Studying at the University of Verona
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Study Plan
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.
1° Year
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature and culture
German literature and culture 1
2nd foreign literature and culture
German literature and culture 1
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature and culture or a related course
English literature and culture 2
French literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
2nd foreign literature and culture or a related course
English literature and culture 2
French literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
Italian literature and culture
Geography of communication and international trade
Modern and Contemporary Economic History
Theory and Techniques of communication
3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
Principles of international marketing
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature and culture
German literature and culture 1
2nd foreign literature and culture
German literature and culture 1
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature and culture or a related course
English literature and culture 2
French literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
2nd foreign literature and culture or a related course
English literature and culture 2
French literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
Italian literature and culture
Geography of communication and international trade
Modern and Contemporary Economic History
Theory and Techniques of communication
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
Principles of international marketing
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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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.
Anglo-american literature and cultures (2020/2021)
Teaching code
4S002912
Credits
9
Coordinator
Language
English
Also offered in courses:
- Anglo-american literature and cultures of the course Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
The teaching is organized as follows:
Learning outcomes
This course aims at providing students with a basic knowledge of the literature of United States in its complexity and plurality. Focus will be on specific texts, movements and literary tendencies. By the end of this course, students will be able to recognize specific and often conflictual forms of writing. These are in fact generated within the context of different ethnic realities and traditions, and even though they are labeled as American Literature because of geographic reasons, they have totally different goals and forms of expression. Furthermore students will be able to approach texts with adequate critical tools, and will be familiar with specific features of American English.
Program
This course analyses different aspects of the relationship between jail and literture in the United States. We will recognize and define concepts such as rauma, resilience, and restorative justice in nineteenth and twentieth American literature. Several videos and films are included in the program. Book list This is NOT the final version. Please start reading those texts preceded by the "§" sign. The final program will be available soon. AAVV, “Sulla pena di morte”. Acoma http://www.acoma.it/content/sulla-pena-di-morte Abu-Jamal, M. (1995). Live from death row. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Agamben, G. Homo Sacer (la parte su coma e braccio della morte) Algren, N. short story "El Presidente de Mejico" explored his experience in a Texas jail. Sta nel libro The Neon Wilderness § Baliga, S. An Example of Restorative Justice with Sujatha Baliga https://www.google.it/search?q=An+Example+of+Restorative+Justice+with+Sujatha+Baliga&oq=An+Example+of+Restorative+Justice+with+Sujatha+Baliga&aqs=chrome..69i57.604j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 § Baliga, S. Transformative Justice in Education Speaker Series (video - speech starts at minute 8:10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khB0U0wMT4o § Blumenthal, R. “Confined In Prisons, Literature Breaks Out” (Aug. 26, 2000) https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/26/books/confined-in-prisons-literature-breaks-out.html Chevigny, B. G. (Ed.) (1999). Doing time: 25 years of prison writing. New York: Arcade Confined In Prisons, Literature Breaks Out. New York Times, August 26, 2000: B9. ProQuest Historical Newspapers, The New York Times (1851-2003). § Davis, A. Are Prisons Obsolete? 