Università Roma Tre

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.

North American literatures and visual cultures is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It allows students to acquire linguistic and communicative skills as well as the competence to analyse poetic, narrative, and theatrical texts taking into account the linguistic and cultural complexity of North America. Special attention is devoted to the study of the relationships between literature and the visual arts, such as cinema, photography, the graphic novel, and painting.
At the end of the module students will be able to: enhance their critical awareness; make independent use of the most advanced theoretical methods for analysing literary texts and phenomena; communicate at an advanced level the disciplinary content.
Prerequisites: students enrolled in other degree programmes are allowed to select this module if they have gained at least 12 CFU in Anglo-American language and literatures for their bachelor’s degree and can certify the attainment of the B2 level in the English language.

Note: for LM37 students enrolled in the international curriculum “English and Anglo-American Studies” (English-English Literature), this module can be chosen as an associated subject (“materia affine”) to the literature of specialisation.