OVERVIEW

Course title:  “Germans and Italy”

This annual course provides 9 credits and consists of 54 hours of lessons (36 hours in the first semester and 18 in the second semester).

The course will be held in Italian.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

This course aims to study literary texts of the German-speaking region, in their inherent aesthetic character and as a privileged pathway to understanding German culture.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, the student shall:

-         Know in depth the specific manifestations of odeporic literature of the German region

-         Be acquainted with basic critical tools

-         Acquire an adequate sector-specific vocabulary of odeporic literature

-         Be familiar with the literary genres involved

-         Through all of the above, perform a competent critical review of a piece of odeporic literature in relation to its historical-cultural and rhetorical-expressive specificities     

PREREQUISITES

Students are not required to have any specific prerequisite.

It goes without saying that good linguistic competence in spoken and written Italian, skills in expression, and the background required for understanding the Europen historical context (acquired through proper secondary school learning), are taken for granted.

TEACHING METHODS

Traditional lesson with the professor teaching the whole class in the classroom.

Teaching will be in Italian.

During the lessons, constant feedback with the students is expected through verbal questions. The degree of maturity of the answers, their relevance and the use of adequate sector-specific terms will be considered for the outcome of the final test.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course, entitled Germans and Italy, will focus on the theme of journeys as an opportunity for intellectual adventure. The milestones of the most significant periods of the cultural history of Germany and Austria will be used to consider the inconstant development of the literary representation of our Country offered by 18th- and 19th-century ‘Germans’.

For LCM and TTMI-Students (36 h) the course will be structured as follows:

1. Germans’ fascination with Italy

2. Encountering and clashing with the Other: judgements and prejudices

3. The Grand Tour

4. What Italy for Germans?

5. What Italy for Austrians?

6. 16th century. Martin Luther in Rome

For LCM and TTMI-Students (36+18 h.) the course will be structured as follows:

1. Germans’ fascination with Italy

2. Encountering and clashing with the Other: judgements and prejudices

3. The Grand Tour

4. What Italy for Germans?

5. What Italy for Austrians?

6. 16th century. Martin Luther in Rome

7. 18th century. Goethe in Rome and Venice

8. 19th century. A special journey: Prussian spies in Italy

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

ATTENDING STUDENTS

• Alberto Destro, I Paesi di lingua tedesca, (capp. 1, 4, 7), Il Mulino, 2004 (in Dispense)

• Italo Michele Battafarano, "Martin Lutero", in: Italo Michele Battafarano, L’Italia ir-reale, Scorpione, 1995 (in Dispense)

• Attilio Brilli, Quando viaggiare era un'arte, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017

• Teresa Ciuffoletti, Roberto Sassi, Guida alla Berlino Ribelle, Voland, 2016

It will be the professor’s responsibility to provide the students, in each instance, with photocopies related to the documents studied during lessons and to prepare lecture notes at the end of the course.

A copy of the lecture notes will be filed at the Department Library.

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:

Non-attending students shall present the programme specified above, with the above cited critical literature and with the addition of the following textbook:

Elena Agazzi, Piccolo manuale di viabilità letteraria, UNICOPLI, 2009

Non-attending students are in any case kindly requested to contact the professor.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

NICOLETTA DACREMA (President)

MICHAELA BÜRGER-KOFTIS

LESSONS

LESSONS START

OCTOBER 2018

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written test.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Learning assessment includes a written test.

Knowledge related to the course will be assessed via:

1)    Yes-and-no questions, for which the student shall demonstrate knowledge of the main cultural foundations (literary, historical, geographical, political) related to the German world.

Reference textbook: Alberto Destro, I Paesi di lingua tedesca, Il Mulino, 2004 (Manual)

Constant updating on the part of the student on current German political topics (by reading newspapers, listening to TV and radio newscasts) is ‘welcome’.

2) Open-ended questions in which the student shall demonstrate knowledge of concepts related to the topic of the course.

The skills achieved by the student shall be evaluated through targeted exercises, in which the student shall demonstrate the ability to apply the tools provided during the lessons.

Textbooks in references + lecture notes

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

Criteria for assigning the final mark:

. skill in debate and summarisation.

. syntactically correct writing and use of the specific terminology of odeporic literature

. capability to organise written text with clarity of thought