Graduates in Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Translation obtain advanced knowledge and understanding in all the subject areas of their training in order to
1) consolidate and develop their competence in European and American Studies, with particular attention to their literature of specialisation;
2) deepen their knowledge of the two foreign languages chosen, achieving a heightened competence in the language of specialisation and an advancement in the second language;
3) reach enhanced awareness of the linguistic features of their language of specialisation, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective;
4) reach an adequate knowledge of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis of literary texts;
5) handle confidently the theoretical-practical tools for teaching and for translation.
Plasmar las ideas. Textualidad y argumentación en la prosa en español/ Shaping ideas. Textuality and argumentation in Spanish prose is one of the characterising modules of the programme. The aim of the course is to hone the advanced communicative and argumentative skills in Spanish, both in written and oral production. This will be carried out through the analysis of a variety of Spanish and/or Hispanic-American prose texts, with a focus on linguistic and argumentative strategies. Learners will also be guided in using the skills they have acquired to carry out translation analysis (in a diachronic or transmedial perspective), and the translation of a selection of texts. In addition, the course provides advanced critical skills and methodologies about the Spanish language, the aim of which is the development of critical awareness, autonomous learning ability and editorial skills in specialized and non-specialized contexts, from an intercultural perspective.
At the end of the module students will be able to: consolidate and put into practice previously acquired linguistic and communicative skills (active, passive and mixed); carry out an independent analysis of linguistically and translationally diverse texts; recognise linguistic varieties, argumentative structures and discursive strategies; reword texts in Spanish and translate and/or adapt texts into Italian; write and present argumentative texts to the class orally; make intercultural and transcultural comparisons; adapt their written and oral production in Spanish and in Italian according to their addressees.
1) consolidate and develop their competence in European and American Studies, with particular attention to their literature of specialisation;
2) deepen their knowledge of the two foreign languages chosen, achieving a heightened competence in the language of specialisation and an advancement in the second language;
3) reach enhanced awareness of the linguistic features of their language of specialisation, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective;
4) reach an adequate knowledge of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis of literary texts;
5) handle confidently the theoretical-practical tools for teaching and for translation.
Plasmar las ideas. Textualidad y argumentación en la prosa en español/ Shaping ideas. Textuality and argumentation in Spanish prose is one of the characterising modules of the programme. The aim of the course is to hone the advanced communicative and argumentative skills in Spanish, both in written and oral production. This will be carried out through the analysis of a variety of Spanish and/or Hispanic-American prose texts, with a focus on linguistic and argumentative strategies. Learners will also be guided in using the skills they have acquired to carry out translation analysis (in a diachronic or transmedial perspective), and the translation of a selection of texts. In addition, the course provides advanced critical skills and methodologies about the Spanish language, the aim of which is the development of critical awareness, autonomous learning ability and editorial skills in specialized and non-specialized contexts, from an intercultural perspective.
At the end of the module students will be able to: consolidate and put into practice previously acquired linguistic and communicative skills (active, passive and mixed); carry out an independent analysis of linguistically and translationally diverse texts; recognise linguistic varieties, argumentative structures and discursive strategies; reword texts in Spanish and translate and/or adapt texts into Italian; write and present argumentative texts to the class orally; make intercultural and transcultural comparisons; adapt their written and oral production in Spanish and in Italian according to their addressees.
teacher profile teaching materials
Montolío, Estrella, Manual de escritura académica y profesional, I. Estrategias gramaticales, II. Estrategias discursivas, Barcelona, Ariel, 2014.
Vicente Cervera, Belén Hernández - Mª Dolores Adsuar (eds.), El ensayo como género literario, Murcia, Universidad, 2005 (articoli di Pedro Aullón de Haro, Elena Arenas Cruz, José María Pozuelo Yvancos). Disponibile online.
Aullón de Haro, Pedro, «La teoría del ensayo en España entre Ortega y Gasset y Juan Chabás», Pensamiento literario español del siglo XX, 2, pp. 40-55. Disponibile online.
Bueno, Gustavo, «Sobre el concepto de ensayo», in El Padre Feijoo y su siglo, Actas del Simposio (Universidad de Oviedo, 28 de septiembre al 5 de octubre de 1964),
Oviedo, 1966, I, pp. 89-112. Disponibile online.
Jaimes, Héctor, «Octavio Paz: ensayo, historia y estética», in Octavio Paz: la dimensión estética del ensayo, México, Siglo XXI editores, 2004, pp. 40-62.
Eventual other bibliographical references will be provided during the course.
2) Texts
Ortega y Gasset, España invertebrada y otros ensayos, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2014.
