Sommario
English Language and Literature (Year 2, Three-year Course students; curricula: Language
Expert for Management and Tourism; Languages, Communication and Media)
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Group A-K and Group L-Z: Prof. Enrico Reggiani
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English Language Classes (Year 2, First-level Degree)
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Dr. Catherine Bell; Dr. Michael Bergstein; Dr. Paola Biancolini; Dr. Nara Carlini; Dr.
Thomas Carr; Dr. Michael Cullity; Dr. Alison Fottrrell; Dr. Stephen Liti Mutunga; Dr.
David Lowry; Dr. Paul Prostitis; Dr. Stefania Riglione; Dr. James Rock; Dr. Nigel Ross;
Dr. Francesca Seracini; Dr. Giovanna Taglialatela; Dr. Stephen Thorne; Dr. Mimi Watts;
Dr. Tobias Willis
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English Language and Literature (Year 2, Three-year Course students;
curricula: Language Expert for Management and Tourism; Languages,
Communication and Media)
GROUP A-K AND GROUP L-Z: PROF. ENRICO REGGIANI
COURSE AIMS
The first semester will be in the form of a survey course and will examine the
English literary tradition from the Romantic Period (1785-1832) to the Victorian
Age (1830-1901), exploring both its key technical, cultural, historical and general
features and some of the most significant textual declensions.
COURSE CONTENT
English literary tradition from the Romantic Period to the Victorian Age.
Overview, significant players and significant texts.
READING LIST
Compulsory texts:
1. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ninth Edition, gen. ed. Stephen Greenblatt
(any version or other edition available, provided this includes the whole texts and
comments analysed; further details will be available on Blackboard platform).
2. The two essays by Pagnini 1986 and Marucci 2009 included in MATERIALI/Strumenti
teorici ed ermeneutici available on Blackboard platform. In addition, historical/literary
book suggested to survey course:
A. CATTANEO, A Short History of English Literature, Mondadori, Milano, 2011, Volume
1, pp. 203-288 e Volume 2, pp. 3-93. As an alternative: Storia della letteratura inglese,
second volume, edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Einaudi, Torino, 2000, pp. 3-163; or
Manuale di letteratura e cultura inglese, edited by Lilla Maria Crisafulli-Keir Elam,
Bononia University Press, Bologna, 2009, pp. 181-326.
3. C. SEGRE, Avviamento all’analisi del testo letterario, Einaudi, Torino, last edition.
4. Further materials arranged by the lecturer will be available on Blackboard platform
Suggested websites
Students are highly requested to check the following websites (which will be available
on LINK section of Blackboard platform): Voice of the Shuttle: Romantics
(http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2750), headed by Prof. Alan Liu; The Victorian Web
(http://www.victorianweb.org/) of Prof. George P. Landow; Prof. Enrico Reggiani’s blog
Irish literature and other literaria (http://wbyeats.wordpress.com/).
TEACHING METHOD
The course is a semester course of 4 hourse per week with at least one series of practical
classes (10 hours included in the total weekly hours) information on which will be given on
Blackboard in good time.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Assessment is based on English oral exams and will test the skills acquired by the
student in at least three areas of the study of literary communication processes: linguistictranslation; analytical-hermeneutical; and socio-cultural. The students will be informed in
good time if any preliminary written and/or Blackboard tests are introduced to verify the
student’s knowledge of the notions of literary history, currently work in progress. The
student must demonstrate that they have learned the ENTIRE course reading list and that
they can organically express its content.
NOTES
The course information published here is preliminary and might be subject to changes as
the course unfolds. Exam preparation must be based on the final course plan published in
good time, certainly before the course ends in May 2015, on the lecturer’s Blackboard
course page, which each student must check regularly and learn the entire contents.
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage at
http://docenti.unicatt.it/web/searchByName.do?language=ENG, or on the Faculty notice
board.
