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. 2024/2025 A.A. 2023/2024 A.A. 2022/2023 A.A. 2021/2022 A.A. 2020/2021 A.A. 2019/2020 A.A. 2018/2019 A.A. 2017/2018 A.A. 2016/2017 A.A. 2015/2016 A.A. 2014/2015 A.A. 2013/2014 A.A. 2012/2013 A.A. 2011/2012 A.A. 2010/2011 A.A. 2009/2010 A.A. 2008/2009

This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.
If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:

Laurea in Lingue e culture per il turismo e il commercio internazionale - 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.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
A
L-OR/21
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature and culture
6
A
L-LIN/10
6
A
L-LIN/03
6
A
L-LIN/13
6
A
L-LIN/21
6
A
L-LIN/05
2 foreign literature and culture
6
A
L-OR/21
6
A
L-LIN/10
6
A
L-LIN/03
6
A
L-LIN/13
6
A
L-LIN/21
6
A
L-LIN/05
6
A
L-FIL-LET/12
9
C
SECS-P/08
9
C
IUS/04
3
F
-

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-OR/21
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature and culture or a related course
9
A
L-LIN/11
9
A
L-LIN/10
9
A
L-LIN/13
9
A
L-LIN/10
9
A
L-LIN/03
9
A
L-LIN/03
9
A
L-LIN/13
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/06
9
A
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature and culture or a related course
9
A
L-LIN/11
9
A
L-LIN/10
9
A
L-LIN/13
9
A
L-OR/21
9
A
L-OR/21
9
A
L-LIN/10
9
A
L-LIN/03
9
A
L-LIN/03
9
A
L-LIN/13
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/06
9
A
L-LIN/05
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10
6
C
M-GGR/02
6
C
SECS-P/12
6
A
SPS/08

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-OR/21
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
9
C
IUS/21
9
C
SECS-P/08
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-
Training
6
S
-
Final exam
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
A
L-OR/21
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature and culture
6
A
L-LIN/10
6
A
L-LIN/03
6
A
L-LIN/13
6
A
L-LIN/21
6
A
L-LIN/05
2 foreign literature and culture
6
A
L-OR/21
6
A
L-LIN/10
6
A
L-LIN/03
6
A
L-LIN/13
6
A
L-LIN/21
6
A
L-LIN/05
6
A
L-FIL-LET/12
9
C
SECS-P/08
9
C
IUS/04
3
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-OR/21
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature and culture or a related course
9
A
L-LIN/11
9
A
L-LIN/10
9
A
L-LIN/13
9
A
L-LIN/10
9
A
L-LIN/03
9
A
L-LIN/03
9
A
L-LIN/13
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/06
9
A
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature and culture or a related course
9
A
L-LIN/11
9
A
L-LIN/10
9
A
L-LIN/13
9
A
L-OR/21
9
A
L-OR/21
9
A
L-LIN/10
9
A
L-LIN/03
9
A
L-LIN/03
9
A
L-LIN/13
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/06
9
A
L-LIN/05
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10
6
C
M-GGR/02
6
C
SECS-P/12
6
A
SPS/08
activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-OR/21
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
9
C
IUS/21
9
C
SECS-P/08
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-
Training
6
S
-
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
12
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 and culture 1 [Cognomi P-Z]  (2020/2021)

Teaching code

4S002903

Teacher

Annalisa Pes

Coordinator

Annalisa Pes

Credits

6

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 28, 2020 al Jan 9, 2021.

Lessons timetable MoodleMoodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

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.

Program

PROGRAMME
"Re-writing London: postcolonial, hidden and transnational lives in the metropolis"
The course will investigate different literary representations of the city of London provided by the voice of the “Other”. The peripheral or marginal experiences of migrants, second-generation citizens, homeless, criminals will allow students to put together a portrait of the English metropolis from the 1970s to nowadays in a multifaceted and multicultural perspective. The critical reading of primary texts will be focused on the issues of belonging, resistance, hybridity and transnational identity shaping the lives of these “new Londoners” in a process of ongoing change and renegotiation.
PLEASE BE ADVISED:
Lectures will be held in English.
The programme will be valid for two academic years (i.e. until February 2023)

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A) PRIMARY TEXTS (to be read in any unabridged edition in English):
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)
- Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003)
- Ben Judah, This is London (2016): selected parts
B) REFERENCES (compulsory):
-J.C. Ball, Imagining London. Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis (University of Toronto Press, 2004): Introduction: The Key to the Capital (pp. 3-40).
- J. Procter, Dwelling Places. Postwar Black British Writing (Manchester University Press, 2003): Introduction (pp. 1-20) and ch. 4 (“Suburbia”, pp. 125-159).
- K. Kaleta, Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller (University of Texas Press, 1998): ch. 3.
- A. Cormack, Migration and the Politics of Narrative Form. Realism and the Postcolonial Subject in Brick Lane. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, 47: 4, 2006, pp. 695-721.
- L.E. Roupakia, Cosmopolitanism, Religion and Ethics: Rereading Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING, 52: 6, 2016, pp. 645-658.
-https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/20/this-is-london-by-ben-judah-review
-https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/book-review-this-is-london-by-ben-judah/
-https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/this-is-london-life-and-death-in-the-world-city-by-ben-judah-review-a3157026.html
C) HANDBOOK:
As regards the literary and cultural context spanning from Romanticism to Post-modernism, students will refer to:
- A. Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature (Oxford University Press, 2004 - third edition), chapters 6 (“The Literature of the Romantic Period 1780-1830”), 7 (“High Victorian Literature, 1830-1880), 8 (“Late Victorina and Edwardian Literature, 1800-1920”), 9 (“Modernism and its Alternatives: Literature 1920-1945”) and 10 (“Post-War and Post-Modern Literature”).

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Monica Ali Brick Lane 2003
L.E. Roupakia Cosmopolitanism, Religion and Ethics: Rereading Monica Ali’s Brick Lane 2016
James Procter Dwelling Places Manchester University Press 2003
K. C. Kaleta Hanif Kureishi. Postcolonial Storyteller University of Texas Press 1998
web https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/book-review-this-is-london-by-ben-judah/  
web https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/this-is-london-life-and-death-in-the-world-city-by-ben-judah-review-a3157026.html  
web https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/20/this-is-london-by-ben-judah-review  
J.C. Ball Imagining London. Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis University of Toronto Press 2004
Alistair Cormack Migration and the Politics of Narrative Form. Realism and the Postcolonial Subject in Brick Lane 2006
Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia 1990
Andrew Sanders The Short Oxford History of English Literature OUP 2004
Ben Judah This is London 2016

Examination Methods

EXAM METHOD
Typology: Oral exam in English at the end of the course. There will be no mid-term tests.
The exam will consist in an oral discussion (in English) that will assess the knowledge of the module’s texts (A, B and C) and the capacity to critically discuss the problematic issues they deal with. In particular students will have to demonstrate:
- knowledge and comprehension of texts and contexts (to know the contents of primary texts and to be able to read them within their historical and cultural framework. Handbook: main authors and movements from Romanticism to Post-modernism)
- capacity to critically comment and analyse literary texts (to be able to discuss texts proving analythical skills and the knowledge of critical works)
- ability to express clearly and with the use of an appropriate vocabulary the critical and personal interpretations of texts.
Students may be required to read and comment on passages taken from primary texts (see A) above).

PLEASE BE ADVISED
Further details on required readings and general information on bibliographical material will be provided during classes
Students will have to bring their own primary texts at the exam.

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