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Laurea in Lingue e culture per il turismo e il commercio internazionale - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023

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Teaching code

4S002909

Teacher

Luca Salvi

Coordinator

Luca Salvi

Credits

9

Language

Spanish es

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/06 - LATIN AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 26, 2022 al Dec 23, 2022.

Learning objectives

The main educational objective of the course within the Bachelor’s Degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce is the acquisition by the student of an appropriate knowledge of the Spanish-American cultures, with particular attention to the literary, historical and geographic-anthropological dimensions. The expected learning outcomes are as follows: - Knowledge and understanding: solid preparation on the culture of geographical areas and periods in program, as well as on historical and anthropological fields; - “Applied” knowledge and understanding: the student will acquire the methodologies required to understand, in an historical and comparative perspective, complex texts of a certain length and implicit meanings; - Autonomy of judgment: the student must know how to collect and interpret cultural, historical, geographical and anthropological data useful to orally argue and write relevant texts in the chosen address; - Communication skills: at the end of the course the student must have acquired the ability to express and argue about the teaching contents both in written and oral form in Spanish; - Learning skills: students must have developed sufficient self-learning skills to take a conscious approach to the world of work or to the continuation of their studies.

Prerequisites and basic notions

To take the exam it is necessary to have passed the Spanish Language 1 exam.

Program

Part 1

• The Colonial literature: models and trends
• The Hispanic-American Independences: History and Literature
• A first model of alternative modernization: the Mexican Revolution
• The Hispanic-American literary Boom
• The American Baroque: from the colony to Lezama Lima
• The paradox of nature: from Sarmiento to the twentieth century
• America and Africa: the Hispanic-American Negrism
• History and memory in the twentieth century literature
• Critical models: from “mestizaje” to pluritopic hermeneutics

Part 2

• Indigenous cultures: from the pre-Columbian era to modernity
• Indigenism in Hispanic-American literatures: history and protagonists
• The Indianism of Ventura García Calderón
• The Indigenism of Enrique López Albújar
• The Neo-indigenism of José María Arguedas
• Indigenous Cultures and Magic Realism in Miguel Ángel Asturias
• Between historiography and literature: the indigenous otherness in Juan José Saer
• Modernity and exclusion: Mario Vargas Llosa's gaze on the indigenous question

Bibliography

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Didactic methods

Frontal lesson.

Learning assessment procedures

Part 1: written exam. Passing the written exam is mandatory to sit the oral exam on the second part. Part 2: oral exam in Spanish

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

Part 1: written exam. Passing the written exam is mandatory to sit the oral exam on the second part. Part 2: oral exam in Spanish

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

Part 1: written exam. Passing the written exam is mandatory to sit the oral exam on the second part. Part 2: oral exam in Spanish

Exam language

Spagnolo