History of German Language
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
RENATA GIUSEPPA GAMBINO
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin
descriptors, the Course intends to pursue the following aims:
1) Knowledge and understanding
The course aims to develop and refine the
learners' skills and knowledge in use of the German language, through
confrontation with particular linguistic usages and registers, and their
variations in usage through the history of the German language. Students are
expected to demonstrate knowledge and comprehension skills that extend and/or
reinforce those typically associated with the first cycle and enable them to
develop and/or apply original ideas, often in a research context.
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
The course aims to develop critical skills with
respect to the use of particular rhetorical figures and the production of
neologisms and sectorial idioms in literary and contemporary German and to
refine academic writing practice. Students are expected to be able to solve
problems in new or unfamiliar areas within broader (or interdisciplinary)
contexts.
broader (or
interdisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study.
3) Autonomy of judgement
The course includes group work on topics agreed
with the lecturer concerning figures from myth and folklore. The work presented
in the classroom during the course of the lessons will then give rise to a
written paper aimed at measuring autonomy of judgement, linguistic level and
research capacity. Students are expected to show that they can integrate
knowledge and manage complexity, make judgements even on the basis of limited
or incomplete information even on the basis of limited or incomplete
information, including reflection on the social and ethical responsibilities
linked to the application of their knowledge and judgements.
4) Communication skills
The group work will be presented in the course
of the lectures to the participants. This presentation will be considered as an
in itinere test and will be assessed for
the purposes of the evaluation in the final examination. Communication skills
will also be assessed during both the in-progress and oral examination.
Students are expected to demonstrate the ability to communicate their
conclusions and knowledge, and the rationale behind them, to specialist and
non-specialist interlocutors.
5) Learning skills
The
course aims to provide an enhancement of linguistic skills and a refinement of
the fundamental tools and methodologies of research in the fields of history,
language and literature, thus fostering a common reflection on learning skills
and possible study and research strategies and the ability to study in a
self-managed or autonomous manner.
Course Structure
The course will be divided into a series of lessons held by the teacher
which will introduce the topics and methodologies to be used in group-works.
The course will base on collaborative and inquiry based learning methodologies.
The practical exercise of the German language will be provided also by the
mother tongue expert. All the lessons will be held in German and all the
communications with the teacher and the expert will be in German.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
The course will focus on the process of
standardization of the German language since 1600. Stylistic, rhetoric and
syntactic peculiarities will also be examined as main interests for academic
and professional writing.
Part of the course will be dedicated to the analysis of texts regarding
some character of German history and folklore. The analysis will take different
research perspectives into account trying to unfold different layers and
peculiarities An anthology of different texts
will provide the start-up discussion, in order to motivate and develop
individual research skills that will be put at stake in a final research
project (presentation and written papers) evaluated during the final exam.
The
project of the individual or group research will be guided and followed by the
teacher during the course and by the linguistic expert during the hours of
laboratory.
Textbook Information
A History of the German language
1)
Karl-Heinz Göttert, Deutsch: Biographie einer
Sprache, Ullstein, Berlin, 2010, pp. 400.
B Reading texts:
1)
Herfried Münkler, Die Deutschen und Ihre
Mythen, Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Hamburg, 2010, Cap. 1.
2)
Friedrich De la Motte Fouqué, Undine, Reclam,
Leipzig, 1998, pp. 102.
A reader of texts in German will be available on the web-page of STUDIUM
and will be the starting point for the group works.
To write the final work we suggest to get information about the formal
features in:
- H. Gruber, B. Huemer, M. Rheindorf,
Wissenschaftliches Schreiben: Ein Praxisbuch für Studierende der Geistes- und
Sozialwissenschaften, UTB, 2009,
pp. 240.
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
VERSIONE IN ITALIANO