CODE 65076 ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 2 LETTERATURE MODERNE E SPETTACOLO 9918 (LM-14) - 9 cfu anno 1 LETTERATURE MODERNE E SPETTACOLO 9918 (LM-14) - SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-FIL-LET/12 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION SEMESTER 1° Semester OVERVIEW The course broadens the institutional knowledge acquired during the three-year degree course with a monograph approach. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Analysing knowledge of the history of the Italian language with particular attention to the ancient language, non-standard variations of Italian, literary Italian and issues of style and metrics. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES At the end of the course, students should be able to a) recognise the movement dynamics of the Italian language during history, as it maintained, changed and discarded forms (phonetics and morphology), words (lexicon) and constructions (syntax), b) in premodern texts recognise the elements that are obsolete today and their meanings, c) reflect on the plausibility and describability of the notion of ancient Italian. TEACHING METHODS Lectures SYLLABUS/CONTENT Extinct Italian: lexicon, forms, constructions that are no longer used TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD VITTORIO COLETTI Exam Board VITTORIO COLETTI (President) ENRICO TESTA (President) MANUELA MANFREDINI LESSONS Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS ASSESSMENT METHODS Oral discussion of a written report assigned at the end of the course. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 24/01/2018 09:30 GENOVA Orale 08/02/2018 09:30 GENOVA Orale 23/05/2018 12:00 GENOVA Orale 12/06/2018 09:30 GENOVA Orale 28/06/2018 09:30 GENOVA Orale 17/07/2018 09:30 GENOVA Orale 11/09/2018 09:30 GENOVA Orale FURTHER INFORMATION Students who have not taken a three-year course exam in History of the Italian Language or another course from the L-FIL-LET/12 sector must agree on an additional programme with teaching staff.
