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Type D and Type F activities
Type D and Type F Credits (CFUs D and F)
As part of the academic plans for each degree program, students must earn a specified number of credits from the Type D and F (CFUs D and F) categories.
CFUs D (student's choice activities)
CFUs D can be earned through various activities, including:
- Elective courses: non-mandatory courses within your plan of study, subject to the approval of the Chair of the Teaching Committee the course cannot be selected independently.
- Accredited activities: activities accredited by the Teaching Committee
- Language Proficiency: acquiring proficiency in languages different from or additional to the required ones.
- Internships or apprenticeships: practical work experience in relevant fields
- TALCs (Transversal Skills): skills gained through specific university programs.
The total number of CFUs D is calculated over the entire degree period (two or three years) and is not tied to a single academic year.
Transversal skills
Explore the learning pathways promoted by the University's Teaching and Learning Center for currently enrolled students that aim to develop transversal skills
Please note: TALC courses are only recognized as CFUs D.
Contamination Lab
The Contamination Lab Verona (CLab Verona) is an experiential learning program focused on innovation and business culture. It offers students the opportunity to collaborate in teams across different programmes and disciplines to solve challenges posed private companies and institutions. Completing this pathway earns students 6 CFUs D. Learn more about the CLab challenges here.
Important Notes:
- To be eligible for any credit-bearing learning activities, including electives, students must be enrolled in the academic year during which the activities are offered.
- GRADUATING SENIORS: Students who plan to graduate in the November or March/April sessions are advised NOT to undertake extracurricular activities in a new academic year (in which they are not enrolled), as these graduation sessions correspond to the previous academic year. Activities completed during an academic year in which students is not enrolled will not be credited with CFUs.
CFUs F (other training activities)
CFUs F typically relate to skills in computing and languages, internships and apprenticeships, and other educational activities accredited by the Teaching Committee.
The degree program in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce recognizes the following:
- 3 CFUs for a third language (B1 level)
- 3 CFUs for computer skills
- 6 CFUs for a mandatory internship.
Computer skills can be acquired by:
- Passing the test in the University's computer labs.
- Attending and passing the final exams for courses offered by schools and centres accredited by AICA (Italian Association for Computer Science and Automatic Computing) or courses recognized by the Province and Region. Applications for the recognition of previously acquired computer skills are reviewed by the Commission for the Recognition of Computer Skills.
Internship are designed to provide students with direct, practical knowledge and experience relevant to their field of study, helping them acquire specific professional skills.
To discover all the teaching activities accredited by the foreign teaching college click here
English literature and culture 1 [CInt F-O] (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S002903
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE
Period
I semestre (Area Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 23, 2024 al Dec 21, 2024.
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
The course, held in English, aims at introducing students to relevant aspects of English literature, from the Pre-Romantic to the contemporary period, through the reading of a selection of canonical texts. Primary notions about possible methodological approaches for the analysis of literary texts and genres will be imparted. Furthermore, the course will provide a sound knowledge of the English literature of the period (historical context, texts, genres, literary movements and authors) and stimulate abilities and skills for the critical analysis of texts, their discussion and analysis, in consideration of their historical, cultural, and context specificities. At the end of the course, students will be able to: - Analyse the literary texts of the syllabus discussing them in relation to their historical and cultural context; - Discuss the texts using an appropriate critical approach demonstrating the knowledge of the literary conventions of their time; - Express the acquired literary and critical knowledge demonstrating an adequate competence also in the English language.
Prerequisites and basic notions
The certification of "saperi minimi" is necessary to take the final exam.
Program
“The stately Homes of England, / How beautiful they stand! / Amidst their tall ancestral trees, / O'er all the pleasant land”, wrote the Romantic poet Felicia Hemans in the early 19th century. The course aims at discussing how the country house has become a symbol of a certain type of Englishness which, in the twentieth century, made it become the fulcrum of social, national and, in general, identity crises in novels that are actually very different from each other. We will begin by examining how Pointz Hall in Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf (1941) is the site of a reflection on what it means to be British in the context of the Second World War. The country house is at the centre of the social, political and, above all, psychological dynamics of L. P. Hartley's Bildungsroman The Go-Between (1953), set in the late Victorian age. Finally, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (1989) thematises and problematizes, with its unreliable narrator, Mr Stevens, the butler of Darlington Hall, the feeling of mythologizing nostalgia for the English aristocracy.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Attending students: The course will be held in English and the lectures will allow for opportunities to discuss the students' independent reflections and sharing of the same. Additional material will be published on the dedicated e-learning platform.
Non-attending students: For non-attending students, the programme remains the one indicated on this web page and the material on the dedicated e-learning platform. The essays (section B, see below) which are indicated as optional for attending students are compulsory for non-attending students.
A) Primary texts (they must be read in English in the unabridged version)
- Virginia Woolf , Between the Acts (recommended edition: Oxford World's Classics, edited by Frank Kermode, 1992, and later)
- L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between (recommended edition: Penguin, 2000, edited by Douglas Brooks-Davies, or later)
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (recommended edition: Faber and Faber, 1999 or later)
B) Critical texts
- Marlowe A. Miller, 2018. “Through the Arch: The Country House and the Tradition of English Tyranny in Woolf's Between the Acts”, in Virginia Woolf and Heritage, ed. Jane de Gay et al., 67-72. Clemson University Press.
-Schröder, Leena Kore, 2006. “'The Lovely Wreckage of the Past': Virginia Woolf and the English Country House”. English Journal of the English Association 55 (213): 255-80 (OPTIONAL).
- Moan, Margaret A., 1973. “Setting and Structure: An Approach to Hartley's The Go-Between”. Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction 15.2: 27-36.
- Pissarello, Giulia. 1984. L'esorcizzazione del male: The Go-Between di LP Hartley, Pacini. (OPTIONAL)
- Ekelund, BG. 2005. "Misrecognizing History: Complicitous Genres in Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day"; Independent Fiction Review, 32 (1): 70-90.
- Tamaya, Meera. 1992. “Ishiguro's Remains of the Day: The Empire Strikes Back,” Modern Language Studies, 2 (2): 45-56. (OPTIONAL)
C) History of literature manual (mandatory): Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2017, from chapter 4 to chapter 8 included.
Learning assessment procedures
Since the lectures are in English, the exam will consist of an oral discussion in English on the topics of the course and on the texts in the programme (parts A, B, C).
Evaluation criteria
The exam will aim to verify:
- knowledge of the history of English literature (the parts in the programme)
- analytical and argumentative ability in relation to the texts in the programme
- depth and breadth of preparation
- ability to connect the various topics of the programme on the basis of critical texts
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
Calculation of the average of the grades assigned according to the criteria indicated in the previous section
Exam language
English