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116-059 Italian Part 2A: Cultural Studies | |
Availability | 2nd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr D Bressan |
Prerequisites | A pass in 116-057 Italian Part 2A Language 1. Students must be concurrently enrolled in 116-058 Italian Part 2A Language 2. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture and 1.5 hours of seminars per week |
Subject Description | This subject will allow students to study key aspects of contemporary Italian culture, primarily through the analysis of graded literary texts. Students will also have the opportunity to study the development of Italian society in the postwar period. By the end of the course, students will have been introduced to a small number of contemporary literary texts in order to improve their standard of comprehension and to gain some understanding of the process of literary/cultural criticism. They should also have acquired the ability to examine critically various aspects of postwar Italian history and culture. |
Assessment | Two essays of 1500 words each, and a 1-hour class test. |
Prescribed Texts | Anthology of twentieth-century short stories (available in the Department)
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