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Curricular information is subject to change
By the end of this module, students will have:
• An awareness of Italy as a country
• Familiarity with cultural elements of Italy
• A new knowledge of certain aspects of historical and modern Italy
• An ability to respond to basic quiz questions on module content
• An ability to prepare a presentation on one or more aspects of Italy touched on during this module
This module will cover a wide variety of weekly topics taught by specialist lecturers:
• Week 1, Introduction to the module. Constructing and Deconstructing Italianness (Dr Marco Bellardi)
• Week 2, Commedia dell’Arte Masks as Stereotypes in Early Modern Theatre (Dr Serena Laiena)
• Week 3, Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard. Women, Society and Stereotypes between Reality and Fiction (Dr Sara Delmedico)
• Week 4, Italy and Music: Constructing Italianness in the Music from Risorgimento (Dr Bianca Cataldi)
• Week 5, Motherhood (Dr Valeria Taddei)
• Week 6, The Resistenza (Dr Paolo Acquaviva)
• Week 7, Sophia Loren as Transnational Star (Dr Sarah Culhane)
• Week 10, Changes in the Italian Landscape during the Economic Boom (Dr Claudia Dellacasa)
• Week 11, The Mafia in Italy: Men of Honour, Repentants and the Maxi Trial (Dr Mara Josi)
• Week 12, Inspector Montalbano’s Sicily: the Local Dimension from National to Transnational (Dr Serena Laiena)
• Week 13, Italy and Belle Arti: Constructing Italianness in Contemporary Art (Dr Bianca Cataldi)
• Week 14, Italian Cinema and Migration. Emanuele Crialese’s Golden Door and Andrea Segre’s Shun Li and the Poet (Dr Marco Bellardi)
The topics above were part of a recent syllabus (22-23) and should be considered as purely indicative. Topics are subject to change as lecturers rotate each year.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 22 |
Specified Learning Activities | 38 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 40 |
Total | 100 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Continuous Assessment: Short quizzes based on weekly lecture topics | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 60 |
Assignment: Final assessment: a 10-min visual e-presentation talk on one of the weekly subjects covered during the module. The link is to be uploaded onto BrightSpace (further information will be provided). | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Feedback will be provided in the form of summative assessment (on quizzes) and also for final e-presentation. Also, individual feedback may be provided at any time during term by agreed appointment to individual students who wish to request an appointment with individual lecturers or with the module coordinator.
Name | Role |
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Assoc Professor Paolo Acquaviva | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Bianca Cataldi | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Sarah Culhane | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Claudia Dellacasa | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Sara Delmedico | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Professor Ursula Fanning | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Mara Josi | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Serena Laiena | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Matteo Leta | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Valeria Taddei | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |