is aimed at providing in-depth knowledge of the Occitan literary traditions, with a special focus on the Italian linguacultural space, by means of direct contact with the main authors and works, accurately contextualised in a historical perspective.
In order to attain the Master's degree in Modern Philology, the candidates will have to possess and demonstrate broad knowledge and solid competence in the areas of literature and philology, and they will have to reach and exhibit full awareness of the issues intrinsic in the production of critical editions, both in a mediaeval and a modern or contemporary context. The candidates will therefore need to achieve full command of the techniques necessary to analyse and describe literary texts; they will moreover have to be able to adequately contextualise texts in a historicocritical perspective, and to interpret them with a sufficient degree of autonomy. The candidates will finally also need to demonstrate the ability to communicate in a critical manner ? in both written and spoken form ? information regarding the disciplines they have studied, also in the perspective of their pedagogical applications.
Occupational opportunities
The holder of a Master's Degree in Modern Philology will be able to find a professional role within public and private institutions in the areas of culture, publishing, dissemination of cultural information, advertising, and entertainment. Masters in Modern Philology can also include teaching within the Italian school system among their work prospects, once they have completed the processes necessary to become licenced teachers and to obtain a teaching position in accordance with current regulations.
Teaching list
I Year PHILOLOGY OF THEATRICAL TEXTS [CFU 6] LANGUAGES OF THE EUROPEAN THEATER [CFU 6] ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT FORMS OF COMPOSITION [CFU 6] MYTHICAL AND SYMBOLIC IMAGERY OF GREECE [CFU 6] LATIN TEACHING [CFU 6] EXEGESIS AND RECEPTION OF LATIN LITERARY TEXTS [CFU 6] HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF LATIN TEXTS [CFU 6] HISTORY OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE [CFU 6] BYZANTINE PHILOLOGY (ADVANCED) [CFU 6] MEDIAEVAL LATIN LITERATURE (ADVANCED) [CFU 6] GALICIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE [CFU 6] PROVENÇAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE [CFU 6] TEACHING METHODOLOGIES FOR ITALIAN LITERATURE [CFU 6] DIGITAL HUMANITIES FOR ITALIAN LITERATURE [CFU 6] HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL AND RENAISSANCE THEATRICAL LITERATURE [CFU 6] LITERATURE AND GENDER STUDIES [CFU 6] GERMANIC PHILOLOGY (ADVANCED) [CFU 6] TEACHING METHODOLOGY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE [CFU 6] GLOTTODIDACTIC METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNIQUES [CFU 6] FRENCH THEATER [CFU 6] FRENCH POETRY [CFU 6] FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE [CFU 6] LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE [CFU 6] SPANISH LITERATURE OF THE GOLDEN AGE [CFU 6] MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SPANISH LITERATURE [CFU 6] PORTUGUESE-BRAZILIAN LITERATURE [CFU 6] RENAISSANCE ENGLISH LITERATURE [CFU 6] MEDIAEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE [CFU 6] MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE [CFU 6] ENGLIS LITERATURE: CRITICAL AND DIDACTIC APPROACHES [CFU 6] CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH [CFU 6] GERMAN LITERATURE [CFU 6] ROMANIAN LITERATURE [CFU 6] HUNGARIAN LITERATURE [CFU 6] MODERN GREEK LITERATURE [CFU 6] CZECH AND SLOVAK LITERATURE [CFU 6] POLISH LITERATURE [CFU 6] RUSSIAN LITERATURE [CFU 6] SERBO-CROATIAN LITERATURE [CFU 6] SLOVENIAN LITERATURE [CFU 6] CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY [CFU 6] AESTHETICS [CFU 6] SOCIAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY [CFU 6] LATIN PALAEOGRAPHY [CFU 6] STUDY OF MANUSCRIPTS [CFU 6] ENGLISH LANGUAGE TAL B2 [CFU 3] ROMANCE PHILOLOGY (ADVANCED) [CFU 9] MEDIEVAL ROMANCE LITERATURES [CFU 9] PHILOLOGY OF ITALIAN LITERATURE [CFU 9] MEDIAEVAL AND HUMANISTIC PHILOLOGY (ADVANCED) [CFU 9] COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (ADVANCED) [CFU 9] THEORY OF LITERATURE (ADVANCED) [CFU 9] HISTORY OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES [CFU 6] LATE MEDIEVAL HISTORY [CFU 6] HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE [CFU 6] HISTORY OF UNIVERSITY [CFU 6] MARITIME AND NAVAL HISTORY [CFU 6] COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPE [CFU 6] HISTORY OF WOMEN AND OF GENDER [CFU 6] CULTURAL HISTORY AND THEORY [CFU 6] MEDIEVAL ITALIAN LITERATURE [CFU 9] MODERN ITALIAN LITERATURE [CFU 9] RENAISSANCE ITALIAN LITERATURE [CFU 9] CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN POETRY [CFU 9] CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN PROSE [CFU 9] MEDIAEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ITALIAN STYLISTICS AND METRICS [CFU 9] MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN STYLISTICS AND METRICS [CFU 9] HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PERIODS [CFU 9] HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS [CFU 9] II Year TRAINING, WORK PLACEMENT, SEMINARS [CFU 3]
