Corso di laurea magistrale in
Culture moderne comparate

Good knowledge of Italian and some knowledge of both Spanish and English languages

This workshop intends to:

• offer basic theoretical and practical skills within an educational process aimed at training professionals skilled for the world of communication, publishing, and cultural journalism;
• to provide theoretical and methodological tools useful to read and interpret literary texts and publishing products in their complexity;
• to stimulate students to participate in a reflective and creative activity that enhances their analytical, critical, narrative, and communicative skills.
• to make students grasp the analytical methods of publishing mediation within the framework of literary production as a constitutive element of Spanish and Anglo American cultural identities.

In compliance with the European parameters provided by the five Dublin descriptors, upon completion of this course students will prove:
 

1. Knowledge and understanding: ability to historically frame the issues addressed and the texts read in class;

2. Applying knowledge and understanding: ability to understand, analyze and comment on the texts covered in the workshop, reflecting critically on the different positions they express and the interpretations they offer;

3. Making judgment: ability to develop independent judgment on the theoretical and historical issues addressed in the workshop and through the proposed texts;

4. Communication skills: exposition of acquired knowledge in a language appropriate to the topic, both in written and oral form;

5. Learning skills: ability to synthesize, reformulate and expand individually the issues and texts covered in the workshop, also to formulate original hypotheses.

This workshop will teach the nature and uses of some communication tools useful for the dissemination of literary works and their translations (booktrailers, podcasts, reviews, Wikipedia pages, social media, etc.).

Students will be engaged in the preparation of a shared map of the most stimulating tools and their production. The materials will be uploaded by each instructor on Moodle and on the official page of the course.

This workshop has a practical nature and covers 18 total hours (3 CFU). The activities in Italian, Spanish, and English will take place in presence by using texts, Power Point presentations, video and audio materials that will be uploaded on Moodle. We recommend to regularly check the section “AVVISI” and your personal e-mails for possible updates.

FINAL PROJECT

In addition to class participation and engagement, students will be evaluated on a final project. You may choose only one among several options that needs to be arranged in advance with one of the three instructors: translation of a literary passage, a review, or the report of a book/film/Tv series, a podcast, a video, etc.

The lecturers will be available to meet their students via Webex or in thier office to discuss their learning needs or give advice for their oral presentations.

In general, Students with SLD or disabilities are asked to take note of the university modalities of support and welcoming (https://www.unito.it/servizi/inclusione-ed-esigenze-specifiche/servizi-la-disabilita) and of the procedures to request support for the exams ((https://www.unito.it/servizi/inclusione-ed-esigenze-specifiche/servizi-i-disturbi-specifici-di-apprendimento-dsa-3). 

Students with Specific Learning Difficulties are encouraged to contact the lecturers at the beginning of the course to arrange individual learning paths suited to their needs, which could go beyond the compensatory and dispensatory measures guaranteed for the exam.

A final reading list (primary texts and critical material) will be provided a few weeks before the beginning of the workshop and uploaded on Moodle. Students are supposed to enroll in the workshop and check its relative webpage on a regular basis.

Students mus sign up to this lab that accepts up to 25 students. The dates for registration will be announced soon.

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