ROMANCE PHILOLOGY
cod. 1000009

Academic year 2024/25
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Paolo RINOLDI
Academic discipline
Filologia e linguistica romanza (L-FIL-LET/09)
Field
Discipline linguistiche, filologiche e metodologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Learning objectives

The course aims to give deep knowledge and competence in romance philology's tools and problems through a case-study.
1) Knowledge and understanding: by the end of course the students will be able to read and translate texts of average difficulty.
2) Applying Knowledge and understanding and judgments making: by the end of the course students will be able to comment upon texts and make complex argumentation.
3) communication skills: by the end the course students will be able to formulate hypothesis in a specialistic and up-to-date vocabulary.
4) Learning skills: by the end of the course students will be able to carry on autonomously his studies also in view of PhD.

Prerequisites

University-level knowledge (first cycle) of linguistics, literature; elementary knowledge of Latin

Course unit content

Gauvain in post-Chrétien verse romances.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Lino Leonardi, Filologia romanza. 1. Critica del testo, Le Monnier. 2022
Bibliography will be given at the beginnig of the course.

Teaching methods

Taught class; seminar lesson (reading and translating from digitised manuscripts).

Assessment methods and criteria

The exam consists of :
- short paper on an agreed subject, to be given to the teacher at least one week before the oral exam;
- oral exam: questions are of 3 kinds:
- test of reading, translation and linguistic analysis of a text chosen from the course;
- test on linguistical competence;
- test on the literary and historical context.
The 4 parts will equally concur to the final note (in 30 scale);
it is necessary to have a satisfactory note (18/30) in each set.
The student is immediately told of his note.
A pass (18-23/30) is
determined by the student’s possession of the basic
contents of the course; middle-range scores (24-27/30) corresponds to good level of knowledge and to che ability in making links and
apply it to problem solving;
higher scores (from 28/30 to 30/30 cum laude) correspond to developed abilities and competence in translating, making links among different languages and
literatures.
NB: all students, above all non attending ones, are recommended to attend to some exams to check and improve their study.

Other information

Those who never passed a Philology Romance exam in the first cycle are invited to contact the teacher

2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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