According to the Dublin
descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) knowledge and understanding skills
such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate
and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.
2) ability to apply knowledge and
understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues,
inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of
study;
3) ability to integrate knowledge and to
formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily
complete;
4) ability to communicate one's
knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist
interlocutors.
5) ability to carry out research autonomously
The Course aims to stimulate students to reflect on
language change and conservation, providing them with concrete tools and
methods of analysis; introduce students to the professor's research laboratory,
showing them some case studies relating to regional Italian, also with
reference to the written productions of Italo-Tunisian writers of Sicilian
origin.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
1) determine whether a given Italo-Romance
word a) derives directly from Latin; b) is an affixed word / compound whose root(s)
and affixes belong to Italo-Romance (and not to Latin); c) is a loanword, a
calque or an element displaying an affix borrowing, autonomously arguing their
own point, based on the theories they know and the information they can get
from grammars/dictionaries;
2) have tools useful for
knowledge of regional Italian and, through these, access multilingualism and
the complex variety of the language also in literary productions.