2003 OK Davis, A. The Prison Industrial Complex 1999 § Fleetwood, N.R. “Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy”. Public Culture 27:3, 2015 § Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and Punish. (A. Sheridan, Trans.). New York: Pantheon. (Sorvegliare e punire) Franklin, H. B. The Victim as Criminal and Artist: Literature from the American Prison (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1978 FRINZI § Gordon, A. F. “Angela Davis. Globalism and the prison industrial complex: an interview with Angela Davis”, Race Class 1999; 40; 145 PDF Green, T. From the Plantation to the Prison. African American Confinement Lietrature. Mercer UP 2008 Herivel, T. and Paul Wright edd. Prison nation: the warehousing of America’s poor. Routledge 2003 Jackson, B. “Attica. Un anniversario di morte”. Acoma § Jackson, G. George Jackson/San Quentin https://vimeo.com/100361380 video § Jackson, G. Soledad Brother. The Prison Letters of George Jackson https://libcom.org/files/soledad-brother-the-prison-letters-of-george-jackson.pdf § Kalica, E. e Santorso S. (a cura di), Farsi la galera. Spazi e culture del penitenziario. Ombre Corte 2018 King, M. L. (1963). “Letters from Birmingham jail”. https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf § Kolk, B. van Der. The Body Keeps the Score. Penguin (Il corpo accusa il colpo, Raffaele Cortina 2015 Larson, D. (Ed.) (2014). Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. FRINZI London, J. "Pinched": A Prison Experience RENDERO’ DISPONIBILE § Lowrie, D. My Life in Prison (1912) PDF Copisteria 30eoltre Malcolm X, Autobiography (la parte dedicata al carcere) FRINZI Mayr, Andrea. Prison discourse: language as a means of control and resistance. Palgrave, 2004 FRINZI § Melville, H. Bartleby, the Scrivener. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11231/pg11231.html Miller, D.Q. (ed.), Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature in the United States (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2005) § Nat Turner, Confession https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/turner/turner.html § Pelàez, Vicky. “The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?” El Diario-La Prensa, New York and Global Research 10 March 2008 http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289 Platt, A. M. (1999). 'Prison Writing in 20th-Century America', Social Justice 26. § Poe, E.A., “The Pit and the Pendulum” https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/pitpdma.htm § Robert E. Burns, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang (1932) e il film omonimo di Mervin LeRoy (1932) Senghor, S. Writing my wrongs : life, death, and redemption in an American prison. NY Convergent Books 2016 Sudbury, G. Ed. Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex. Routledge 2014 § Thoreau, Civil Disobedience http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper2/thoreau/civil.html § Tullis, P. “Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice?” https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/can-forgiveness-play-a-role-in-criminal-justice.html
Bibliography
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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Ava du Vernay | 13TH - XIII emendamento FILM | 2016 | |||
Bauer, S. | American Prison | 2018 | |||
Baliga, S. | An Example of Restorative Justice with Sujatha Baliga | ||||
Gordon, A. F. | “Angela Davis. Globalism and the prison industrial complex: an interview with Angela Davis” | 2000 | |||
Davis, A. | Are Prisons Obsolete? | ||||
Malcolm X | Autobiography | ||||
Melville, H. | Bartleby, the Scrivener | ||||
Spike Lee | BlacKKKlansman FILM | 2018 | |||
Thoreau, H.D. | Civil Disobedience | ||||
Turner, N. | Confession | ||||
Kalica, E. e Santorso S. (a cura di), | Farsi la galera. Spazi e culture del penitenziario. Ombre Corte 2018 | ||||
Green T. | From the Plantation to the Prison | 2008 | |||
Jackson, G. | George Jackson/San Quentin | ||||
Spike Lee | Get on the Bus (film) | 1996 | |||
LeRoy, M. | I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! | ||||
Kok, B. van Der | Il corpo accusa il colpo ITAL TRANSL di The Body Keeps the Score | Cortina | |||
D.W. Griffith | Intolerance FILM | 1916 | |||
Kushner Rachel | Mars Room | 2019 | |||
Kushner Rachel | MArs Room ITALIAN TRANSLATION | Einaudi | 2109 | ||
Jenji Kohan | Orange Is the New Black [4 episodes] | ||||
London, J. | "Pinched": A Prison Experience | ||||
Jackson, G. | Soledad Brother. The Prison Letters of George Jackson | ||||
Matthew Cooke | Survivors Guide to Prison FILM | 2018 | |||
Kolk, B. van Der | The Body Keeps the Score | ||||
Bunker, Edward | The Education of a Felon | ||||
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre | The Mustang FILM | ||||
Poe, E.A. | “The Pit and the Pendulum” | ||||
Pelàez, Vicky | “The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?” | El Diario-La Prensa, New York and Global Research 10 March 2008 | |||
Ava du Vernay | When They See Us FILM |
Examination Methods
Oral exam