Languages and cultures of the Mediterranean and the Balkans: an introduction (5th ed.)
About the Course
This training activity, designed in a multilingual, multidisciplinary and multicultural perspective, aims to offer an initial presentation of some of the languages, cultures and literatures taught at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice.Starting from Catalonia one moves to the Balkans through Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Albania and Greece in a virtual voyage that will reveal their languages, cultures and societies.
Each country will be considered in the uniqueness of its history, its tradition and its identity. The countries we present are different because of their different origin, but the dominant cultural trends in each of them are important for the entire European and Western context.
The course has six sections dedicated respectively to the language and culture of Catalonia, Romania, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Serbia-Croatia.
Arts and Humanities
Training hours14
LevelBeginner
Course ModeSelf Paced
Italiano
Duration6 weeks
TypeOnline
Course StatusArchived
Course Agenda
Enrollments Start
Course Opens
Course Closed
Learning outcomes
We expect the MOOC to bring students closer to the study of the so-called minor languages, through the knowledge of the country, the history, the culture of the languages presented. We aim to develop in the students a more intercultural awareness and a better understanding and greater knowledge of the geographic areas concerned.Background and Requirements
No requirementsTextbooks
Eulàlia Vega Massano, Pensando alla Catalogna. Cultura, storia e società. Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria, 2008.
Keith Hitchins, Romania storia e cultura, Beit 2015.
Th. M. Veremis e I. S. Koliopulos, La Grecia moderna. Una storia che inizia nel 1821. Lecce, 2014.
Robert Elsie History of Albanian Literature, Columbia University Press, New York, 1995.
Antonio dell'Agata, G. Antologia del racconto bulgaro. ed. Associazione Bulgaria-Italia, 2006.
Klajn, I. (2005) Grammatica della lingua serba, Zavod za udzbenike i nastavna sredstva, Belgrado.
Course Format
The course is structured in 6 didactic units so divided: 1 - language and culture of Catalonia; 2 - language and culture of Romania; 3 - language and culture of Greece; 4 - language and culture of Albania; 5 - language and culture of Bulgaria; 6 - language and culture of Serbia-Croatia.Certificates and Exam rules
Attendance Certificate
You can earn Attendance Certificate and Open badge by completing all the included video-lessons and the final tests of each section, answering correctly to minimum 70% of questions.
