GERMAN PHILOLOGY
cod. 12920

Academic year 2014/15
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Filologia germanica (L-FIL-LET/15)
Field
Metodologie linguistiche, filologiche, comparatistiche e della traduzione letteraria
Type of training activity
Characterising
36 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

The purpose of ths course is to provide students with knowledge of the History of the German and English Language from their oldest stage until to the late Middle Ages.

Prerequisites

Knowledgs of the German and english languages.

Course unit content

History of the german and of the English languages.

Full programme

If students show lack of knowledge about general features of the germanic languages as well of their historical background, these lectures might go back to the various aspects of the Germanic languages as framework

Bibliography

For the history of the german Language: sandra Bosco-Coletsos, Storia della lingua tedesca, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 1987.
For the history of the English Language: Nicoletta Francovich-Onesti, Breve storia della lingua inglese, Carocci,Roma.

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures.

Assessment methods and criteria

If students show a particular interest for this subject, the lectures can also be extended to other subjects that may help to get a better understanding of the Germanic linguistic areal.

Other information

Questions can be asked in the coyrse of the lectures. These questions must be intended of course onlz as an exhortation to Learning.