75839 - Seminar (1) (G-D)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the seminar (which will be stricitly relevanto to the programme's expected learning outcomes) students will acquire the skills and the knolwedge needed to address themes and problems in the areas of linguistics and/or philology and/or literature and/or history and/or the arts.

Course contents

This seminar will allow 40 students from the Corso di Laurea in Lettere to attend ?Introduction to Italian Culture', a series of lectures in English addressing different aspects of Italian culture. The seminar wil run both in the first and the second semester. Each series corresponds to a six-credit seminar.

Course Contents Spring 2022

• Feb 3 Welcome Day: Introduction to the course
• Feb 10 Dante's Going Astray: Story of a Merciful and Noble Lady, Nicolò Maldina
• Feb 17 Emilian Highlights: Four contemporary artists from the 20th Century to the present, Leonardo Regano
• Feb 24 Where Does the Italian Language Come From? Chiara Gianollo
• Mar 3 Fascism and Neofascism in Italy, Stefano Cavazza
• Mar 10 From Properzia de' Rossi to Elisabetta Sirani: One hundred years of great Italian artists, Paolo Cova
• Mar 17 The Fictionalization of Artemisia Gentileschi, Filippo Milani
• Mar 24 What is happening in contemporary Italian? Simone Mattiola
• Mar 31 Italian Social Movements since 1968, Marica Tolomelli
• Apr 7 Destination Venice: Overtourism and the tourist experience, Claudio Minca & Annaclaudia Martini
• Apr 21 The Reform of Mental Healthcare in Italy (1978): Its Context and Its Political Thought, Antonio Del Vecchio
• Apr 28 English Travellers to Italy and the Rise of Modernity, Maurizio Ascari

Teaching methods

Conceived as an interdisciplinary program, the course is taught in English, and consists of two seminar cycles, one for each semester. Every week some of our best faculty and guest lecturers will offer new insights on crucial aspects of Italian culture.

The lectures will take place on Thursdays from 8 to 10 p.m.

Field trips and vists to Bologna's cultural insititutions should also be part of the course porgram, but they will be organised depending on the developments of the epidemic.

Attendance is mandatory (only 2 absences per semester are allowed).

A maximum number of 40 students from the Corso di Laurea in Lettere will be allowed to attend the seminar. Enrolment is on a first-come-first-served basis. To be admitted to the seminar, students are required to apply via e-mail to the seminar convenor (angelomaria.mangini@unibo.it). Applications will open on 4 February (e-mails sent before that date will NOT be considered).

Online attendance will be through the virtual classroom of the course 'Introduction to Italian Culture 2'

Assessment methods

To get the credits, students are required to submit a 10-page paper (approx. 4,000 words) at the end of each semester on one of the topics discussed during the course. The essay is assessed on a pass/fail basis.

Office hours

See the website of Angelo Maria Mangini