Course title: ‘The War of Words during the Great War’
This annual course provides 6 credits and consists of 36 hours of lessons
The course will be held in Italian.
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.
At the end of the course, the student shall:
Through all of the above, perform a competent critical review of a piece of war literature in relation to its historical-cultural and rhetorical-expressive specificities
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.
Traditional lessons.
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.
The course entitled ‘The War of Words during the Great War’ will focus on the shaping of the image of the enemy that took place in the Austro-German and German region during World War I.
The forms and themes of war propaganda, considered as cultural heritage and as a dynamic field of interactions, will be explored through the voices of the period's most representative authors.
The course will be structured as follows:
REFERENCES
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.
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:
- Franz Blei, Bestiario letterario (a cura di L. Rega), Diabasis, Parma, 2019
Non-attending students are in any case kindly requested to contact the professor.
Ricevimento: See personal page (In: www.lingue.unige.it)
NICOLETTA DACREMA (President)
SERENA SPAZZARINI (President)
MICHAELA BÜRGER-KOFTIS
Lessons start on 10th October 2022.
Weekly timetable:
Monday 12-13 (Aula F, polo didattico delle Fontane)
Thursday 14-16 (Aula B, polo didattico delle Fontane)
GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE II
Written test.
Learning assessment includes a written test.
Knowledge related to the course will be assessed via:
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
Criteria for assigning the final mark:
. skill in debate and summarisation.
. syntactically correct writing and use of the specific terminology of war literature
. capability to organise written text with clarity of thought
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Students with a certified DSA, disability or other special educational needs are advised to contact the lecturer at the beginning of the course in order to agree on teaching and examination methods that, while respecting the teaching objectives, take into account individual learning methods and provide suitable compensatory tools.
