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Laurea in Scienze della comunicazione - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
A
L-LIN/12
2nd foreign language
6
E
-
activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
A
L-LIN/12
2nd foreign language
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
Stage/laboratories
9
F
-
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S007367

Coordinator

Claudio Gallo

Credits

3

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

NN - -

Period

First half of Semester 2 , Second half of Semester 2

Learning outcomes

The point of the teaching is to introduce the student to the historical knowledge of the comic strip between the nineteenth and twentieth century, with reference to Italian publishers, magazines, designers and screenwriters.

Program

After some hints on the birth of comics, will be analyzed: the experiences of children's magazines at the beginning of the twentieth century; pop and adventurous Italian's comic strip between the Thirties and the Fifties; the black heroes of the sixties; comics and magazines between the seventies and the nineties; the graphic novel's success in the new Millennium.

Reference texts:

a)Lecture note

B) For a general knowledge of Italian comics we recommend reading Claudio Gallo-Giuseppe Bonomi, Tutto cominciò con Bilbolbul or Daniele Barbieri, Breve storia della letteratura a fumetti, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2014. Pdf of the two books and some more lecture notes will be make available by the teacher.
C) A comic book or a graphic novel.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Daniele Barbieri Breve storia della letteratura a fumetti (Edizione 2) Carocci 2014 978-88-430-7113-5
Claudio Gallo ; Giuseppe Bonomi ; prefazione di Stefano Marzorati Tutto comincio con Bilbolbul... : per una storia del fumetto italiano (Edizione 1) Perosini 2006 88-85409-58-X Il docente metterà a disposizione il pdf del volume e alcune dispense integrative.

Examination Methods

To be specified, there will be three dates, to be set, for the final exam, two in the summer session and the last in the September session.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE