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
2nd 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
9
C
SECS-P/08
3
F
-
9
C
IUS/04
6
A
L-FIL-LET/12

2° Year   It will be activated in the A.Y. 2025/2026

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
2ndt 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
C
M-GGR/02
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10
6
C
SECS-P/12
6
A
SPS/08

3° Year   It will be activated in the A.Y. 2026/2027

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
Stage
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
2nd 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
9
C
SECS-P/08
3
F
-
9
C
IUS/04
6
A
L-FIL-LET/12
It will be activated in the A.Y. 2025/2026
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
2ndt 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
C
M-GGR/02
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10
6
C
SECS-P/12
6
A
SPS/08
It will be activated in the A.Y. 2026/2027
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
Stage
6
S
-
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
12
D
-
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
3rd language B1
3
F
-

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 [CInt F-O]  (2024/2025)

Teaching code

4S002903

Teacher

Emanuel Stelzer

Coordinator

Emanuel Stelzer

Credits

6

Language

English en

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

Lessons timetable MoodleMoodle Seminars 0

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

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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).

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 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

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