Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

Study Plan

A.A. 2026/2027 A.A. 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.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
B
ITAL-01/A
1st foreign language
9
B
FRAN-01/B
9
B
GERM-01/C
9
B
SPAN-01/C
9
B
ANGL-01/C
9
B
SLAV-01/A
2nd foreign language
9
B
FRAN-01/B
9
B
GERM-01/C
9
B
SPAN-01/C
9
B
ANGL-01/C
9
B
SLAV-01/A
1st foreign literature
6
B
ANGL-01/A
6
B
FRAN-01/A
6
B
GERM-01/B
6
B
SLAV-01/A
6
B
SPAN-01/A
2nd foreign literature
6
B
ANGL-01/A
6
B
FRAN-01/A
6
B
GERM-01/B
6
B
SLAV-01/A
6
B
SPAN-01/A
One module among the following (philology must be related to one of the chosen languages)
6
B
COMP-01/A
6
B
GERM-01/A
6
B
FLMR-01/B
6
B
SLAV-01/A
6
C
INFO-01/A
3
F
INFO-01/A
9
D
-

2° Year   It will be activated in the A.Y. 2027/2028

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
3 modules among the following (related to the language and literature chosen)
6
B
ANGL-01/A
6
B
FRAN-01/A
6
B
GERM-01/B
6
B
ANGL-01/C
6
B
FRAN-01/B
6
B
GERM-01/C
6
B
SPAN-01/C
6
B
SPAN-01/A
6
B
SLAV-01/A
6
B
SLAV-01/A
One module between the following
6
C
INFO-01/A
6
C
GIUR-02/A
2
F
-
2
F
-
3
F
-
9
D
-
Internship
2
F
-
Dissertation
18
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
B
ITAL-01/A
1st foreign language
9
B
FRAN-01/B
9
B
GERM-01/C
9
B
SPAN-01/C
9
B
ANGL-01/C
9
B
SLAV-01/A
2nd foreign language
9
B
FRAN-01/B
9
B
GERM-01/C
9
B
SPAN-01/C
9
B
ANGL-01/C
9
B
SLAV-01/A
1st foreign literature
6
B
ANGL-01/A
6
B
FRAN-01/A
6
B
GERM-01/B
6
B
SLAV-01/A
6
B
SPAN-01/A
2nd foreign literature
6
B
ANGL-01/A
6
B
FRAN-01/A
6
B
GERM-01/B
6
B
SLAV-01/A
6
B
SPAN-01/A
One module among the following (philology must be related to one of the chosen languages)
6
B
COMP-01/A
6
B
GERM-01/A
6
B
FLMR-01/B
6
B
SLAV-01/A
6
C
INFO-01/A
3
F
INFO-01/A
9
D
-

Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)

TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.

A Basic activities
B Characterizing activities
C Related or complementary activities
D Activities to be chosen by the student
E Final examination
F Other training activities
S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

English Literature - Master 1  (2026/2027)

Teaching code

4S010850

Teacher

Susanna Zinato

Coordinator

Susanna Zinato

Credits

6

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

ANGL-01/A - English Literature

Period

I semestre (Area Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 21, 2026 al Dec 23, 2026.

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable MoodleMoodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The course is held in English and aims at providing students with advanced notions of English Literature, especially in relation to forms, genres and critical approaches. It also aims to develop an autonomous and original critical approach to literary texts. On successful completion of the course, students will be able to: - read and interpret literary texts by structuring ideas and concepts with argumentative skill and expressive mastery; - critically comment on the texts in such a way as to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the theoretical debate surrounding them; - develop critical and autonomous thinking by personally elaborating on debated issues.

Prerequisites and basic notions

In order to attend the module and and sit for the exam the students must possess a Bachelor Degree.

Program

FROM THACKERAY AND CONRAD TO KUBRICK AND COPPOLA
The course will guide the students through a crossover from the reading experience of two classics of English narrative to the ‘reading’ experience of their film transpositions, with their cinema-specific codes. In dealing with the four texts’ intertextual play of structural/thematic analogues and differences, the focus will be on the two-way relationship between the source text (and context) and the new work and its receiving context.
Watching the two films is obligatory part of the programme.
PRIMARY TEXTS:
W.M. THACKERAY, “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.” (1844, 1856), Oxford World’s Classics
J. CONRAD, “Heart of Darkness” (1899), Norton or Penguin or Oxford's World Classics
S. KUBRICK, “Barry Lyndon” (1975), film (will be shown in the lecture classroom)
F. FORD COPPOLA, “Apocalypse Now” (1979) film (will be shown in the lecture classroom)
CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:
-E.F Harden, “Thackeray the Writer”, ch.6 (1998), Macmillan, 2000
-W. Hesling, “Kubrick, Thackeray and ‘The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq’”, Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol.29, No.4 (2001): 264-278.
-F. Salinger, “‘Absurd be – exploded!’: Re-membering Experience through Liminality in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”, Conradiana, Vol. 40, No.1 (2008): 61-70
-M. Maslowski and E. Kowal, “The Evil of Modernity: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and F.F. Coppola’s Apocalypse Now”, Yearbook of Conradian Studies, Vol.3 (2007): 195-211
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO INTEGRATE THE CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY AGIVEN BOVE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
B. McFarlane, “Reading Film and Literature”, ch.1 (pp.15.28) in The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen, ed.by D. Cartmell, 2007.
R.P Fletcher, “Proving a Thing even while you contradict it’: Fictions, Beliefs, and Legitimation in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.”, Studies in the Novel, vol.27 No.4 (1995): 493-514
M. Napolitano, “ ‘Utterly Baffled and Beaten, What was the Lonely and Brokenhearted Man to Do?’: Narration, Ambiguity, and Sympathy in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon”, Adaptation: The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies, Vol.8, No.3 (2015): 330-344
J. Lothe, “From Narrator to Narratee and From Author to Reader: Conrad and his Audience”, Yearbook of Conrad Studies. Vol.3 (2007): 15-29.
-D. Trench-Bonett, “Naming and Silence: A Study of Language and the Other in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”, Conradiana, Vol. 32, No.2 (2000): 84-93
N.B.: ALL STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO REGISTER ON THE COURSE MOODLE AND TO REGULARLY CHECK IT

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Didactic methods

Frontal teaching in English, inclusive of more interactive moments aimed at assuring the students' involvement and at verifying their comprehension of the discussed topics.
Regularly attending students who might miss some classes for seriously motivated reasons may be helped by the teaching professor in recuperating their contents.
Students who might be unable to attend classes will avail themselves in the preparation of the exam by having recourse to the suppletive obbligatory critical readings scheduled for them in the programme.

Learning assessment procedures

ORAL EXAM IN ENGLISH.
An oral exam will verify the students' acquisition of the discussed topics and of their linguistic/argumentative abilities.

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

Evaluation criteria

The exam will verify whether the students possess the following competences and in which degree:
- their proficiency in using the methodological-critical acquisitions introduced during classes and those discussed in the critical bibliography;
- whether they are able to autonomously repropose and discuss critical acquisitions;
- whether they are able to adequately expose and argument in English.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

Final mark graded out of 30, and defined on the basis of the criteria given above.

Exam language

English

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