Oriental languages and civilizations

General goals: acquisition of translation skills of modern Persian texts into Italian, with awareness of the theoretical problems of translation (with reference to Persian texts). Specific goals: at the end of the course the student (1) improves his/her competence of the modern Persian language (spoken reception B1; written reception B2; overall spoken production B1, written production A2); (2) is able to read, understand and translate into Italian the texts read during the course; (3) on the basis of the translation exercises carried out in class and at home, he/she is able to read and translate autonomously into Italian modern texts of different contents, both literary and non-literary; (3) is able to discuss with others the interpretation of a Persian text and to use appropriately a dictionary; 5) is able to face and plan autonomously the translation of Persian texts, also on the basis of instructions on how to plan translation projects.