Ortega y Gasset, La deshumanización del arte, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2015.
Abellán, José Luis, Ensayo sobre las dos Españas. Una voz de esperanza, Barcelona, Ediciones Península, 2011.
Paz, Octavio, El laberinto de la soledad. Posdata. Vuelta al laberinto de la soledad, ed. Enrico Mario Santí, México D. F., Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016 (Edición por el 65 aniversario).
Ángel Ganivet, Idearium español, ed. José Luis Abellán, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2015.
Additional mandatory material for students who have failed their final tests and for non attending students.
Del Molino, Sergio, La España vacía, Madrid, Turner Libros, 2016.
Gracía, Jordi - Ródenas, Domingo, El ensayo español Siglo XX, Barcelona, Crítica, 2009 or Fuente Rodríguez, Catalina - Alcaide Lara, Esperanza R., La argumentación lingüística y sus medios de expresión, Madrid, Arco Libros, 2010.
Programme
The course aims to analyse and to translate Hispanci essayistic prose. Guided by the teacher, students will learn techniques of the expositive and argumentative writings in Spanish and translation’s strategies and they will focus primarily on the strategies and thinking of Ortega y Gasset.Core Documentation
1) Textbooks and critical essaysMontolío, Estrella, Manual de escritura académica y profesional, I. Estrategias gramaticales, II. Estrategias discursivas, Barcelona, Ariel, 2014.
Vicente Cervera, Belén Hernández - Mª Dolores Adsuar (eds.), El ensayo como género literario, Murcia, Universidad, 2005 (articoli di Pedro Aullón de Haro, Elena Arenas Cruz, José María Pozuelo Yvancos). Disponibile online.
Aullón de Haro, Pedro, «La teoría del ensayo en España entre Ortega y Gasset y Juan Chabás», Pensamiento literario español del siglo XX, 2, pp. 40-55. Disponibile online.
Bueno, Gustavo, «Sobre el concepto de ensayo», in El Padre Feijoo y su siglo, Actas del Simposio (Universidad de Oviedo, 28 de septiembre al 5 de octubre de 1964),
Oviedo, 1966, I, pp. 89-112. Disponibile online.
Jaimes, Héctor, «Octavio Paz: ensayo, historia y estética», in Octavio Paz: la dimensión estética del ensayo, México, Siglo XXI editores, 2004, pp. 40-62.
Eventual other bibliographical references will be provided during the course.
2) Texts
Ortega y Gasset, España invertebrada y otros ensayos, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2014.
Ortega y Gasset, La deshumanización del arte, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2015.
Abellán, José Luis, Ensayo sobre las dos Españas. Una voz de esperanza, Barcelona, Ediciones Península, 2011.
Paz, Octavio, El laberinto de la soledad. Posdata. Vuelta al laberinto de la soledad, ed. Enrico Mario Santí, México D. F., Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016 (Edición por el 65 aniversario).
Ángel Ganivet, Idearium español, ed. José Luis Abellán, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2015.
Additional mandatory material for students who have failed their final tests and for non attending students.
Del Molino, Sergio, La España vacía, Madrid, Turner Libros, 2016.
Gracía, Jordi - Ródenas, Domingo, El ensayo español Siglo XX, Barcelona, Crítica, 2009 or Fuente Rodríguez, Catalina - Alcaide Lara, Esperanza R., La argumentación lingüística y sus medios de expresión, Madrid, Arco Libros, 2010.
Reference Bibliography
3) Dictionaries Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, Madrid, RAE, 2014 (23ª ed.) Seco, Manuel; Ramos, Gabino; Andrés, Olimpia, Diccionario del Español Actual, Madrid, Santillana, 2006. Diccionario CLAVE, Madrid, SM, 2006. Diccionario de americanismos, Madrid, Santillana, 2010.Type of delivery of the course
The course will take place mainly in the form of frontal teaching, with the active participation of students in exercises.Attendance
Attendance, although not compulsory, is strongly recommended. It supports students to personal study. Non-attendant students have to contact the teacher at least three months before the final exam in order to accord program’s integration and written essay.Type of evaluation
Attendance, although not compulsory, is strongly recommended. It supports students to personal study. For attending students: 1) Active attendance and coursework (20%); 2) Written essay and oral presentation (30%); 3) Oral exam (50%). For non attending students: 1) Non-attendant students have to contact the teacher at least three months before the final exam in order to accord program’s integration and written essay; 2) Written essay; 3) Oral exam conform with integrations previously accorded in point 1) e 2). Due to the Covid emergency, the oral exam will take place in telematic mode on the Teams Platform.