European and american languages and literatures
Class: LM-37 - Modern American and European languages and literature
Next Calls for applications (international students) - A.Y. 2024/25:
- 1st Call: 2 November 2023 - 2 February 2024
- 2nd Call: 2 March - 2 May 2024
- 3rd Call (ONLY EU and equated students): 2 June - 2 August 2024
A course with a strong international vocation that teaches students how to communicate with linguistic mastery and a critical spirit of the cultural content of two foreign languages and their civilizations. In a perspective of comparative dialogue and mediation, students will learn not only the daily written and oral use of the two languages but also the knowledge of its literary tradition as well as the historical and socio-cultural contexts of each language. Theoretical and practical skills are enhanced by an in-depth study through specialist and literary translation as well as the teaching of foreign languages. Students can pursue work in the fields of teaching, translation, publishing, cultural mediation, and in general sectors where language skills and international "visions" are required.
Curricula
Culture postcoloniali, afro-discendenti e dal sud globale; English Studies; Lingue e letterature dell'Europa Centrale e Orientale; Lingue e letterature europee e americane (generale)
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Characteristics and objectives
The Master's Degree in European and American Languages and Literatures offers an educational project eminently focused on the study of two foreign languages and cultures. Besides training its students for the daily use of the two languages of their choice, enhancing both oral and written skills with professional and cultural specificities, the Course aims at transmitting a deep knowledge of each respective literary tradition, with specific attention for the transmission of competences about the historical and socio-cultural contexts they are framed into, and a special interest for the development of a comparative dialogue between them, meant to serve the purpose of mutual enlightenment and 'mediation'.
A specific interest is also devoted to the theory and practice of translation (broadly specialized, literary, etc…) and didactics of foreign languages. Students who aspire at gaining a M. D. in European and American Languages and Literatures will, therefore, be asked to prove a high degree of theoretical and practical knowledge of the languages of their choice, as well as an ability to properly manage different techniques for analysing and describing literary texts, to adequately project them in a historical-critical perspective, and to
interpret them with satisfactory autonomy. Also, they will have to prove their capability of critically communicating complex cultural contents in both 'curricular' foreign languages, both in spoken and written form.
Occupational opportunities
The Course prepares expert professionals specialized in foreign languages and cultures, who will be able, as such, to carry out qualified tasks in teaching, translation, publishing and cultural mediation, as well as, more generally, in any work environment with a specific international projection.
Curricula
Culture postcoloniali, afro-discendenti e dal sud globale; English Studies; Lingue e letterature dell'Europa Centrale e Orientale; Lingue e letterature europee e americane (generale)
