English Language

The aim of the course is the acquisition of the English language in the cultural heritage domain. The targeted language proficiency is B2, according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

Laboratory lessons with multimedia support; use of didactic material and authentic texts.

Attendance is not compulsory.

PART 1

• Consumption of Culture: Heritage Demand and Experience

• The Heritage Supply: Attractions and Services
• Spatial Perspectives and Heritage Resources
• Looking for Something Real: Heritage, Tourism and Elusive Authenticity
• Tourism and the Politics of Heritage
• The Need to Conserve the Past: The Impacts of Tourism
• Protective Legislation and Conservation Organizations
• Protecting the Past for Today: Heritage Conservation and Tourism
• Telling the Story: Interpreting the Past for Visitors
• Planning Principles, Sustainability and Cultural Heritage Destinations
• Marketing the Past for Today
• Raising Revenue and Managing Visitors

PART 2

• Museums: Keepers of the Past
• Archaeological Sites and Ancient Monuments
• Landscapes of the Elite and the Ordinary
• The Industrial Past
• Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
• Diasporas, Roots and Personal Heritage Tourism
• Living Heritage, Intangible Culture and Indigenous People
• Dark Tourism: Atrocity and Human Suffering

Timothy, Dallen J. 2011, Cultural Heritage and Tourism: An Introduction, Channel View Publications, Bristol. pp. 483

 

Students may also find it useful to consult online monolingual dictionaries such as:

Collins Cobuild Dictionary for Advanced Learners, London: Collins ultima edizione (insieme a How to Use the Dictionary, Collins ELT, London); Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (con cd-rom), London, Longman ultima edizione; A.S. Hornby, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Oxford, Oxford University Press, ultima edizione; Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (con cd-rom), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, ultima edizione; Ragazzini Dizionario Inglese–Italiano Italiano–Inglese, Zanichelli, ultima edizione.

 

Further teaching material will be provided by the teacher during the

course.

 

 

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.