Modern humanities

The main objectives are the knowledge of the evolution of Italian literary history in the last two centuries; an adequate knowledge of the development of literary genres, trends and languages of the last decades; the acquisition, also through targeted exercises, of the methodological tools that allow the comprehension and analysis of narrative and poetic texts, carried out autonomously by the students; the development of a good ability to analyze literary communication and the interaction between literary text and the surrounding society, between the author and the public. The main secondary objectives are: a further development, compared to the skills acquired in secondary school, of an oral and written expression capacity appropriate to the topic under discussion; the acquisition and mastery of an appropriate vocabulary; the development of interdisciplinary skills, mostly in relation to the visual arts and new languages.