English Language Classes (Year 2, First-level Degree)
DR. CATHERINE BELL; DR. MICHAEL BERGSTEIN; DR. PAOLA BIANCOLINI; DR. NARA CARLINI;
DR. THOMAS CARR; DR. MICHAEL CULLITY; DR. ALISON FOTTRRELL; DR. STEPHEN LITI
MUTUNGA; DR. DAVID LOWRY; DR. PAUL PROSTITIS; DR. STEFANIA RIGLIONE; DR. JAMES
ROCK; DR. NIGEL ROSS; DR. FRANCESCA SERACINI; DR. GIOVANNA TAGLIALATELA; DR.
STEPHEN THORNE; DR. MIMI WATTS; DR. TOBIAS WILLIS
COURSE AIMS
The course sets out to:
– consolidate the student’s knowledge and use of English grammar;
– expand their use and mastery of English vocabulary and expressive techniques,
especially the use of periphrastic strategies and idiomatic expressions;
– enhance their ability to understand difficult texts and to identify the salient
points of a written text;
– provide the tools needed to write clear and well-structured summaries, with an
appropriate use of discursive structures, connectors and cohesion mechanisms;
– develop the student’s translation skills through the translation of authentic texts
from Italian to English;
– improve their oral comprehension and understanding of lengthy discourses.
COURSE CONTENT
The course will use carefully selected didactic materials with exercises on the
lexicon, word formation, phrasal verbs, use of verb tenses, comprehension of
written texts, summaries and translations. The oral exam requires the student to
discuss a number of passages taken from the texts handed out during the academic
year.
READING LIST
Students are invited to obtain both a monolingual and a bilingual dictionary to refer to
throughout their entire study programme.
Recommended dictionaries:
Bilingual
Il Sansoni Italiano-Inglese, Sansoni, 2010, 5th ed.
Grande Dizionario Hoepli Inglese con CD-ROM, Hoepli, 2007.
Il Dizionario Inglese Italiano Ragazzini, Zanichelli, 2012.
Monolingual
Advanced Dictionary, Collins Cobuild, 2008, 6th ed.
Advanced Learners Dictionary, Cambridge, 2010, 3rd ed.
Advanced Learners Dictionary, Oxford, 2010, 8th ed.
English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, Macmillan, 2007, 2nd ed.
Compulsory texts:
P. DUMMETT-J. HUGHES-H. STEPHENSON, Life Advanced with DVD (Student book-Workbook), Heinle,
2013.
M. VINCE, Language Practice for Advanced, Macmillan, 4th edition with key.
Recommended materials:
H. DOWNES-J ROCK, New English Practice, Cedam, 2012 new ed. (for second-year students taking
the recovery course and for personal study).
MACMILLAN, Collocations Dictionary, Michael Rundell, London, 2010.
or
OXFORD, Oxford Collocations Dictonary, C. McIntosh, Oxford and New York, 2009.
Additional information on the reading list will be provided during the course.
TEACHING METHOD
Lectures.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Written and oral exams.
The written exam is in two parts: the first part has a duration of 30 minutes and consists
of a grammar and vocabulary test. No dictionaries are allowed for this part of the exam; the
second part of 1 hour 45 minutes duration consists of an Italian to English translation, a
written comprehension test, dictation and the summing-up of a text in English, in which the
student is allowed to refer to a monolingual dictionary (Italian or English).
The oral exam requires the student to discuss the material handed out in the academic
year and will test their one-to-one oral comprehension, production and interactive skills. The
student is expected to demonstrate phonetic-phonologic correctness, communicative
naturalness, grammatical accuracy, in-depth knowledge of the lexicon and the ability to
interact with others.
NOTES
Each student will attend the course specifically designed for their chosen field of study.
Second-year students who still need to pass the English Language 1 written and/or oral
exam must necessarily attend the semester recovery course scheduled for Semester One and
repeated in Semester Two.
Two years course students: two years course students will attend 4 hours of J1 first year
course held by Dott. Alison Fottrell
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage at
http://docenti.unicatt.it/web/searchByName.do?language=ENG, or on the Faculty notice
board.