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 specialization 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.

American fictions: plots and counterplots is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It allows students to consolidate their language skills as well as their knowledge of North American literary phenomena from a global and transcultural perspective. Classes focus on the analysis of plots, themes, and characters across narrative genres – such as the short story, the novel, the romance, the serial – conducive to an understanding of the Anglo-American literary imagination.
At the end of the module students will be able to: apply their methodological and educational competence to the analysis of literary phenomena from a transcultural perspective; communicate at an advanced level the disciplinary content; express an autonomous and accurate critical assessment.

Requirements: Students must have already taken North American literatures and visual cultures.