Language, Culture and Society in Italy

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1023267ANR for all students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Italian

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Dirk Vanden Berghe (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
72 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

Lectures with exercises on three crucial aspects of the Italian language in its social context: a) the tension between the written and the spoken language, b) the relationship between the standard language and the dialects, c) the external language history with emphasis on the period between the late 18th and 21st century. The course will emphasize the relationship between the development of the Italian language and some important cultural and political achievements, until the final spread of a spoken standard language.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Reader "Lingua, cultura e società in Italia", Dirk Vanden Berghe, 2022
Handbook (Required) : Manuale di linguistica italiana. Storia, attualità, grammatica, Luca Serianni - Giuseppe Antonelli, Seconda edizione, Pearson Italia (Milano-Torino), 9788891903327, 2017

Additional info

Not applicable.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

OBJECTIVES AND SKILLS

1.Objectives
- the students broaden their knowledge about the Italian language structures and the cultural developments of modern and contemporary Italy.

- students learn to use linguistic and cultural sources (handbooks, encyclopedias, internet sites).

2.Skills
- the course aims to sharpen both the receptive skills (reading, understanding) and the productive skills of the student (reading, speaking, analyzing, applying).

- by the end of the lectures, the student will be able to interpret and explain linguistic phenomena concerning written and spoken Italian, the diatopic variety of Italian, the external history of Italian.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 80% of the final mark.
Practical Exam determines 20% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Syllabus en handboek with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 80% of the final mark.

Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Schriftelijke oefeningen with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Students have to succeed in all parts of the evaluation procedure in order to obtain a pass mark for the whole course.

Student who fail to participate in all the parts of the evaluation procedure will be automatically marked as "absent".

Students can transfer to the next exam session the results of those parts of the evaluation process for which they have obtained a pass mark. These result can not be transferred to the following academic year.

At the oral exam, the students are granted with preparation time.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context