English

This course serves as an introduction to the field of environmental communication: What does it entail, what should it achieve, who are the intended recipients, and what is the intended outcome? The course studies some theoretical texts, addressing “the two cultures,” “framing,” and “technocratic discourse.” The course then analyzes political speeches about environmental policy and a manifesto. Finally, the course looks at the genesis of scientific and literary nature writing and studies extracts from classics such as Henry David Thoreau’s WALDEN or Rachel Carson’s SILENT SPRING as well as more recent texts by British and American authors. The course analyzes how these different texts operate, what they aim to accomplish and whether they succeed.

This course examines the literary history of the period at stake, and discusses literary tools to analyze fictional productions and question them in relation to the complex and heterogeneous North American realities. The course topic varies each year, review the course information in the University of Bologna course catalog for the topic for a specific term.

This course continues to cover methods of teaching English as a second language, theory and methods for foreign language instruction, and language instruction approaches and techniques. It focuses on advanced task design for instruction, integration of information and communication technologies to task design; and integration of individual skills to instruction.

This second-semester course introduces students to the history of literature in Scotland in English and Scots, covering two periods of its self-conscious revival: the Modernist "Scottish Renaissance" between the world wars of the 20th century, and the contemporary period, defined as beginning with the first Devolution Referendum and the election of Margaret Thatcher as British prime minister in 1979. It focusses on how questions of literary form relate to the social, political, and intellectual context in which the text was written and read; that is, on how the text's formal achievement responds to changes in Scottish society and the wider world. 

This course is a study of modernist poetry of both British and American origin, with a focus on the poems and poetic theory of the main poets of the movement. Topics include: romantic and Victorian poetry-- contextualization of the modernist rupture; the first modernist break-- symbolism; imagery and vorticism (Hilda Doolittle, T.E. Hulme, Amy Lowell, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, etc.); high modernism in the european context (T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein); modernist poetry in the U.S. (William Carlos Willams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, etc.); influence of modernist poetry on postmodernists.